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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 66A

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  • MS 066A
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  • 1100 - 1199 - 1300 - 1399
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  • Latin
  • English
  • Middle French
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 066A: Jacques de Vitry, Historia orientalis. Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales. pseudo-John of Damascus, Barlaam et Iosaphat
    • Jacques de Vitry, Historia orientalis || Historia Ierosolimitana abbreviata || (Iacobi de Vitriaco), Historia Jerosolimitana abbreviata Liber I
    • Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales || Itinerarium terrae Tartarorum per W. de Rubruc
    • Iohannes presbyter ('Prester John'), Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum || Epistola presbiteri Ioannis de descriptione Indiae
    • Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera || Roberti [Grosteste] Lincolniensis tractatus de sphera
    • pseudo-John of Damascus, Barlaam et Iosaphat || Liber gestorum Barlaam et Josaphat servorum Dei editus Graeco sermone a Ioanne Damasceno viro sancto et erudito
    • Legend of the Cross Before Christ || De arbore vitae in paradiso, historia fabulosa || Story of the Cross
    • Seth or The Holy Rood in Verse || Versus Gallici de eadem re
    • Childhood of Jesus || Versus Gallici de eadem re || Infancy of Christ; an extract
    • Jacques de Vitry, Historia orientalis (excerpt) || Descriptio terrae sanctae
    • Bede the Venerable, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (excerpt from book 5) || De situ terrae Ierosolimitanae secundum Bedam
    • Bede the Venerable, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (excerpt from book 5) || De loco Dominicae ascensionis
    • The Birth and Life of Pilate (extract from Legenda Aurea) || De ortu Pilati et ejus vita
    • The Birth and Life of Judas (extract from Legenda Aurea) || De ortu Judae et ejus vita
    • Visio Rodulfi || Visio revelata anno 1209 Rodulpho sacristae monasterii Cesarea sive Keisam nuncupati in territorio Augustensis ecclesiae
    • De Stephano monacho cartusiensi || De Stephano monacho cartusiensi, qualiter eum beata virgo primo eripuit de naufragio corporis, et postea de temptationibus cordis; qualiter eum formam orandi docuit, quia ei devotus in seculo extiterat
    • pseudo-Methodius, Revelations || Liber Methodii episcopi Paterensis et martyris Christi quem ex Hebraeo et Graeco in Latinum transferre curavit, id est de principio seculi et inter regna gentium et fine seculorum, quem illustris vir beatus Jeronimus in suis opusculis collaudavit
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Description

  • Summary: MS 66, as described by M. R. James, included half of a manuscript belonging to the Cistercian abbey of Sawley (Yorks.) and half of a manuscript belonging to the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds. The other two halves of the Bury and Sawley manuscripts are bound together as Cambridge, UL MS Ff. 1. 27. However, MS 66 has since been separated into MS 66 (Sawley MS) and MS 66A (Bury MS). MS 66A contains copies of Jacques de Vitry's Historia orientalis; Willelmus de Rubruk's Itinerarium ad partes orientales; Itinerarium usque ad paradisum terrestrem; Imago mundi; the letter of Prester John; Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera; Barlaam et Iosaphat by pseudo-John of Damascus; the Legend of the Cross Before Christ; Seth or The Holy Rood in Verse; the Childhood of Jesus; excerpts from Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and the Legenda Aurea; Visio Rodulfi; De Stephano monacho cartusiensi and pseudo-Methodius's Revelations. There are illuminated historiated initials at the beginning of most of these texts.


    Contents :


    117-67r - Jacques de Vitry, Historia orientalis || Historia Ierosolimitana abbreviata || (Iacobi de Vitriaco), Historia Jerosolimitana abbreviata Liber I

    Note: (117) in red with blue initials. Capitula of item no. 9 (now item no. 1) in red followed by three blank pages. New foliation then begins

    Note: (1r) Capitulum I

    incipit: (1r) Terra sancta promissionis deo amabilis

    Note: (1r) Initial with gold ground. Monk with pastoral staff offers book to Bishop with cross

    explicit: (67r) de die in diem expectantes

    rubric: (67r) Explicit

    Note: Bongars Gesta Dei per Francos, p. 1047


    67r-110r - Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales || Itinerarium terrae Tartarorum per W. de Rubruc

    incipit: (67r) Excellentissimo domino et christianissimo Lodovico dei gracia Regi francorum illustri Frater W. de Rubruc

    Note: (67r) Initial: above two friars offer a book to king on R. (half-length below), two friars with staves walk to R.

    explicit: (110r) plures interpretes et copiosas expensas etc.

    Note: Also in MS 181. 9, MS 407. 2. Ed. by D'Avezac 1839 etc.


    127r-130r - Iohannes presbyter ('Prester John'), Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum || Epistola presbiteri Ioannis de descriptione Indiae

    incipit: (127r) Presbiter iohannes potencia et uirtute

    Note: (127r) Initial. Seated king with sceptre

    explicit: (130r) genere ciborum essemus impleti

    Note: Collated by H. Bradshaw for Dr Zarncke


    130v-138v - Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera || Roberti [Grosteste] Lincolniensis tractatus de sphera

    rubric: (130v) Incipit tractatus de spera

    Note: (By Johannes de Sacro Bosco)

    incipit: (130v) Tractatum de spera in quatuor capitula

    Note: (130v) Initial. Man in blue holding armillary sphere

    explicit: (138v) machina dissoluetur

    rubric: (138v) Hic explicit tractatus spere scriptus anno domini mo. cco. lxxx. tercio


    139r-208r - pseudo-John of Damascus, Barlaam et Iosaphat || Liber gestorum Barlaam et Josaphat servorum Dei editus Graeco sermone a Ioanne Damasceno viro sancto et erudito

    incipit: (139r) Cum igitur cepissent monasteria construi

    Note: (139r) Initial. Man in blue offers apple to youth seated on R. with sceptre

    explicit: (208r) perducere dignare per Jhesum Christum filium tuum Amen

    rubric: (208r) Explicit liber de gestis barlaam et iosaphat Regis seruorum dei


    221v-224r - Legend of the Cross Before Christ || De arbore vitae in paradiso, historia fabulosa || Story of the Cross

    Note: (W. Meyer, Abh. bayer. Akad. XVI, ii, 131)

    incipit: (221v) Post peccatum ade expulso eo de paradyso

    Note: (221v) Initial gold ground. Christ beardless stands on L., on R. sits Adam with hand to head (sleeping): Eve emerges from his side

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (224r) In ea quidem crucifixerunt domini nostri Ihesum Christum in salutem omnium sane credencium qui factus est obediens patri usque ad mortem, cui est laus et honor et imperium per omnia secula seculorum. Amen


    224v-227r - Seth or The Holy Rood in Verse || Versus Gallici de eadem re

    Note: (224v) French poem on the same, one of many versions

    incipit: (224v) Apres ke Adam fu getezDe paradys pur ses pechez

    explicit: (227r) E deus pur sa passiunDe nos pechez nus doint remissiunE al drein si repentirKe la ioie puisum servirPar la sue seinte ayeNi eit nul ke amen ne die


    227r-228r - Childhood of Jesus || Versus Gallici de eadem re || Infancy of Christ; an extract

    Note: (227r) full text in MS. Selden supra 38: see Romania XV 334 (P. Meyer)

    incipit: (227r) En cel tens ke herodes saueitKe ihesu crist neez estoitGrant enuie de co aueitKe nul sur ly ne regnereit

    Note: Narrates Flight into Egypt, meeting with beasts, tree bowing, child fallen from house-top raised up (124 lines)

    explicit: (228r) E deus nus doint issi loerE son nun magnifierKe nus puissum auer pardunE de nos pecchez remissiunAmen. Pater noster Aue dium


    228r-230r - Jacques de Vitry, Historia orientalis (excerpt) || Descriptio terrae sanctae

    incipit: (228r) Honorius papa uolens scire terram agarenorum contra quos exercitus christianorum preparabatur

    Note: (228r) Decorative initial

    explicit: (230r) ibi locus est ubi abraham immolare filium uoluit


    230r-230v - Bede the Venerable, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (excerpt from book 5) || De situ terrae Ierosolimitanae secundum Bedam

    incipit: (230r) Bethleem ciuitas dauid in dorso sita est

    explicit: (230v) albo et rubicundo permixtus uidetur

    Note: (Bede, Historia ecclesiastica V 16)


    230v-231r - Bede the Venerable, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (excerpt from book 5) || De loco Dominicae ascensionis

    incipit: (230v) Mons oliuarum altitudine monti syon par est

    incipit: (230v) In die ascensionis dominice per annos singulos

    explicit: (230v) terre prosternere

    incipit: (230v) Hebron quondam ciuitas et metropolis

    incipit: (231r) Hec de opusculis excerpta arculphi

    explicit: (231r) hystoriis indere placuit

    Note: (Bede, Historia ecclesiastica V 17)


    231r-232v - The Birth and Life of Pilate (extract from Legenda Aurea) || De ortu Pilati et ejus vita

    incipit: (231r) Cum rex tyrus nacione maguntinus

    explicit: (232v) sunt plurime machinaciones dyabolice

    Note: Legenda Aurea, cap. 53 ed. Graesse p. 231


    232v-232v - The Birth and Life of Judas (extract from Legenda Aurea) || De ortu Judae et ejus vita

    incipit: (232v) Fuit in diebus herodis regis poncio pilato preside uir in iudea nomine ruben

    explicit: (232v) Ideo penitencia ductus ad suasionem cimbree. Jhesu Christi fit discipulus

    Note: (232v) Initial. Judas hanging

    Note: Legenda Aurea, cap. 45, ed. Graesse p. 184


    233r-234v - Visio Rodulfi || Visio revelata anno 1209 Rodulpho sacristae monasterii Cesarea sive Keisam nuncupati in territorio Augustensis ecclesiae

    rubric: (233r) Hec uisio reuelata est anno uerbi incarnati mo. cco. ixo. sec

    incipit: (233r) In regno Allemann' in Sweuie prouincia in territorio augustensis ecclesie situm est monasterium quoddam ordonis cisterciensis cesarea nuncupatum ... Keisam uero uulgari sermone

    Note: (The Host seen in human form)

    explicit: (234v) rex seculorum uisibiliter humilitate pertractandum. qui est super omnia benedictis in secula. Amen

    Note: Extracts in Neues Archiv, XXII 668 (Hampe)

    Note: (234r) A sentence in English occurs


    234v-235v - De Stephano monacho cartusiensi || De Stephano monacho cartusiensi, qualiter eum beata virgo primo eripuit de naufragio corporis, et postea de temptationibus cordis; qualiter eum formam orandi docuit, quia ei devotus in seculo extiterat

    rubric: (234v) De Stephano monacho etc.

    Note: as Nasmith

    incipit: (234v) Quidam clericus nomine Stephanus secundum seculi dignitatem preclarus

    explicit: (235v) sperantes in te letificas. Qui cum unigenito tuo regnas et gloriaris in secula seculorum. Amen


    235v-238v - pseudo-Methodius, Revelations || Liber Methodii episcopi Paterensis et martyris Christi quem ex Hebraeo et Graeco in Latinum transferre curavit, id est de principio seculi et inter regna gentium et fine seculorum, quem illustris vir beatus Jeronimus in suis opusculis collaudavit

    rubric: (235v) In Christi nomine incipit liber etc.

    Note: as Nasmith

    incipit: (235v) Sciendum namque est nobis fratres karissimi quomodo in principio

    Note: (236r) The hand seems to change

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (238r) eripere dignetur qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat deus per infinita secula seculorum. Amen

    Note: Printed in Orthodoxographa; last by E. Sackur, Sibyllinische Texte, 1898

    Note: (238v) blank covered with paper (This paper has been removed since James's time.)

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