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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 275

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  • MS 275
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  • 1400 - 1499 - 1200 - 1299
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  • Latin
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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 275: Legends of Saints. Prayers. Mandeville's Travels. Odoricus of Pordenone, Itinerary
    • Tractatus de oratione dominica || Tractatus de oratione dominica in septem petitiones divisa
    • pseudo-Bonaventure OFM, De officio missae || De officio missae
    • Honorius III, Approbatio regulae Sancti Francisci || Regula fratrum minorum
    • Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Oratio ad sanctam Mariam Magdalenam (Oratio 16) || De Maria Magdalena || A prayer
    • Vita Adae et Euae || Vita protoplasti Adae et Evae uxoris ejus
    • pseudo-Methodius, De initio et fine saeculi || Epistola Methodii Martiris de inicio, progressu, de die judicii et de Millenario
    • Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi || Speculum mundi
    • H[enry?] of Sawtry OCist, Purgatorium Sancti Patricii || De purgatorio Sancti Patricii
    • Vita Sancti Brendani || Vita Sancti Brendani
    • Oratio Sancti Brendani || Oratio Sancti Brendani
    • Jean le Long OSB (attrib.), The travels of Sir John Mandeville || Itinerarium Iohannis Mandeville de mirabilibus mundi
    • Iohannes presbyter ('Prester John'), Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum || De presbitero Iohanne
    • Odoricus of Pordenone, Itinerarium || Itinerarium fratris Odorici ordinis fratrum minorum de mirabilibus orientalium Tartarorum
    • Francesco Petrarca, Historia Griseldis || Francisci Petrarchi, lauriati poetae, de Waltero Saluciarum Marchione et Griscildi ejus uxore, historia
    • John of Hildesheim OCarm, Historia trium regum || Liber de gestis et translationibus sanctorum trium regum qui Christum adorarunt
    • Vita Secundi philosophi || Vita Secundi philosophi de Graeco in Latinum translata
    • John Grandisson, Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis || Vita et passio S. Thomae archiepiscopi Cantuariensi composita per dominum Iohannem de Grandissono episcopum Exoniensem
    • Alan of Tewkesbury OSB, Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis || Alia vita ejusdem sancti
    • De Saracenis || De Saracenis et eorum observationibus et de Mahometo
    • Historia de Iuda Iscariota || Historia fabulosa de Iuda Iscariota
    • Expositio in Isaiae Lupus et agnus pascentur || Expositio in illud Isaiae Lupus et Agnus pascentur
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  • Summary: The miscellany of tracts on various subjects in CCCC MS 275, dating to c. 1400-25, has no overall thematic unity. It contains devotional texts, travel literature, legends of saints, and biblical figures, and other works in diverse categories. The most important of these are: Vita Adae et Euae; Henry of Sawtry OCist (fl. twelfth century), Purgatorium Sancti Patricii; Vita Sancti Brendani; The Travels of Sir John Mandeville attributed to Jean le Long OSB; Odoricus of Pordenone (c. 1286-1331), Itinerarium; the letter of Iohannes presbyter ('Prester John'); Francesco Petrarca (1304-74), Historia Griseldis; John of Hildesheim OCarm (d. 1375), Historia trium regum; and John Grandisson (d. 1369), Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis. The book was given to the College by Thomas Markaunt (d. 1439).


    Contents :


    1r-3r - Tractatus de oratione dominica || Tractatus de oratione dominica in septem petitiones divisa

    incipit: (1r) Oracio est pius affectus mentis

    explicit: (3r) ad laudem et honorem nominis Ihesu Christi. Amen


    3r-6r - pseudo-Bonaventure OFM, De officio missae || De officio missae

    rubric: (3r) De missa celebranda

    Note: (Ps.-Bonaventura)

    incipit: (3r) Ad missam celebrandam sex consideracio attendenda

    explicit: (4v) opere impleat quod nobis concedat qui, etc.

    rubric: (4v) Officium misse de veneracione suppremi nominis Ihesu Christi

    incipit: (4v) In nomine Ihesu omne genu

    rubric: (5r) Sequencia

    incipit: (5r) Dulcis Ihesus nazarenus iudeorum rex amenus

    rubric: (5r) Tractatus in prima lxx

    incipit: (5r) Dulce nomen Ihesu Christi

    Note: (5v) Prayer to the Virgin

    incipit: (5v) O maria virgo virginum que genuisti filium

    explicit: (6r) virtutum augmentacio

    rubric: (6r) amen


    6r-8r - Honorius III, Approbatio regulae Sancti Francisci || Regula fratrum minorum

    rubric: (6r) Honorius ep. ... dilectis filiis

    incipit: (6r) Regula et vita minorum fratrum

    explicit: (8r) tercio(?) kal. decembris pontificatus nostri anno viij


    8r-8v - Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Oratio ad sanctam Mariam Magdalenam (Oratio 16) || De Maria Magdalena || A prayer

    incipit: (8r) Sancta maria magdalene que cum fonte lacrimarum

    explicit: (8v) nec celerius hoc exprimi potuit


    9r-18r - Vita Adae et Euae || Vita protoplasti Adae et Evae uxoris ejus

    incipit: (9r) Factum est ut cum expulsi essent Adam

    Note: (Ed. W. Meyer, 1879 in Sitzungsberichte d. k. k. Bayer. Akad. from other MSS.)

    explicit: (14v) et dixit. adam. et dixit dominus sic vocatum est nomen eius

    Note: Story of the Cross

    rubric: (14v) Item alius processus de eodem

    incipit: (14v) Post peccatum ade expulso eodem

    Note: (see MS 66. 17)

    explicit: (18r) obedientem patri usque ad mortem cui est laus et honor et imperium per omnia secula seculorum

    rubric: (18r) amen


    18r-21v - pseudo-Methodius, De initio et fine saeculi || Epistola Methodii Martiris de inicio, progressu, de die judicii et de Millenario

    incipit: (18r) Sciendum est nos, fratres karissimi, quomodo in principio

    explicit: (21v) unde nos eripere dignetur dominus noster Ihesus Christus qui etc. per infinita secula seculorum

    rubric: (21v) Amen

    Note: Ed. in Orthodoxographa of Grynaeus, etc. See Oudin I 299; Sackur, Sibyllinische Texte


    22r-34v - Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi || Speculum mundi

    rubric: (22r) Ad instruccionem multorum quibus deest copia librorum, etc.

    incipit: (22r) Mundus dicitur quasi (?) undique motus

    explicit: (34r) in eadem linea graditur

    rubric: (34r) Explicit tractatus de speculo mundi

    Note: (34v) blank

    Note: Attributed to Gregory of Huntingdon and Henry of Mainz

    Note: See MS 66


    35r-45v - H[enry?] of Sawtry OCist, Purgatorium Sancti Patricii || De purgatorio Sancti Patricii

    incipit: (35r) Patri suo peroptato in Christo H. abbati de sartis

    explicit: (45v) seruituram in monasterio commendauit. Tu autem domine miserere nostri

    Note: By Henry of Sawtry: see Ward, Catalogue of Romances II 435


    46r-58v - Vita Sancti Brendani || Vita Sancti Brendani

    incipit: (46r) Sanctus Brendanus filius fin locha

    explicit: (58v) gloriose migrauit ad dominum cui est honor et gloria in seculorum secula. amen

    rubric: (58v) Explicit vita Sancti Brendani abbatis de diuersis miraculis

    Note: Ed. Schroder, Sanct Brandan (1871), Moran, Acta Sancti Brendani (1872). See Ward, Catalogue of Romances II, p. 516. BHL. 1437


    59r-68v - Oratio Sancti Brendani || Oratio Sancti Brendani

    rubric: (59r) Sanctus Brandanus Dei servus fecit istam orationem de verbo Dei per Michaelem archangelum in medio maris: quicunque cantaverit orationem istam pro se vel amico suo pro anima sua vel pro anima amici sui, sive pro vivis sive pro defunctis, cum fide catholica et oratione dominica et simbolo genuflectans XII vicibus, peccata sua remittentur ei, et salvus erit de penis futuris: pretium cantandi orationem istam super altare vel super sepulcrum defuncti, genuflectans cum oratione dominica et fide catholica XII vicibus valet centum psaltaria et centum missas et centum commemorationes, auctoritate spiritus sancti docente sancto Brandano

    incipit: (59r) Per sanctam annunciacionem tuam domine Ihesu Christe

    explicit: (61v) in domo misericordie tue

    rubric: (61v) Explicit de ueteri testamento, incipit de nouo

    incipit: (61v) Libera me domine sicut liberasti Zachariam

    Note: Other prayers follow: the last (Missus est Gabriel) ends

    explicit: (68v) celestium gaudiorum prestante eodem domino Ihesu Christo qui, etc. per omnia secula seculorum. amen

    Note: Ed. by Moran, Acta Sancti Brendani (1872)


    69r-145v - Jean le Long OSB (attrib.), The travels of Sir John Mandeville || Itinerarium Iohannis Mandeville de mirabilibus mundi

    incipit: (69r) Cum terra ultra marina, viz. terra sancta

    explicit: (145v) aliquod minuit qui in claritate uiuit et regnat deus per infinita secula seculorum. amen

    rubric: (145v) Explicit liber de mirabilibus mundi editus a Johanne Mandeuyle milite cuius anime propicietur deus amen


    146r-149r - Iohannes presbyter ('Prester John'), Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum || De presbitero Iohanne

    incipit: (146r) Presbiter Johannes potencia et virtute dei ... Emanueli Romeon gubernatore

    explicit: (149r) ciborum essemus inpleti. valete

    Note: Ed. by Zarncke


    149v-162v - Odoricus of Pordenone, Itinerarium || Itinerarium fratris Odorici ordinis fratrum minorum de mirabilibus orientalium Tartarorum

    Note: Ultimum capitulum deest

    incipit: (149v) Licet multa et uaria de ritibus et condicionibus

    explicit: (162v) Ego frater Odoricus hic inscripsi et si (?) multa mirabilia omisi ponere quia homines non credidissent nisi uidissent

    rubric: (162v) Explicit itinerarium fratri Odorici

    Note: Another copy in MS 407


    163r-168v - Francesco Petrarca, Historia Griseldis || Francisci Petrarchi, lauriati poetae, de Waltero Saluciarum Marchione et Griscildi ejus uxore, historia

    incipit: (163r) Est ad Ytalie latus occiduum

    explicit: (168v) rusticana hec muliercula passa est

    Note: Other copies in MS 177. 10, MS 458. 3


    170r-214r - John of Hildesheim OCarm, Historia trium regum || Liber de gestis et translationibus sanctorum trium regum qui Christum adorarunt

    incipit: (170r) In primo capitulo huius libri qui est collectus

    Note: Capitula

    Note: Text

    incipit: (172r) Cum venerandorum trium magorum

    Note: Last chapter

    incipit: (213v) Nota quod nomina trium magorum

    explicit: (214r) sed hii tres reges virgines fuerunt

    Note: Cf. MS 179. Horstmann considers that the author of the English version (printed by him for E. E. T. S.) used this copy or one very like it. The Latin is by John of Hildesheim


    214r-216r - Vita Secundi philosophi || Vita Secundi philosophi de Graeco in Latinum translata

    incipit: (214r) Secundus fuit philosophus. hic philosophus omni tempore silencium conseruans

    explicit: (216r) tres pariter custodi trinitas ter sancta

    Note: Translated from the Greek by William of Gap, monk and afterwards abbot of St Denis. Often printed: e.g. Philologus 1862 and 1877: last by A. Hilka, Breslau 1910, in Jahresbericht d. schlesischen Ges. für väterl. Cultur


    216v-235r - John Grandisson, Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis || Vita et passio S. Thomae archiepiscopi Cantuariensi composita per dominum Iohannem de Grandissono episcopum Exoniensem

    incipit: (216v) Benediccionibus diuine dulcedinis

    explicit: (235r) festumque eius solempniter celebrandum ad laudem et gloriam domini nostri Ihesu Christi qui, etc.

    rubric: (235r) Explicit vita et passio Sancti Thome archiepiscopi Cantuariensi compositus per dominum Johannem de grandisono Episcopum Exoniensem

    Note: Not printed


    233ar-233nv - Alan of Tewkesbury OSB, Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis || Alia vita ejusdem sancti

    Note: Hi quaterniones qui et forma et charactere (sunt enim in octavo et majorem sapiunt antiquitatem prae reliquis hujus codicis partibus) discrepant tum a precedentibus tum ab eis qui sequuntur, priorem duntaxat partem vitae ipsius Thomae continent; et autor, quisquis fuerit, in animo habuit summatim perstringere ea quae contigerunt a concilio de Clarendon ad mortem archiepiscopi, ut suppleret quae propter brevitatem omisit Iohannes [Salisbury] Carnotensis in historia sua

    Note: Inserted between ff. 233v and 234r: smaller page: good hand of cent. xiii, ff. 14

    incipit: (233ar) Gloriosus dei martir Thomas qualis

    explicit: (233nv) commota sunt paterne pietatis uiscera super filio

    Note: By Alan of Tewkesbury. P. L. CXC 207, Robertson, Materials II 322


    235r-238r - De Saracenis || De Saracenis et eorum observationibus et de Mahometo

    incipit: (235r) Saraceni sunt qui de ancilla habrae ad quam iubente sarra ingressus

    explicit: (238r) xl die post obitum patris moriendo patrem secuta est

    rubric: (238r) Explicit


    238r-239r - Historia de Iuda Iscariota || Historia fabulosa de Iuda Iscariota

    incipit: (238r) Legitur in quadam hystoria quod quidam vir fuit in ierusalem nomine Ruben

    explicit: (239r) et in aere cum demonibus scitaretur (sociaretur)

    Note: See Legenda Aurea (s. v. Sanctus Matthias: ed. Graesse, p. 184)

    Note: Separate paragraph

    incipit: (239r) Judas scarioth fratrem suum putatiuum

    explicit: (239r) crepuit in medio diffusis vi(s)ceribus


    239r-239v - Expositio in Isaiae Lupus et agnus pascentur || Expositio in illud Isaiae Lupus et Agnus pascentur

    Note: imperfect

    incipit: (239r) Lupus et agnus pascentur simul. Ysa. lxv. hinc (?) necesse est omnes sacras scripturas impleri

    Note: (239v) Ends imperfectly, one leaf of text probably wanting

    Note: Two blank leaves follow (ff. cr-dv)

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