Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermons; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons; Adnotationes Elucidatoriae in Quosdam Psalmos David ; Two offices with responsory, lections and sequences
Agent
Preferred form
Pierre le Mangeur (1100?-1179?)
Original form
Petrus Comestor, c 1100-c 1179
Other form
Pierre le Mangeur (1100?-1179?)
Pierre le Mangeur
Pierre Comestor
Petrus Comestor
PETRUS COMESTOR
Petrus Comestor (1100?-1179?)
Pierre Le Mangeur
Petrus Comestor (?)
Author: Petrus, Comestor
Peter Comestor
Pierre le Mangeur (1100?-1179)
Petrus Comestor (attrib.)
Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
Comestor, Peter
Petrus<Comestor>
Petrus <Comestor> (1100-1179)
Pierre le Mangeur, chancelier de l'Université de Paris (1100?-1179?)
Petrus, Comestor, 1100-1179
Petrus <Comestor>
Petrus, Comestor, 1100-1179 > , co-autor
Petrus Comestor - ca. 1100 - 1179 - auteur glossen
This manuscript may be the presentation copy of the text given by
Nicholas of Clairvaux to count Henry I of Champagne (d. 1181),
according to Benton, 'Nicolas of Clairvaux and the Twelfth-Century
Sequence' (1962), p. 163, n. 44. Nicholas of Clairvaux was
appointed the head of the Benedictine priory of Montiémary,
Saint-Jean-en-Châtel in 1160 by Henry I of Champagne. Nicholas of
Clairvaux, who served the count of Champagne produced a volume
containing sermons and offices which he dedicated to Henry I of
Champagne. In the dedication letter, Nicolas of Clairvaux
attributed to himself all the texts of the manuscript although only
19 sermons (ff. 4r-60v) and the offices (ff. 108r-140v) are by him
(see Leclerq, 'Les collections de sermons de Nicolas de Clairvaux'
(1956)).Contents:f. 3v: Nicholas of Clairvaux, Letter of dedication
to count Henry I of Champagne, beginning: 'Singulari domino et
benefactore suo Henrico, Trecensium comiti palatino'.ff. 4r-60v:
Nicholas of Clairvaux's sermons for the feast of St John the
Baptist to the feast of St Stephen, beginning: 'Hodie,
dilectissimi, dies illuxit insignis', ending with the sermon for
the feast of St Stephen: 'Domine, ne statuas illis hoc peccatum,
summe Deus qui es benedictus in secula'. ff. 61r-66v: St Bernard of
Clairvaux, Sermons, beginning: 'Iustum deduxit Dominus per vias
rectas [...]. Est iustus qui in principio sermonis accusator est
sui'. ff. 67r-98v: Adnotationes elucidatoriae in quosdam Psalmos
David, attributed to Hugh of St Victor, beginning: 'Quosdam tibi
psalmiste versiculos comes dulcissi prelibavi'. Chapters 60, 63,
70, 73-82 are lacking. ff. 98v-100v: Anonymous, Sermon on the Psalm
85:10, beginning: 'Misericordia et veritas obviaverunt'.ff.
100v-103v: Petrus Comestor's sermon beginning: 'Non vos me
elegistis'. ff. 104r-107r: St Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermon,
beginning: 'In via estis fratres que ducit'. ff. 108r-140v: Two
offices with responsory, lections and sequences including musical
notations for the responsory and sequences.Decoration: The
decoration is similar to other manuscripts illuminated in Troyes
and commissioned for Henry I of Champagne in the 1160s and 1170s,
according to Stirnemann, Splendeurs de la Cour de Campagne (1999).
Initials in colour with foliate motifs, some large, some small.
Large initials in red with blue penwork decoration or in blue with
red penwork decoration (ff. 109-140). Small plain initials in red
or blue. Rubrics in red. Cadels. Some initials are unfinished.
