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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 424

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  • MS 424
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  • 1500 - 1599 - 1400 - 1499 - 1100 - 1199 - 1200 - 1299
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  • Latin
  • English
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 424: Astronomical Tracts. Liber de Joseph et Aseneth
    • Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe || A treatise of the astrolabe made English by Chaucer for the use of his son Lewis
    • Kalendarium || Bona improbatio Kalendarii nostri et correctio ejusdem plane
    • pseudo-Hippocrates, De prognosticationibus aegritudinum secundum motum lunae (transl. byWilliam of Moerbeke) || Prognosticatio Hippocratis infirmitatum
    • Arnold of Villanova (attrib.), De electione situs lune in exibendis farmacis || Compendium de existentia lunae in signis
    • Albumasar (Abu Ma'shar Ja'far) (attrib.), De secretis philosophorum || Flores Albumazar de secretis philosophorum
    • Robert Grosseteste, De impressionibus aeris siue De prognosticatione || Robertus Grostest Lincolniensis de prognosticatione aeris
    • Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (Flos medicinae scholae Salerni) || Flos medicinae seu versus Salerni
    • Antidotarium Nicholai in English || A treatise of medicine or dispensatory by Nycolas
    • Liber de Joseph et Aseneth || De Asenath filia Potipharis sacerdotis et quo ordine accepit eam Joseph in uxorem
    • Thomas de Frakaham OSA, Speculum spiritalis amicitiae || Speculum spiritualis amicitiae
    • pseudo-Aelred of Rievaulx OCist, Speculum humilitatis
    • see more
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 424 is comprised of a number of disparate elements, with six volumes bound together containing material from different centuries. The manuscript begins with three printed pamphlets, an epitome of Galen by Christopher Heyll, an account of the marriage of Philip of Spain and Mary I of England and of a speech given by the Cardinal of Lorraine in 1561. The manuscript material proper is a jumble of medical, astrological and spiritual treatises such as the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), De impressionibus aeris siue De prognosticatione and Thomas de Frakaham OSA (fl. c. 1200) Speculum spiritalis amicitiae copied in various hands between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. In addition the codex includes an earlier twelfth-century copy of the legend of Aseneth in a Latin translation from the Greek.


    Contents :


    1r-4r - Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe || A treatise of the astrolabe made English by Chaucer for the use of his son Lewis

    Note: Begins imperfectly

    incipit: (1r) vnderstond well þt þe zodiake is departyd in 2 halfe circles

    Note: (Part II § 16)

    Note: Ends

    rubric: (4r) Explicit tractatus astrolabii secundum Chaunsers factus filio suo lodowyco

    Note: Skeat, The Astrolabe, E.E.T.S. extra series 1872, p. xi, describes this copy


    4r-6v - Kalendarium || Bona improbatio Kalendarii nostri et correctio ejusdem plane

    incipit: (4r) Sciendum est quod kalendarium quo utimur

    explicit: (6v) benedictus in secula. Amen

    rubric: (6v) Explicit bona improbacio kalendarii nostri. Et correctio eiusdem plane


    7r-9v - pseudo-Hippocrates, De prognosticationibus aegritudinum secundum motum lunae (transl. byWilliam of Moerbeke) || Prognosticatio Hippocratis infirmitatum

    incipit: (7r) Sapientissimus ypocras et medicorum optimus ait

    explicit: (9v) dabit cum labore et difficultate

    rubric: (9v) Explicit pronosticacio ypocratis infirmitatum


    9v-10r - Arnold of Villanova (attrib.), De electione situs lune in exibendis farmacis || Compendium de existentia lunae in signis

    incipit: (9v) Quoniam medicus practicans non semper potest habere certa loca planetarum

    explicit: (10r) luna est in piscibus ubi est impedita

    rubric: (10r) Explicit compendium de existencia lune in signis


    10v-20v - Albumasar (Abu Ma'shar Ja'far) (attrib.), De secretis philosophorum || Flores Albumazar de secretis philosophorum

    incipit: (10v) In nomine dei misericordie et pietatis. hic est liber quem collegit Albumazar de floribus philosophorum, etc.

    incipit: (10v) Ilixit Albumazar oportet te scire

    explicit: (20v) ipse est auxiliator. Amen

    rubric: (20v) Expliciunt flores Albumasar de secretis philosophorum


    20v-21r - Robert Grosseteste, De impressionibus aeris siue De prognosticatione || Robertus Grostest Lincolniensis de prognosticatione aeris

    incipit: (20v) Cum circa(?) disposicionem aeris ad aliquod certum tempus

    explicit: (21r) tempus fore humidum

    rubric: (21r) Hec lincolniensis de pronosticacione aeris


    21r-34v - Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (Flos medicinae scholae Salerni) || Flos medicinae seu versus Salerni

    incipit: (21r) Anglorum regi scripsit scola tota salerni

    explicit: (34v) que super renes pecten des fitque iuuamen

    rubric: (34v) Expliciunt versus Salerni

    Note: See Dr N. Moore, Schola Salernitana (Finlayson Lecture), Glasgow 1908, p. 27

    Note: (34v) Verses on signa conceptus

    Note: (34v) Receipt for ptisana


    35r-41v - Antidotarium Nicholai in English || A treatise of medicine or dispensatory by Nycolas

    incipit: (35r) I nycolas y prevyd of some men and felawes of practyce

    Note: The antidotarium of Nicholaus in English, ending imperfectly in Electuarium leticia galieni


    42r-59v - Liber de Joseph et Aseneth || De Asenath filia Potipharis sacerdotis et quo ordine accepit eam Joseph in uxorem

    Note: (42r) Title in red capitals

    rubric: (42r) Incipit de Asenech filia Putifaris sacerdotis et quo ordine accepit eam Ioseph in uxorem

    incipit: (42r) Et factum est in primo anno septem annorum

    Note: (42r) Purple initial

    Note: The edges have been much cropped, carrying away the upper or lower line in part

    explicit: (59v) nuncupatus est pater eius in terra Egypti

    Note: This text is printed in Batiffol, Studia Patristica I 1889, pp. 89-115: collated with the text of no. 288

    Note: This is the oldest copy of the text I have seen. If it is really of cent. xii, as seems likely, it is impossible that Robert Grosseteste should (as I have always been inclined to believe) have had a hand in the translation of the text from Greek into Latin


    60r-68v - Thomas de Frakaham OSA, Speculum spiritalis amicitiae || Speculum spiritualis amicitiae

    rubric: (60r) Incipit liber qui dicitur speculum spiritualis amicitie

    incipit: (60r) Primum quid sit amicicia arbitror disserendum

    explicit: (68v) apud iustum et misericordem iudicem intercedat

    rubric: (68v) Explicit liber IIIus de spirituali amicicia. hanc compilacionem fecit dominus Thomas de frakaham canonicus de lesnes. compilauit autem hec de libris aluredi abbatis Reuallis, i. de speculo caritatis et de libro spiritualis amicicie

    Note: Lesnes (or Westwood) was an Augustinian priory near Woolwich


    68v-70v - pseudo-Aelred of Rievaulx OCist, Speculum humilitatis

    rubric: (68v) Incipit liber qui dicitur speculum humilitatis

    incipit: (68v) Dominus noster Ihesu Christus dicit discipulis suis in ewangelio. Nolite in sublime tolli

    explicit: (70v) humilitatem exhibuit. beatus saluator Christus Ihesus qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen

    Note: This tract is noticed in Bale's Index, pp. 470,480. In the former place it is ascribed to a monk of Syon. It occurs in the Syon Catalogue under S.43

    Note: (ir) The flyleaf is from a beautifully written xiith cent. copy of the Gospels containing part of Matt. xvi., xvii

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