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Résumé : CCCC MS 164 contains several distinct elements, an incomplete copy of Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364) Polychronicon, dating to the late fourteenth century, a number of works of Hugh of Fouilloy OSA (d. c. 1172/3) (including De columba, De rota praelationis and Auicularius) and a number of sermons all in various thirteenth-century hands, and an early fifteenth-century Biblia pauperum, the illustrated version of the Life of Christ parallelled by their Old Testament types. This Biblia pauperum is illustrated by drawings and was probably made in the Netherlands. It is an unusual version very iconographically close to a fully painted version, London, BL MS King's 5, made in the North Netherlands c. 1400-1410. The later provenance of this manuscript is partially attested by a record of the purchase of the book in 1492 by John Gunthorpe (d. 1498), dean of Wells cathedral and Richard III's Keeper of the Privy Seal, from 'David Lyenel' for 4s 4d. Gunthorpe donated some of his manuscripts to Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1496 and much of the rest of his library was left to Wells cathedral, but exactly how this manuscript came into Parker's collection is unknown.
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Langue(s) des textes : latin
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Ranulf Higden OSB - author
1r-42v - Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (incomplete) || Ranulphi Higdeni polychronici Lib. I. et pars 2ndi
Note : Prologue to Higden's Polychronicon
incipit : (1r) Post preclaros arcium scriptores
Note : (4r) This page is left blank for a large circular diagram of the world
Note : (25r) The poem on Wales is in triple columns
Note : Liber II begins f. 37v; ends f. 42r with ch. vi
explicit : (42r) Ninus et Semiramis ampliarunt
Note : Rolls ed. II 250
Note : (42v) blank: pencil note: numerus fo. script. 41 (xv)
Note : (42v) A sketch of a ship drawn with dry point
Hugh of Fouilloy OSA - author
43r-50v - Hugh of Fouilloy OSA, Auicularius (De auibus) || Moralizationes avium
Note : In hoc tractatu spatia ubique occurrunt vacua figuris avium ut videtur designata
Note : 2a
Note : Begins with a portion of an imperfect tract: about the Fall, and origin of Evil
incipit : (43r) Quod quia falsum est a deo hoc esse necesse est. Nam quia ab alio hic sit quam a solo deo cum ex ipso auctore operis mali non sit
Note : (43v) Ending unfinished
explicit : (43v) cui omnis est subiecta ratio nature quam ut aiunt in muliere. hoc
Note : Change of hand
Note : 2b
Note : (43v) Libellus cuiusdam ad Rainerum de tribus columbis: no title
incipit : (43v) Desiderii tui karissime peticionibus satisfacere cupiens columbam cuius penne etc.
Note : Another copy, illustrated, is at Sidney Sussex College, no. 100 in my Catalogue: another at Sion College, London. The tract not infrequently accompanies Bestiaries
Note : Printed with the works of Hugo de S. Victore II 394
Note : Spaces are left here for 28 pictures
Note : Ends with a section on the eagle
incipit : (50r) Aquila uocata ab acumine oculorum
explicit : (50v) dum se ipsum christo per bonam operationem conformem reddit
Note : As in the copy at Sion College
Cyprian of Carthage - author
50v-50v - Cyprian of Carthage, De dominica oratione
Note : 2c
rubric : (50v) Ex tractatu beati cipriani martiris de oratione dominica
incipit : (50v) Sit orantibus sermo et disciplina
Note : Followed by extracts from Jerome, Augustine, Gregory
50v-54r - Hugh of Fouilloy OSA, De rota praelationis || Tractatus de rota fortunae; cum duabus illuminationibus ipsius rotae fraterculis circumdatae, omni venustate denudatis
Note : (50v) Prologue (no title)
incipit : (50v) Sicut comperi non est tibi frater honerosum diu fuisse discipulum
explicit : (50v) rotam prelationis in capite presentis opusculi pingam
Note : (51r) List of capitula (18). (1) de pictura rote; (2) de hiis que sunt in rota; (3) de axe; (4) de modiolo etc.; (18) qualis debeat esse prelatus teste beato Gregorio
incipit : (51r) Uiri religiosi uita sicut rota uoluitur
Note : (51r) Half the page is occupied by a picture of the wheel of Prelacy. At the top is throned the Abbas with crosier: on each side is a monk turning the wheel by the tyre. At bottom sits another with book on desk. All are in black habits. Many inscriptions in red explain the picture. The twelve spokes of the wheel, and its other parts, symbolize virtues
Note : (52v) The first part ends
explicit : (52v) si culmen prelationis ascendere contradicat
Note : (52v) Part II
incipit : (52v) Post rotam uere religionis locuturi sumus frater de rota simulationis iob
explicit : (52v) a legente facilius intelligi possint
Note : (52v) Capitula (14). (1) de pictura rote...; (14) de circuitu rote
Note : (52v) Half the page is occupied by a picture of the same character as before. Abbot at top, monk in brown on L. in black on R., one at bottom sits dejected. These four are respectively Honor possidentis, labor adquirendi, dolor amittentis, pudor nil habentis. The parts of this wheel symbolize vices
Note : The edges of 2 leaves following f. 12r are intrusive, apparently
Note : Text
incipit : (53r) (S)tatura rote similitudinem designat ypocrite
explicit : (54r) Et hoc iterum de predictis rotis sufficiat donee de his aliquis potiora dicat
Note : This text occurs, without the prologue, in Bodl. MS. Digby 171 f. 71
54v-60v - Sermons || Sermones in diversos festos
Note : (54v) Sermons
incipit : (54v) Sufficit tamen de una uirgine loqui uerum
Note : Treats of various classes of feasts
incipit : (56v) Sapientia edificauit sibi domum
incipit : (59v) Adorna thalamum
incipit : (60r) Septuagessima in alterius rei memoriam
incipit : (60v) Vi(n)centi dabo manna absconditum
Note : (60v) Pencil note. Numerus fo. script. 18
61r-94v - Biblia pauperum || Delineationes historiarum veteris et novi testamenti numero XCVII haud inelegantes, coloribus leviter tinctae
Note : The pictures (lacunae excepted) exactly coincide with a set in British Museum (King's MS. 5) of Flemish (Dutch) work, very finely coloured. The arrangement in the copy before us is peculiar. The two types are on the Left page one above the other; the antitype on Right page with four busts of prophets bearing scrolls:
Note : The text on the Left page is a brief explanation of the type, beginning: Legitur [Gen. cap. xxixo] quod...
Note : On the Right page are usually three verses, e.g. for Epiphany
Note : (63r) Plebs notat hec gentes christo iungi cupientes.Christus adoratur aurum thus mirra letatur.Hoc tipice gentem notat ad christum uenientem,
Note : of which the 1st and 3rd refer to the types and the 2nd to the antitype
Note : A reduced facsimile of two pages is given in Camb. Ant. Soc. Proceedings Vol. VII, pi. xii
Note : The British Museum MS. has its pictures arranged as a series of triptychs
Note : I give a list of the subjects, with notes from the British Museum MS., which I will call k
Note : (93v) On this page a pencil note. Numerus fo. pict. 33. Numerus fo. script, et pict. totius libri 92
Note : ff. 34r-34v blank
François de Meyronnes OFM - author
iir-iiiv - François de Meyronnes OFM, Moralia siue Liber de uirtutibus (excerpt) || Fragmentum sermonis || The Moralia of Fr. de Mayronis, imperfect
incipit : (iir) Auditu auris audiui te etc. quia uero audicio diuina pertinet etc.
Note : See MS. Merton College, Oxford 201. 1
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