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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 164

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  • MS 164
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  • 1300 - 1399 - 1200 - 1299
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  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 164: Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon. Biblia pauperum etc
    • Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (incomplete) || Ranulphi Higdeni polychronici Lib. I. et pars 2ndi
    • Hugh of Fouilloy OSA, Auicularius (De auibus) || Moralizationes avium
    • Cyprian of Carthage, De dominica oratione
    • Hugh of Fouilloy OSA, De rota praelationis || Tractatus de rota fortunae; cum duabus illuminationibus ipsius rotae fraterculis circumdatae, omni venustate denudatis
    • Sermons || Sermones in diversos festos
    • Biblia pauperum || Delineationes historiarum veteris et novi testamenti numero XCVII haud inelegantes, coloribus leviter tinctae
    • François de Meyronnes OFM, Moralia siue Liber de uirtutibus (excerpt) || Fragmentum sermonis || The Moralia of Fr. de Mayronis, imperfect
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    • Ranulf Higden (1280?-1364)
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    • Ranulf Higden OSB
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    • Ranulf Higden
    • Higden, Ranulf, -1364
    • Higden, Ranulf, d 1364
    • Higden, Ranulf, -1364. Polychronicon. Selections. English (Middle English).
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    • Hugues de Fouilloy (11..-1173?)
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    • Hugh of Fouilloy OSA
    Other form
    • Hugo de Folieto
    • Hugo de Folieto (11..-1173?)
    • HUGO DE FOLIETO
    • Hugo de Folieto (Hughes de Fouilloy)
    • Hugues de Fouilloy, -1172?
    • Hugh, of Fouilloy, d. 1172 or 3
    • Hugh of Fouilloy (-1172 or 1173)
    • Hugues de Fouilloy, prieur de Saint-Laurent-aux-Bois (1100?-1273?) > Prieur du couvent augustinien de Saint-Laurent au Bois
    • Hugues de Fouilloy, prieur de Saint-Laurent-aux-Bois (1100?-1273?)
    • Hugo <de Folieto>
    • Hugo de Folieto, 1096-1172 > , co-autor
    • Hugo de Folieto - ca. 1100 - 1174 - auteur
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    • Cyprien (saint, 02..-0258)
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    • Cyprian of Carthage
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    • CYPRIANUS (S.)
    • CYPRIANUS CARTHAGINENSIS ep. (s.)
    • S. Cyprianus
    • CYPRIANUS (s.), Carthaginiensis episcopus
    • Cyprianus Carthaginensis
    • Cyprianus (saint ; 02..-0258)
    • Cyprianus, Thascus Caecilius (Carthaginiensis)
    • S. Cyprianus , Carthaginensis episcopus
    • Cyprien
    • Cyprien (saint ; 02..-0258)
    • Cyprianus
    • CYPRIANUS CARTHAGINENSIS ep.
    • Cyprianus Carthaginiensis
    • Cyprien (02..-0258 ; saint)
    • Sancti Cypriani
    • Cyprien, saint, 02..-0258
    • Cyprianus‏ ‎von Karthago,‏ ‎200-258
    • S. Cyprianus carthaginensis episcopus
    • Cyprianus,‏ ‎Bischof,‏ ‎200-258‏
    • Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius,‏ ‎Saint, Bishop of Carthage
    • Cyprien de Carthage,‏ ‎saint,‏ ‎02..-0258
    • Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius, ‎02..-0258
    • Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus,‏ ‎Santo
    • Cipriano de Cartago,‏ ‎Santo
    • S. Cyprianus Carthaginensis
    • Cyprianus van Carthago (heilige)
    • Cebrià, sant, bisbe de Cartago, ca. 205-258
    • Cipriano, Santo, Obispo de Cartago
    • Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage
    • Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius 200-258
    • Cyprianus (heilige)
    • Author: Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius
    • Cyprian of Carthage, c 200-258, Saint, Bishop of Carthage
    • Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius, 200-258
    • Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius
    • Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus (200-258)
    • Cyprianus Thascius Caecilius
    • Cyprianus, Caecilius Thascius 205 ca.-258, santo
    • Cyprianus, Caecilius Thascius fl.200-258
    • Cyprian, Saint, 200-258
    • Saint Cyprian (b. c. 200, d. 258)
    • Cipriano, Santo, ca 210-258
    • H. Cyprianus - 3de E. na C. - auteur
    • Cyprianus Carthaginensis - 3de eeuw - auteur
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    • François de Meyronnes (1285-1327)
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    • François de Meyronnes OFM
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    • Franciscus de Mayronis
    • Author: Franciscus, de Maironis
    • Franciscus <von Meyronnes> (1288-1328)
    • Franciscus Mayronis
    • Franciscus de Maionis
    • Franciscus, de Mayronis (approximately 1285-approximately 1328)
    • Franciscus de Mayronis (approximately 1285-approximately 1328)
    • Franciscus
    • Franciscus de Maironis
    • Franciscus <de Maironis>
    • Mayronis, Franciscus de, fl. 1285-1328, O.F.M.
    • Franciscus de Maironis - gest. 1328 - auteur
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Description

  • Summary: 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.


    Contents :


    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


    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


    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


    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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