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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

  
  

  Intervenants :

  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

  
  

  Intervenants :

  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

  
  

  Intervenants :

  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

  
  

  Intervenants :

  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