Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 222

  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 222
    • CCCC MS 222
    • MS 222
    • Parker Library MS 222
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Richard de Saint-Victor (1110?-1173)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in a good hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 13 + 56
  • Dimensions :
    • 175 x 235
  • Codicological details :
    • 30 lines to a page
    • ff. i-vii + 1-56 + viii-xiii
    • a(8) (wants 4) I(8)-VII(8) b(6).

Contents

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 222, which originally formed one volume with CCCC MS 226, contains two religious tracts, on the conception of Mary and the conception of Christ, both of which are attributed to Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173). There are various later pencil notes and additions. The manuscript belonged to Hugh of Girune (d. after 1239), a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, who donated it to that house, as attested by the inscription on f.ir, Liber Hugonis de Girunde de penitentia Magdalene. This folio was originally the title page of CCCC MS 226.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (attrib.) - author

    1r-37v - Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (attrib.), Tractatus de conceptione beatae Mariae || Tractatus de conceptione B. Mariae

    Note : No title

    incipit : (1r) In agro booz ruth moabitis messorum sequens uestigia

    explicit : (2r) diuine nos hostium misericordie celi hostiaria introducat

    incipit : (2v) Archa (ueteris) testamenti tot adumbrata misteriis

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (37r) in ipsa magnificemur per eum qui est super omnia sanctus et benedictus in secula. Amen

    Note : (37v) blank


    38r-55r - Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (attrib.), Tractatus de conceptione Christi || Tractatus de conceptione Christi

    incipit : (38r) Liber generationis Ihesu Christi ... Abraham. Sacram christi incarnationem antiqui patres

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (55r) cum iterum uenerit accipiat nos ad se ipsum ut ubi est ipse et nos simus ubi cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen

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Provenance

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  • Titulus primo folio inscriptus, et uti videtur, a quodam alio codice divulsus, induxit Stanleium ut hunc codicem nominaret librum Hugonis de Girunde de penitentia. On f. ir Liber Hugonis de Girunde de penitencia magdal.; repeated on f. iir. In the Eastry Catalogue of Christ Church, Canterbury, no. 1310 (Ancient Libraries, p. 113) is Liber H. de Gerunde de penitencia Magdalene. H. de Gerunde was living in 1239.

Notes

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  • Research: These flyleaves more properly belong to MS 226, which seems once to have been a part of this volume.
  • Additions: Also a monogram of the letters M. W. very neatly drawn: repeated on f. iir.
  • Additions: On f. iv a late collect for Pope Innocent (VIII ?): Deus omnium fidelium pastor et rector famulum tuum Innocencium quem pastorem ecclesie tue etc.
  • Additions: On ff. iir-iiiv is a very faint copy in pencil of a document relating to tithes. The name Ricard. de Walinge is discernible and dicte ecclesie de cliue twice.
  • Additions: Ad initium codicis occurit successio archiepiscoporum Cantuar. ab Augustino ad Ioannem Peccham. On f. ivr a list of Archbishops of Canterbury with length of their archiepiscopates: Sanctus augustinus sedit xvi annos ... Iohannes de Pecham sedit xiiij ann. ix septimanas vac. ii. ann.
  • Additions: ff. vr-viiv blank.
  • Additions: The remaining leaves (ff. 55v-xiiiv) are blank except for about three pages of old pencil-writing at the end.

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