Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 451

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    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Primes deit l'em meitere tuz les berbiz en une meisun
    Folio 194v - 194v

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  • Résumé : The miscellany of seventeen texts in CCCC MS 451, dating from the late twelfth or early thierteenth century, has no apparent unifying them. They include the Epistolae of Hildebert of Lavardin (1056-1133), theological tracts by Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1170) and Achard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1170), the De disciplina clericali of Petrus Alfonsi (fl. early twelfth century), the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri (a text originating in late antiquity), and several sermons on the Virgin Mary, some by Ambrosius Autpertus, Fulbert of Chartres (d. 1029) and Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109). A press mark shows the book to have been in the library of the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin, français


    Intervenants :

    Hildebert of Lavardin - author

    1r-38v - Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistolae || Epistolae Hildeberti Cennomanensis episcopi || Epistole Hildeberti Cennomanensis Episcopi

    rubric : (1r) Epistole Hildeberti Cennomanensis Episcopi

    incipit : (1r) Conuersione et conuersatione tua letatur et exultat anima mea

    incipit : (1v) Iustum est ut aduersa communicent

    incipit : (2r) Virtuti gratulor cui sub solo rege nostro

    incipit : (2r) Pro Willelmo tuo pater sancte

    Note : no. 54 (Dignitatis gradu amoris intimi affectu) ends

    explicit : (35r) Vale, ut in uno sed non solo ualeat uterque

    Note : Change of hand

    incipit : (35r) Dauid futura spiritu prouidens liberauit inquid deus pauperem

    Note : (Sermo de Christi beneficiis, Bibl. Patr. 305)

    incipit : (37r) In regno quidem nullus. in errore autem omnis homo sibi consortem querit

    Note : (Ep. 51 Bibl. Patr.)

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (38v) sanctis pro nobis orantibus ut orent sancti pro uobis

    Note : Bibl. Patr. Paris, de la Bigne III 223


    Intervenants :

    Richard of Saint-Victor OSA - author

    39r-54v - Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De eruditione hominis interioris || Expositio moralis in somnium Nabugodonozor || Expositio moralis super sompnium Nabugodonosor

    Note : Large hand

    incipit : (39r) Ego nabugodonosor quietus eram ... quid per domum intelligimus nisi conscienciam

    explicit : (53v) rex prius filios postea oculos amisit

    Note : Another hand

    incipit : (53v) Nabugodonosor interpretatur sessio in agnitione angustie

    explicit : (54r) et uasa templo reddidit cum documenta ecclesie et medicamenta asignauit

    Note : On f. 54v in beautiful letters drawn as folded scrolls or ribbons: Ihc nazare(nus)


    Intervenants :

    Petrus Alfonsi - author

    55r-83v - Petrus Alfonsi, De disciplina clericali || Petrus Adelfunsus de disciplina clericali || Petrus AdelfunsusDisciplina clericalis

    Note : Hand like that of item 1

    incipit : (55r) Dixit petrus adelfunsus seruus Christi Ihesu. compositor huius libri Gratias ago

    Note : (P. L. CLVII 671)

    explicit : (55v) spe credulitatis mee innitor. Amen

    rubric : (55v) Explicit prefatio. Incipit liber petri adelfunsi de clericali disciplina

    incipit : (55v) In hoc (Enoch) philosophus qui lingua arabica cognominatur edric

    explicit : (83v) eterna requie cum suis fidelibus mereamur perfrui in aula celesti prestante domino nostro Ihesu Christo. Cui est honor et gloria cum patre et spiritu sancto per infinita seculorum secula. Amen


    83v-87v - Prophecy of the Sibyls || Tractatus de sibyllis

    Note : Change of hand

    incipit : (83v) Sibille generaliter omnes femine

    Note : Ends f. 88v with the acrostic (Judicii signum)

    explicit : (87v) ignisque et sulphuris amnis

    Note : Bede (P. L. XC 1181). Opsopoeus, Sibyllina. Alexandre, Oracula Sibyllina II 290. Cf. MS 404. 1, etc.


    88r-107v - Historia Apollonii regis Tyri || Vita [fabulosa] Appollonii Tirii || Historia Apollonii

    incipit : (88r) In ciuitate antiochie Rex fuit antiochus

    explicit : (105v) unum in templo diane ephesiorum alium bibliothece sue exposuit

    Note : Mentioned but not used by Riese in his edition (Teubner 1871, p. vii)

    Note : A paragraph in another hand

    incipit : (105v) Si per ignorantiam euenerit quod absit ut missa(m) cantans pauem uel uinum oblitus fuerit

    Note : ff. 106r-107v are part of an old flyleaf with list of contents (xiii)

    Note : (106v) In isto vol. cont. libelli subscripti videlicet. Epistole diuersorum Patrum. Liber Petri Adelfunsi. Vaticinium Sibille. Narracio apollonii

    Note : f. 107r blank: on f. 107v note on illusio nocturna


    108r-125v - De creatione primi hominis || De creatione primi hominis et ejus lapsu

    Note : Hand like that of item 1: more than one change

    rubric : (108r) De creacione primi hominis et eius lapsu

    incipit : (108r) Quinque modis in anima constat homo factus ad imaginem et similitudinem dei

    Note : (Sketch of a queen on f. 122v)

    Note : Ends with a paragraph on essencia karitatis

    explicit : (124v) affectus operi nomen imponit

    Note : Paragraph

    incipit : (124v) Sciendum quod omne nomen quod de deo dicitur

    Note : Another hand

    incipit : (125r) Sciendum est quod apud grecos sunt hec iiii uocabula in usu. usia. usiosis Ypostasis et prosopa


    Intervenants :

    Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath - author

    126r-131r - Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Compendium in Iob (fragment) || Fragmentum expositionis Petri Blessensis in Job

    rubric : (126r) de expositione Petri Blesensis in Job. finis tantum

    Note : Begins

    incipit : (126r) mandaret. Nichil tibi et iusto illi

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (128v) altissimus altissimi filius Ihesus Christus dominus noster qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et triumphat et regnat per omnia secula seculorum. Amen. Tu autem domine

    Note : (129r) Smaller hand: headed Secretum meum mihi S. m. m.

    Note : (De quinque sensibus)

    incipit : (129r) Cum quiescit uel in primi patris sompno uel in conditi Ioseph loculo uel in florido sponse lectulo

    explicit : (131r) perfectionem in quarto


    Intervenants :

    Achard of Saint-Victor OSA - author

    131r-134v - Achard of Saint-Victor OSA, De discretione animae, spiritus et mentis || Tractatus Magistri Achardi de divisione animae et spiritus

    rubric : (131r) Tractatus Magistri Achardi de diuisione anime et spiritus

    incipit : (131r) Substancia interior que una cum corpore constituit

    explicit : (134r) comprehenduntur superiora aut nomine anime duo interiora

    Note : Mentioned by Tanner, p. 3

    Note : On f. 134v paragraphs in other hands


    Intervenants :

    Ambrosius Autpertus - author

    135r-143r - Ambrosius Autpertus, Sermo de assumptione beatae Mariae || Sermones ex diversis autoribus de beata virgine || Sancti Ansberti Episcopi sermo de assumptione

    Note : Larger hand of earlier type for items 9-17 at bottom of f. 135r (xiv) In hoc libro cont. Sermones de assumpcione. Tractatus Mag. Achardi de diuisione anime et spiritus

    Note : (pseudo-Augustine P. L. XXXIX 2130)

    incipit : (135r) Adest nobis dilectissimi fratres dies ualde uenerabilis

    Note : MS 332. 5


    Intervenants :

    pseudo-Paschasius Radbertus - author

    143r-159v - pseudo-Paschasius Radbertus, De partu uirginis

    rubric : (143r) Sermo beati Jeronimi presbiteri de assumptione

    Note : (P. L. XCVI 235)

    Note : (Feria iiii, lectio 1)

    incipit : (143r) Quotienscunque dilectissime nobis aliquid

    Note : MS 332. 10


    Intervenants :

    pseudo-Augustine - author

    159v-166v - pseudo-Augustine, De assumptione beatae Mariae

    rubric : (159v) Item sermo de assumptione

    Note : (P. L. XL 1143)

    incipit : (159v) Quia profundissime et sua dignitate altissime

    Note : MS 332. 6


    Intervenants :

    Paschasius Radbertus - author

    166v-171v - Paschasius Radbertus, De assumptione beatae uirginis Mariae (sermo 3)

    rubric : (166v) Item sermo de assumptione

    Note : (P. L. XCVI 254)

    incipit : (166v) Adest nobis dilectissimi fratres hodierna festiuitas beata maria

    Note : MS 332. 8


    Intervenants :

    pseudo-Ildefonsus of Toledo - author

    172r-173v - pseudo-Ildefonsus of Toledo, Sermo de assumptione beatae Mariae

    incipit : (172r) Fratres dilectissimi cum aliquid pro amore creatoris

    Note : (P. L. XCVI 258)

    Note : MS 332. 9 (Jerome)


    173v-176r - pseudo-Ildefonsus of Toledo, Sermo de assumptione beatae Mariae (extract)

    incipit : (173v) Creator omnium et auctor uite

    Note : P. L. XCVI 279, Hildefonsus

    Note : MS 332. 13 (Ambrose)


    Intervenants :

    Fulbert of Chartres (pseudo-Ambrose) - author

    176r-185v - Fulbert of Chartres (pseudo-Ambrose), Sermo de natiuitate beatae uirginis Mariae (sermo 4)

    rubric : (176r) Sermo beati Ambrosii ... de natiuitate Sancte dei genitricis Marie

    incipit : (176r) Natiuitas gloriose genitricis

    Note : MS 332. 12


    Intervenants :

    pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury OSB - author

    185v-189r - pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Sermo de beata Maria

    rubric : (185v) Sermo sancti Anselmi archiepiscopi de Sancta Maria

    incipit : (185v) Omnium sanctorum dilectissimi laus et exultatio


    Intervenants :

    Fulbert of Chartres (attrib.) - author

    189r-194v - Fulbert of Chartres (attrib.), Sermo de natiuitate sanctae Mariae

    rubric : (189r) Sermo domini Fulberti Carnotensis episcopi de natiuate Sancte Marie

    incipit : (189r) Approbate consuetudinis est apud Christianos

    Note : (P. L. CXLI 320)

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (194r) recuperare et habere perpetuam gratiam filii tui Ihesu Christo domino nostro qui cum patre et spiritu sancto unus deus uiuit in eternum. Amen

    Note : On f. 194v in a later hand a charm in French and Latin for sheep.

    Note : (194v) primes deit lem meitere tuz les berbiz en une meisun. ... Saint filiol sur le ile de la mer sist... aat dampnedeu li suruint et lui demanda et dit filiol que(fa)is tu ici. sire io garde mes berbiz de la uerole et del cloufic, etc.

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  • From St Mary's Abbey, York. A list of contents on flyleaf (xiv-xv), and the mark In O.9 (twice), cf. nos 181,309.

Bibliography

  • Wilkins, Nigel. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Français de La Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library). Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Parker Library Publications, 1993.

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