Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 457: Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi

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CCCC MS 457 is an early twelfth-century copy of the second recension of Alexander of Canterbury OSB (fl. early twelfth century), Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi, including the Miracula. The scholarly circle around Anselm (archbishop of Canterbury 1093-1109) produced several writings which contain material derived from the archbishop's own teachings, of which this is one. This manuscript was used by the editors to provide the base text for the second recension. It has early provenance at Christ Church, Canterbury in the form of an erased ex libris inscription and a classmark in the early form ".AN.". It later came into the hands of Matthew Parker, who rewrote some parts and provided an inscription erroneously attributing the work to Eadmer of Canterbury OSB (d. after 1124).
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Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi

Description

Alternative title Alexandri Dicta Anselmi
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 1 + 116
Date created [ca. 1100 - 1125]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout 23 lines to a page
Height (mm) 174
Width (mm) 122
Collation 1 flyleaf, 1(8)-14(8) 15(4).
Writing in the Christ Church hand
Foliation ff. a-b + i + 1-116 + c-d
Provenance At top of f. 1r partly in capitals: Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi. De monte humilitatis, and the mark ·AN·, To the left is a later name., It may be no. 114 in Eastry's Catalogue (Ancient Libraries, p. 30): De monte humilitatis secundus.
Research The tract is by Alexander a monk of Christ Church. See Mr Rule's preface to his edition of Eadmer's Historia (Rolls), p. lxxv. In an appendix to his Preface, pp. cxx-cxxvi, he has printed the greater part of chapters 21, 39-42, 44, 45.
Additions On the flyleaf in Parker's chalk: Edmerus author Scriptor is qui scripsit historiam edmeri rerum nouarum in anglia. and the same on the verso.
2 fo. hominum, vitaret

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xii early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:xj004pj2099/MS_457.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vt962rk9946/457.pdf
Contains
Title
Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi. 1r-115v
Nasmith
[Eadmeri] liber ex dictis B. Anselmi et de miraculis ejusdem ad abbatem Anselmum S. R. E. legatum archiepiscopi nepotem. 1r-115v
Author
Alexander of Canterbury OSB
Rubric
(1r) Incipit prologus subiecti operis
Incipit
(1r) Compellis me venerabilis Abba et sancte Romane ecclesie legate domine anselme ut tibi (these lines re-written in cent. xvi) quedam de dictis magnifici uiri anselmi ... auunculi tui
Note
(the date suggested by Mr Rule for this prologue is 1115)
Explicit
(1r) que a quibus acceperim in ipsis patebit relationibus
Rubric
(1r) Explicit prologus Incipiunt capitula (52)
(3r) De monte humilitatis et viitem gradibus eius et duabus eiusdem montis custodibus
Incipit
(3r) Dominus et redemptor noster spiritu
(3r) Septiformis gratie plenus profundam superbie uallem uolens nobis obstruere
Note
(3r) The opening words dominus, etc. had been omitted and the ornamented initial is given to Septiformis: the omitted words were then added on L. by the original scribe
(3r) At top, erased, is Ecclesie Christi Cantuariens
(71v) There is a division after ch. xx. The title of this is given in the capitula as de consecratione domus dei et sacrificiorum immolatione et eorum significatione. In the text it is shorter, de edificatione templi
(72v) It ends
Explicit
(72v) In timore uitia in amore orationes incendamus
Note
(72v) Most of the page is blank and there are some later pen-trials on it
(73r) The second part of the book has a separate rubric in the Capitula; de miraculis, and consists of detached stories, some of which relate to St Anselm. The first is
Rubric
(73r) De sancto Iacobo apostolo
Incipit
(73r) Sancte recordationis anselmus summus anglorum ecclesie pontifex dum a patria exularet
Note
(115v) The last chapter (Qualiter Willelmus turbas demonum uiderit et ab eis per bonos angelos liberatus sit) ends f. 115v
Explicit
(115v) et utinam nos digni efficiamur eorum tuitione inuictissima et indeficienti ac salutifera amicitia
TJames 177
Stanley N. 12
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/fv767tq7253
Location MS 457
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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