Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 315

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 315 contains thirteenth-century copies of texts relating to the Bible and to the history and geography of the Holy Land, such as an excerpt from Bede's De temporum ratione and his De locis sanctis, Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), In uisionem Ezechielis, and Andrew of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1175), Expositio hystorica in librum Regum. It is common for works by Bede to be found in manuscripts also containing Andrew's works. Members of the Victorine school focused exclusively on the books of the Old Testament, but while Richard's commentaries are allegorical, Andrew's are historical. It should be noted that the text which was previously thought to be a commentary on Maccabees has now been identified as Andrew's historical Dossier. Van Liere used CCCC MS 315 for his edition of the works of Andrew of Saint-Victor. The manuscript also contains some notes pertaining to a journey during which the writer was at Montpellier and Cologne. An ex libris inscription identifies the manuscript as having belonged to the Franciscan convent at Oxford.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Richard of Saint-Victor OSA - author

    1r-6r - Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, Expositio tabernaculi foederis || Ricardus de Sancto Victore super tabernaculum federis

    rubric : (1r) Incipit prologus. In explanationem tabernaculi federis

    incipit : (1r) Rogatus ab amicis

    Note : (P. L. CXCVI 211)

    explicit : (1r) erogauero

    incipit : (1r) Precepturus dominus

    explicit : (6r) ex parte dictum monstratum est


    6r-10r - Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De meditandis plagis quae circa finem mundi euenient || Idem super obscura verba Ecclesiastis

    incipit : (6r) Memento creatoris tui

    Note : (P. L. CXCVI 201)

    explicit : (10r) peruersitate compescere


    10r-19r - Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De templo Salomonis ad litteram || Ejusdem descriptio templi Solomonis

    incipit : (10r) Descripcio templi Salomonis secundum librum regum

    Note : (P. L. CXCVI 223)

    explicit : (19r) centum reciaculis circumdabantur


    19r-21v - Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De concordia temporum regum || Idem in librum Regum

    incipit : (19r) In hiis que in libro regum de diuturnitate

    Note : (P. L. CXCVI 241)

    explicit : (21v) tam filiis quam patribus


    Intervenants :

    Andrew of Saint-Victor OSA - author

    22r-38v - Andrew of Saint-Victor OSA, Expositio hystorica in librum Regum || Andreas in libros Regum

    Note : Quae sequuntur charactere simili sed adhuc minutiori scripta sunt

    incipit : (22r) Fuit uir unus ... Ad commendationem sancti Samuelis

    Note : Pretty initial in blue and flat colours

    explicit : (38v) mundantur et raduntur pauimenta


    38v-58v - Andrew of Saint-Victor OSA, Dossier || Idem in libros MacchabaeorumIdem in libros Danielis

    incipit : (38v) In hac ultima huius operis particula que sint reliqua uerborum uniuscuiusque regum iuda

    explicit : (44r) israel sine rege fuit

    Note : (44r) Tables of Prophets, Kings (various) and Judges

    Note : Cf. MS 30

    incipit : (45v) Principatum israelitice gentis post mortem moysi

    Note : With Chronicle to Theodosius minor and Marcianus

    explicit : (50r) britones minus sufficienter stipendia darent

    Note : Cf. MS 30

    incipit : (50r) In egypto enim primus regnauit ptolomeus

    explicit : (58v) Regnauerunt Medi annis cccl

    Note : Cf. MS 30

    Note : 113-114 blank


    Intervenants :

    Bede the Venerable - author

    60r-70r - Bede the Venerable, Chronica maiora (De temporum ratione, cc. 66-71), excerpt || Excerptum de libro Bedae de temporibus, de sex mundi aetatibus

    rubric : (60r) Exceptum de libro bede de temporibus de vi huius mundi etatibus

    incipit : (60r) De sex huius mundi etatibus ac septima uel octaua

    explicit : (70r) debito tanto pater honore recondidit

    rubric : (70r) Explicit excerptum ... etatibus


    70r-72v - Bede the Venerable, De locis sanctis || Libellus Bedae de situ terrarum

    rubric : (70r) Incipit libellus bede presbiteri de situ terrarum

    Note : Verses. Descripsi breuiter fines situsque locorum ... Qua beat eternum uisio summa tui ed. Geyer, p. 301

    Note : Capitula

    Note : Text

    rubric : (70r) Incipit ipse libellus de locis sanctis

    rubric : (70r) De situ Ierusalem

    incipit : (70r) Situs urbis ierusalem pene in orbem circumactus

    explicit : (72v) studio tibi temperare satagas

    rubric : (72v) De situ terrarum Bede presbiteri explicit libellus

    Note : Mentioned in MGH. Chron. min. I 233


    73r-75v - Tractatus de locis et statu sanctae terrae Ierosolimitanae || De statu terrae sanctae, seculo duodecimo

    incipit : (73r) Terra ierosolimitana in centro mundi posita est

    Note : Ends (de imperatore frederico)

    explicit : (75v) Nulla est enim ambitio me(mo)randi quos constat plurimos fuisse et nullos


    76r-113r - Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, In uisionem Ezechielis || Richardus de Sancto Victore super visionem et templum Ezechielis

    Note : Opus subsequens charactere a precedentibus diverso scriptum est, et ut mihi videtur haud longe post aetatem autoris

    incipit : (76r) Multis diuine scripture multo amplius dulcescunt

    Note : (P. L. CXCVI 527)

    Note : cum figuris diversarum partium templi non invenuste depictis

    Note : Illustrated with 13 diagrams, several of which occupy a full page and are richly coloured (pp. 197, 198, 204, 211)

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (111v) erunt leuitis qui ministrant domui

    Note : 219, 220 blank

    Note : (113r) The next leaf is a folding one and has a diagram showing the division of the Holy Land among the Tribes

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  • On f. ir: Iste liber est de communitate fratrum minorum Oxon.. A similar inscription has been on f. ivv.

Notes

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  • Additions: On f. iv: Sic me vestiri fecit R. Colmanque ligari. 1419. On f. iir-iiv and at end are grammatical notes: some relate to a journey in which the writer was at Montpellier and at Cologne. On f. iiir Prec. iis vjd. Pencil notes on f. ivr. On ivv list of contents.

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