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• Résumé : CCCC MS 337, dating to the fourteenth century, contains two main texts. The first is the Liber scintillarum of Defensor of Ligugé (late seventh century), a florilegium of biblical and patristic sayings arranged according to themes. The second is the Summa Qui bene praesunt by Richard of Wetheringsett (fl. c. 1200-30), first recorded chancellor of Cambridge University at some time between 1215 and 1232. This is a guide for preachers structured in the manner of a catechism according to the Creed, the Lord's Prayer etc. It is one of the earliest pastoral texts of this sort which were initiated by the reforms of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Formerly the author of this text was thought to be William de Montibus (d. 1213). The book might have belonged to the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, but that provenance is doubtful.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais

  
  

  Intervenants :

  pseudo-Augustine - author

  1r-2r - pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in eremo (sermo 56) || Ammonitio Sancti Augustini, qua ostenditur quam bonum sit lectionem divinam legere et quam sit nobis malum ab illa inquisitione desistere

  rubric : (1r) Incipit ammonitio augustini, etc.

  Note : (P. L. XL 1339)

  incipit : (1r) Propitio Christo fratres karissimi ita lectionem diuinam

  explicit : (2r) stelle in perpetuas eternitates quod ipse prestare dignetur qui cum patre et spiritu Sancto uiuit et regnat

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Defensor of Ligugé - author

  2r-37v - Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum || Liber scintillarum venerabilis Bedae presbiteri diversarum scientiarum, ideo sic dictus quia scintillae valent ad parandum incendium, ita sententiae diversorum patrum hic collectae valent et utilissimae sunt ad accendendas mentes fidelium

  rubric : (2r) Libri subsequentis capitula

  rubric : (2v) Incipit liber scintillarum venerabilis Bede, etc.

  Note : (P. L. LXXXVIII 597)

  incipit : (2v) Dominus dicit in euangelio Maiorem hac dilectionem

  explicit : (37r) interior homo nutritur et pascitur

  rubric : (37r) Explicit liber scintillarum

  Note : Paragraphs in another hand

  rubric : (37r) Qualiter orationes debent terminari

  incipit : (37r) Hec festa subscripta ex toto ferianda sunt per annum (secundum concilium Oxonie)

  Note : (37r) Translation of S. Thomas has the name erased

  Note : (37r) Further notes on feasts and days of blood-letting

  Note : f. 37v blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Richard of Wetheringsett - author

  38r-87v - Richard of Wetheringsett, Summa Qui bene praesunt || Gulielmi de Montibus summula qui vocatur qui bene presunt

  rubric : (38r) Tractatus Magistri Willelmi de Montibus quondam Cancellarij lincoln

  Note : (title added xv)

  incipit : (38r) Qui bene presunt presbiteri

  explicit : (86v) hic ergo erit consummatus. Deo gratias

  rubric : (86v) Explicit summula que uocatur qui bene presunt

  Note : (87r) Later notes: Dotes corporis glorificati, Name of Jesus, etc.

  Note : 87v blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  pseudo-Robert Grosseteste - author

  88r-207v - pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, Summa uitiorum || Liber alius scintillarum

  rubric : (88r) Incipit capitula libri Sintillarii

  Note : (about 80)

  Note : (88r) De superbia...de diuersis rebus collectis

  Note : Text

  incipit : (88r) Superbia est elatio uitiosa que inferiorem despiciens

  Note : This is given by Tanner as the incipit of Grosseteste's Summa de vitiis (from University Library Ll.1.15). It occurs in Laud Misc. 544 (8ff. only) ending: reprehensibiles exhibet clericos: followed by Egredietur virga and other sermons

  Note : At top of f. 148r are some lines in English

  Note : (148r) Wo so sit at te hale cuppe to kippe. ant ne his nout on haise mit te drie lippe. Þe deuel sal in helle mit his soule wippe

  Note : The end of this tract is not clearly marked. It seems to disappear into miscellaneous questiones and sermons, with many exempla

  Note : On f. 169v is a heading

  rubric : (169v) Sermo de beata Maria Magdalene secundum fratrem Walterum

  incipit : (169v) Babylon dilecta mea posita es michi in miraculum

  Note : From about 186r the headings are alphabetical. Adam (f. 186r) - Ignorancia (f. 200v)

  Note : On f. 201r the hand changes and we end with a series of stories mainly from the Vitae Patrum

  Note : (205v) On the last page the merita visionis corporis Christi in another hand