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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 135

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  • MS 135
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  • 1100 - 1199
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  • Latin
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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 135: Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Letters and related works
    • Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Epistolae || Anselmi archiepiscopi epistolae CCCLXVII
    • Eadmer of Canterbury OSB, De beatitudine caelestis patriae || Meditatio ejusdem de eterna beatitudine
    • Provincial Council under Anselm of Canterbury OSB, 1102 || Concilium provinciale celebratum sub Anselmo A. D. 1102
    • Letter of Gerald, Archbishop of York, to Anselm of Canterbury OSB || Epistola Girardi archiepiscopi Eboracensi ad Anselmum
    • Verses in praise of Anselm of Canterbury OSB || Versus in laudem Anselmi
    • Anselm of Canterbury OSB (attrib.)Tractatus de uirtute corporis Christi || Anselmi tractatus de virtute corporis Christi
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    • Anselme (saint, 1033-1109)
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    • Anselme (saint ; 1033-1109)
    • Saint Anselme de Cantorbury
    • ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS archiep. (s.)
    • S. Anselmus Cantuariensis
    • Anselmus (saint ; 1033-1109)
    • ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS
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    • Anselmus
    • Anselme de Cantorbéry
    • Anselmus Cantuarensis
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    • Anselme (Saint), archevêque de Cantorbéry
    • Author: Anselm von Canterbury
    • St. Anselm
    • Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
    • Anselm
    • Anselm of Canterbury, c 1033-1109, Saint, Abbot of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury
    • St Anselm
    • Anselm of Canterbury OSB (attrib.)
    • Anselmi
    • Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109)
    • Anselm Canterbury, Erzbischof, Heiliger, 1033-1109
    • Anselm <Canterbury, Erzbischof, Heiliger> (1033-1109)
    • Anselme de Cantorbéry (v. 1033-1109), saint, archevêque de Cantorbéry
    • Anselmo, Santo, Arzobispo de Canterbury, 1033-1109
    • Anselm, Canterbury, Erzbischof, Heiliger, 1033-1109
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    • Eadmerus (106.?-113.?)
    • [EADMERUS CANTUARIENSIS
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 135 is a collection of the letters of Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109) with other related works. It may be the collection made by Anselm of Bury OSB (d. 1148), the saint's nephew, since it has certain provenance at Bury St Edmunds. It has been suggested that it was made for the younger Anselm at Canterbury, but a Bury origin seems more likely since it shares a scribe with several manuscripts from Bury, including Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R. 7. 28 (scribe 2). It seems to have come into the hands of the historian John Bale (1495-1563) and thence to Parker.


    Contents :


    1r-147r - Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Epistolae || Anselmi archiepiscopi epistolae CCCLXVII

    Note: Each hundred of the Epistles is separately numbered

    Note: After 101v are inserted two leaves of a smaller (9 x 6) and perhaps older MS. containing two letters

    Note: 1. MCI. Henrico regi Angl.

    incipit: (101ar) Legationis tue uerba

    explicit: (101av) sullimatione disponat

    Note: 2. Henrico

    incipit: (101br) In litteris uestre celsitudinis

    Note: (Ep. 233 in this collection.)

    Note: 3. Verses (28)

    incipit: (101bv) Petre supra petram nec inaniter edificasti Illic et turres quibus itur ad astra locasti

    explicit: (101bv) Presul in exilio mortalia nostra professus Ora pro nobis ad celica regna regressus

    Note: Epistola (3) 67 (Thome electo archiepiscopi eboracensi) ends

    explicit: (146v) concedo ut officio sacerdotali quod iam suscepisti utaris

    Note: Extract on Freewill

    incipit: (146v) Est considerandum quia uolumus aliquando ita ut si possumus faciamus ut sit quod uolumus

    explicit: (147r) aut quia non uult eam uiolari. quod est in quarto modo

    Note: (147r) Confessio. P. L. CLVIII 685

    incipit: (147r) Letaris quod in fide Christiana moreris? Respondeat Etiam

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (147r) dicat infirmus ter. In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum

    Note: See also MS 299. 4


    147r-160v - Eadmer of Canterbury OSB, De beatitudine caelestis patriae || Meditatio ejusdem de eterna beatitudine

    incipit: (147r) Multi homines quibus non nunquam boni mores

    Note: P. L. CLIX 587

    explicit: a diabolo precipitati depereunt

    incipit: (154r) Quattuor modis dicimus aliquid

    explicit: (155v) alia facit per presentiam alia per absentiam

    incipit: (155v) Discipulus. Plura sunt de quibus tuam diu desidero responsionem. Ex quibus sunt potestas et inpotentia

    explicit: (160r) ut illi sunt aliquando beati

    rubric: (160r) Hec ad predicta pertinent

    incipit: (160r) Discipulus. Video plane. M. hec quidem exempla de causis efficientibus

    explicit: (160v) auferendo arma cum potest

    incipit: (160v) Quamuis post apostolos sancti patres et doctores nostri

    explicit: (160v) id aliis libenter aperio quatinus quid secure tenere debeam alieno discam iudicio

    Note: See also MS 34. 2, MS 154. 48, MS 332. 14


    161r-162r - Provincial Council under Anselm of Canterbury OSB, 1102 || Concilium provinciale celebratum sub Anselmo A. D. 1102

    incipit: (161r) Anno dominice incarnationis millesimo centesimo secundo quarto autem presulatus Pascalis

    explicit: (162r) concubine cum rebus suis uelut adultere

    Note: Wilkins' Concilia I. 382


    162v-163r - Letter of Gerald, Archbishop of York, to Anselm of Canterbury OSB || Epistola Girardi archiepiscopi Eboracensi ad Anselmum

    incipit: (162v) Patri et domino uere dilecto ... Ceruus sitiens

    explicit: (163r) ipsi quoque peccatores accedant

    Note: Copied in MS 101. 35, MS 111. 137, 117. 2. 3


    163r-165v - Verses in praise of Anselm of Canterbury OSB || Versus in laudem Anselmi

    rubric: (163r) Versus ad laudem domini Anselmi archiepiscopi

    incipit: (163r) Haud dubiture (habiture) parem sumas pater alme salutemQuam mea disparibus musa uelut pedibus

    Note: (P. L. CLVIII 135)

    explicit: (164r) Unica scala poli nec ruitura. Vale

    rubric: (164r) Item uersus de eodem

    incipit: (164r) Presulis Anselmi quem nuper obisse dolemusLaudibus aptari littera nostra cupit

    Note: (P. L. CLVIII 137)

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (165v) Cantica letitie nullo tibi tempore desuntEt (sine) fine canis gloria deo magna (sic). Amen

    Note: Followed by

    Note: (165v) Omnia maiorem retinent sua dicta saporemQuam que dixerunt qui postue priusue fueruntHic cognoscetis qui talia picta uidetisQua spe uixit hugo uel sit opertus humoNobilis et diues fortisque per omnia milesFortior ut senuit. hic iuga sancta tulitDumque plebi uia. lustrat sidera celi (sic)Quod bene proposuit fortior exibuitMox aeris solem recipit sol perdit hugonemCui sol iusticie fulgeat in requie

    Note: An erasure of a line follows


    iiir-ivv - Anselm of Canterbury OSB (attrib.)Tractatus de uirtute corporis Christi || Anselmi tractatus de virtute corporis Christi

    Note: f. iiir-iiiv is from another book (xiii-xiv). At top is the end of a table to some treatise

    rubric: (iiir) Tractatus beati Anselmi de uirtute corporis christi

    incipit: (iiir) Quia de sacramento altaris persepe sermo incidit

    explicit: (iiiv) et gustus noster dissimulare non potest

    Note: On f. ivr are scribbles: many numbers of Epistles noted: a pencil scribble: Ven. patri etc. Abbati Glastoniensi ffr. W. (dominus prior?) et precentor ecclesie Elyensis Salutem

    Note: On f. ivv two extracts (xii): a. Caue frater illud quod multi stulti faciunt qui quanto diutius uiuunt tanto maiorem sibi spem uiuendi nutriunt etc. b. De elemosina. Si quis eorum qui habent substantiam mundi

    Note: A note (xv): de sorte Iohannis wickam monachi monasterii S. Edmundi de buree actualiter scolatisantis Oxon. et permansuri ibi dum modo sit deputatus et legit(ime) electus per capitulum

    Note: A few scribbles on the next leaf: 'ad festum S. eadmundi' is one. Another seems to be in Bale's hand.

    Note: I notice that Bale in a list of MSS. that had belonged to him (Scriptores Britanniae, p. 165, Basle edition) includes: Anselmi archiep. ccclxvij Epistolae Eius meditatio de aeterna beatitudine which corresponds strikingly with the contents of this MS

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