Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 256

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 256
    • CCCC MS 256
    • MS 256
    • Parker Library MS 256
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : David d'Augsbourg (1200?-1272?) | Johannes de Caulibus
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in more than one clear hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 147 + 4
  • Dimensions :
    • 195 x 270
  • Codicological details :
    • 35 lines to a page
    • ff. i-iii + 1-147 + iv-vi
    • a(2) 1(8)-11(8) (wants 2) | 12(8)-18(8) 19 (four), 2 flyleaves.

Contents

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 256 contains two texts by Franciscan authors. The first by David of Augsburg OFM (d. 1272), De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione, is an introduction to the conventual and mystical life of a friar. The second text is the Latin version of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes uitae Christi, written in the early fourteenth century, which is found in Nicholas Love's Middle English version in CCCC MSS 142, 143. The Latin version of this expanded version of the gospel account of the Life of Christ has been attributed by some to Iohannes de Caulibus OFM (fl. early fourteenth century).


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    David of Augsburg OFM - author

    1r-87v - David of Augsburg OFM, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione || Formula novitiorum, reformatio mentis et profectus religiosorum libri iii

    Note : (1r) Table of chapters

    Note : Text

    incipit : (2v) Primo considerare debes quare ueneris

    Note : (cf. P. L. CLXXXIV 1189)

    Note : Liber III ends

    explicit : (83v) Pro acceptis uel promissis que nobis concedat deus qui uiuit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen

    rubric : (84r) Explicit tercius liber de profectu Religiosorum

    rubric : (84r) Posce quod ignoscat deus aut bona det mala tollat

    rubric : (84r) Et pro concessis tibi grates dando vigil sis

    rubric : (84r) Inuentorium seu reportorium in opere precedente s. formula nouiciorum

    Note : f. 87r-87v blank


    Intervenants :

    Iohannes de Caulibus (pseudo-Bonaventure) OFM - author

    88r-147v - Iohannes de Caulibus (pseudo-Bonaventure) OFM, Meditationes uitae Christi || Meditatio omnium meditationum excellentissima de vita Christi edita a reverendo cardinali Bonaventura || pseudo-Bonaventura

    Note : Hujus generis scriptores possunt lectori testari abunde, quae fuerat doctrinae forma per totam ecclesiam confirmata quo tempore hic author claruit, et vel ob hanc causam servandus

    Note : Prologue

    incipit : (88r) Inter alia virtutum et laudum preconia

    Note : Text

    incipit : (89r) Cum per longissima tempora

    explicit : (147v) dignetur assumere de quo loquimur scilicet dominus noster Iesus Christus qui est super omnia deus benedictus et laudabilis in secula seculorum. Amen

    Note : (ivr) On flyleaf, verses

    Note : Surge miser vigila lege canta scribe vel oraEt fac quod nulla sine fructu transeat hora.Est graue prestare grauius prestata rogareCum peto tunc dubito duo perdere rem et amorem.Hic sto pro ventis ac pro multis nocumentisSi quis me frangat ipsum malediccio tangat.etc.

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Notes

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  • Additions: On f. iv: Sancta ffrydeswyda ora pro nobis. Mark J at top of f. 1r.On the last flyleaf (f. vr) is pasted a smaller paper leaf written in red ink: Femina quedam solitaria et reclusa numerum vulnerum christi scire cupiens ... inter quedam cum desiderio que audierant perfecerunt.

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