Project | Demos | Documentation

Contribute to Biblissima+

Subscribe to our newsletter

Contact us

Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 318

Go to viewer chevron_right
Source
Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
Library
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Shelfmark
  • MS 318
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • 1100 - 1199
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 318: Lives of Saints and Romances
    • Aelred of Rievaulx OCist, Vita Sancti Edwardi regis et confessoris || Eilredi Rievallensis abbatis vita sancti Edwardi regis et confessoris
    • Eadmer of Canterbury OSB, Vita Sancti Anselmi || [Eadmeri] vita Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi
    • Gilbert Crispin OSB, Vita Herluini abbatis || Vita Herlewini Beccensis abbatis
    • Vita venerabilis Bedae || Vita venerabilis Bedae presbiteri
    • pseudo-Calixtus II (Guido of Burgundy), Liber Sancti Iacobi || Calixtus de miraculis et translatione sancti Jacobi cum epistola Leonis papae de eadem translatione
    • pseudo-Turpinus, Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi || Turpini historia Caroli magni
    • pseudo-Calixtus II (Guido of Burgundy), De inventione corporis Turpini || Calixtus papa de inventione corporis Turpini
    • Vita Sanctae Theclae || Vita sanctae Theclae virginis et martiris
    • Historia Apollonii regis Tyri || Vita Appolonii Tyrii
    • see more
Agent
Description

  • Summary: The two parts of CCCC MS 318 may once have been separate manuscripts, but they were certainly together at Rochester in the twelfth century, when a contents list and an anathema were added to the volume. The first part is a twelfth-century collection of hagiography containing vitae of Edward the Confessor, Anselm of Canterbury, Herluin of Bec, and the Venerable Bede. The second part is also a twelfth-century collection of hagiography, but with some romance material as well: it contains texts on James the apostle, Charlemagne and Roland, Bishop Turpin, Thecla, and Apollonius of Tyre. An inscription says that the manuscript was given to Parker by a deacon of Rochester.


    Contents :


    1-140 - Aelred of Rievaulx OCist, Vita Sancti Edwardi regis et confessoris || Eilredi Rievallensis abbatis vita sancti Edwardi regis et confessoris

    rubric: (1) Incipit prologus domini Eilredi rieuallensis abbatis de uita Sancti eadwardi Regis et confessoris pridie nonas Januarii

    incipit: (1) Multis ueterum studio fuisse didicimus

    explicit: (3) cum eo optineas felicitatem

    rubric: (3) Explicit prologus

    rubric: (3) Incipit epistola aeilredi abbatis Rieuallis ad abbatum Laurentium Westmonasterii

    incipit: (3) Dilecto et diligendo et intimis uisceribus

    explicit: (5) opitulatione donetur

    rubric: (5) Explicit epistola

    rubric: (5) Incipit vita beatissimi confessoris Christi aedwardi gloriosi regis anglorum

    incipit: (6) Gloriosi ac deo dilecti regis aedwardi uitam

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (139) omnium corda commovit (vel -nuit)

    rubric: (140) Explicit vita Sancti aedwardi regis

    Note: In Twysden's Decem Scriptores, P. L. CXCV etc.

    Note: Cf. MS 161. 16

    Note: BHL 2423


    140-297 - Eadmer of Canterbury OSB, Vita Sancti Anselmi || [Eadmeri] vita Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi

    rubric: (140) Incipit prefatio sequentis operis

    incipit: (140) Quoniam multas et antecessorum nostrorum temporibus

    explicit: (141) sine illo sufficere posse pronuntio

    rubric: (141) Explicit prefatio

    rubric: (141) Incipit liber primus de vita et conuersatione Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi

    incipit: (141) Instituta vite et conuersationis Anselmi

    Note: (210) Liber II

    Note: (269) Change of hand at p. 269

    explicit: (297) ad notitiam retributionis uite et conuersationis eius. sit itaque deo omnipotenti patri et filio et sancto Spiritui laus et gratiarum actio nunc et per omnia seculorum secula. amen

    Note: See M. Rule, Eadmeri Historia, etc., p. lxxxviii, Rolls Series. He uses this MS. (which he calls C) for his text, printed in that volume

    Note: BHL 525-6


    297-355 - Gilbert Crispin OSB, Vita Herluini abbatis || Vita Herlewini Beccensis abbatis

    incipit: (297) Quoniam in re militari que quis memoratu digna egit

    explicit: (298) monachum fieri portentum habebatur

    incipit: (298) A danis qui normanniam primi obtinuere

    Note: Ends p. 355 with the epitaph

    explicit: (355) Credere namque tuis hoc licet ex meritis

    Note: App. ad Opp. Lanfranci 1648, p. 32, P. L. CL

    Note: Attributed to Gilbertus Crispinus, Abbot of Westminster

    Note: BHL 3836


    356-362 - Vita venerabilis Bedae || Vita venerabilis Bedae presbiteri

    Note: (356) In a different hand

    rubric: (356) Incipit vita uenerabilis Bede presbiteri

    incipit: (356) Venerabilis domini famulus Beda presbiter et monachus natus est in prouincia northanhimbrorum

    explicit: (357) ipsius de semetipso dicta congruum subiungere uidetur

    incipit: (357) Ego inquit Beda famulus christi

    explicit: (359) quibus scriptura sancta contexta est. Cum ergo hos libros peruigili studio edidisset obiit. viimo kal. Junii. ... cuthbertus ... ad condiscipulum taliter scribens

    incipit: (359) Dilectissimo inquit in Christo collectori cuthwino

    Note: No Anglo-Saxon passage occurs

    explicit: (362) ineruditio lingue facit

    rubric: (362) Explicit uita uenerabili Bede presbiteri

    Note: Printed by Whelock in the preface to his edition of the Historia, from this MS. Hardy I 454. Cf. Acta Sanctorum, May, VII 720

    Note: BHL 1070


    363-404 - pseudo-Calixtus II (Guido of Burgundy), Liber Sancti Iacobi || Calixtus de miraculis et translatione sancti Jacobi cum epistola Leonis papae de eadem translatione

    rubric: (363) Incipit prefatio Calixti pape de miraculis Sancti Iacobi apostoli et de translatione corporis eius

    incipit: (363) Calixtus episcopus ... Heroibus famosissimis

    explicit: (364) describitur statuimus

    rubric: (364) Prologus Calixti pape super translatione Sancti Iacobi apostoli

    incipit: (364) Hanc beati Iacobi translationem a nostro codice excludere

    incipit: (365) Clericus quidam mihi notus

    incipit: (365) Post saluatoris nostri passionem

    explicit: (370) perhenniter manet in secula seculorum. Amen

    rubric: (370) Epistola Leonis pape de translatione Sancti Jacobi apostoli

    incipit: (370) Noscat uestra fraternitas dilectissimi rectores

    rubric: (372) De tribus sollempnitatibus Sancti Iacobi

    incipit: (372) Beatus lucas euangelista in actibus

    explicit: (375) et decorabantur

    rubric: (375) De miraculis Sancti Iacobi que Calixtus papa in unum collegit

    incipit: (375) Opere precium est beati Iacobi apostoli miracula

    Note: (376) Capitula

    rubric: (376) Incipit liber miraculorum Sancti Jacobi apostoli

    incipit: (377) Beatus Iacobus apostolus cum summa obedientie passionis dolorem

    explicit: (404) in his sacris sollempniis prestante domino nostro Ihesu Christo qui uiuit et regnat in secula. amen

    rubric: (404) Expliciunt miracula Sancti Jacobi apostoli

    Note: See Acta Sanctorum, July, vol. VI 47

    Note: BHL 4072


    405-454 - pseudo-Turpinus, Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi || Turpini historia Caroli magni

    rubric: (405) Incipit liber Turpini archiepiscopi Remensis quomodo karolus magnus rex francorum adquisiuit hispaniam. Hunc librum dicit Calixtus papa esse autenticum. Quomodo Sanctus Jacobus apostolus apparuit etc.

    incipit: (405) Gloriosissimus Christi apostolus Iacobus aliis apostolis

    Note: (421) Change of hand at p. 421

    Note: Ends p. 454 (falling of wall at Grenoble)

    explicit: (454) et est mirabile in oculis nostris. Qui legis hoc carmen Turpino posce iuuamen. Ut pietate dei subueniatur ei

    rubric: (454) Explicit liber Turpini archiepiscopi de gestis regis karoli

    Note: Cf. MS 292, MS 414


    454-459 - pseudo-Calixtus II (Guido of Burgundy), De inventione corporis Turpini || Calixtus papa de inventione corporis Turpini

    rubric: (454) Calixtus papa de inuentione corporis Turpini archiepiscopi et martiris

    incipit: (455) Beatus Turpinus remensis archiepiscopus christi martyr

    rubric: (456) De altumaiore cordube

    incipit: (458) De hoc quod nauari de uera prosapia non sunt geniti

    explicit: (459) sua predicatione ad deum conuertit

    Note: On these two items see H. L. D. Ward, Catalogue of Romances I 546 sqq.


    459-476 - Vita Sanctae Theclae || Vita sanctae Theclae virginis et martiris

    rubric: (459) Incipit uita Sanctae Tecle uirginis et martyris

    incipit: (459) Tempore illo ascendente paulo ychonium post antiochie fugam facti sunt ei comites demas ermogenes et alexander erarius

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (472) Et hec locuta profecta est seleutiam et multos ibi illuminauit et requieuit in beata pace. Deo gratias amen

    Note: The beginning conforms to the version designated Ba by von Gebhardt (Lat. Übersetz. d. Acta Pauli et Theclae, Texte u. Unters. N. F. VII 2: 1902, p. 2): the conclusion is not exactly that of any version he gives, but is most like d. He does not mention this copy. Grabe, Spicilegium I 120 etc.

    Note: pp. 473 - 476 blank

    Note: BHL 8020n


    477-516 - Historia Apollonii regis Tyri || Vita Appolonii Tyrii

    Note: (477) (In the hand of no. 5)

    incipit: (477) In ciuitate antiochia rex fuit antiochus nomine a quo et ipsa ciuitas

    explicit: (509) alium bibliotece sue exposuit

    rubric: (509) Explicit

    Note: Ed. Riese (Teubner, 1871): this copy is mentioned on p. vii

    Note: On p. 510, beginning of a late list of contents

    rubric: (511) Incipiunt capitula in vitam Anselmi archiepiscopi

    Note: (511) In Parkerian hand

Rights
  • Images courtesy of The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For higher resolution images suitable for scholarly or commercial publication, either in print or in an electronic format, please contact the Parker Library directly at parker-library@corpus.cam.ac.uk
License
Digitisation
Manifest URL
Biblissima portal
Library logo