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• Résumé : The first and last two folios of CCCC MS 83 contain part of a fine, fourteenth-century, glossed copy of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. The rest of the manuscript dates from the early thirteenth century, probably datable to 1208-16, and contains Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205), Genealogia historiarum (Compendium ueteris testamenti) (also in CCCC MSS 29 and 437), an anonymous tract on the virtues and vices, De duodecim gradibus humilitatis, Alexander of Ashby OSA (d. by 1213), Comprehensio historiarum ueteris et noui testamenti, and Petrus Riga (d. 1209), Aurora, a late-twelfth-century verse commentary on, and summary of, the Bible. The book is notable for its illustrations in tinted drawing, as in the medallions containing Creation scenes and portraits of biblical figures and historical figures in the first text.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Peter of Poitiers - author

  1r-7v - Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum

  Note : (1r) treats of the Creation. In the C. is a line of medallions: at the sides paragraphs of Historia, Allegoria, Moralis Sentencia. The medallions contain good drawings in outline washed with green, yellow and red

  Note : (1r) At top 1. Mandorla. Christ holds globe and blesses 2. Medallion. Christ seated holds crescent in R. hand, book in L. On L. are sun and cloud 3. Christ seated faces R. and points to cloud above: water beneath on R. 4. Seated: on L. are cloud and trees

  Note : (1v) 5. Seated faces R. Sun, moon and stars in sky 6. Seated blessing: birds on L. and water with fishes 7. Standing touches the head and hands of Adam who sits on L.: beasts also on L. 8. Standing creates Eve

  rubric : (2r) Incipit compendium ueteris testamenti secundum magistrum petrum pictauiensem can(c)ellarium ecclesie parisiensis

  incipit : (2r) Considerans hystorie prolixitatem necnon et difficultatem

  Note : (2r) A genealogy in medallions occupies great part of the page. Some of the medallions contain pictures: usually single figures or busts, viz.

  Note : (2r) 1. Adam and Eve, each stands in a conventional bush

  Note : (2v) 2. Noe: seated

  Note : (3r) 3. Thare

  Note : (3r) 4. Abraham, scroll and book

  Note : (3r) 5. Ysaac

  Note : (3v) 6. Jacob

  Note : (4r) 7. Esrom

  Note : (4r) 8. Aram

  Note : (4r) 9. Naason (half-length: long-nosed, looking up, grotesque)

  Note : (4v) 10. Salmon

  Note : (4v) 11. Saul rex (after this a gap)

  Note : (5r) 12. Amasias

  Note : (5v) 13. Josias

  Note : (6v) 14. Azor

  Note : (7r) 15. Eliud

  Note : (7r) 16. Joseph uir Marie

  Note : (7r) 17. Julius Cesar, a seated king

  Note : (7v) 18. Maria mater domini seated with crown and sceptre

  Note : (7v) 19. Christus natus: swaddled in manger

  Note : (7v) 20. Christus puer: in tub, between two women; one pours water over His head

  Note : (7v) 21. Christus passus: on the Cross

  
  

  8r-8v - De duodecim gradibus humilitatis

  Note : (8r) has a series of rhyming quatrains on the gradus humilitatis et superbie. The former begins at bottom on L.

  rubric : (8r) Incipit prefatio de XII. gradibus humilitatis

  incipit : (8r) Nolens tibi quippiam frater denegareCogor de duodecim gradibus tractare

  Note : (8r) The gradus superbie descend from top, ending with

  rubric : (8r) Excusatio autoris super opere

  explicit : (8r) Credo tibi stephane uel nunc satisfeciDum et primis gradibus secundos adieciIn quo si quid aliter quam decet effeciFac donari ueniam. tu te donans preci

  Note : f. 8v is blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Alexander of Ashby OSA - author

  9r-25r - Alexander of Ashby OSA, Comprehensio historiarum ueteris ac noui testamenti

  rubric : (9r) Incipit proemium in libro compendii qui breuiter scribitur

  incipit : (9r) Laborem in ludum conuertit fructus

  explicit : (10v) frui colloquio

  rubric : (10v) Quomodo historie memoriter debeant retineri uersus sequentes docent

  incipit : (10v) Ut autem historie ueteris et noui testamenti etc.

  Note : (10v) Eight lines: Incipiens ab adam quem plantauit deus etas ... Claudere fulgorem uespera nulla potest

  rubric : (10v) Incipit liber compendii. In primo uersus de Genesy. Incipit prima etas

  incipit : (11r) Ante dies omnes mundi fuit omnis in uno

  Note : This epitome ends

  rubric : (24v) De cognitione dei et pace ecclesie

  explicit : (25r) Huc properemus eo pace fruemur ibi

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Petrus Riga - author

  25r-246v - Petrus Riga, Aurora || Petri de Riga Aurora

  rubric : (25r) Incipit proemium in libro qui dicitur aurora

  incipit : (25r) Frequens sodalium peticio

  explicit : (25r) totus refulgurat

  rubric : (25v) Incipit liber (proemium) magistri petri Canonici Beati Dionisii Remensis in librum qui intitulatur aurora etc.

  incipit : (25v) Primo facta die duo celum terra leguntur

  Note : The books paraphrased are: Gen. - 4 Reg., Tobit, Esther, Judith, Daniel, 1, 2 Macc., ending

  explicit : (156r) cesar in aure tua

  Note : (156v) Then follows Euuangelica Hystoria

  incipit : (156v) Post legem ueterem respira petre refulget

  Note : ends

  explicit : (200r) Petrus finit et ipse suum

  Note : (200r) Actus

  incipit : (200r) Dixi me finisse librum sed rursus in actus

  Note : ends

  explicit : (215v) Denecat obque fidem detur [nobis] iob idem petre metrum

  rubric : (215v) Expliciunt actus apostolorum

  Note : (215v) Iob

  incipit : (215v) Librum iob moysi quidam tribuere magistri

  Note : ends

  explicit : (225v) compleuit fine decenti

  Note : (225v) Cantica

  incipit : (225v) Solus origenes cum doctos uicerit omnes

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (246v) ueterum de germine natus

  rubric : (246v) Explicit liber in canticis canticorum

  Note : The lower part of this leaf (f. 246r-246v) is cut off. It doubtless had a mark of ownership