Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 137: Theological and Devotional Tracts
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 137 is a fourteenth-century manuscript which contains a miscellany of theological and spiritual tracts, some containing rules for the behaviour of monks and novices, suggesting that the compilation was intended for monastic use. The book belonged to the Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, and might be identifiable with a book transferred to Evesham Abbey in the late fourteenth century. The last item, the homily of Origen on the lament of Mary Magdalene at the tomb of Christ, was a text which Chaucer was later to translate into English.
- Contents
- -- Commentary on Regula Sancti Benedicti -- Stimulus amoris -- Speculum peccatoris -- De institutione nouiciorum -- Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, De conscientia -- Homiliae ad monachos --
Description
| Alternative title | Philosophia Monachorum etc. |
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| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 144 + 4 |
| Date created | [ca. 1300 - 1399] |
| Language | Latin; English, Middle (1100-1500) |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | double columns of 60 lines |
| Height (mm) | 312 |
| Width (mm) | 211 |
| Collation | a(2) 1(12)-7(12) 8(10) 9(12)-12(12) 13(2) b(2). |
| Writing | rather roughly written |
| Foliation | ff. i-iii + 1-143 + iv-vii |
| Provenance | From Christ Church, Canterbury. On f. ir at top erased: de claustro ecclesie Christi Cant. and: Philosophia monachorum eccl. Chr. Cant., A similar erased inscription on f. 2r and, not erased, on f. 82 (83). On f. iiv: Qui me renouauit. Altissimus eum benedicat. JS, On f. 2r Parker has written: Canterbery (?) King. The book does not occur in the extant catalogues. |
| Additions | Old list of contents on f. ir. |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xiv |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| TJames | 252 |
| Stanley | P. 19 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/nv561vc7640 |
| Location | MS 137 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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- Use and reproduction
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- License
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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