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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 217

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  • MS 217
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Date
  • 1200 - 1299
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle French
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 217: Peter the Chanter, Libellus de contrarietatibus Sacrae Scripturae. William de Montibus, Speculum poenitentis. Pictor in carmine. Miscellaneous Exegetical Tracts
    • Peter the Chanter, Libellus de contrarietatibus Sacrae Scripturae || Tractatus [Petri Cantoris] de contrarietatibus scripturae
    • Bede the Venerable, De schematibus et tropis || Liber Cassiodori de figuris vel modis locutionum, quae a grammaticis scemata et tropi dicuntur, missus ad Gubertum diaconum
    • Expositions on parts of the Old and New Testament || Expositiones in diversos locos veteris et novi testamenti
    • Sermons and lectures || Sermones seu lectiones habitae ad scholares quosdam theologicos
    • Exposition on the Psalms || Expositio in psalmos
    • Sermons and expositions on the Old and New Testament || Plurimi sermones seu expositiones in vetus et novum testamentum
    • William de Montibus, Speculum poenitentis || Speculum penitentis editum a magistro Willelmo de Montibus cancellario Lincoln.
    • Sermons || Alii sermones
    • William de Montibus, Tropi || Tropi magistri Willelmi [de Montibus] cancellarii Lincoln. ad theologicam facultatem collecti
    • William de Montibus, Numerale || Summa theologiae || NumeraleGul. de Montibus
    • Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Tria sunt (Documentum de arte versificandi) || Documenta Galfridi Vinest-sauf de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi
    • Pictor in carmine || Versus picturis in ecclesiis locandis adaptati
    • Petrus Riga, Aurora. Matthew of Vendôme, In Tobiam paraphrasis metrica || Petri de Riga Aurora
    • Tract on the Holy Scripture || Tractatus theologicus de difficultatibus S. Scripturae
    • Alexander Nequam OSA, Corrogationes Promethei || Tractatus de arte theologica, in quo primum traduntur regulae interpretationis, et postea applicantur ad diversos locos singulorum librorum S. Scripturae || Alexandri Neckam. Corrogationes Promethei
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 217 is a thirteenth-century miscellany containing sermons, exegetical texts, a partial copy of the Pictor in carmine, and works by Peter the Chanter (d. 1197), Bede, William de Montibus (d. 1213), Geoffrey de Vinsauf (d. after 1200), Tria sunt (Documentum de arte uersificandi), Petrus Riga (d. 1209), Aurora, and Alexander Nequam OSA (1157-1217), Corrogationes Promethei. Of particular note, the copy of William de Montibus, Speculum poenitentis, is an early and reliable one in terms of that work's textual history. There is a much better version of the text of Pictor in carmine in CCCC MS 300. The unusual binding of this manuscript, being of velvet, is characteristic of the ‘Old Royal’ library of Henry VIII. As a result of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the covers and part of the text pages, ff. 1r-21r, 25r, 209r.


    Contents :


    2r-10v - Peter the Chanter, Libellus de contrarietatibus Sacrae Scripturae || Tractatus [Petri Cantoris] de contrarietatibus scripturae

    Note: (2r) Double columns of 60 lines

    incipit: (2r) Uidemus nunc per speculum et in enigmate

    explicit: (10v) capilli omnes numerati sunt

    Note: (Hist. Litt. XV 298)


    10v-12v - Bede the Venerable, De schematibus et tropis || Liber Cassiodori de figuris vel modis locutionum, quae a grammaticis scemata et tropi dicuntur, missus ad Gubertum diaconum

    Note: Opus spurium, Bedae ut vult Cavesius potius attribuendum

    rubric: (10v) Incipit liber cassiodorii etc.

    Note: (Beda de schematibus: Keil, Gramm. Lat. VII 200)

    incipit: (10v) Solet aliquotiens in scripturis ordo uerborum

    explicit: (11v) memores uxoris Loth

    incipit: (11v) Quoniam series que in arte gramatica corrigende sunt

    Note: (Extracts)

    Note: f. 12v blank


    13r-20v - Expositions on parts of the Old and New Testament || Expositiones in diversos locos veteris et novi testamenti

    Note: (13r) Single lines, 60-61 to a page

    incipit: (13r) In principio creauit ... ergo in principio creatum fuit celum

    Note: A series of expository paragraphs: no order is observable

    Note: f. 20v blank


    21r-24v - Sermons and lectures || Sermones seu lectiones habitae ad scholares quosdam theologicos

    Note: (21r) Double columns of 52 lines

    incipit: (21r) Egredimini filie syon et uidete ... Ad uos scolares maxime theologos sermo iste dirigitur

    incipit: (22v) Quicumque ad sacre scripture paginam erudiendus

    incipit: (22v) Facies mihi tentorium

    explicit: (24r) non ad mensuram

    Note: f. 24v blank


    25r-96v - Exposition on the Psalms || Expositio in psalmos

    Note: (25r) Double columns of 52 lines: to some extent in tabular form

    incipit: (25r) Beatus uir

    Note: (25r) (handsome initial)

    incipit: (25r) In hac serie potest distingui septiformis gratia spiritus

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (96v) carnis curam in desideriis ne feceritis

    rubric: (96v) Explicit. Salua sit reuerentia Thome


    97r-147v - Sermons and expositions on the Old and New Testament || Plurimi sermones seu expositiones in vetus et novum testamentum

    Note: (97r) Begins with 42 lines to a page: at f. 115rthe hand changes (after a gap) and there are 60 (and more) lines to a page

    incipit: (97r) Post regulas fidei euangelico dogmate promulgatas

    Note: The second hand seems to begin imperfectly at f. 115r. The first beginning of a sermon, on f. 115r, is

    incipit: (115r) Ecce ego sternam per ordinem lapides tuos

    Note: Up to f. 118v the writing is rather irregular

    Note: (119r) A late title Sermo de trinitate bonus

    incipit: (119r) Uerbo domini celi firmati sunt

    Note: Only the last three sermons have titles

    rubric: (143r) Ascension

    rubric: (144v) Pentecost

    rubric: (146r) Sermo ad monachos Cistercienses

    incipit: (146r) Omnia tempus habent

    Note: (147v) Ending


    148r-151r - William de Montibus, Speculum poenitentis || Speculum penitentis editum a magistro Willelmo de Montibus cancellario Lincoln.

    incipit: (148r) De peccatorum agnitione tractatum teximus perutilem

    explicit: (151r) deinceps totum ex ordine dicat

    rubric: (151r) Explicit speculum penitentis

    Note: (Will. de Montibus)


    151v-168v - Sermons || Alii sermones

    incipit: (151v) Transi hospes orna mensam

    Note: Three Sermons in this hand

    Note: Change of hand: at f. 155r begin double columns of 56 lines

    incipit: (155r) In tribus commendabilis est beata maria

    Note: At f. 163r single lines again, 64 to a page

    incipit: (163r) Secundo Machab. liij. Machabeus suos armauit non clipei et haste munitione

    Note: These are notes for use in sermons

    Note: (166r) A tract of explanation of Greek words

    incipit: (166r) Episcopus dicitur ab epy quod est supra et scopes quod est intendens uel solitudo uel casa uel inspectio

    explicit: (167v) elisei campi apud inferos ubi anime piorum requiescunt

    Note: f. 168r - f. 168v blank


    169r-187r - William de Montibus, Tropi || Tropi magistri Willelmi [de Montibus] cancellarii Lincoln. ad theologicam facultatem collecti

    Note: About 54 lines to a page

    incipit: (169r) Dei dona dispensamus pulsantibus claues hostiorum porrigimus

    explicit: (187r) figura conuersionis et transpositionis


    187v-209r - William de Montibus, Numerale || Summa theologiae || NumeraleGul. de Montibus

    Note: In the same hand

    incipit: (187v) Introducendis in facultatem theologicam quedam compendiose prelibantur

    explicit: (209r) in aliis opusculis nostris copiosius sunt exarata

    rubric: (209r) Explicit


    209r-218v - Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Tria sunt (Documentum de arte versificandi) || Documenta Galfridi Vinest-sauf de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi

    Note: Double columns of 58 lines

    incipit: (209r) Tria sunt circa que cuiuslibet operis uersatur artificium

    explicit: (218r) Rideat et pulset lasciua decentius etas

    rubric: (218r) Explicit documenta magistri Galfridi le Vin est sauf

    Note: f. 218v blank


    219r-226v - Pictor in carmine || Versus picturis in ecclesiis locandis adaptati

    Note: In prologo autor graviter invehit in presumtionem nefandam pictorum, qui ecclesias monstris et chimeris impleverunt, et dicit se hos versus scripsisse ad moderandam eorum licentiam et informandam ignorantiam

    Note: Double columns of 62 lines

    Note: The tract called Pictor in Carmine, of which perhaps the best copy is MS 300 in this library

    Note: The present copy has the prologue

    incipit: (219r) Dolens in sanctuario dei

    explicit: (219r) copia temperare

    Note: Printed by Delisle, Mélanges de paléographie, p. 206, from a Phillipps MS. Then follows the list of subjects with marginal references

    Note: Then the text

    rubric: (222v) Colloquium Gabrielis etc.

    rubric: (222v) Dixit Deus serpenti

    incipit: (222v) Femina tritura capud anguis et hunc domitura

    Note: With marginal notes: the text ends abruptly (on the Baptism)

    explicit: (225v) Sic aqua baptiste dedit obsequium tibi christe

    Note: f. 226r - f. 226v blank


    227r-269v - Petrus Riga, Aurora. Matthew of Vendôme, In Tobiam paraphrasis metrica || Petri de Riga Aurora

    Note: Desunt libri Hester, Judith, Job, Cantica Canticorum, historia evangelica et Actus apostolorum

    Note: (227r) Double columns of 60 lines

    rubric: (227r) Incipit prefatio in librum subsequentem

    incipit: (227r) Sodalium meorum petitio

    explicit: (227r) patenter illuxit

    rubric: (227r) Explicit prologus

    rubric: (227r) Incipit liber magistri Petri cuius titulus est aurora

    incipit: (227r) Prima facta die duo celum terra leguntur

    Note: The contents are: Genesis - 4 Regum, lib. Machabeorum, lib. Josephi

    Note: (Symone quod debet morti soluente, Johannes)

    Note: This ends

    explicit: (260r) Septem predictis consona queque uides

    incipit: (260r) Ecce petis liber, recipis pater alme timorem

    explicit: (260r) Pacificum reddit. es filius ec(c)e uocandus

    rubric: (260r) Explicit liber magistri Petri qui dicitur aurora

    Note: The Thobias of Math. Vindocinensis follows

    rubric: (260r) Incipit prefatio in librum Thobie

    incipit: (260r) Ecclesie turonensis apex ouium speculator

    rubric: (260r) Incipit liber

    incipit: (260r) Ex agro ueteri uirtutum semina. morum

    Note: CCV 933

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (269r) Tobiam merito relligione sequi

    rubric: (269r) Explicit liber Tobie

    Note: f. 269v blank


    270r-317v - Tract on the Holy Scripture || Tractatus theologicus de difficultatibus S. Scripturae

    Note: 63 lines to a page

    incipit: (270r) Difficile quod durum quod graue quod asperum

    Note: Treats of the books from Genesis to 2 Chron. ending with a notice of Daniel

    explicit: (317v) in mediam ducens secum danielem prophetam remeauit

    Note: (317v) and a list of the kings

    Note: Cf. MS 30. 1. Andreas Victorinus


    318r-362v - Alexander Nequam OSA, Corrogationes Promethei || Tractatus de arte theologica, in quo primum traduntur regulae interpretationis, et postea applicantur ad diversos locos singulorum librorum S. Scripturae || Alexandri Neckam. Corrogationes Promethei

    incipit: (318r) Ferrum situ rubiginem ducit

    Note: The hand changes after a few leaves

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (362v) excellentiorem esse angelica

    rubric: (362v) Explicit

    Note: See P. Meyer, Notices et Extraits XXXV 2 (1897)

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