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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 063: Prayers, Meditations, Works on Vices and Virtues, and Documents Pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 063: Prayers, Meditations, Works on Vices and Virtues, and Documents Pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury

Description

Alternative title
Opuscula Anselmi etc. Epistolae etc. Cantuarienses. Epistolae Bernardi etc.
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 260 + 4
Date created
[ca. 1200-1399]
Language
Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Material
Vellum
Layout
five volumes
Height (mm)
322
Width (mm)
236
Collation
a(2) 1(16) (wants 16) 2(12)-6(12) 7(8) | 8(8) 9(8) | 10(12) 11(12) (+2) 12(4) | 13(8)-18(8) | 19 (one) | 19* 20(8) 21(8) | 22(8)-24(8) 25(10) 26 (four) | 27(12) 28(12) b(2).
Writing
In a fine hand
Foliation
ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-260 + iii-iv + c-d
Provenance
From Christ Church, Canterbury, as will appear. On f. ir is a list of contents, of nos. 1-19, headed: Prosologion Anselmi fratris Thome Stoyl. The hand is of cent. xiv early. Thomas Stoyl, admitted monk of Christ Church in 1299, died in 1333 (Searle, Christ Church, Canterbury, p. 178). He owned Lambeth MS. 180.
2 fo.
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Abstract/Contents

Summary
CCCC MS 63 is complicated textual compilation, comprising five separate sections. The first, which includes meditative and spiritual works by Anselm of Canterbury (d. 1109), Ralph of London OSB (fl. thirteenth century), and Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), was given to Christ Church, Canterbury, by Thomas Stoyl, who was a monk there, 1299-1333. The second volume includes an anonymous tract on the virtues and vices, and works by Bonaventure OFM (1217/21-74); the third volume contains important documents and letters pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury; the fourth volume is a copy of the letters of Bernard of Clairvaux OCist (1090-1153); and the final volume contains a number of religious texts, including the Formula vitae honestae of Martin of Braga (c. 515-80). These volumes are dated to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. On f. 3 is a copy of the poem Les neuf joies nostre dame, attributed to Rutebeuf (c. 1245-1285).
Contents
Oratio 7. Meditatio 3: De redemptione humana. Oratio 1. Meditatio 2: Deploratio uirginitatis male amissae. Meditatio -- Proslogion -- De laudibus sanctae Dei genetricis (extract) -- Texts on confessionMeditationesMeditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis -- De conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum -- De miseria humanae conditionis -- Electuarium -- De statu interioris hominis -- Liber mandatorum Dei -- Summa de septem sacramentis -- Etymologiae (book 5, chapter 39) -- Sermons -- De septem uirtutibus (excerpt) -- Ars fidei catholicae -- Itinerarium mentis in Deum -- Breuiloquium pauperis -- De officio et ordine missarum -- Lanfranc's statutes for Christ Church, Canterbury -- Tituli decretalium -- Letters and other instruments pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury -- Epistolae -- Speculum humanae saluationis -- Formula uitae honestae -- De paupertate -- Meditatio

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xiii-xiv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jz203yt6854/MS_63.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nr297wg8453/63.pdf
Contains
  • Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Oratio 7. Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Meditatio 3 De redemptione humana. Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Oratio 1. Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Meditatio 2 Deploratio uirginitatis male amissae. John de Scalis, Meditatio. 1r-25v
    Nasmith
    Orationes quam plures ad redemptorem nostrum et sanctos quarum pleraeque Anselmum Cantuariensem habuerunt auctorem. 1r-25v
    Author
    Anselm of Canterbury OSB
    Anselm of Canterbury OSB
    Anselm of Canterbury OSB
    Anselm of Canterbury OSB
    John de Scalis
    Note
    Prayers
    a.
    Incipit
    (3r) Aue maria saluans seculum
    Note
    b.
    Incipit
    (3r) O mater clementie
    Note
    c.
    French verse
    Incipit
    (3r) Rayne de pite marie en ky deytez pure e clere
    Explicit
    (3v) Od les noef ordres mansiuns nous doynt en cele haute eglise. Amen
    Note
    d.
    Incipit
    (3v) Sancte stephane beate stephane
    Note
    e.
    Rubric
    (4r) Incipiunt orationes seu meditationes edite ab Anselmo Cantuariensis archiepiscopo
    Incipit
    (4v) Dominus Ihesus Christus redempcio mea
    Note
    (P. L. CLVIII 902)
    Ending with
    Rubric
    (14v) Oratio ad Sanctum Benedictum
    Note
    (P. L. CLVIII 1006)
    Explicit
    (15r) gloriemur coram deo. Qui uiuis
    Note
    15v blank
    f.
    Rubric
    (16r) Orationes quamplures ad ipsum redemptorem nostrum
    Incipit
    (16r) Oraciones siue meditaciones que subscripte sunt
    Note
    The first are
    Incipit
    (16r) Deus piissime
    Rubric
    (16r) Meditacio redempcionis nostre
    Incipit
    (16r) Anima Christiana
    Note
    (P. L. CLVIII 762)
    Rubric
    (17v) Ad trinitatem
    Incipit
    (17v) O pater clementissime
    Note
    (P. L. CLVIII 875)
    Rubric
    (17v) Anselmi ad deum patrem
    Incipit
    (17v) Omnipotens deus et misericors
    Note
    After four more prayers to the Father follow prayers at Confession, at Mass, to the Trinity, Angel, Virgin, John Baptist, Andrew, Martin, Patron of Church
    Rubric
    (24r) Deploracio uirginitatis male amisse
    Incipit
    (24r) Anima mea anima erumpnosa
    Note
    (P. L. CLVIII 726)
    Rubric
    (24r) Johannis de Scalis
    (24r) R. Primum et principale principium
    Incipit
    (24r) Interminabilis deus
  • Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Proslogion. 25v-29r
    Nasmith
    Prosologion ejusdem Anselmi. 25v-29r
    Author
    Anselm of Canterbury OSB
    Note
    Prologue
    Incipit
    (25v) Postquam opusculum
    Note
    Capitula
    Text
    Incipit
    (26r) Eya nunc
    Note
    (P. L. CLVIII 225)
  • Oglerio of Locedio OCist, De laudibus sanctae Dei genetricis (extract). 29r-31r
    Nasmith
    Planctus beati Bernardi, ut dicitur, de dolore Dei et genetricis in morte filii sui. 29r-31r
    Author
    Oglerio of Locedio OCist
    Rubric
    (29r) Planctus beati Bernardi
    Incipit
    (29r) Quis dabit capiti
    Explicit
    (31r) filius eius dominus noster Ihesus Christus. Qui cum deo patre etc.
  • Texts on confession. pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Meditationes. pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis. 31r-43r
    Nasmith
    De confessione; - de contemplatione cujuslibet horae diei; - meditationes Bernardi et Augustini. 31r-43r
    Author
    pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor
    pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist
    Rubric
    (31r) De confessione utile documentum
    Incipit
    (31r) Do me totum. nichil. dixi captus es et cepisti me
    Explicit
    (31v) eatenus confitere
    Rubric
    (31v) De oratione
    Incipit
    (31v) Oracione que semper confessione sequi debet
    Explicit
    (31v) affectu postulabis
    Rubric
    (31v) De contemplacione cuiuslibet hore diei
    Incipit
    (31v) Nunc quomodo preparandum sit
    Explicit
    (34r) mox futurum
    Rubric
    (34r) De tribus necessariis in peticione
    Incipit
    (34r) Tria uidentur michi esse necessaria
    Rubric
    (34v) Incipit meditacio beati Augustini
    Incipit
    (34v) Domine deus meus da cordi
    Rubric
    (36r) De eodem
    Incipit
    (36r) Inuoco te deus meus
    Rubric
    (36v) De eodem
    Incipit
    (36v) Quid rex meus
    Note
    (37r) Extracts from Bernard, Gregory, Augustine
    Rubric
    (37v) Meditaciones Bernardi
    Note
    (P. L. CLXXXIV 485)
    Incipit
    (37v) Multi multa sciunt
  • Ambrosius Autpertus, De conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum. 43v-47r
    Nasmith
    Liber sancti Augustini [Hipponensis] de conflictu vitiorum et virtutum. 43v-47r
    Author
    Ambrosius Autpertus
    Rubric
    (43v) Augustinus de conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum
    Note
    (P. L. XL 1091)
    Incipit
    (43v) Apostolica uox clamat
  • Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis), De miseria humanae conditionis. 47r-56v
    Nasmith
    Tractatus Lotarii de contemptu mundi. 47r-56v
    Author
    Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis)
    Incipit
    (47r) Domino patri karissimo petro
    (47r) Quare de uulua
    Note
    (P. L. CCXVII 701)
  • Ralph of London OSB, Electuarium. 57r-83v
    Nasmith
    Electuarium in delectatione et refocillatione animae, de creatione primi hominis et prevaricatione ejus. 57r-83v
    Author
    Ralph of London OSB
    Rubric
    (57r) Incipiunt capitula sequentis opusculi in quo agitur de lapsu et reparacione seu redempcione hominis et dicitur liber iste Electuarium eo quod collectus et electus extractus et confectus sit de uariis libris tractatibus et sermonibus tam auctenticis quam magistralibus
    Note
    (58 Chapters)
    Rubric
    (57v) Incipit Electuarium in delectacione et refocillatione anime
    Incipit
    (57v) Consideranti diligencius quid sit homo
    Note
    By Radulphus de Londonia: another copy in MS. Lambeth 142
    Ends
    Explicit
    (81r) qui transiit ex hoc mundo ad patrem. Cui cum eodem patre et spiritu sancto sit honor et uirtus, laus et gloria per infinita secula seculorum. Amen
    Note
    81v-83v blank
  • Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De statu interioris hominis. 84r-98v
    Nasmith
    [Ricardus de Sancto Victore] de statu interioris hominis post lapsum. 84r-98v
    Author
    Richard of Saint-Victor OSA
    Note
    Similar hand but double columns of 52 lines
    (84r) Capitula
    Text
    Incipit
    (84r) Omne capud languidum
    Note
    cf. P. L. CXCVI 1117
    Explicit
    (98v) societate gaudere
  • Liber mandatorum Dei. 99r-99v
    Nasmith
    Liber mandatorum Dei sive sylloge theologiae. 99r-99v
    Note
    uno duntaxat constat folio
    In tabular form headed
    Rubric
    (99r) Hic est liber mandatorum dei
    Note
    Notes on Scripture. Division of Sciences, Theology, Penitence, Giving of Thanks
    (99r) This leaf in another hand
  • Summa de septem sacramentis. 100r-116v
    Nasmith
    Tractatus de septem sacramentis. 100r-116v
    Note
    In the first hand: head-line
    Rubric
    (100r) Tractatus de Sacramentis
    (100r) Hic incipit primus rotulus
    Incipit
    (100r) Augustinus Sacramentum est inuisibilis gracie uisibilis forma
    Note
    In tabular form. There are three rotuli
    (116v) Ends treating of baptism
  • Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (book 5, chapter 39). 116v-118r
    Nasmith
    De seculis et aetatibus sive tabula chronologica a creatione ad decimum annum Recensuithini regis Hispaniarum et mortem Heraclii imperatoris. 116v-118r
    Author
    Isidore of Seville
    Incipit
    (116v) Secula generacionibus consistunt
    (116v) Prima etas in exordio sui continet creacionem mundi
    Explicit
    (118r) usque in presentem gloriosi recenswithin(!) principis annorum xmum qui est era dc. lvi. v. dccc. liii.
    Note
    From Isidore Etymologiae V xxxviii sqq.
  • Sermons. 118v-129v
    Nasmith
    Sermones varii de Christo, angelorum ordinibus, &c. 118v-129v
    Incipit
    (118v) Habitantibus in regione umbre mortis lux orta est eis
    Note
    Frater bone fortune (Bonaventura) is quoted
    Change of hand
    Incipit
    (125v) Ascendit super cherubin
    Note
    On the Ascension
    Explicit
    (128r) de ista gloriosa solempnitate ascensionis
    Note
    128v-129v blank
  • De septem uirtutibus (excerpt). 130r-141v
    Nasmith
    De septem virtutibus, de oratione dominica, de septem vitiis capitalibus, de septem sacramentis. 130r-141v
    Incipit
    (130r) Gratia expellit morbum peccati
    Note
    Ends
    Explicit
    (141v) alter sit iudeus alia patent
    Note
    (141v) A good sketch of two heads in pencil
  • Nicholas of Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae. 142r-145v
    Nasmith
    Libellus qui dicitur ars fidei. 142r-145v
    Author
    Nicholas of Amiens
    Incipit
    (142r) Clemens papa cuius rem nominis
    Note
    (P. L. CCX 595)
    Explicit
    (144v) sic patet propositum
    Rubric
    (144v) Explicit ars fidei catholice a clemente papa auctorizata
    Note
    (144v) A Distinctio follows
    f. 145r+145v blank
  • Bonaventure OFM, Itinerarium mentis in Deum. 146r-151v
    Nasmith
    Itinerarium mentis euntis ad Deum secundum fratrem bonae fortunae [Bonaventuram]. 146r-151v
    Author
    Bonaventure OFM
    Rubric
    (146r) Incipit prologus generalis ministri minorum in Itinerarium mentis in deum
    Incipit
    (146r) In principio primum principium
    Rubric
    (146r) Incipit itinerarium mentis euntis ad deum secundum fratrem bone fortune
    Incipit
    (146r) Beatus uir cuius est auxilium abs te
    Explicit
    (151v) dicet omnis populus fiat fiat Amen
    Rubric
    (151v) Explicit etc.
  • Bonaventure OFM, Breuiloquium pauperis. 151v-176r
    Nasmith
    Ejusdem breviarium, libri VI. 151v-176r
    Author
    Bonaventure OFM
    Rubric
    (151v) Incipit prohemium in libro qui dicitur breuiarium magistri bonefortune ordinis minorum ministri generalis
    Incipit
    (151v) Flecto genua
    (154r) Liber I. In principio intelligendum est
    Note
    Hand gets smaller towards the end
    Ends
    Explicit
    (176r) Excita te nunc anima mea
  • De officio et ordine missarum. 176v-177v
    Nasmith
    De officio et ordine missarum, quod unusquisque papa addidit a tempore beati Petri usque ad papam Clementem tertium. 176v-177v
    Note
    In double columns
    Incipit
    (176v) De officio et ordine misse tractaturi
    Explicit
    (177r) pro posse disseruimus
    Note
    177v blank
  • Lanfranc's statutes for Christ Church, Canterbury. 178r-188v
    Nasmith
    Statuta praescripta priori et conventui Christi Cantuariensi per Lanfrancum archiepiscopum Cantuariensem. 178r-188v
    Author
    Lanfranc
    Note
    a.
    Incipit
    (178r) Vt nulli hominum liceat hanc paginam
    Note
    f. 178r-178v contains Papal confirmations ending imperfectly. A gap after it
    b.
    Incipit
    (179r) Lanfrancus indignus sancte Dorobernensis ecclesie antistes
    Explicit
    (179r) clementer absoluat. Amen
    Incipit
    (179r) Abbas cum eligitur
    Explicit
    (188v) in congregacione defuncto fieri solent
    Note
    (Opera, 1648, p. 253), cf. MS 462. 5
  • Tituli decretalium. 189r-195v
    Nasmith
    Tituli decretalium, digestorum, veterum et novorum, codicis, inforciati, autenticorum. 189r-195v
    Note
    In triple columns: hand resembles that of vol. I
  • Letters and other instruments pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury. 195v-198v
    Nasmith
    Epistolae et alia instrumenta ad monasterium Christi Cantuariensem pertinentia. 195v-198v
    Note
    (1) Epistola prioris et conventus de Tynterna ad capitulum ecclesiae Cantuariensis,- se mutuo amicitiae vinculo esse astrictos, negotiaque ecclesiae Cantuariensis, a Willelmo Wake commonacho suo Romanae ecclesiae capellano et penitentiario inchoata, eidem optato fine concludenda commendasse.(2) Epistola A. prioris ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis ad subpriorem et capitulum ejusdem, quod dominus Portuensis concessit ei ut presentarent Galfridum de I. ad ecclesiam de Aldermane-Cherche in London. per resignationem Lamberti ejusdem domini clerici et nepotis jam in curia vacantem, cujus collatio ratione statuti de beneficiis in curia vacantibus ad dictum dominum pertinebat, orat igitur ut dictam presentationem acceptantes omnia quae restant facienda fideliter exequantur(3) Epistola W. de la Cornere papae capellani ad suppriorem ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis ut latori plenam velit adhibere fiduciam(4) Obligatio prioris et capituli ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis ad solvendum dominae Katerinae Lovell LXXVIII marcas ab eadem domina mutuo acceptas, dat. 1268 mense aprili(5) Epistola A. prioris et electi Cantuariensis ad suppriorem et capitulum ejusdem, quod acta super confirmatione Roberti de Withampton electi Sarisburiensis ab aliquibus advocatis correcta, eis confirmanda misit(6) Confirmatio electionis ejusdem Roberti per capitulum Cantuariensem 1270(7) Forma epistolae supplicatoriae ut preces fiant pro anima defuncti 7. There are erasures of several lines (8) Quaedam de lite inter episcopos suffraganeos et capitulum Cantuariensis circa electionem officialis curiae Cantuariensis sede vacante 8. Refers to the bishops of London, Winchester, Worcester (9) Forma epistolae a monacho ad priorem de morte amici(10) Procuratorium capituli Cantuariensis(11) Epistola scholaris cujusdam Oxoniis ad quendam monachum de ratione studiorum suorum et aliis negotiis11. The student is hearing the Digest: mentions Johannes de Ludham: commends Adam de Nortoft: has written a tract de electionibus prelatorum (12) Epistola capituli ecclesiae Sarum ad capitulum ecclesiae Cantuariensis. - obnixe rogant ut, cum ecclesia Sarum multas passa sit injurias pro reverentia quam tempore vacationis exhibuit ecclesiae Cantuariensis non negent tuicionem appellationis propter alicujus curiae vel curialis potentiam(13) Epistola capituli Cantuariensis ad omnia monasteria ordinis Sancti Benedicti de lite orta inter eos et archiepiscopum suum(14) Donatio annuae pensionis x marcarum facta magistro W. de la Cornere per capitulum Cantuariensem
    In double columns: charter-like hand
  • Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, Epistolae. 199r-236v
    Nasmith
    Epistolae CIII Bernardi Claraevallensis. 199r-236v
    Author
    Bernard of Clairvaux OCist
    Note
    1.
    Rubric
    (199r) Ad Robertum nepotem
    Note
    (P. L. CLXXXII 67)
    Incipit
    (199r) Satis et plusquam satis sustinui
    Note
    103.
    Incipit
    (236r) Odor in flore
    Note
    (Epistola 125)
    Explicit
    (236r) non esse dampnosum
    Note
    (unfinished)
  • Speculum humanae saluationis. 237r-258r
    Nasmith
    Speculum humanae salvationis, versibus Latinis rythmicis. 237r-258r
    Note
    On f. 237r a xvith cent. note: vide Prints or Drawings 3/2 N. 20.
    (237r) Table to the Speculum
    Rubric
    (237v) Incipit prohemium cuiusdam noue compilationis
    Explicit
    (258r) Qui cum patre et spiritu sancto est in eternum benedictus. amen
    Rubric
    (258r) Explicit tractatus dictus speculum saluacionis humanis quod. G. C.
  • Martin of Braga, Formula uitae honestae. 258r-259v
    Nasmith
    Seneca de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus. 258r-259v
    Author
    Martin of Braga
    Incipit
    (258r) Quatuor uirtutum species
    Explicit
    (259v) contempnat ignauiam
    Rubric
    (259v) Explicit sentencia de quatuor uirtutibus cardinalibus
    Note
    Spicilegium Liberianum 564 etc.
  • pseudo-Seneca, De paupertate. 259v-260r
    Nasmith
    Idem de paupertate honesta. 259v-260r
    Author
    pseudo-Seneca
    Incipit
    (259v) Honesta inquit epicurus
    Explicit
    (260r) dant diuicie insolenciam
    Rubric
    (260r) Explicit Ceneca de paupertate honesta
  • pseudo-Bonaventure OFM, Meditatio. 260r-260r
    Nasmith
    Brevis et valida meditatio de beneficiis Dei ejusdem Bonaventurae. 260r-260r
    Author
    pseudo-Bonaventure OFM
    Incipit
    (260r) Non paruum estimo beneficium
    Explicit
    (260v) ostendere se peccatorem non esse
    Rubric
    (260v) Explicit meditatio. Cuius supra etc.
TJames
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Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 063

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