Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 457

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 457
    • CCCC MS 457
    • MS 457
    • Parker Library MS 457
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Alexander Cantuariensis
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1100 - 1125
  • Script :
    • in the Christ Church hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 1 + 116
  • Dimensions :
    • 122 x 174
  • Codicological details :
    • 23 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + i + 1-116 + c-d
    • hominum
    • vitaret
    • 1 flyleaf, 1(8)-14(8) 15(4).

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Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : CCCC MS 457 is an early twelfth-century copy of the second recension of Alexander of Canterbury OSB (fl. early twelfth century), Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi, including the Miracula. The scholarly circle around Anselm (archbishop of Canterbury 1093-1109) produced several writings which contain material derived from the archbishop's own teachings, of which this is one. This manuscript was used by the editors to provide the base text for the second recension. It has early provenance at Christ Church, Canterbury in the form of an erased ex libris inscription and a classmark in the early form ".AN.". It later came into the hands of Matthew Parker, who rewrote some parts and provided an inscription erroneously attributing the work to Eadmer of Canterbury OSB (d. after 1124).


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Alexander of Canterbury OSB - author

    1r-115v - Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi || [Eadmeri] liber ex dictis B. Anselmi et de miraculis ejusdem ad abbatem Anselmum S. R. E. legatum archiepiscopi nepotem

    rubric : (1r) Incipit prologus subiecti operis

    incipit : (1r) Compellis me venerabilis Abba et sancte Romane ecclesie legate domine anselme ut tibi (these lines re-written in cent. xvi) quedam de dictis magnifici uiri anselmi ... auunculi tui

    Note : (the date suggested by Mr Rule for this prologue is 1115)

    explicit : (1r) que a quibus acceperim in ipsis patebit relationibus

    rubric : (1r) Explicit prologus Incipiunt capitula (52)

    rubric : (3r) De monte humilitatis et viitem gradibus eius et duabus eiusdem montis custodibus

    incipit : (3r) Dominus et redemptor noster spiritu

    incipit : (3r) Septiformis gratie plenus profundam superbie uallem uolens nobis obstruere

    Note : (3r) The opening words dominus, etc. had been omitted and the ornamented initial is given to Septiformis: the omitted words were then added on L. by the original scribe

    Note : (3r) At top, erased, is Ecclesie Christi Cantuariens

    Note : (71v) There is a division after ch. xx. The title of this is given in the capitula as de consecratione domus dei et sacrificiorum immolatione et eorum significatione. In the text it is shorter, de edificatione templi

    Note : (72v) It ends

    explicit : (72v) In timore uitia in amore orationes incendamus

    Note : (72v) Most of the page is blank and there are some later pen-trials on it

    Note : (73r) The second part of the book has a separate rubric in the Capitula; de miraculis, and consists of detached stories, some of which relate to St Anselm. The first is

    rubric : (73r) De sancto Iacobo apostolo

    incipit : (73r) Sancte recordationis anselmus summus anglorum ecclesie pontifex dum a patria exularet

    Note : (115v) The last chapter (Qualiter Willelmus turbas demonum uiderit et ab eis per bonos angelos liberatus sit) ends f. 115v

    explicit : (115v) et utinam nos digni efficiamur eorum tuitione inuictissima et indeficienti ac salutifera amicitia

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Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • At top of f. 1r partly in capitals: Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi. De monte humilitatis, and the mark ·AN·
  • To the left is a later name.
  • It may be no. 114 in Eastry's Catalogue (Ancient Libraries, p. 30): De monte humilitatis secundus.

Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Research: The tract is by Alexander a monk of Christ Church. See Mr Rule's preface to his edition of Eadmer's Historia (Rolls), p. lxxv. In an appendix to his Preface, pp. cxx-cxxvi, he has printed the greater part of chapters 21, 39-42, 44, 45.
  • Additions: On the flyleaf in Parker's chalk: Edmerus author Scriptor is qui scripsit historiam edmeri rerum nouarum in anglia. and the same on the verso.

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