Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 217: Peter the Chanter, Libellus de contrarietatibus Sacrae Scripturae. William de Montibus, Speculum poenitentis. Pictor in carmine. Miscellaneous Exegetical Tracts

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 217: Peter the Chanter, Libellus de contrarietatibus Sacrae Scripturae. William de Montibus, Speculum poenitentis. Pictor in carmine. Miscellaneous Exegetical Tracts
Alternate Title:
Petrus Cantor. W. de Montibus. Pictor in Carmine
Language:
Latin and French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Extent:
ff. 374
Dimensions:
253 Height (mm) and 180 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1200 - 1299]
Provenance:
From Worcester; inside the cover is written (f. 1v): Liber monasterii Wygornie.
Table of contents:
  • Libellus de contrarietatibus Sacrae Scripturae
  • De schematibus et tropis
  • Expositions on parts of the Old and New Testament
  • Sermons and lectures
  • Exposition on the Psalms
  • Sermons and expositions on the Old and New Testament
  • Speculum poenitentis
  • Sermons
  • Tropi
  • Numerale
  • Tria sunt (Documentum de arte versificandi)
  • Pictor in carmine
  • AuroraIn Tobiam paraphrasis metrica
  • Tract on the Holy Scripture
  • Corrogationes Promethei
Description:
CCCC MS 217 is a thirteenth-century miscellany containing sermons, exegetical texts, a partial copy of the Pictor in carmine, and works by Peter the Chanter (d. 1197), Bede, William de Montibus (d. 1213), Geoffrey de Vinsauf (d. after 1200), Tria sunt (Documentum de arte uersificandi), Petrus Riga (d. 1209), Aurora, and Alexander Nequam OSA (1157-1217), Corrogationes Promethei. Of particular note, the copy of William de Montibus, Speculum poenitentis, is an early and reliable one in terms of that work's textual history. There is a much better version of the text of Pictor in carmine in CCCC MS 300. The unusual binding of this manuscript, being of velvet, is characteristic of the ‘Old Royal’ library of Henry VIII. As a result of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the covers and part of the text pages, ff. 1r-21r, 25r, 209r.
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