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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 468

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  • MS 468
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Date
  • 1275 - 1299
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle French
  • Greek
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 468: Psalter (Latin and Greek)
    • List of Greek prepositions
    • Miscellaneous verses and prognostics
    • Kalendar of Ramsey Abbey
    • Psalter in Latin and Greek. Litany (fragment) || Psalterium Latino-Graecum, viz. Latinum ex una parte paginae, ex altera Graecum literis Latinis scriptum || Psalter in Latin (Gallican version), and Greek in Latin letters
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Description

  • Summary: The psalter in CCCC MS 468, dating to c. 1250, has parallel Latin-Greek text, although the Greek is written in Latin script. It contains a calendar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ramsey and probably belonged to the prior, Gregory of Huntingdon (fl. c. 1290). On the front flyleaf are the cipher characters of a Greek system of numbers brought back from Greece by John of Basingstoke, archdeacon of Leicester (d. 1252). The book also contains a section of verses concerned with prognostics, proverbs and the world of nature.


    Contents :


    iiv-iiiv - List of Greek prepositions

    Note: (iiv) In a hand of cent. xiii late, a list of Greek prepositions and their meanings

    incipit: (iiv) apo longitudinem. unde apologus dicitur ab apo quod est longe et logos sermo priuacionem. unde apocalipsis ab apo quod est de et calipsos uelacio

    Note: The other prepositions are: ypo, yper, epi, peri, para, chata, meta, dia, ana, anti, amphi

    Note: ypres prope. ex hoc ut quidam dicunt dicitur interpres. en, sin, pros


    ivr-xv - Miscellaneous verses and prognostics

    Note: In a different and thicker hand

    Note: (ivr) a.

    incipit: (ivr) In principio creauit deus ... faciem abissi

    explicit: (ivr) propter hoc fecit deus duo luminaria ... Circulus lune constat ex xix annis. Circulus autem solis ex xx octo annis

    Note: (ivr) b.

    Note: Miscellaneous verses

    incipit: (ivr) Cultor erat gratus bene degens fiat amatus

    Note: On numbers, kalendar, compotus

    Note: Note

    incipit: (viv) Sciendum quod dies dicitur dupliciter

    Note: (viir) c.

    Note: Change of hand. Prognostics of Esdras

    incipit: (viir) Signum quod ostendit dominus hesdre prophete ut ostenderet filiis hominum. kal. ianuarii si fuerint die dominico hyemps bona erit

    Note: See Tischendorf, Apoc. Apocr. and Mercati, Studi e testi 5 (1901), p. 74 for other texts

    incipit: (viir) Olim dictum erat in gallia quod spiritus nequam de iiii filiis regis Hnr II taliter creditur prophetasse. li plus beus a martheus. li marchis a paris. li peteuin a limozin. li sanztere mora en bere Hnr. gaufridus. Ricard. Iohannes

    Note: (Much corrected by the original hand)

    Note: (viiv) d.

    Note: Verses on trees (11)

    incipit: (viiv) Fraxinus et corulus planus et salix acer ornus

    explicit: (viiv) Fucus auellana glans nux castanea barra

    Note: (viiv) e.

    Note: On avarice

    incipit: (viiv) Captiuata largitas longe relegaturExulansque probitas misere fugatur Dum uirtuti prauitas praue nouercatur Imperat cupiditas atque principatur

    explicit: (viiir) Redimuntur scelera mediante precioCuius offert dextera mundus abit uicioEt euadit aspera et expirat ulcioSic excusant munera quos accusat accio

    Note: (viiir) f.

    Note: Prognostics of thunder according to the zodiacal signs

    incipit: (viiir) Accedens quicunque cupis cognoscere uerbaLucida laudanda uera probata bona

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (xr) Esto memor quod si tonitrum duo signa ministratIudicium primum non feret immo sequens

    Note: (xr) g.

    Note: Proverbial verses

    incipit: (xr) Cui satis est quod habet satis illum constat habere

    Note: On f. xv in a large hand

    incipit: (xv) Aspiciens. ueterem. circum. quasi. quis. benedicta

    Note: (xv) h.

    Note: Hand of cent. xvi

    rubric: (xv) Noys sermo ad hominem

    Note: (22 lines)

    incipit: (xv) Sensilis hic mundus mundi melioris ymagoVt plenus plenis partibus esse queat

    explicit: (xv) Vt indeflexos leges celique meatusExemplar uite possit habere sue


    1r-9v - Kalendar of Ramsey Abbey

    Note: The main hand begins

    Note: Kalendar in red, blue and black

    Note: JanuaryMaurus red, Wulstan blue February 28. Osuualdi archiepiscopi blue March Cuthbert red. Erasures (red) on 29 and 31 April 11. Guthlacii red 19. Ælphegii archiepiscopi martyris red 24. Inuentio Sancti yuonis archiepiscopi blue May Dunstan red, Augustine blue June 10. Translatio Sancti yuonis archiepiscopi blue, with octave 23. Etheldrede xii lectiones 30. Marcialis episcopi July 17. Kenelmi regis in red 31. Neoti abbatis et Germani episcopi red September 10. Eguuini episcopi red 16. egithe Virginis (!) 22. Dedicatio ecclesie Ram(esie) blue October 8. Translatio Sancti Osuualdi blue 17. Æthelredi et æthelbricti blue November 16. Ædmundi Confessoris red 17. Hugonis episcopi blue 20. Ædmundi Regis martyris red December 4. Tumulatio Sancti Benedicti red

    Note: ff. 7r-9v blank


    10r-158v - Psalter in Latin and Greek. Litany (fragment) || Psalterium Latino-Graecum, viz. Latinum ex una parte paginae, ex altera Graecum literis Latinis scriptum || Psalter in Latin (Gallican version), and Greek in Latin letters

    Note: Psalmus primus sic incipit: Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum, et in via peccatorum non stetit, et iin cathedra pestilentiae non sedit Macharios anir os ku keporeutihi en buli asebon ke en odo amartholon uc esti ke epi cathedran limon uck eka- thisen

    Note: I give as a specimen Ps. iii

    Note: (11r)

    Note: It will be seen that the Greek contains a good many mistakes

    Note: (18r) In Ps. xiii the verses Sepulcrum patens-ante oculos eorum have no equivalent in the Greek

    Note: Titles are in Latin only

    Note: On and after ff. 81v, 82r the two inner columns are every now and then given to the Greek and the two outer to the Latin. This is not continuous. Sometimes the Latin and Greek change places irregularly: after about f. 100r the old arrangement is resumed

    Note: At Ps. cx (cxi) is the note: alfabetum hebreum. quere super hunc locum in triplici psalterio

    Note: The lower part of f. 125v is blank, without defect in the text. On f. 126v a blank is left and the latter half of Ps. cxviii (cxix) Jod (manus tuae fecerunt me) is wanting

    Note: After f. 145v is an inserted leaf in the same hand but larger script (f. 146r-146v), containing a supply of an omission on f. 146r

    Note: Ps. cli Pusillus eram follows on f. 146v

    Note: At the end, in the Greek column

    rubric: (147v) exelipon i psalmi dauid tu basileos. Expl. psalmi dauid regis

    rubric: (147v) Incipiunt cantica

    Note: Asma ysaye profite. Cant. Ezechie, Anne, Moysi (1), Abbacuc, Moysi (2), Benedicite, Benedictus, Magnificat, Nunc dimittis, Pater noster, Credo (printed by Ussher, De Symbolis, Opera VII 307, 8)

    Note: Ending

    explicit: (158v) Vitam eternam. Amen. Zoin eonion amin

    Note: Litany, in Latin only, in two columns. Apostles: Marcialis. Martyrs: Stephane, Clemens, Syxte, Dionisii cum sociis Thoma Nigasi cum sociis, Gereon. cum sociis ending here imperfectly

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