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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 83

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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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  • MS 083
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Date
  • 1200 - 1299
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 083: Petrus Riga, Aurora. Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum
    • Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum
    • De duodecim gradibus humilitatis
    • Alexander of Ashby OSA, Comprehensio historiarum ueteris ac noui testamenti
    • Petrus Riga, Aurora || Petri de Riga Aurora
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Description

  • Summary: The first and last two folios of CCCC MS 83 contain part of a fine, fourteenth-century, glossed copy of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. The rest of the manuscript dates from the early thirteenth century, probably datable to 1208-16, and contains Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205), Genealogia historiarum (Compendium ueteris testamenti) (also in CCCC MSS 29 and 437), an anonymous tract on the virtues and vices, De duodecim gradibus humilitatis, Alexander of Ashby OSA (d. by 1213), Comprehensio historiarum ueteris et noui testamenti, and Petrus Riga (d. 1209), Aurora, a late-twelfth-century verse commentary on, and summary of, the Bible. The book is notable for its illustrations in tinted drawing, as in the medallions containing Creation scenes and portraits of biblical figures and historical figures in the first text.


    Contents :


    1r-7v - Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum

    Note: (1r) treats of the Creation. In the C. is a line of medallions: at the sides paragraphs of Historia, Allegoria, Moralis Sentencia. The medallions contain good drawings in outline washed with green, yellow and red

    Note: (1r) At top 1. Mandorla. Christ holds globe and blesses 2. Medallion. Christ seated holds crescent in R. hand, book in L. On L. are sun and cloud 3. Christ seated faces R. and points to cloud above: water beneath on R. 4. Seated: on L. are cloud and trees

    Note: (1v) 5. Seated faces R. Sun, moon and stars in sky 6. Seated blessing: birds on L. and water with fishes 7. Standing touches the head and hands of Adam who sits on L.: beasts also on L. 8. Standing creates Eve

    rubric: (2r) Incipit compendium ueteris testamenti secundum magistrum petrum pictauiensem can(c)ellarium ecclesie parisiensis

    incipit: (2r) Considerans hystorie prolixitatem necnon et difficultatem

    Note: (2r) A genealogy in medallions occupies great part of the page. Some of the medallions contain pictures: usually single figures or busts, viz.

    Note: (2r) 1. Adam and Eve, each stands in a conventional bush

    Note: (2v) 2. Noe: seated

    Note: (3r) 3. Thare

    Note: (3r) 4. Abraham, scroll and book

    Note: (3r) 5. Ysaac

    Note: (3v) 6. Jacob

    Note: (4r) 7. Esrom

    Note: (4r) 8. Aram

    Note: (4r) 9. Naason (half-length: long-nosed, looking up, grotesque)

    Note: (4v) 10. Salmon

    Note: (4v) 11. Saul rex (after this a gap)

    Note: (5r) 12. Amasias

    Note: (5v) 13. Josias

    Note: (6v) 14. Azor

    Note: (7r) 15. Eliud

    Note: (7r) 16. Joseph uir Marie

    Note: (7r) 17. Julius Cesar, a seated king

    Note: (7v) 18. Maria mater domini seated with crown and sceptre

    Note: (7v) 19. Christus natus: swaddled in manger

    Note: (7v) 20. Christus puer: in tub, between two women; one pours water over His head

    Note: (7v) 21. Christus passus: on the Cross


    8r-8v - De duodecim gradibus humilitatis

    Note: (8r) has a series of rhyming quatrains on the gradus humilitatis et superbie. The former begins at bottom on L.

    rubric: (8r) Incipit prefatio de XII. gradibus humilitatis

    incipit: (8r) Nolens tibi quippiam frater denegareCogor de duodecim gradibus tractare

    Note: (8r) The gradus superbie descend from top, ending with

    rubric: (8r) Excusatio autoris super opere

    explicit: (8r) Credo tibi stephane uel nunc satisfeciDum et primis gradibus secundos adieciIn quo si quid aliter quam decet effeciFac donari ueniam. tu te donans preci

    Note: f. 8v is blank


    9r-25r - Alexander of Ashby OSA, Comprehensio historiarum ueteris ac noui testamenti

    rubric: (9r) Incipit proemium in libro compendii qui breuiter scribitur

    incipit: (9r) Laborem in ludum conuertit fructus

    explicit: (10v) frui colloquio

    rubric: (10v) Quomodo historie memoriter debeant retineri uersus sequentes docent

    incipit: (10v) Ut autem historie ueteris et noui testamenti etc.

    Note: (10v) Eight lines: Incipiens ab adam quem plantauit deus etas ... Claudere fulgorem uespera nulla potest

    rubric: (10v) Incipit liber compendii. In primo uersus de Genesy. Incipit prima etas

    incipit: (11r) Ante dies omnes mundi fuit omnis in uno

    Note: This epitome ends

    rubric: (24v) De cognitione dei et pace ecclesie

    explicit: (25r) Huc properemus eo pace fruemur ibi


    25r-246v - Petrus Riga, Aurora || Petri de Riga Aurora

    rubric: (25r) Incipit proemium in libro qui dicitur aurora

    incipit: (25r) Frequens sodalium peticio

    explicit: (25r) totus refulgurat

    rubric: (25v) Incipit liber (proemium) magistri petri Canonici Beati Dionisii Remensis in librum qui intitulatur aurora etc.

    incipit: (25v) Primo facta die duo celum terra leguntur

    Note: The books paraphrased are: Gen. - 4 Reg., Tobit, Esther, Judith, Daniel, 1, 2 Macc., ending

    explicit: (156r) cesar in aure tua

    Note: (156v) Then follows Euuangelica Hystoria

    incipit: (156v) Post legem ueterem respira petre refulget

    Note: ends

    explicit: (200r) Petrus finit et ipse suum

    Note: (200r) Actus

    incipit: (200r) Dixi me finisse librum sed rursus in actus

    Note: ends

    explicit: (215v) Denecat obque fidem detur [nobis] iob idem petre metrum

    rubric: (215v) Expliciunt actus apostolorum

    Note: (215v) Iob

    incipit: (215v) Librum iob moysi quidam tribuere magistri

    Note: ends

    explicit: (225v) compleuit fine decenti

    Note: (225v) Cantica

    incipit: (225v) Solus origenes cum doctos uicerit omnes

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (246v) ueterum de germine natus

    rubric: (246v) Explicit liber in canticis canticorum

    Note: The lower part of this leaf (f. 246r-246v) is cut off. It doubtless had a mark of ownership

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