Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 284: Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Orationes et meditationes

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Summary: The main text in CCCC MS 284, dating to c. 1400-25, is the Prayers and Meditations of Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109), decorated with fine illuminated initials. The remainder of the book consists of a miscellany of liturgical texts: Office of the Dead, Penitential and Gradual psalms, a Sarum litany, an unidentified Benedictine litany and a litany of the abbey of St Augustine's, Canterbury. The book cannot be identified in the library catalogue of the abbey, and the presence of its litany, given the disparate liturgical content, is not sufficient to provide any firm evidence that it belonged to St Augustine's.
Contents: Orationes et meditationes -- Office of the Dead, Penitential and Gradual Psalms -- Psalter of St Jerome -- Litany of St Augustine's, Canterbury

Description

Alternative title	Anselmus, etc.
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 4 + 184
Date created	[ca. 1300 - 1399]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	25 lines to a page
Height (mm)	258
Width (mm)	173
Collation	a(?6) (wants 3, 4?) 1(8)-19(8) (wants 7) 20(8)-23(8) (wants 8) 24 (two).
Writing	finely written
Foliation	ff. a + i-iv + 1-184 + b
Provenance	The book is doubtless from St Augustine's, Canterbury, but is not identifiable in the old catalogue.
2 fo.	et accende

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xiv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zf134vs9729/MS_284.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fr968tx8806/284.pdf
Contains	Title Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Orationes et meditationes. 1r-135r Nasmith Liber orationum sive meditationum Beati Anselmi archiepiscopi Cantuariensis. 1r-135r Author Anselm of Canterbury OSB Note ff. ir-iiv blank On f. iiir a table of contents beginning imperfectly (?) Rubric (iiir) Item liber orationum eiusdem diuisus in Note (iiir) i ad deum patrem pro uenia et virtutibus etc. xlvii ad deum et ad omnes sanctos coniunctim. Item xiii orationes pertinentes specialiter ad sacerdotes qui habent missas celebrare f. ivv blank Rubric (1r) Prologus beati Anselmi Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi in libro oracionum siue meditacionum suarum Incipit (1r) Oraciones siue meditaciones Explicit (1r) pietatis affectum Rubric (1r) Oracio ad deum patrem pro uenia et uirtutibus optinendis Note (1r) Handsome decorative initials on burnished gold; and border in gold and colour: a shield is cut out in lower margin and another piece of ornament in upper margin Ends Explicit (119v) in eterna felicitate uobiscum sine fine gaudere. Amen Rubric (119v) Iste oraciones sequentes pertinent ad sacerdotes etc. (119v) Oratio beati Anselmi cum sacerdos multum timet etc. Incipit (119v) Dulcissime et benignissime domine Ihesu Christe Note The last is of Anselm Rubric (134v) Item oratio eiusdem ante percepcionem corporis Christi Incipit (134v) Domine Ihesu Christe fili dei uiui qui ex uoluntate Explicit (135r) et consolacione letari. qui uiuis et regnas Title Office of the Dead, Penitential and Gradual Psalms. 135v-167v Nasmith Antiphona secundum ecclesiam Romanam. 135v-167v Note (135v) Office of the dead (135v) Handsome initial and partial border Ends with rubric Rubric (156v) Numquam enim dicatur alia comendacio in ecclesia sarum quam ista predicta siue corpus presens fuerit siue non (157r) Hic incipiunt septem psalmi penitenciales cum antiphonis Note (160v) The Psalms of Degrees (164r) Litany (Sarum) 167v blank Title Psalter of St Jerome. 168r-179r Nasmith Psalterium Beati Hieronimi abbreviatum. 168r-179r Author St Jerome Rubric (168r) Incipit psalterium beati Jeronimi presbiteri abreuiatum Incipit (168r) Suscipere digneris etc. Rubric (168r) De primo Nocturno Incipit (168r) Uerba mea auribus Note (174r) Litany It is longer than the next item, and of English origin, but not highly distinctive (174v) Martyrs: Thoma, Albane, Edmunde rex, Oswalde rex, Kenelme rex, Edwarde rex (176r) Confessors: Willelme, Hugo, Thoma, Ricarde (176v) Virgins: Milburga, Etheldreda, Sexburgis, ffredeswitha, Editha Title Litany of St Augustine's, Canterbury. 179r-184v Nasmith Litania secundum usum monasterii Sancti Augustini. 179r-184v Note In a later hand (179v) Apostles: Marcialis (180r) Martyrs: Albane, Elphege, Thoma, Osuualde, Edmunde, Eduuarde ... Georgi II, Pancrati, Pantaleon, Liuine (180v) Confessors: Gregori, Augustine II, Laurenti, Mellite, Iuste, Honori, Deusdedit, Theodore, Letharde, Jamberte II, Brithwalde, Nothelme, Tathwyne, Pauline, Dunstane, Edmunde, Richarde ... Audoene, Cuthberte, Swithune, Aldelme, Wulstane, Egwyne, Benedicte II, Petre, Adriane II, Ethelberte, Edwarde, Maure, Wandregisile... (181r) Virgins: Mildreda II, Anna ... Etheldreda, Ethelburga, Milburga ... Brigida, Barbara, Ursula
TJames	108
Stanley	K. 3
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/gf460xj6913
Location	MS 284
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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