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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 470

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  • MS 470
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  • 1175 - 1299
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  • Latin
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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 470: Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory, Office of the Virgin, Litany, Prayers. Hildebert of Lavardin, De mysterio missae. Lawrence of Durham OSB, Hypognosticon. Osbert of Bawdsey, De expugnatione Lysbonensi. Sermon, Ab oriente uenerunt magi
    • Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory || Calendarium
    • Office of the Virgin, Litany, Prayers
    • Hildebert of Lavardin, De mysterio missae || Hildebertus, de missa
    • Lawrence of Durham OSB, Hypognosticon || Laurentii Dunelmensis hypognosticon ad Gervasium
    • Osbert of Bawdsey, De expugnatione Lysbonensi || Expeditio Francorum Anglorum et variarum nationum ad obsidendum Ulissipona in Portugallia, tempore Hildefonsi regis per Osbernum || Osbernusde expugnatione Lyxbonensi
    • Sermon, Ab oriente venerunt magi
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  • Summary: Four separate volumes containing a variety of texts of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries have been bound together as CCCC MS 470. The contents includes a Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory, an Office of the Virgin, litany and prayers of uncertain use, Hildebert of Lavardin (1056-1133), De mysterio missae, Lawrence of Durham OSB (d. 1154), Hypognosticon (a work on salvation history covering both the Old and New Testaments), and Osbert of Bawdsey (fl. mid-twelfth century), De expugnatione Lysbonensi, the account of the expulsion of the Muslim garrison from Lisbon in 1147. The book has the press mark of Norwich Cathedral Priory and must have been part of its library.


    Contents :


    1r-12v - Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory || Calendarium

    Note: (1r) Kalendar in red and black (xiv early?). Each month occupies a leaf and has elaborate tables of the Cycles. January and February are at the end

    Note: (1r) MarchAdrian, Perpetua, Geretrudis, Cuthbert, addedCuthbert is actually in the original hand 24 Passio S. Willelmi, red

    Note: (2r) AprilPetri Martyris, added

    Note: (3r) May 7 Domiciani, added 11 Engulphi, added 13 Seruacii, added 19 Dunstan, original 20 Ethelbert, original 28, 29, 31 Germanus, Maximus, Petronilla, added

    Note: (4r) June 1 Nicodemus (!) = Nicomede, added Bonefacii, Medardi, added 25 Gallicani, added 27 vii dormientes, added Botulph, Alban, Etheldreda, original

    Note: (5r) July 19 Wilgefortis, added: in margin Vncumbyr 26 Anna, added 31 Neoti, Germani, original

    Note: (6r) AugustOswald, Taurinus, originalClara, added

    Note: (7r) September 16 Transl. S. reliquiarum, original 24 Dedic. eccl. norwyc. red with octave

    Note: (8r) October 6 Fidei, red 7 Osithe 13 Edwardi, added 17 Transl. S. Etheldrede, original

    Note: (9r) November 16 Edmundi C. red 17 added : Anian. Gengoul 20 Emundi reg., red

    Note: (11r) January 15 Boniti et maur. orig.: marg. added: Maka, Antony, Martha, Emerenciana, Timothy, Polycarp, Valerius, Radegund

    Note: (12r) February 2 Brigide, added 5 Gilberti, added Also Vedast, Helen, Sotheris, Faustinus, Iuliana, and (26) Augustine

    Note: The additions seem to betray the hand of a foreigner


    13r-23v - Office of the Virgin, Litany, Prayers

    Note: (13r) Daily offices

    rubric: (13r) Ante matutinas

    incipit: (13r) Ad dominum cum tribularer

    incipit: (13r) Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui facis mirabilia solus

    rubric: (13r) Matutinas de Sancta Maria

    incipit: (13r) Hymn. Quem terra

    incipit: (13r) Antiphon. Benedicta tu

    Note: (13v) Lectio I

    incipit: (13v) O beata maria quis tibi digne ualeat

    Note: (13v) Lectio II

    incipit: (13v) Admitte piissima

    Note: (13v) Lectio III

    incipit: (13v) Sancta maria succurre

    Note: (14r) Capitulum in Lauds

    incipit: (14r) Sancta et immaculata

    Note: (14r) Memoriae in Lauds

    Note: (14v) Augustine as confessor

    Note: (15v) After Prime the Litany

    Note: Martyrs: Edmunde, Albane, Wlfade, Dionisi, Maurici, etc.

    Note: Confessors: Remigi, Audoene, Germane, Iuliane, Aug. cum soc., Cuthberte, Ceadda, Swithune, Benedicte, Jeronime, Leonarde, Egidi

    Note: Virgins: none English

    Note: Wlfadus was honoured at Peterborough

    Note: (17v) Tierce

    Note: (19r) After Compline:

    rubric: (19r) Oratio in parasceue ante crucem

    incipit: (19r) Domine Ihesu Christe fili dei uiui qui precepto patris nostre carnis infirma suscipiens

    rubric: (20v) Oratio Anselmi Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis

    incipit: (20v) Omnipotens deus et misericors pater

    rubric: (20v) Oratio Sancti Augustinni ante lectionem uel predicationem

    incipit: (20v) Deus lux mentium expelle a me stulticie noctem

    rubric: (21r) Oratio Sancti Ambrosii

    incipit: (21r) Christe pater misericordiarum

    rubric: (21r) Oratio uenerabilis Bede presbyteri

    incipit: (21r) Domine deus qui es uera et eterna

    incipit: (21v) Omnipotens sempiterne deus respice propicius preces ecclesie tue

    Note: ff. 22r-23v blank


    24r-35v - Hildebert of Lavardin, De mysterio missae || Hildebertus, de missa

    Note: (24r) Hildebertus super missam. A smaller hand

    incipit: (24r) Scribere proposui quid mistica sacra priorum

    Note: (P. L. CLXXI 1177)

    explicit: (35r) Cum pater ad dextram cedit. et explet opus

    rubric: (35r) Explicit

    Note: (35v) blank


    36r-124v - Lawrence of Durham OSB, Hypognosticon || Laurentii Dunelmensis hypognosticon ad Gervasium

    rubric: (36r) Yponosticonlaurencii du(ne)lmensis de ueteri et nouo testa- mentis. Incipit liber primus

    incipit: (36r) Principium rerum sine tempore tempora formans

    Note: (124v) Liber IX ends

    explicit: (124v) Noster et iste liber qui primum cepit ab ipso. Completus per eum desinat hic in eo

    rubric: (124v) Explicit iste liber sit laus tibi summe magister

    rubric: (124v) Explicit liber laurencii dunelmensis

    Note: The prologue and some excerpts were edited with other works of Laurence's for the Surtees Society in 1880 by J. Raine

    Note: On the last few leaves of it are many grammatical verses and notes in various hands

    Note: (124v) note on Alleluia

    Note: Grammatical verses


    125r-146v - Osbert of Bawdsey, De expugnatione Lysbonensi || Expeditio Francorum Anglorum et variarum nationum ad obsidendum Ulissipona in Portugallia, tempore Hildefonsi regis per Osbernum || Osbernusde expugnatione Lyxbonensi

    incipit: (125r) Osbernus de Baldreseie R. salutem. Qualiter circa nos habeatur

    explicit: (146r) luctus eorum in gaudium. ut cognoscant te solum deum uiuum et uerum et quem misisti Ihesum Christum filium tuum qui uiuis et regnas per omnia secula seculorum. Amen

    Note: Printed from this, the only extant copy, perhaps the author's autograph, by Stubbs Memorials of Richard I, I cxlii-clxxxii

    Note: (146v) blank


    147r-149v - Sermon, Ab oriente venerunt magi

    Note: (147r) A sermon in another good hand

    rubric: (147r) Ab oriente uenerunt magi in bethleem adorare deum

    incipit: (147r) Dominus nobiscum sit et deducat nos per uias rectas

    Note: (149r) Note from Gregory's Pastoralis and another

    Note: (149v) blank

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