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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 42

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  • MS 042
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Date
  • 1100 - 1199
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 042: Lives of Saints
    • Sulpicius Severus, Vita Sancti Martini (incl. Vita Sancti Briccii) || Vita Sancti Martini
    • Abbo of Fleury OSB, Passio Sancti Eadmundi || Abbonis Vita Sancti Eadmundi
    • Legendary (incomplete)
    • Osbern of Canterbury OSB, Vita et miracula Sancti Dunstani || Osberni Vita Sancti Dunstani
    • Boto of Prüfening OSB, Miraculae beatae uirginis Mariae || Miracula Beate Virginis
    • Hymn for St Martin || Hymn for St Martin
    • Office for Christmas || Office for Christmas
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Description

  • Summary: MS 42 is a compilation of saints' lives made at the Benedictine priory of Dover dating to the second quarter of the twelfth century. Its provenance is given by the typical Dover arrangement of two classmark- and contents-inscriptions, one on the opening page and one further on in the book; the classmark matches these up to an entry in the Dover catalogue of 1389 which gives the opening words of the page on which the second inscription occurs. We can be fairly certain that it was originally written at Dover because the same hand also occurs in another Dover manuscript, CCCC MS 462. The manuscript contains hagiographical texts, starting with the standard life of Martin of Tours, the epitome of a bishop saint. Two of the lives included are of very important English saints, Edmund king and martyr and Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury. It also contains an unusual collection of miracles of the Virgin Mary, and an incomplete legendary with some musical notation.


    Contents :


    1r-18v - Sulpicius Severus, Vita Sancti Martini (incl. Vita Sancti Briccii) || Vita Sancti Martini

    rubric: (1r) Liber de Vita Sancti Martini

    Note: In a later hand

    rubric: (1r) In natali Sancti Martini lectio I

    incipit: (1r) Beatus martinussabarie pannoniarum oppido oriundus

    explicit: (18v) sanctus eustochius successit magnifice sanctitatis. Imperante domino nostro Iesu Christo cui etc.

    Note: (From Sulpicius Severus and Gregorius Turonensis)

    Note: BHL 5610-16, 1451


    19r-25v - Abbo of Fleury OSB, Passio Sancti Eadmundi || Abbonis Vita Sancti Eadmundi

    incipit: (19r) Domino sancte metropolitane dorobernensium ecclesie

    explicit: (19v) ad amorem tanti martiris. Vale pater in Christo

    incipit: (19v) Asciti aliquando in brittanniam

    explicit: (25v) quibus meremur supplicium. per eum qui uiuit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen

    Note: Arnold, Memorials of St Edmunds Bury I 3 etc.

    Note: BHL 2392


    26r-62r - Legendary (incomplete)

    Note: Portion of a Legendary, in which at first Responses and Antiphons are given as well as Collects etc. Neumes are sometimes added. After a while only Collects and Lessons are given. The legends run from Silvester Dec. 31 to Nereus and Achilleus (May 12) and include Amandus, Angadrisma, Cuthbert, Translation of Nicholas, John of Beverley


    62v-81v - Osbern of Canterbury OSB, Vita et miracula Sancti Dunstani || Osberni Vita Sancti Dunstani

    Note: (Stubbs, Memorials of St Dunstan 69)

    incipit: (62v) Confrater eorum per eam que in Christo est regenerationem Osbearnus pacem bonam etc.

    incipit: (62v) Multorum sepe ac uenerabilium

    explicit: (63r) ista aggredi temptabo

    incipit: (63r) Anglorum rege (A)thelstano anno quidem imperii eius primo

    Note: Notes by Parker and Joscelin occur

    Note: Ends imperfectly

    explicit: (81v) nec ab omnibus abstinendum putamus ne nulla esse uideantur que dicamus. Et quedam

    Note: BHL 2344-5


    82r-99v - Boto of Prüfening OSB, Miraculae beatae uirginis Mariae || Miracula Beate Virginis

    Note: (another hand)

    Note: On miracles of the Virgin see Ward, Catalogue of Romances (Brit. Mus.) II p. 586 sqq. References are here given to that work. The present collection does not exactly correspond with any there described

    incipit: (82r) Ad omnipotentis dei laudem cum sepe recitentur sanctorum miracula

    explicit: (82r) largiente deo recitare studeamus

    Note: 1. Compline of Virgin instituted (Ward, p. 612)

    Note: 2. HildefonsusNos. 2-16 correspond almost exactly with the collection called by Mussafia HM (Hildefonsus - Murieldis) and regarded by him as the oldest. Ward, p. 604

    Note: 3. Gaude dei genitrix. Clerk who sang it rewarded

    Note: 4. Beggar sent to Paradise

    Note: 5. Ebbo

    Note: 6. Monk of St Peter's, Cologne

    Note: 7. Giraldus of Cluny

    Note: 8. Unlearned priest

    Note: 9. Petrus and Stephanus brothers at Rome

    Note: 10. Landgrabber saved

    Note: 11. Prior at Pavia

    Note: 12. Jeronimus of Pavia

    Note: 13. St Michael of Clusa

    Note: 14. St Michael in Monte Tumba

    Note: 15. Clerk of St Cassian at Pisa

    Note: 16. Murieldis of Fécamp

    Note: 17. Three knights plot to kill a man (Ward, p. 613)

    Note: 18. Nun of Shaftesbury (Ward, p. 614)

    Note: 19. Mead multiplied (Ward, p. 614)

    Note: 20. Abbot Elsin (Ward, p. 614)

    Note: 21. Crucifix of Toledo (Ward, p. 610)

    Note: 22. Foot healed at Vivaria (Ward, p. 619)

    Note: 23. Musa (Ward, p. 620)

    Note: 24. Lefricus of Westminster (Ward, p. 617)

    Note: 25. Evil Cleric saved (Ward, p. 617?)

    Note: 26. Jewish boy in oven (Ward, p. 601)

    Note: 27. Jew of Constantinople(Ward, p. 611)

    Note: 28. Drowned clerk (Ward, p. 612)

    Note: 29. Lily on grave of clerk (Ward, p. 605)

    Note: 30. Drunken cellarer: devil as bull (Ward, p. 612)

    Note: 31. Runaway monk

    incipit: (93r) Sic sunt quedam adhuc paucissima. de maria scripta miracula. que hic metro quamuis sunt condita. non sunt tamen minus utilia. sed iccirco sic eas scripsimus. ut placerent magis legentibus

    Note: Miracles in metre follow (written as prose)

    Note: 32.

    incipit: (93r) Frater quidam qui in cenobio. Militauit celorum domino

    Note: (Ward, p. 620)

    Note: 33.

    incipit: (93v) Olim erat cognitusquidam alter monachus. In illa prouintiaque fertur burgundia

    Note: (Ward, p. 620)

    Note: 34.

    incipit: (94v) Quedam sanctimon[ialisuelut] fertur fuit talis. In conuentu feminarumchristi famulantium

    Note: (Ward, p. 621)

    Note: 35.

    incipit: (95v) Fratres operamini. neque seducamini. Sperantes quid metere. si non uultis serere

    Note: (Ward, p. 621)

    Note: 36.

    incipit: (96r) Huc uenite et audite omnes serui domini. Uolo namque rem narrare quam a quodam didici

    Note: (Clerk tempted to deny the Virgin)

    Note: (Ward, p. 621)

    Note: 37.

    incipit: (97r) Presul erat deo gratus ex francorum gente natus

    Note: (Bonitus of Clermont, Ward, p. 622)

    Note: 38. In prose. Story of Theophilus

    Note: (Ward, p. 595)

    incipit: (97v) Factum est autem priusquam incursio fieret

    Note: Ends unfinished

    explicit: (99v) Qui claues regn(i) celorum a deo suscipiens

    Note: BHL 5357


    99v-99v - Hymn for St Martin || Hymn for St Martin

    Note: In another handwith space for musical notes

    Note: (6 long lines)

    incipit: (99v) Laudes deo plebs decantet fidelis


    100r-ivr - Office for Christmas || Office for Christmas

    Note: (Lections principally)

    Note: On f. 103r roughly written prayer to the Virgin

    Note: (ivr) Scribbles on the last flyleaf, especially Per crucis hoc signum fugiat procul omne malignum. et per idem signum saluetur quicque benignum

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