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Résumé : 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).
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Langue(s) des textes : latin, français
Intervenants :
Anselm of Canterbury OSB - author
John de Scalis - author
1r-25v - 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 || Orationes quam plures ad redemptorem nostrum et sanctos quarum pleraeque Anselmum Cantuariensem habuerunt auctorem
Note : Prayers
Note : a.
incipit : (3r) Aue maria saluans seculum
Note : b.
incipit : (3r) O mater clementie
Note : c.
Note : 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)
Note : Ending with
rubric : (14v) Oratio ad Sanctum Benedictum
Note : (P. L. CLVIII 1006)
explicit : (15r) gloriemur coram deo. Qui uiuis
Note : 15v blank
Note : 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
rubric : (24r) R. Primum et principale principium
incipit : (24r) Interminabilis deus
25v-29r - Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Proslogion || Prosologion ejusdem Anselmi
Note : Prologue
incipit : (25v) Postquam opusculum
Note : Capitula
Note : Text
incipit : (26r) Eya nunc
Note : (P. L. CLVIII 225)
Oglerio of Locedio OCist - author
29r-31r - Oglerio of Locedio OCist, De laudibus sanctae Dei genetricis (extract) || Planctus beati Bernardi, ut dicitur, de dolore Dei et genetricis in morte filii sui
rubric : (29r) Planctus beati Bernardi
incipit : (29r) Quis dabit capiti
explicit : (31r) filius eius dominus noster Ihesus Christus. Qui cum deo patre etc.
pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor - author
pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist - author
31r-43r - Texts on confession. pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Meditationes. pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis || De confessione; - de contemplatione cujuslibet horae diei; - meditationes Bernardi et Augustini
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 - author
43v-47r - Ambrosius Autpertus, De conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum || Liber sancti Augustini [Hipponensis] de conflictu vitiorum et virtutum
rubric : (43v) Augustinus de conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum
Note : (P. L. XL 1091)
incipit : (43v) Apostolica uox clamat
Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis) - author
47r-56v - Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis), De miseria humanae conditionis || Tractatus Lotarii de contemptu mundi
incipit : (47r) Domino patri karissimo petro
incipit : (47r) Quare de uulua
Note : (P. L. CCXVII 701)
Ralph of London OSB - author
57r-83v - Ralph of London OSB, Electuarium || Electuarium in delectatione et refocillatione animae, de creatione primi hominis et prevaricatione ejus
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
Note : 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 - author
84r-98v - Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De statu interioris hominis || [Ricardus de Sancto Victore] de statu interioris hominis post lapsum
Note : Similar hand but double columns of 52 lines
Note : (84r) Capitula
incipit : (84r) Omne capud languidum
Note : cf. P. L. CXCVI 1117
explicit : (98v) societate gaudere
99r-99v - Liber mandatorum Dei || Liber mandatorum Dei sive sylloge theologiae
Note : uno duntaxat constat folio
Note : In tabular form headed
rubric : (99r) Hic est liber mandatorum dei
Note : Notes on Scripture. Division of Sciences, Theology, Penitence, Giving of Thanks
Note : (99r) This leaf in another hand
100r-116v - Summa de septem sacramentis || Tractatus de septem sacramentis
Note : In the first hand: head-line
rubric : (100r) Tractatus de Sacramentis
rubric : (100r) Hic incipit primus rotulus
incipit : (100r) Augustinus Sacramentum est inuisibilis gracie uisibilis forma
Note : In tabular form. There are three rotuli
Note : (116v) Ends treating of baptism
Isidore of Seville - author
116v-118r - Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (book 5, chapter 39) || De seculis et aetatibus sive tabula chronologica a creatione ad decimum annum Recensuithini regis Hispaniarum et mortem Heraclii imperatoris
incipit : (116v) Secula generacionibus consistunt
incipit : (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.
118v-129v - Sermons || Sermones varii de Christo, angelorum ordinibus, &c.
incipit : (118v) Habitantibus in regione umbre mortis lux orta est eis
Note : Frater bone fortune (Bonaventura) is quoted
Note : Change of hand
incipit : (125v) Ascendit super cherubin
Note : On the Ascension
explicit : (128r) de ista gloriosa solempnitate ascensionis
Note : 128v-129v blank
130r-141v - De septem uirtutibus (excerpt) || De septem virtutibus, de oratione dominica, de septem vitiis capitalibus, de septem sacramentis
incipit : (130r) Gratia expellit morbum peccati
explicit : (141v) alter sit iudeus alia patent
Note : (141v) A good sketch of two heads in pencil
Nicholas of Amiens - author
142r-145v - Nicholas of Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae || Libellus qui dicitur ars fidei
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
Note : f. 145r+145v blank
Bonaventure OFM - author
146r-151v - Bonaventure OFM, Itinerarium mentis in Deum || Itinerarium mentis euntis ad Deum secundum fratrem bonae fortunae [Bonaventuram]
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.
151v-176r - Bonaventure OFM, Breuiloquium pauperis || Ejusdem breviarium, libri VI
rubric : (151v) Incipit prohemium in libro qui dicitur breuiarium magistri bonefortune ordinis minorum ministri generalis
incipit : (151v) Flecto genua
incipit : (154r) Liber I. In principio intelligendum est
Note : Hand gets smaller towards the end
explicit : (176r) Excita te nunc anima mea
176v-177v - De officio et ordine missarum || De officio et ordine missarum, quod unusquisque papa addidit a tempore beati Petri usque ad papam Clementem tertium
Note : In double columns
incipit : (176v) De officio et ordine misse tractaturi
explicit : (177r) pro posse disseruimus
Note : 177v blank
Lanfranc - author
178r-188v - Lanfranc's statutes for Christ Church, Canterbury || Statuta praescripta priori et conventui Christi Cantuariensi per Lanfrancum archiepiscopum Cantuariensem
incipit : (178r) Vt nulli hominum liceat hanc paginam
Note : f. 178r-178v contains Papal confirmations ending imperfectly. A gap after it
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
189r-195v - Tituli decretalium || Tituli decretalium, digestorum, veterum et novorum, codicis, inforciati, autenticorum
Note : In triple columns: hand resembles that of vol. I
195v-198v - Letters and other instruments pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury || Epistolae et alia instrumenta ad monasterium Christi Cantuariensem pertinentia
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
Note : In double columns: charter-like hand
Bernard of Clairvaux OCist - author
199r-236v - Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, Epistolae || Epistolae CIII Bernardi Claraevallensis
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)
237r-258r - Speculum humanae saluationis || Speculum humanae salvationis, versibus Latinis rythmicis
Note : On f. 237r a xvith cent. note: vide Prints or Drawings 3/2 N. 20.
Note : (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 - author
258r-259v - Martin of Braga, Formula uitae honestae || Seneca de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus
incipit : (258r) Quatuor uirtutum species
explicit : (259v) contempnat ignauiam
rubric : (259v) Explicit sentencia de quatuor uirtutibus cardinalibus
Note : Spicilegium Liberianum 564 etc.
pseudo-Seneca - author
259v-260r - pseudo-Seneca, De paupertate || Idem de paupertate honesta
incipit : (259v) Honesta inquit epicurus
explicit : (260r) dant diuicie insolenciam
rubric : (260r) Explicit Ceneca de paupertate honesta
pseudo-Bonaventure OFM - author
260r-260r - pseudo-Bonaventure OFM, Meditatio || Brevis et valida meditatio de beneficiis Dei ejusdem Bonaventurae
incipit : (260r) Non paruum estimo beneficium
explicit : (260v) ostendere se peccatorem non esse
rubric : (260v) Explicit meditatio. Cuius supra etc.
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