Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 327

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 327
    • CCCC MS 327
    • MS 327
    • Parker Library MS 327
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
  • Author : Guillelmus de Mauli
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in two good small clear hands
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 3 + 228
  • Dimensions :
    • 163 x 222
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 58, 57, 46 lines
    • ff. a-b + i-iii + 1-218 + c-d
    • ut possitis
    • a(4) (3 canc.) 1(12)-7(12) 8(14) 9(12)-12(12) 13(14) | 14(12)-17(12) 18(8) 19 (two).

Contents

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : The collection of sermons in CCCC MS 327, written in the late thirteenth century, is attributed to William de Mauli (fl. thirteenth century) about whom almost nothing is known. The author's name is given at the beginning of the text. The collection is entitled Abjiciamus and is arranged as sermons according to the church year for the Temporal and the Sanctoral (ff. 1-159v). The final text in the book is Opusculum compilatum de libris sanctorum patrum, also attributed to William de Mauli.


    Contenu :


    Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais


    Intervenants :

    William de Mauli (attrib.) - author

    1r-98v - William de Mauli (attrib.), Sermons for the Temporal || Postilla sive homeliae Willelmi de Mauli in epistolas et evangelia per totum fere annum

    Note : At the bottom of f. 1r an erasure of a single line - not recoverable

    Note : The headline is

    rubric : (1r) Dominica Ia aduentus domini sermo de epistola. opus fratris Willelmi de mauli

    incipit : (1r) Abiciamus opera tenebrarum ... scriptum est ad ebreos .v. adeamus ergo cum fiducia

    Note : The last de tempore is Dominica I post Trinitatem on Mortuus est diues, ending 97v. A few notes follow and a scribble: summa temporalis foliorum 97

    Note : f. 98r-98v blank


    99r-160v - William de Mauli (attrib.), Sermons for the Sanctoral || Alia postilla in diversos locos S. S. et ut videtur in lectiones quae diebus festis recitabantur

    Note : (De sanctis)

    rubric : (99r) De uno apostolo

    incipit : (99r) Procinxisti me uirtute ad bellum. Mos est istorum nobilium

    Note : All for the Common of Saints. After De uirginibus follow De uirgine, In uisitacione, In consecratione uirginum, In dedicatione ecclesie, In eleccione

    Note : The last is on Eligite meliorem

    Note : A list of the sermons on 169v: and the note: summa sanctorum 60

    Note : f. 160r-160v blank


    161r-218v - William de Mauli (attrib.), Opusculum compilatum de libris sanctorum patrum || Opusculum compilatum de libris sanctorum patrum sive de miraculis operibus et conversione sanctorum, etc. cap. XX

    Note : Another hand

    rubric : (161r) Prologus in hoc opusculum quod est compilatum de literis (?libris) sanctorum patrum

    incipit : (161r) In consequenti opusculo ordinantur in certis titulis ut patebit in sequentibus quedam narrationes ad predicationem uerbi necessarie

    Note : There are twenty sections i de miraculis beate marie xx de morte dampnandorum

    Note : Capitula follow

    Note : Text

    rubric : (161r) Capitulum I de miraculis beate virginis

    incipit : (161r) De hildefonso episcopo qui honorauit gloriosam uirginem et ipsa illum

    incipit : (163v) Fuit quidam archiepiscopus in toletana urbe

    Note : The sources specified in the prologue are all very ordinary: they include Bede's History

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (216r) dari confirmabat indicia. Finit

    rubric : (216r) Dextram scribentis benedicat lingua legentis

    Note : Scribble in pencil (xiv ?): Mr syngor yf yow moytwhayer þow hoyt þow......

    Note : Another hand:

    rubric : (216v) De conceptione beate marie

    incipit : (216v) Rettulit quidam uir religiosus fide dignus

    Note : (Four anecdotes)

    Note : On 227v, 228r are pencil notes, and on 228v in pencil (xiii-xiv) a song in English, of which only the last lines of the stanzas remain and these not complete

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Notes

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  • Additions: On the flyleaves (i, ii), in a hand of cent. xiii-xiv, f. ir: Form of cursing those who will not pay tithes, partly obliteratedf. iv: Excommunicati sunt ipso iure ffingentes nouam heresym etc.
  • Additions: On f. iiir the note printed by Nasmith: in Parkerian hand. It mentions the date 1430, but this must be too late. In hoc postillatore fratre Willelmo de Mauli Wicklevista licet animadvertere quam parce utitur vanis narrationibus in confirmatione causae quam tractat, sicut mos erat fere omnibus predicatoribus illius temporis introducere vanitates et insanias falsas revelationum visionum et aliorum portentorum. De cujus genere habes in libro sequente hunc postillatorem copiam numerosam de miraculis, etc. figmenta quidem multa, qualia fingunt poetae de filiabus Danai quae hauriunt aquam cribris. Hic postillator non sophistice aut scholastice tractat conciones suas sed simpliciter et pure et fere omnia e verbo Domini. Hic in studiis usus est consilio cujusdam Petri Paine Oxon. sub A.D. 1430.
  • Additions: On f. iiiv title in old pencil: Sermones boni qui dicuntur Abiciamus de tempore et de sanctis per totum annum cum narracionibus de beata virgine multis pulcris et autenticis et alia summa valde bona. Below this a partly erased cautio(?) of 1367 and a long note in pencil.

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