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• Résumé : The texts by various hands in CCCC MS 460, dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, are primarily aids for the study of the Bible, but with two tracts on the mass at the end. The first category comprises the Correctorium totius Bibliae attributed to Robert Grossesteste (d. 1253), the Corrogationes Promethei by Alexander Nequam OSA (1157-1217), and Bartholomew Cotton OSB (d. 1321/2), Compilationes de libro Britonis, which is based on William Brito OFM (fl. late thirteenth century), Expositiones uocabulorum Bibliae. One of the commentaries on the mass is by Hugh of Saint-Cher OP (c. 1200-63). The book also has the Constitutiones de uita clericorum by John Stratford (d. 1348), archbishop of Canterbury, Ker rejects M. R. James's suggestion that the book might have come from Norwich cathedral priory.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, français

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Robert Grosseteste (attrib.) - author

  1r-24v - Robert Grosseteste (attrib.), Correctorium totius Bibliae || Alexandri Nequam correctorium Bibliorum

  rubric : (1r) Correctorium biblie [per Alex. Nequam added xvi]

  incipit : (1r) Pupplica collegi cupiens prodesse pusillis...Attestante beda dux non onerosa legendo

  rubric : (1r) Finito prohemio incipit correctorium

  incipit : (1r) Ut igitur de iam propositis aliquid (?) euidencius agatur a prosodia sic ordimur

  Note : Sections on orthography and 'distinctio' follow. Then (f. 3v)

  rubric : (3v) In prologo biblie

  incipit : (3v) Pauline frater simplex pausa. Ambrosius etc. Gĺutino. Śubdola. Memph́iticos, etc.

  Note : Ends with

  rubric : (24v) Apocalipsis

  explicit : (24v) scintillat ut aurum.Publica qui texit hic correctorius exitSi bene sit sic sic si non quis non maledixit

  rubric : (24v) Explicit correctorium super ordinem librorum Biblie

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Alexander Nequam OSA - author

  25r-37v - Alexander Nequam OSA, Corrogationes Promethei || Tractatus ejusdem super Promattheum

  Note : (25r) Smaller hand

  rubric : (25r) Incipit tractatus Alex. Nequam secundum promatheum

  incipit : (25r) Quoniam gramatice partes sint ortographia prosodia sunanologia (?) uel sintesis, etc.

  rubric : (34r) Hic incipiunt prologi biblie secundum promatheum

  incipit : (34r) Antequam ad expositionem partium librorum bibliotece

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Alexander Nequam OSA (attrib.) - author

  37v-68r - Alexander Nequam OSA (attrib.), Corrogationes Promethei (alphabetical version) || Ejusdem elucidarium bibliothecae

  incipit : (37v) Posthec de singulis libris bibliotece

  Note : Words explained Abissus-Zelatus est legem .i. zelum doloris et inuidie habuit propter legem suam

  rubric : (68r) Explicit compendium super promatheum Alexandri Nequam

  Note : followed by two short notes, and then a tract on accentuation

  
  

  68r-85v - Tract on accentuation

  rubric : (68v) de accentu in mediis sillabis

  incipit : (68v) Vocalis ante vocalem in diccionibus latinis corripitur

  Note : Ends with some general rules

  explicit : (85v) ut perlego obaudit

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Bartholomew Cotton OSB - author

  86r-152r - Bartholomew Cotton OSB, Compilationes de libro Britonis || Optimae compilationes de libro Britonis secundum ordinem Alphabeti per Bartholomeum de Cottune compilatae A. D. 1291

  Note : In the first hand

  rubric : (86r) Incipiunt optime compilaciones de libro britonis secundum ordinem alphabeti per bartholomeum de Cottune compilate anno domini mo ducentesimo nonogesimo primo

  incipit : (86r) Incipiendum est de a. Et nota quod a est preposicio, etc.

  Note : Ends with verses written over erasure

  explicit : (151r) Hic ego doctorum compegi uerba sacrorum ...Te precor almorum comitem me fac monachorumSorte beatorum quod sim uelut unus eorum

  Note : Cf. MS 479

  rubric : (151r) Explicit compilacio de libro britonis [per Bartholomeum de Cottune xvi]

  Note : (151v) some short notes in another hand

  Note : (152r) Then in a similar hand, formulae relating to banns of marriage, etc.

  
  

  152v-153r - Excommunication of despoilers of Thetford Priory 1358 || Sententia excommunicationis lata a Roberto de Totebrygge episcopi Norwicensis commissario in eos qui monasterium de Thetford spoliaverunt, 2 Feb. 1358

  Note : (152v) In the same hand

  incipit : (152v) Robertus de Totebrigge Rector ecclesie de Thoreswey venerabilis patris domini Thome dei gratia Norwicensis episcopi corector et comissarius generalis decanus de blakeborne Bokeland et theford (to the clergy)

  Note : The Prior and Convent of Thetford have complained of a trespass, vessels stolen from the kitchen, fish caught, plants damaged

  explicit : (153r) Dat. apud thefford xxii die febr. anno domini mo ccco lviiio

  
  

  Intervenants :

  John Stratford - author

  153v-164v - John Stratford, Constitutiones de uita clericorum || Constitutiones quaedam ecclesiasticae

  Note : (153v) Constitutions

  incipit : (153v) Constituimus et voluimus quod in cunctis ecclesiis parochialibus per archidiaconos constitutis uniformis sit peticio decimarum

  Note : (154v) blank

  Note : The inserted leaves in a somewhat earlier hand

  rubric : (155r) De vita et honestate clericorum rubrica

  incipit : (155r) Exterior habitus mores et condiciones intrinsecas personarum frequenter ostendit

  Note : (162r) Continued in the hand of 5

  Note : (164v) ending unfinished or imperfect

  
  

  165r-172v - Exposition prefacionis missae || Expositio praefationis missae

  Note : Double columns

  rubric : (165r) Exposicio prefacionis Misse

  incipit : (165r) Te igitur post prefacionem significantem (?) ea que precesserunt christi passionem

  Note : Ends imperfectly in the exposition of the Lord's Prayer (in celis)

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Hugh of Saint-Cher OP - author

  173r-182v - Hugh of Saint-Cher OP, Expositio missae siue Speculum ecclesiae || Speculum ecclesie

  Note : A larger hand, double columns

  rubric : (173r) Incipit speculum ecclesie et primo de uestibus

  incipit : (173r) Dicit apostolus ad epheseos. Induite uos armatura dei

  explicit : (182v) oratio misericordiam dei significat que precedit et subsequitur hominem in bonis operibus

  rubric : (182v) Explicit tractatus misse

  Note : By Hugo de S. Caro. Attributed to John Peckham