Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 424: Astronomical Tracts. Liber de Joseph et Aseneth

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Abstract/Contents

Summary: CCCC MS 424 is comprised of a number of disparate elements, with six volumes bound together containing material from different centuries. The manuscript begins with three printed pamphlets, an epitome of Galen by Christopher Heyll, an account of the marriage of Philip of Spain and Mary I of England and of a speech given by the Cardinal of Lorraine in 1561. The manuscript material proper is a jumble of medical, astrological and spiritual treatises such as the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), De impressionibus aeris siue De prognosticatione and Thomas de Frakaham OSA (fl. c. 1200) Speculum spiritalis amicitiae copied in various hands between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. In addition the codex includes an earlier twelfth-century copy of the legend of Aseneth in a Latin translation from the Greek.
Contents: Treatise on the Astrolabe -- Kalendarium -- De prognosticationibus aegritudinum secundum motum lunae (transl. byWilliam of Moerbeke) -- De electione situs lune in exibendis farmacis -- De secretis philosophorum -- De impressionibus aeris siue De prognosticatione -- Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (Flos medicinae scholae Salerni) -- Antidotarium Nicholai in English -- Liber de Joseph et Aseneth -- Speculum spiritalis amicitiae -- Speculum humilitatis

Description

Alternative title	Astronomica. Aseneth, etc.
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. MSS. 41 + 18 + 11 + 1
Date created	[ca. 1500 - 1599]; [ca. 1400 - 1499]; [ca. 1100 - 1199]; [ca. 1200 - 1299]
Language	Latin; English
Material	Paper, Paper and vellum, Vellum
Layout	six volumes
Height (mm)	199
Width (mm)	139
Collation	Volume IV: 1(14)-3(14) (wants 14). Volume V: 1(10) 2(10) (wants 9, 10). Volume VI: 1(12) (wants 12), 1 flyleaf.
Writing	in a small current hand
Foliation	ff. a-b + (printed matter, unfoliated, not imaged) + 1-70 + i + c-d
2 fo.	in eo et uestimenta

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xvi, xv, xii?, xiii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sz429gp8540/MS_424.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yf490gf0856/424.pdf
Contains	Title Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe. 1r-4r Nasmith A treatise of the astrolabe made English by Chaucer for the use of his son Lewis. 1r-4r Author Geoffrey Chaucer Note Begins imperfectly Incipit (1r) vnderstond well þt þe zodiake is departyd in 2 halfe circles Note (Part II § 16) Ends Rubric (4r) Explicit tractatus astrolabii secundum Chaunsers factus filio suo lodowyco Note Skeat, The Astrolabe, E.E.T.S. extra series 1872, p. xi, describes this copy Title Kalendarium. 4r-6v Nasmith Bona improbatio Kalendarii nostri et correctio ejusdem plane. 4r-6v Incipit (4r) Sciendum est quod kalendarium quo utimur Explicit (6v) benedictus in secula. Amen Rubric (6v) Explicit bona improbacio kalendarii nostri. Et correctio eiusdem plane Title pseudo-Hippocrates, De prognosticationibus aegritudinum secundum motum lunae (transl. byWilliam of Moerbeke). 7r-9v Nasmith Prognosticatio Hippocratis infirmitatum. 7r-9v Author pseudo-Hippocrates Incipit (7r) Sapientissimus ypocras et medicorum optimus ait Explicit (9v) dabit cum labore et difficultate Rubric (9v) Explicit pronosticacio ypocratis infirmitatum Title Arnold of Villanova (attrib.), De electione situs lune in exibendis farmacis. 9v-10r Nasmith Compendium de existentia lunae in signis. 9v-10r Author Arnold of Villanova (attrib.) Incipit (9v) Quoniam medicus practicans non semper potest habere certa loca planetarum Explicit (10r) luna est in piscibus ubi est impedita Rubric (10r) Explicit compendium de existencia lune in signis Title Albumasar (Abu Ma'shar Ja'far) (attrib.), De secretis philosophorum. 10v-20v Nasmith Flores Albumazar de secretis philosophorum. 10v-20v Author Albumasar (Abu Ma'shar Ja'far) (attrib.) Incipit (10v) In nomine dei misericordie et pietatis. hic est liber quem collegit Albumazar de floribus philosophorum, etc. (10v) Ilixit Albumazar oportet te scire Explicit (20v) ipse est auxiliator. Amen Rubric (20v) Expliciunt flores Albumasar de secretis philosophorum Title Robert Grosseteste, De impressionibus aeris siue De prognosticatione. 20v-21r Nasmith Robertus Grostest Lincolniensis de prognosticatione aeris. 20v-21r Author Robert Grosseteste Incipit (20v) Cum circa(?) disposicionem aeris ad aliquod certum tempus Explicit (21r) tempus fore humidum Rubric (21r) Hec lincolniensis de pronosticacione aeris Title Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (Flos medicinae scholae Salerni). 21r-34v Nasmith Flos medicinae seu versus Salerni. 21r-34v Incipit (21r) Anglorum regi scripsit scola tota salerni Explicit (34v) que super renes pecten des fitque iuuamen Rubric (34v) Expliciunt versus Salerni Note See Dr N. Moore, Schola Salernitana (Finlayson Lecture), Glasgow 1908, p. 27 (34v) Verses on signa conceptus (34v) Receipt for ptisana Title Antidotarium Nicholai in English. 35r-41v Nasmith A treatise of medicine or dispensatory by Nycolas. 35r-41v Author Nicholai Incipit (35r) I nycolas y prevyd of some men and felawes of practyce Note The antidotarium of Nicholaus in English, ending imperfectly in Electuarium leticia galieni Title Liber de Joseph et Aseneth. 42r-59v Nasmith De Asenath filia Potipharis sacerdotis et quo ordine accepit eam Joseph in uxorem. 42r-59v Note (42r) Title in red capitals Rubric (42r) Incipit de Asenech filia Putifaris sacerdotis et quo ordine accepit eam Ioseph in uxorem Incipit (42r) Et factum est in primo anno septem annorum Note (42r) Purple initial The edges have been much cropped, carrying away the upper or lower line in part Explicit (59v) nuncupatus est pater eius in terra Egypti Note This text is printed in Batiffol, Studia Patristica I 1889, pp. 89-115: collated with the text of no. 288 This is the oldest copy of the text I have seen. If it is really of cent. xii, as seems likely, it is impossible that Robert Grosseteste should (as I have always been inclined to believe) have had a hand in the translation of the text from Greek into Latin Title Thomas de Frakaham OSA, Speculum spiritalis amicitiae. 60r-68v Nasmith Speculum spiritualis amicitiae. 60r-68v Author Thomas de Frakaham OSA Rubric (60r) Incipit liber qui dicitur speculum spiritualis amicitie Incipit (60r) Primum quid sit amicicia arbitror disserendum Explicit (68v) apud iustum et misericordem iudicem intercedat Rubric (68v) Explicit liber IIIus de spirituali amicicia. hanc compilacionem fecit dominus Thomas de frakaham canonicus de lesnes. compilauit autem hec de libris aluredi abbatis Reuallis, i. de speculo caritatis et de libro spiritualis amicicie Note Lesnes (or Westwood) was an Augustinian priory near Woolwich Title pseudo-Aelred of Rievaulx OCist, Speculum humilitatis. 68v-70v Author pseudo-Aelred of Rievaulx OCist Rubric (68v) Incipit liber qui dicitur speculum humilitatis Incipit (68v) Dominus noster Ihesu Christus dicit discipulis suis in ewangelio. Nolite in sublime tolli Explicit (70v) humilitatem exhibuit. beatus saluator Christus Ihesus qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen Note This tract is noticed in Bale's Index, pp. 470,480. In the former place it is ascribed to a monk of Syon. It occurs in the Syon Catalogue under S.43 (ir) The flyleaf is from a beautifully written xiith cent. copy of the Gospels containing part of Matt. xvi., xvii
TJames	194
Stanley	N. 32
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/pm493kf4162
Location	MS 424
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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