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• Résumé : CCCC MS 194 is a miscellany of texts of various periods 'diuersis temporibus et a diuersis scriptoribus exaratus' but mostly copied in the mid-fifteenth century. It contains a copy of Peter of Blois (d. 1212), De conuersione beati Pauli, an extract from the pseudo-Augustinian De spiritu et anima (De creatione primi hominis), the profusely illustrated anonymous Scala mundi chronicle, Martin of Troppau OP (d. 1278), Chronica pontificum et imperatorum and Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum of Peter of Ickham OSB (d. 1295). The Scala mundi contains a well-known early image of Stonehenge, and the historical nature of much of the material in this manuscript surely explains Parker's interest in it. A shelf mark reveals that this manuscript was once in the library of the Hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate, London, though how it came to be in Parker's collection is unknown.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath - author

  1v-3r - Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, De conuersione Sancti Pauli || Tractatus Petri Blessensis de conversione sancti Pauli

  Note : Cent. xv. 40 lines to a page

  incipit : (1v) Recolenda est cum exultacione

  Note : (P. L. CCVII 791)

  explicit : (3r) ad reuelacionem glorie domini nostri Ihesu Christi cui est honor et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen

  rubric : (3r) Explicit paruus tractatus de conuersione Sancti Pauli apostoli secundum Petram Blesencem quod R. E.

  
  

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  pseudo-Augustine - author

  3v-3v - pseudo-Augustine, De creatione primi hominis (ch. 35 of pseudo-Augustine, De spiritu et anima) || Augustinus de creatione primi hominis

  Note : Small hand, cent. xv

  rubric : (3v) Augustini de creacione primi hominis liber incipit

  Note : (P. L. XL 1213, CLXI 967)

  incipit : (3v) Tanta dignitas humane condicionis

  explicit : (3v) mirabilius in secundo reformauit

  rubric : (3v) Explicit

  
  

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  Richard Rolle of Hampole (attrib.) - author

  4r-4r - Richard Rolle of Hampole (attrib.), Meditatio breuissima || Meditatio brevissima Ricardi Hampole

  rubric : (4r) Beatus Ricardus hermita

  Note : (xv)

  incipit : (4r) Amicam autem adamaui

  explicit : (4r) consilium continue concupisco

  Note : Si tuam animam vis saluare consocia hominum quantum potes deuitare. quod Corf. Et memorare nouissima tua et in eternum non peccabis

  Note : Ergo quid sis quid fueris quid eris semper mediteris

  
  

  4v-79v - Scala mundi || Scala mundi, sive tabulae chronologicae genealogicae et historicae

  Note : First main volume of cent. xiv early in annalistic form with fifty years to a page. Illustrated with small pictures in good style

  Note : Continuantur eadem manu ad annum 1340, et dehinc alia ad annum 1450: pars vero chronologica deducitur usque ad annum 1619, nitidissime scripta, nonnullisque delineationibus templorum, &c. ornata

  rubric : (4v) Hic incipit liber qui vocatur Scala Mundi

  rubric : (4v) De creatione mundi et opere prime diei

  Note : A band of small rectangular pictures goes down the L. side of text 1 (top). God creates angels: they fall. A sphere on R. full of heads of angels. A single row at the top remain steadfast. A mass below is falling 2. Creation of firmament. A sphere with band across it 3. Of trees 4. Of sun, moon and stars 5. Of birds and fish 6. In four small compartments, creation of beasts, of Adam, of Eve. Expulsion 7. God resting. Angels on R. and L.

  Note : At top of f. 5r a picture. An angel in air in C. hands two tunics to Adam with spade and Eve with distaff

  Note : Genealogical lines are carried down the pages

  Note : (7r) Picture of Ciuitas enoch

  Note : (21v) Ark

  Note : (23v) Tower of Babel

  Note : (25r) Nineveh

  Note : (30v) Red Sea

  Note : Many pictures of cities

  Note : (46v) Annunciation. Two figures, ground of red and green

  Note : (47v) Crucifixion with the Virgin and John. Purple ground

  Note : (55r) Boy with two bodies born at Emaus about 395 A.D.

  Note : (57r) Stonehenge. Michael and dragon

  Note : 58r sqq. are folding leaves showing the lines of Saxon kings

  Note : (59r) Boy with four legs. Merman

  Note : (66r) Woman with two bodies

  Note : (71r) St Dominic and another Dominican. Green ground. St Francis (in white) preaching to birds. Yellow ground. Crucifix seen in air at Dunstable. Red ground

  Note : The last entry in the original hand seems to be at f. 74r: 1338Lodowicus iiiius

  Note : The years are carried on to 1619 by the original hand. Later hands make some few entries, some concerning the Franciscan order, e.g., Martyrdom of Will. Walden, f. 74r

  Note : The latest is the death of (Ayscough) the Bishop of Sarum et eodem anno communis fuit insurrexio populi in anglia

  Note : Ends f. 79v

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Martin of Troppau OP - author

  80r-132r - Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum || Chronicon Martini Poloni papae penitentiarii, sive historia et successio imperatorum et pontificum Romanorum a Christo nato ad annum 1306, et continuata ad annum 1342

  Note : Recognita et per ipsum auctius reddita quam in codicibus impressis. Inter Leonem V. et Benedictum IIII. interseritur Ioanna papissa

  Note : f. 80r blank, except a xvith cent. title

  Note : Chronicon Martini begins f. 80v. Pontifices and Imperatores, as usual, occupying alternate pages

  rubric : (80v) Pontifices

  incipit : (80v) Anno xliio octouiani augusti natus est Ihesus Christus in bethleem

  rubric : (81r) Imperatores

  incipit : (81r) Post natiuitatem domini nostri Ihesu Christi octouiani augusti imperauit

  Note : Cent. xiv, 41 lines to a page

  Note : Some hands which appear in vol. I as annotators appear here also

  Note : (131v) A note on John XXII, and notices of Benedict XII and Clement V, are added later

  Note : (132r) Imperatores end (vacante imperio. temp. martini III)

  explicit : misericorditer a domino largiuntur. et qui scripsit hec uidit ea

  Note : (miracles at death of Martin III)

  Note : ff. 132v, 134r-134v blank; ff. 133r-133v missing

  
  

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  Peter of Ickham OSB - author

  135r-181v - Peter of Ickham OSB, Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum || Petri de Yckham compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum ex Bruto Beda et aliis auctoribus a prima antiquitate ad annum 1265, et alia manu ad annum 1283

  Note : Ad finem desunt nonnulla

  Note : Same hand as item 5

  rubric : (135r) Compilacio de gestis britonum et anglorum

  incipit : (135r) Non solum audiendis scripture sacre uerbis

  Note : The attribution of this to P. de Yckham rests on very little. Dr Caius (de antiq. Cant. 61) names Robert Remington as the author

  Note : Hand changes on f. 168r (1264) and again on f. 170v

  Note : (181v) Ends imperfectly in 1283: et ibi adiudicatus est morti

  Note : There is a gap in the foliation: 182-216 are gone

  Note : Hardy III 165, 221, 271

  
  

  217r-221r - Triginta duo gradus scalae || Triginta duo gradus scalae

  Note : Hand of cent. xv: ugly

  incipit : (217r) Primus gradus huius sacratissime scale est fides

  Note : A pencilled name, possibly Hall, erased in lower margin

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (221r) ascendere valeatis amen, hec (?) Augustinus

  Note : f. 221v blank. An erased inscription (xvi): This boke to be IIs... and againe till Candlemas next. By me (? Stephanus) batema(n?)

  Note : On f. 222r in large hand (xv-xvi): Hospicium beate / Marie extra / bisshopsgate hunc / Vendicat librum / In smaller hand: ano dni. mlio quingentesimo / vices (struck through) tricesimo ijo dus willmus / maior prior ano R. regis h. viiii / vicesimo xxiiijto / per me Johannem Stones