Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 253: Augustine, Confessiones. Ferrandus, Epistola ad Reginum comitem. Hymn for Augustine, etc

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Abstract/Contents

Summary: This twelfth-century manuscript contains copies of Augustine, Confessiones, and the guide to Christian life for soldiers by Ferrandus, deacon of Carthage (d. 546/7). The works by Augustine are in a fine hand, with exceptional illuminated initials. There is, in a twelfth-century hand, a hymn to St Augustine, with music on a three-line stave. There are some late medieval additions at the end of the manuscript. James suggested that CCCC MS 253 originated in Canterbury or Rochester, but this was rejected by Ker and its provenance remains uncertain.
Contents: Retractatio (extract referring to Confessiones) -- Confessiones -- Epistola ad Reginum comitem (epistola 7) -- Hymn for St Augustine -- On the youth of the Virgin Mary

Description

Alternative title	Augustini Confessiones. Ferrandus
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 1 + 142
Date created	[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Language	Latin; English, Middle (1100-1500)
Material	Vellum
Layout	32 and 38 lines to a page
Height (mm)	275
Width (mm)	185
Collation	1 flyleaf, 1(8)-16(8) 17 (four) \|\| 18(10).
Writing	in the pointed hand characteristic of Christ Church, Canterbury
Foliation	ff. a-c + i + 1-142 + d-f
Provenance	I have little doubt that this book belonged to Canterbury or Rochester, but I cannot trace it in the catalogues.
Additions	On f. 1r in large capitals: AUG DE CONF'., On the last leaf f. (142r) (xvi): Take heede whome thow trustiste Be suretie for no man and Euer paye debte Seldome make debte Neuer be suertie for debte
2 fo.	funderis

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fx503gj8940/MS_253.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mj044tv0060/253.pdf
Contains	Title Augustine, Retractatio (extract referring to Confessiones). 1r-1r Author Augustine Rubric (1r) Retractatio in libris confessionum Incipit (1r) Confessionum mearum libri Explicit (1r) sic incipit Title Augustine, Confessiones. 1r-132v Author Augustine Rubric (1r) Confessionum Aurelii Augustini Incipit liber primus Note (P. L. XXXII 659) Incipit (1r) Magnus es domine Note (1r) A good drawing forms the initial. Gold has been inserted for the nimbus, etc. but the rest remains in outline. Christ seated in C. blessing. On R. a man in a broad hat, and on L. a bishop with low mitre, crosier and chasuble with gold band hold the ends of a scroll which passes in front of Christ's figure (8v) Liber II, fine outline initial (13r) Liber III, initial partly filled with red and green Subsequent books have also excellent initials, nearly all in outline. Those of Libri VII (f. 44v), X (f. 76r), XI (f. 96r), XII (f. 106v) are perhaps the best Liber XIII ends Explicit (130v) sic aperietur. Amen Rubric (130v) Aurelii Augustini Confessionum Liber Tercius decimus explicit Note f. 131r-132v blank Title Ferrandus, Epistola ad Reginum comitem (epistola 7). 133r-140r Author Ferrandus Note In a narrow black hand of cent. xii Rubric (133r) In nomine Sancti Trinitatis incipit liber ferrandi cartaginiensis ecclesie diaconi de bono duce ad reginum comitem Note (P. L. LXVII 928) Incipit (133r) Socialis uite laboribus exercendus Explicit (140r) dabitur dicitur christianis perpetuus principatus. per dominum nostrum Iesum Christum qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat deus in secula seculorum. Amen Title Hymn for St Augustine, with music. 140v-141r Note (140v) In a good hand of cent. xii: music on 3-line stave (140v) Hymn for St Augustine Incipit (140v) Interni festi gaudia nostra sonet armonia Explicit (141r) det nobis mater gratia. Amen Title On the youth of the Virgin Mary. 141v-141v Note In a hand of cent. xiv-xv current Incipit (141v) Cum beata virgo esset trium annorum a parentibus oblata fuit in templo et ibi fuit usque ad annum xiiijmum Note (141v) Inter alia vero hec continentur. Dum inquid pater meus et mater mea dimiserunt me in templo statim in corde meo posui deum habere in patrem et deuote ac frequenter cogitabam quid possem facerem deo gratum ut mihi dignaretur suam dare gratiam. Et feci mihi dari legem dei mei ac ex omnibus preceptis diuine legis tria precipue seruaui in corde meo s. diliges dominum deum tuum ex toto corde tuo et ex tota anima tua et ex tota mente tua et ex omnibus viribus tuis Item diliges proximum tuum sicut teipsum Jtem odio habebis inimicum tuum Ista seruaui in corde meo et statim omnes virtutes apprehendi que in ipsis continentur. anima autem habere aliquam virtutem non potest (Evidently medieval and probably from some one's Revelations) Ends Explicit (141v) septimo petebam ut templum et uniuersum populum ad suum seruicium conseruaret Incipit (141v) Ieronimus ita scribit de vita ipsius. hanc regulam statuerat Explicit (141v) in opere dei et amore proficiebat
TJames	137
Stanley	L. 17
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/dy778wn8940
Location	MS 253
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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