Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 294

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 294
    • CCCC MS 294
    • MS 294
    • Parker Library MS 294
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
  • Author : Hugues de Saint-Victor (1096?-1141) | Hildebert de Lavardin (1056-1133)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in a good upright narrow black hand and another of earlier type
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 127 + 2
  • Dimensions :
    • 175 x 250
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 31 and 38 lines
    • ff. i-vi + 1-131 + vii-xii
    • misericors est
    • a(10)-c(10) d(8) e(8) | 1(8) (+1*) II(8)-V(8) VII(8) | VIII(8) IX(12) X (two), two flyleaves.

Contents

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  • Résumé : This twelfth- or thirteenth-century manuscript contains various works by Hugh of Saint-Victor (d. 1141), as well as texts attributed to Hildebert of Lavardin (c.1055-1133). The volume also contains a loose vellum leaf of the fifteenth century containing miscellaneous texts, including Middle English verses on 'the leaps of Christ'. This manuscript belonged to Richard Mabot, who graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1507-8 and later became canon of Lincoln Cathedral.


    Contenu :


    Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais


    Intervenants :

    Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA - author

    1r-41r - Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, De arca Noe morali et mystica || De archa Noe pro archa sapientiae cum archa ecclesiae et archa matris lib. v.

    incipit : (1r) Cum sederem aliquando

    Note : (P. L. CLXXVI 618)

    explicit : (41r) affectum suum prouocet. Sit deus benedictus per cuncta seculorum secula. Amen


    41r-47r - Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, De uirtute orandi || De modo orandi

    incipit : (41r) Quo studio et quo affectu

    Note : (P. L. CLXXVI 977)

    explicit : (46v) in ara cordis adoletur

    Note : 47r blank


    47v-89v - Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, Didascalicon de studio legendi || Didascalicon. lib. v

    Note : On f. 47v the prologue to the following tract in another hand. A fresh numeration of quires begins here and the earlier tracts were prefixed later to the volume

    incipit : (47v) Multi sunt quos ipsa

    explicit : (47v) torpere ocio

    Note : Text

    incipit : (48r) Tria sunt. sapientia virtus necessitas

    explicit : (89r) ad puram et sine animalibus cenam

    Note : 89v blank


    90r-105v - Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, De institutione nouiciorum || De institutione Novitiorum

    incipit : (90r) Quia largiente domino

    explicit : (105v) manus illesa remanet et sic de ceteris

    Note : (P. L. ? CLVI 1179)


    106r-113r - Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, Soliloquium de arra animae || De arra animae

    Note : (106r) Older type of hand

    incipit : (106r) Dilecto fratri G.

    incipit : (106r) Loquar secreto anime

    Note : (P. L. CLXXVI 951)

    explicit : (113r) totis precordiis concupisco


    Intervenants :

    Hildebert of Lavardin - author

    113r-115r - Hildebert of Lavardin, Sermo de natiuitate Christi (sermon 100) || Sermo de nativitate Christi

    incipit : (113r) Cantate domino canticum nouum


    115r-117r - Hildebert of Lavardin, Sermo de sacramentis altaris (sermon 54) || Sermo de corpore domini

    incipit : (115r) Apposita nobis ad manducandum

    Note : (P. L. CLXXI 601)


    119v-121r - Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, De meditatione || De meditatione

    incipit : (119v) Meditatio est frequens cogitatio

    Note : (P. L. CLXXVI 993)

Participants

Provenance

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • In red (xv-xvi) on the last flyleaf (f. 129r) is: liber Mri Rici Mabot sacre theologie bachalarii et eccl. cathedralis beate Marie Lincoln. canonici.Rich. Mabot occurs in Grace Book C p. 61, as B.A. 1507-8: in Grace Book B I p. 240, Mabot is B.A. in 1509 (H. P. S.)

Notes

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  • Additions: A list of contents of cent. xvi is stuck on the flyleaf (f. viv).

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