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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 243

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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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  • MS 243
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Date
  • 1200 - 1399
Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 243: pseudo-Albertus Magnus OP, Lapidarium. Prognostication Tracts
  • pseudo-Albertus Magnus OP, Lapidarium
  • Prognostication tracts
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 243 contains two texts, a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century copy of pseudo-Albertus Magnus' Lapidarium and a short, anonymous astronomical tract written in a fifteenth-century hand. James believed that the copy of the Lapidarium was in an Italian hand, but this has never been conclusively demonstrated, and the provenance of this manuscript and how it came to be in Parker's collection remain unknown.


    Contents :


    1r-58v - pseudo-Albertus Magnus OP, Lapidarium

    rubric: (1r) Incipit liber de coloribus et uirtutibus lapidum. Liber primus

    incipit: (1r) Habete celi silentium et ingratitudinis in mane scelus attendite

    explicit: (1v) renuente uero quasi non editus uel oblitus fueris habeatis

    Note: (1v) Prologue

    incipit: (1v) Substantie mi liber gemme mellifluis arride decoloribus

    explicit: (1v) ut irrigatur ortus flamine diuini spiritus animatus agnoscat graciam qua fertile se retribuat

    rubric: (1v) Tractatus de a. prima lictera de omnibus lapidibus

    rubric: (1v) De amante

    incipit: (1v) Adamantum genus eximium cristalizat quodammodo

    Note: Stones are treated alphabetically. The last is yctios, ending

    explicit: (20v) ac more paragoni confricati metalli colorem retinet

    rubric: (20v) De sculturis de omnibus lapidibus

    Note: Liber II

    rubric: (21v) de natione et ubi inueniuntur

    incipit: (21v) Post autem facilius preuia discretione

    Note: Liber III

    rubric: (27r) de sculturis lapidum

    incipit: (27r) Quod non inuida philosophorum largitio

    Note: Liber IV

    rubric: (40v) de consecratione lapidum

    incipit: (40v) Aperuit thesauros dominus mirifice

    Note: Liber V

    rubric: (44r) de confectione et compositione lapidum

    incipit: (44r) Paulisper equidem euagari si liceat

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (58v) Actenus hec omnia discrete protendisse sufficiat ut nec uulgari se doleant nec omnino deparant silentio reticenda

    rubric: (58v) Finite libro sit laus et gloria Christo. Amen

    rubric: (58v) Explicit liber lapidum

    Note: The treatise is attributed (falsely) to Albertus Magnus. Another copy is among the Hunterian MSS. at Glasgow, V 6, 18


    59r-75r - Prognostication tracts

    incipit: (59r) Ad cognicionem tabule planetarum habendam intrandum est cum die in capite

    incipit: (73r) Ad cognoscendum gradus caliditatis et siccitatis

    Note: Ends 16r unfinished

    Note: On 17r, 12 lines in another hand

    incipit: (75r) Elpes dicta fui sicule regionis alumpnaQuam procull a patria coniugis egit amor.

    explicit: (75r) Ut tulerim tumulique comes nec morte reuellerEt socies uite nectat (?) utrumque cinis.

    Note: (Epitaph of Elpis, wife of Boethius; two hymns are current under her name)

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