Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 137

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 137 is a fourteenth-century manuscript which contains a miscellany of theological and spiritual tracts, some containing rules for the behaviour of monks and novices, suggesting that the compilation was intended for monastic use. The book belonged to the Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, and might be identifiable with a book transferred to Evesham Abbey in the late fourteenth century. The last item, the homily of Origen on the lament of Mary Magdalene at the tomb of Christ, was a text which Chaucer was later to translate into English.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais


    Intervenants :

    Bernard Ayglier OSB - author

    33v-92v - Bernard Ayglier OSB, Commentary on Regula Sancti Benedicti || Expositio in regulam Sancti Benedicti secundum Bernardum abbatem monasterii Cassinensis


    Intervenants :

    James of Milan OFM - author

    93r-117r - James of Milan OFM, Stimulus amoris || Liber qui vocatur stimulus amoris

    incipit : (93r) Liber iste qui stimulus amoris in dilectissimum et pium Ihesum

    Note : Text

    incipit : (93r) Currite gentes undique

    explicit : (117r) que sint matres et filii. quod nobis concedat etc.

    Note : Bonaventura Opera, tom. VII


    Intervenants :

    psuedo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist - author

    122r-123v - psuedo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, Speculum peccatoris || Speculum peccatoris

    incipit : (122r) Quoniam karissimi in huius uia uite fugientis

    explicit : (123v) nouissima tua prudenter prouideas

    Note : By R. Hampole


    Intervenants :

    Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA - author

    123v-132v - Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, De institutione nouiciorum || Hugo de Sancto Victore de disciplina clericorum

    Note : (123v) Tituli

    Note : Text

    incipit : (123v) Quia fratres largiente domino de uana conuersacione

    Note : (P. L. CLXXVI 925)

    explicit : (132v) adiuua me domine deus meus

    rubric : (132v) Explicit liber Hugonis prioris ecclesiae S. Victoris de Disciplina clericorum


    132v-139r - Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, De conscientia || Idem de conscientia

    rubric : (132v) Incipit tractatus Hugonis de consciencia

    incipit : (132v) Domus hec in qua habitamus

    Note : (P. L. CLXXXIV 507)

    explicit : (139r) quam terrestrium occupacione

    rubric : (139r) Explicit Hugonis de Sancto Victore de consciencia


    Intervenants :

    Eusebius Gallicanus - author

    139r-141v - Eusebius Gallicanus, Homiliae ad monachos || Omeliae Beati Eusebii episcopi ad monachos

    rubric : (139r) Hic incipiunt omelie beati Eusebii episcopi ad monachos

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Provenance

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  • From Christ Church, Canterbury. On f. ir at top erased: de claustro ecclesie Christi Cant. and: Philosophia monachorum eccl. Chr. Cant.
  • A similar erased inscription on f. 2r and, not erased, on f. 82 (83). On f. iiv: Qui me renouauit. Altissimus eum benedicat. JS
  • On f. 2r Parker has written: Canterbery (?) King. The book does not occur in the extant catalogues.

Notes

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  • Additions: Old list of contents on f. ir.

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