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• Résumé : This manuscript, CCCC MS 380, is the unique copy of Robert of Cricklade OSA (d. after 1188), Speculum fidei, which was written after 1170. Robert was prior of St Frideswide's, Oxford, and this work is in the form of a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160). It has fine historiated and ornamental initials by the Simon Master, an illuminator who worked for St Albans Abbey and may have been a layman. This manuscript, however, is not in St Albans script and seems to have been made elsewhere. A copy of this text was seen by John Leland (1506-52) at Malmesbury and M. R. James suggested this might be that book, but Ker has rejected this theory.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

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  Robert of Cricklade OSA - author

  iiv-132v - Robert of Cricklade OSA, Speculum fidei || Roberti Krikeladensis, cognomento Canuti, prioris Oxenefordiae, speculum fidei, libri iv

  Note : ff. ir-iir blank; on f. iiv, in a very similar hand to the rest, this preliminary notice

  incipit : (iiv) Quicumque uoluerit hoc opuspulum (!) nostrum legere et in eo catholice fidei tramitem considerare, legat primum eulogium uenerabilis pape Alexandri tercii quod scripsit Willelmo Senonensi archiepiscopi ... ne forte abhorreat quod in isto opusculo [marginalia Vide lib. 3, cap. 4 and 5] petrum quondam parisiacensis ecclesie episcopum appello heresiarcam. Alexander, etc. Cum in nostra esses presentia olim constitutus

  Note : The doctrine condemned is quod Christus secundum quod est homo non est aliquid

  explicit : (iiv) sed ipsa penitus detestentur. Dat. verul. v. kal. Jun.

  Note : (iiv) Hoc addo ut habeas omnia scripta eius suspecta quoniam in plerisque locis inter mella ueritatis spargit fel heresiace falsitatis

  rubric : (1r) Incipiunt capitula primi libri (xxii)

  rubric : (2r) Incipit prologus Roberti Krikeladensis cognomento canuti prioris oxenefordie in librum qui intitulatur speculum fidei

  incipit : (2r) Fidei catholice qua unus deus creditur et colitur

  explicit : (2r) quicquid hic minus se inuenisse arbitratur

  rubric : (2r) Explicit prologus

  rubric : (2r) Incipit prefatio

  incipit : (2r) Exposuit me morsibus malignantium reuerentia tua optime comes

  explicit : (2v) tanto patrocinio fretus despicio

  rubric : (2v) Explicit prefatio

  rubric : (2v) Incipit libri primis. i capitulum. Quod unus deus sit colendus

  incipit : (2v) Audi israel dominus deus tuus deus unus est. In deuteronomio moyses legem recapitulando

  Note : (2v) A beautiful initial: inner ground gold, outer blue, edged with green dragon forms, whitish beasts and conventional foliage, recalling the Christ Church style

  Note : Liber II

  Note : (25v) Capitula

  Note : (26v) Prologue

  Note : (27r) Text

  Note : (27r) Initial very fine. Half-length of Christ full-face, holding before Him a blank scroll, by both hands. Inner ground red. Initial plain gold and colour, outer ground purplish, edged with green. Very fine work

  Note : Liber III

  Note : (55r) Capitula

  Note : (56v) Prologue

  Note : (57r) Text

  Note : (57r) Fine initial of the same type as that to Liber I, but without animal forms

  Note : Liber IV

  Note : (93r) Capitula

  Note : (95v) Prologue

  Note : (96r) Text

  Note : (96r) Initial in gold, conventional foliage and beasts on red ground: outer ground purple, as in liber II, edged with green; a very beautiful effect

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (132v) cum presertim in tribus libellis quos de conubio patriarche iacob conscripsi abundanter super his deo donante disputauerim

  rubric : (132v) Explicit Speculum fidei

  Note : f. 133r-133v blank except for late scribbles