Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 063: Prayers, Meditations, Works on Vices and Virtues, and Documents Pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury
Description
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- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
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- 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
- 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.
- 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
- TJames
- 19
- Stanley
- B. 7
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- MS 063
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- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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