Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 534

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 534
    • CCCC MS 534
    • MS 534
    • Parker Library MS 534
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Guillaume Perault (1200?-1271)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in several hands
  • Support Material : Paper
  • Composition :
    • ff. 300 + 1
  • Dimensions :
    • 209 x 290
  • Codicological details :
    • double and single columns of 40-50 lines
    • ff. i + ia + ib + ii-iii + 1-12 + 13a + 13-300 + iv-v
    • 1(12)-3(12) (+1) 4(14) 5(12)-20(12) 21(24) (2, 3 canc.?) 22(10?) 23(12) 24(12), one loose leaf.

Contents

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  • Résumé : CCCC 534 contains a collection of late fourteenth-century material, principally sermons, which can be associated with Charles University in Prague. It includes on ff. 148r-237v a collection of sermons and speeches given at the law faculty of the university c. 1377-93, including recommendations of rectors and graduation speeches. An identical collection of material is found in Prague, Metropolitan Chapter Library MS E.83. Other texts in the volume include Willelmus Peraldus OP (c. 1200-71), Summa de uitiis, an important penitential text written in the middle years of the thirteenth century, and the Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Speculum peccatoris. The book retains its original binding but it was extensively restored in the twentieth century. This volume is part of the Elbing collection, a group of manuscripts associated with the Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk which was founded in 1458 and deserted in 1521. Almost all the Elbing manuscripts contain the ownership inscription of Mary Pernham, wife of Richard Pernham (d. 1628), Fellow of the college and pastor Anglicus of St Marien church in Elbing from 1618-24.


    Contenu :


    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Willelmus Peraldus OP - author

    1r-25v - Willelmus Peraldus OP, Summa de uitiis et uirtutibus (extract)

    rubric : (1r) Tractatus quidam de viciis capitalibus

    Note : (by Gul. Peraldus)

    incipit : (1r) Dicturi de singulis viciis cum oportunitas se offeret

    Note : ends unfinished

    explicit : (24v) facit ad detestacionem

    Note : f. 25r-25v blank


    26r-300v - Sermons by various authors

    Note : (26r) List of Sermons and other notes

    rubric : (27v) Sermo Johannis damasceni de assumptione beate virginis

    incipit : (27v) Est quidem hominum nullus qui secundum dignitatem matris dei sacram discessionem bene laudare poterit

    incipit : (29r) De venerabili dei genitrice maria multi pertransierunt prophete

    rubric : (30r) Sermo Johannis damasceni de natiuitate beate virginis

    incipit : (29v) Venite omnes gentes

    rubric : (31v) Speculum peccatorum

    incipit : (31v) Quoniam fratres karissimi in via

    explicit : (33v) vitam possideas, etc.

    rubric : (34r) De ascensione domini

    incipit : (34r) Ascendit super occasum dominus

    Note : ff. 36r-37v blank

    Note : Here begin the sermons of which there is a list on f. 26r

    Note : 1.

    rubric : (38r) de assumpcione Marie

    incipit : (38r) Progreditur quasi aurora ... Nunquid post ortum tuum precepisti diluculo

    Note : 2.

    rubric : (41r) de omnibus sanctis dni ffortunensis generalis ministri minorum postea Cardinalis

    incipit : (41r) In plenitudine sanctorum detencio mea

    Note : (Eccl. xxiiii)

    Note : 3.

    rubric : (42v) Sermo synodalis

    incipit : (42v) Videntes autem turbe timuerunt

    Note : 4.

    rubric : (45r) de Sancto Francisco Magistri Mathei de aurelia archiepiscopi

    incipit : (45r) Michi mundus crucifixus est

    Note : 5.

    rubric : (48r) de Resurrectione domini fratris Wilhelmi generalis ministri postea Cardinalis

    incipit : (48r) Mane sancto surrexit

    Note : 6.

    rubric : (50v) De Sancto Anthonio

    Note : 7.

    rubric : (54r) Magistri Landolfi ordinis minorum de aduentu

    Note : 8.

    rubric : (56r) In vigilia nativitatis domini per dominum Cardinalem de Turri

    rubric : (63v) de concepcione virginis gloriose per landolfum magistrum ordinis

    rubric : (65r) Domini ffabrensis Magistri in theologia summi penitenciarii de Nativitate Marie

    rubric : (66v) in cena domini factus per dominum papam Clementem 6m

    rubric : (69v) de passione Christi domini Cardinalis et summi penitenciam florentini

    rubric : (84v) in vigilia pasche Magistri Jacobi de Esculo

    Note : (104r) de apostolis domini pape Innocencii

    Note : Many of those not noted are by a magister in theologia

    Note : Changes of hand occur after f. 120v: former hand resumes at f. 136r

    Note : Another collection, some of which are called Arengae, begins

    rubric : (148r) Arenga pro commendacione noui Rectoris alme uniuersitatis studii pragensis canonistarum

    incipit : (148r) Cantemus domino gloriose ... filii israel post transitum maris rubri

    rubric : (150v) hic deficit thema elegi dauid seruum meum, etc. cum introduccione et sequitur (?), valeat in quantum potest

    rubric : (153v) Alia arenga de eodem

    incipit : (153v) Redde uxorem viro suo

    Note : Others follow

    rubric : (165r) Arenga facta in studio perusino per petrum urbe ueteranum episcopum pro licenciando ad doctoratum dominum franciscum angli ciuitatis eiusdem (?) perusine

    rubric : (193r) Collacio Synodalis facta per Ciuisionem (or Cnusionem) de wylicz decretorum doctorem In die luce in ecclesia pragensi

    Note : (200v) At the end of it is the date A. d. millesimo tricentesimo septuagesimo septimo

    Note : This collection, which appears to relate mainly to the University of Prague, ends f. 237v

    Note : On ff. 238r-243v are sermons de Nativitate Marie

    Note : (244r) a prettier hand begins

    Note : (244r) Sermones ad clerum, in Advent

    Note : Then

    rubric : (260r) Incipit sermo factus in Capella domini pape vrbani quinti per magistrum Radulphum de Castello ordinis Sancti Augustini magistrum in theologia 2a dominica xlme de anno domini mo ccco lxvo

    Note : followed by

    rubric : (263v) Sermo de nativitate beate Virginis factus per eundem

    Note : f. 266r-266v blank

    Note : After this are various hands

    Note : A tract or sermon on

    incipit : (267r) Lucernam ponunt super candelabrum ... de sanctis quatuor doctoribus

    Note : (271v) Two sermons de sacerdotibus follow

    Note : (273v) A long tract

    rubric : (273v) de Assumpcione

    incipit : (273v) Quasi cedrus exaltata sum ... legitur in ecclesia communiter ad laudem genitricis dei

    Note : Ending

    rubric : (286v) De trinitate

    incipit : (286v) Non est similis tui in diis domine

    incipit : (292r) Stabat iuxta crucem

    incipit : (295v) Propter nomen tuum dux

    Note : followed by two other sermons

Participant

Provenance

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  • Mary Pernham on f. 1v.

Notes

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  • Additions: Binding as usual, two tags remain, bosses gone: label 4·.
  • Additions: The leaves at each end are tender from damp.

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