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• Résumé : MS 42 is a compilation of saints' lives made at the Benedictine priory of Dover dating to the second quarter of the twelfth century. Its provenance is given by the typical Dover arrangement of two classmark- and contents-inscriptions, one on the opening page and one further on in the book; the classmark matches these up to an entry in the Dover catalogue of 1389 which gives the opening words of the page on which the second inscription occurs. We can be fairly certain that it was originally written at Dover because the same hand also occurs in another Dover manuscript, CCCC MS 462. The manuscript contains hagiographical texts, starting with the standard life of Martin of Tours, the epitome of a bishop saint. Two of the lives included are of very important English saints, Edmund king and martyr and Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury. It also contains an unusual collection of miracles of the Virgin Mary, and an incomplete legendary with some musical notation.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Sulpicius Severus - author

  1r-18v - Sulpicius Severus, Vita Sancti Martini (incl. Vita Sancti Briccii) || Vita Sancti Martini

  rubric : (1r) Liber de Vita Sancti Martini

  Note : In a later hand

  rubric : (1r) In natali Sancti Martini lectio I

  incipit : (1r) Beatus martinussabarie pannoniarum oppido oriundus

  explicit : (18v) sanctus eustochius successit magnifice sanctitatis. Imperante domino nostro Iesu Christo cui etc.

  Note : (From Sulpicius Severus and Gregorius Turonensis)

  Note : BHL 5610-16, 1451

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Abbo of Fleury OSB - author

  19r-25v - Abbo of Fleury OSB, Passio Sancti Eadmundi || Abbonis Vita Sancti Eadmundi

  incipit : (19r) Domino sancte metropolitane dorobernensium ecclesie

  explicit : (19v) ad amorem tanti martiris. Vale pater in Christo

  incipit : (19v) Asciti aliquando in brittanniam

  explicit : (25v) quibus meremur supplicium. per eum qui uiuit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen

  Note : Arnold, Memorials of St Edmunds Bury I 3 etc.

  Note : BHL 2392

  
  

  26r-62r - Legendary (incomplete)

  Note : Portion of a Legendary, in which at first Responses and Antiphons are given as well as Collects etc. Neumes are sometimes added. After a while only Collects and Lessons are given. The legends run from Silvester Dec. 31 to Nereus and Achilleus (May 12) and include Amandus, Angadrisma, Cuthbert, Translation of Nicholas, John of Beverley

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Osbern of Canterbury OSB - author

  62v-81v - Osbern of Canterbury OSB, Vita et miracula Sancti Dunstani || Osberni Vita Sancti Dunstani

  Note : (Stubbs, Memorials of St Dunstan 69)

  incipit : (62v) Confrater eorum per eam que in Christo est regenerationem Osbearnus pacem bonam etc.

  incipit : (62v) Multorum sepe ac uenerabilium

  explicit : (63r) ista aggredi temptabo

  incipit : (63r) Anglorum rege (A)thelstano anno quidem imperii eius primo

  Note : Notes by Parker and Joscelin occur

  Note : Ends imperfectly

  explicit : (81v) nec ab omnibus abstinendum putamus ne nulla esse uideantur que dicamus. Et quedam

  Note : BHL 2344-5

  
  

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  Boto of Prüfening OSB - author

  82r-99v - Boto of Prüfening OSB, Miraculae beatae uirginis Mariae || Miracula Beate Virginis

  Note : (another hand)

  Note : On miracles of the Virgin see Ward, Catalogue of Romances (Brit. Mus.) II p. 586 sqq. References are here given to that work. The present collection does not exactly correspond with any there described

  incipit : (82r) Ad omnipotentis dei laudem cum sepe recitentur sanctorum miracula

  explicit : (82r) largiente deo recitare studeamus

  Note : 1. Compline of Virgin instituted (Ward, p. 612)

  Note : 2. HildefonsusNos. 2-16 correspond almost exactly with the collection called by Mussafia HM (Hildefonsus - Murieldis) and regarded by him as the oldest. Ward, p. 604

  Note : 3. Gaude dei genitrix. Clerk who sang it rewarded

  Note : 4. Beggar sent to Paradise

  Note : 5. Ebbo

  Note : 6. Monk of St Peter's, Cologne

  Note : 7. Giraldus of Cluny

  Note : 8. Unlearned priest

  Note : 9. Petrus and Stephanus brothers at Rome

  Note : 10. Landgrabber saved

  Note : 11. Prior at Pavia

  Note : 12. Jeronimus of Pavia

  Note : 13. St Michael of Clusa

  Note : 14. St Michael in Monte Tumba

  Note : 15. Clerk of St Cassian at Pisa

  Note : 16. Murieldis of Fécamp

  Note : 17. Three knights plot to kill a man (Ward, p. 613)

  Note : 18. Nun of Shaftesbury (Ward, p. 614)

  Note : 19. Mead multiplied (Ward, p. 614)

  Note : 20. Abbot Elsin (Ward, p. 614)

  Note : 21. Crucifix of Toledo (Ward, p. 610)

  Note : 22. Foot healed at Vivaria (Ward, p. 619)

  Note : 23. Musa (Ward, p. 620)

  Note : 24. Lefricus of Westminster (Ward, p. 617)

  Note : 25. Evil Cleric saved (Ward, p. 617?)

  Note : 26. Jewish boy in oven (Ward, p. 601)

  Note : 27. Jew of Constantinople(Ward, p. 611)

  Note : 28. Drowned clerk (Ward, p. 612)

  Note : 29. Lily on grave of clerk (Ward, p. 605)

  Note : 30. Drunken cellarer: devil as bull (Ward, p. 612)

  Note : 31. Runaway monk

  incipit : (93r) Sic sunt quedam adhuc paucissima. de maria scripta miracula. que hic metro quamuis sunt condita. non sunt tamen minus utilia. sed iccirco sic eas scripsimus. ut placerent magis legentibus

  Note : Miracles in metre follow (written as prose)

  Note : 32.

  incipit : (93r) Frater quidam qui in cenobio. Militauit celorum domino

  Note : (Ward, p. 620)

  Note : 33.

  incipit : (93v) Olim erat cognitusquidam alter monachus. In illa prouintiaque fertur burgundia

  Note : (Ward, p. 620)

  Note : 34.

  incipit : (94v) Quedam sanctimon[ialisuelut] fertur fuit talis. In conuentu feminarumchristi famulantium

  Note : (Ward, p. 621)

  Note : 35.

  incipit : (95v) Fratres operamini. neque seducamini. Sperantes quid metere. si non uultis serere

  Note : (Ward, p. 621)

  Note : 36.

  incipit : (96r) Huc uenite et audite omnes serui domini. Uolo namque rem narrare quam a quodam didici

  Note : (Clerk tempted to deny the Virgin)

  Note : (Ward, p. 621)

  Note : 37.

  incipit : (97r) Presul erat deo gratus ex francorum gente natus

  Note : (Bonitus of Clermont, Ward, p. 622)

  Note : 38. In prose. Story of Theophilus

  Note : (Ward, p. 595)

  incipit : (97v) Factum est autem priusquam incursio fieret

  Note : Ends unfinished

  explicit : (99v) Qui claues regn(i) celorum a deo suscipiens

  Note : BHL 5357

  
  

  99v-99v - Hymn for St Martin || Hymn for St Martin

  Note : In another handwith space for musical notes

  Note : (6 long lines)

  incipit : (99v) Laudes deo plebs decantet fidelis

  
  

  100r-ivr - Office for Christmas || Office for Christmas

  Note : (Lections principally)

  Note : On f. 103r roughly written prayer to the Virgin

  Note : (ivr) Scribbles on the last flyleaf, especially Per crucis hoc signum fugiat procul omne malignum. et per idem signum saluetur quicque benignum