Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 321: Petrus Iohannis Olivi OFM, Commentary on Matthew, Quaestiones. Dialogue in Old English (fragment)

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Summary: CCCC MS 321 is a fourteenth-century manuscript of Petrus Iohannis Olivi OFM (1247/8-96), Commentary on Matthew and Quaestiones. The texts of these have not been printed, save for extracts. The manuscript has been associated with the Benedictine abbey of Ramsey, but on evidence which Ker thought insufficient. It also contains an important eleventh-century fragment of an Old English dialogue about the word Alleluia, otherwise attested only in BL Harley 3271, and probably based on material from the pseudo-Bedan Collectanea. It is not clear whether Parker placed this fragment in the book, or whether it was already there when he acquired it.
Contents: Commentary on Matthew -- Quaestiones -- Treatise on the Lord's Prayer (unfinished) -- Dialogue in Old English (fragment)

Description

Alternative title	Petrus Joh. Olivi in Matthaeum. Fragmentum Anglo-Saxonicum
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 3 + 218
Date created	[ca. 1300 - 1399]
Language	Latin; English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
Material	Vellum
Layout	double columns of 39 lines
Height (mm)	235
Width (mm)	158
Collation	3 flyleaves, 1(10)-14(10) (+ slip) 15(10)-21(10) 23(8).
Writing	in a rather ugly and much contracted hand
Foliation	ff. a + i-iii + 1-139 + 139a + 140-218 + iv-v
Additions	On f. iv (xv): Postill super Mt, an erased word follows: R....ye (very probably Rameseye)., On f. iiiv is a xvith cent. copy of the beginning of the text.
2 fo.	fragabilia

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xiv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vt562sx4760/MS_321.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dh421nq8536/321.pdf
Contains	Title Petrus Iohannis Olivi OFM, Commentary on Matthew. 1r-210v James Petri Johannis (Olivi) Lectura super Matthaeum. 1r-210v Author Petrus Iohannis Olivi OFM Note Prologue Incipit (1r) Quatuor facies uni et quatuor penne uni etc. (3r) Ad maiorem autem euidenciam dictorum Explicit (210v) et potuit soluere et signacula libri dei cui est honor et gloria in secula seculorum. amen Rubric (210v) Explicit lectura super euangelium beati mathei Title Quaestiones. 210v-215r Note Questions follow Incipit (210v) Et primo ad euidenciam tocius euangelii queritur quare Title Petrus Iohannis Olivi OFM, Treatise on the Lord's Prayer (unfinished). 215r-218r Author Petrus Iohannis Olivi OFM Incipit (215r) Ad intuendam altitudinem oracionis dominice que ponitur mt 6 Note Ends unfinished 218r. Verso blank This Postilla is to be found in MS. New College, Oxford 49. The author was a Franciscan Title Dialogue in Old English (fragment). 139ar-139av Note (139ar) After f. 139v is inserted part of a leaf of a beautifully written Anglo-Saxon manuscript of cent. xi early (?) containing the end of a Dialogue resembling those of Salomon and Saturn, Adrian and Ritheus, etc. of which several are printed in Kemble's Salomon and Saturn. I cannot however find the passage here preserved in any of them Sæge me hƿær ƿære gecƿeden ærest alleluiaic þe secge be tƿih tƿam dunum. Tabor et Ermon þær Dauid cƿæþ ærest alleluia þonne tacniaþ ða dunaþa nyƿen ́æ 7 þa ealdan ́æ. Sæge me hƿæt þæt ƿord syalleluia. Ic þe secge hu mycel þu in þam anum ƿorde benemnest þonne ƿe cƿeþað alleluia þonne cƿeþe ƿeleoht þam gode anum 7 mannum gode licigendum7 lof gode 7 leoht þam soþan 7 þam leohtan gode7 þam soþan gode 7 þam heahstan gode lof eallumsaƿlum 7 lof eallum ænglum mid criste 7 lof urumdrihtne þæt an ƿord is of his .xii. naman gesettedþonne ƿe singaþ alleluia þonne lofiaþ ƿe fæder 7sunu 7 þone halgan gast. þonne ƿe singaþ alleluia þonnecƿeþe ƿe leoht 7 mægen 7 h́ælo þam ælmihtigangode. þonne ƿe singaþ alleluia. þonne cƿeþe ƿe he ƿæsáá 7 nu áá biþ 7 he is friþ 7 ende 7 he is lifigendin eallum circum. Amen. The verso is blank In Bede's Collectanea (ed. Coln, 1612, III 488) is the equivalent of part of the above: Quis primus dixit Alleluia, aut in quo loco vel pro qua re dictum est? Inter Thabor et Hermon dictum est. Dauid propheta dixit alleluia hoc est laus dei. Augustinus dixit Alle seculum : lu, me fac : ia, Domine etc. The fragment has escaped the notice of Wanley and of all subsequent students
TJames	118
Stanley	K. 13
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/js431dq0778
Location	MS 321
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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