Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 380: Robert of Cricklade OSA, Speculum fidei

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Summary
This manuscript, CCCC MS 380, is the unique copy of Robert of Cricklade OSA (d. after 1188), Speculum fidei, which was written after 1170. Robert was prior of St Frideswide's, Oxford, and this work is in the form of a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160). It has fine historiated and ornamental initials by the Simon Master, an illuminator who worked for St Albans Abbey and may have been a layman. This manuscript, however, is not in St Albans script and seems to have been made elsewhere. A copy of this text was seen by John Leland (1506-52) at Malmesbury and M. R. James suggested this might be that book, but Ker has rejected this theory.
Contents
Speculum fidei

Description

Alternative title Rob. Krikeladensis Speculum fidei
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 2 + 133
Date created [ca. 1175 - 1199]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout 23 lines to a page
Height (mm) 212
Width (mm) 154
Collation a(2), 1(8)-16(8) 17(6) (wants 6).
Writing in a very beautiful upright hand
Foliation ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-133 + c-d
Provenance Perhaps from Malmesbury. Leland (Collectanea IV I 57) saw a copy of it there.
2 fo. Incipiunt quod cogitatio de omni ligno

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xii late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sd450mn1823/MS_380.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rb762yy7800/380.pdf
Contains
Title
Robert of Cricklade OSA, Speculum fidei. iiv-132v
Nasmith
Roberti Krikeladensis, cognomento Canuti, prioris Oxenefordiae, speculum fidei, libri iv. iiv-132v
Author
Robert of Cricklade OSA
Note
ff. ir-iir blank; on f. iiv, in a very similar hand to the rest, this preliminary notice
Incipit
(iiv) Quicumque uoluerit hoc opuspulum (!) nostrum legere et in eo catholice fidei tramitem considerare, legat primum eulogium uenerabilis pape Alexandri tercii quod scripsit Willelmo Senonensi archiepiscopi ... ne forte abhorreat quod in isto opusculo [marginalia Vide lib. 3, cap. 4 and 5] petrum quondam parisiacensis ecclesie episcopum appello heresiarcam. Alexander, etc. Cum in nostra esses presentia olim constitutus
Note
The doctrine condemned is quod Christus secundum quod est homo non est aliquid
Explicit
(iiv) sed ipsa penitus detestentur. Dat. verul. v. kal. Jun.
Note
(iiv) Hoc addo ut habeas omnia scripta eius suspecta quoniam in plerisque locis inter mella ueritatis spargit fel heresiace falsitatis
Rubric
(1r) Incipiunt capitula primi libri (xxii)
(2r) Incipit prologus Roberti Krikeladensis cognomento canuti prioris oxenefordie in librum qui intitulatur speculum fidei
Incipit
(2r) Fidei catholice qua unus deus creditur et colitur
Explicit
(2r) quicquid hic minus se inuenisse arbitratur
Rubric
(2r) Explicit prologus
(2r) Incipit prefatio
Incipit
(2r) Exposuit me morsibus malignantium reuerentia tua optime comes
Explicit
(2v) tanto patrocinio fretus despicio
Rubric
(2v) Explicit prefatio
(2v) Incipit libri primis. i capitulum. Quod unus deus sit colendus
Incipit
(2v) Audi israel dominus deus tuus deus unus est. In deuteronomio moyses legem recapitulando
Note
(2v) A beautiful initial: inner ground gold, outer blue, edged with green dragon forms, whitish beasts and conventional foliage, recalling the Christ Church style
Liber II
(25v) Capitula
(26v) Prologue
(27r) Text
(27r) Initial very fine. Half-length of Christ full-face, holding before Him a blank scroll, by both hands. Inner ground red. Initial plain gold and colour, outer ground purplish, edged with green. Very fine work
Liber III
(55r) Capitula
(56v) Prologue
(57r) Text
(57r) Fine initial of the same type as that to Liber I, but without animal forms
Liber IV
(93r) Capitula
(95v) Prologue
(96r) Text
(96r) Initial in gold, conventional foliage and beasts on red ground: outer ground purple, as in liber II, edged with green; a very beautiful effect
Ends
Explicit
(132v) cum presertim in tribus libellis quos de conubio patriarche iacob conscripsi abundanter super his deo donante disputauerim
Rubric
(132v) Explicit Speculum fidei
Note
f. 133r-133v blank except for late scribbles
TJames 306
Stanley I. 11
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/jj576yk1988
Location MS 380
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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