Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 083: Petrus Riga, Aurora. Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum

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Summary: The first and last two folios of CCCC MS 83 contain part of a fine, fourteenth-century, glossed copy of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. The rest of the manuscript dates from the early thirteenth century, probably datable to 1208-16, and contains Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205), Genealogia historiarum (Compendium ueteris testamenti) (also in CCCC MSS 29 and 437), an anonymous tract on the virtues and vices, De duodecim gradibus humilitatis, Alexander of Ashby OSA (d. by 1213), Comprehensio historiarum ueteris et noui testamenti, and Petrus Riga (d. 1209), Aurora, a late-twelfth-century verse commentary on, and summary of, the Bible. The book is notable for its illustrations in tinted drawing, as in the medallions containing Creation scenes and portraits of biblical figures and historical figures in the first text.
Contents: Genealogia historiarum -- De duodecim gradibus humilitatis -- Comprehensio historiarum ueteris ac noui testamenti -- Aurora

Description

Alternative title	Petri de Riga Aurora etc.
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 246 + 4
Date created	[ca. 1200 - 1299]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	mostly 34 lines to a page
Height (mm)	380
Width (mm)	245
Collation	a(2) 1(8) (defective) 2(12)-4(12) 5(10) 6(12) (wants 1, 2?) 7(12) (one canc.) 8(12)-15(12) (gap) 16(10) 17(12) 18(10) 19(12) 20(12) 21(10) 22(10) (wants 10) b(2).
Writing	in a very fine large hand
Foliation	ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-246 + iii-iv + c-d
Additions	At each end are two leaves of a copy of Boethius de consolatione philosophiae in double columns with gloss surrounding the text. They are of cent. xiv, and seem to be in a French hand: there are some very pretty initials. The copy must have been a sumptuous one. (f. ir pasted over, ff. iv-iir, f. iiv pasted over, ff. iiir-ivr, f. ivv pasted over)

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xiii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dp381bj3437/MS_83.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wf501np1804/83.pdf
Contains	Title Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum. 1r-7v Author Peter of Poitiers Note (1r) treats of the Creation. In the C. is a line of medallions: at the sides paragraphs of Historia, Allegoria, Moralis Sentencia. The medallions contain good drawings in outline washed with green, yellow and red (1r) At top 1. Mandorla. Christ holds globe and blesses 2. Medallion. Christ seated holds crescent in R. hand, book in L. On L. are sun and cloud 3. Christ seated faces R. and points to cloud above: water beneath on R. 4. Seated: on L. are cloud and trees (1v) 5. Seated faces R. Sun, moon and stars in sky 6. Seated blessing: birds on L. and water with fishes 7. Standing touches the head and hands of Adam who sits on L.: beasts also on L. 8. Standing creates Eve Rubric (2r) Incipit compendium ueteris testamenti secundum magistrum petrum pictauiensem can(c)ellarium ecclesie parisiensis Incipit (2r) Considerans hystorie prolixitatem necnon et difficultatem Note (2r) A genealogy in medallions occupies great part of the page. Some of the medallions contain pictures: usually single figures or busts, viz. (2r) 1. Adam and Eve, each stands in a conventional bush (2v) 2. Noe: seated (3r) 3. Thare (3r) 4. Abraham, scroll and book (3r) 5. Ysaac (3v) 6. Jacob (4r) 7. Esrom (4r) 8. Aram (4r) 9. Naason (half-length: long-nosed, looking up, grotesque) (4v) 10. Salmon (4v) 11. Saul rex (after this a gap) (5r) 12. Amasias (5v) 13. Josias (6v) 14. Azor (7r) 15. Eliud (7r) 16. Joseph uir Marie (7r) 17. Julius Cesar, a seated king (7v) 18. Maria mater domini seated with crown and sceptre (7v) 19. Christus natus: swaddled in manger (7v) 20. Christus puer: in tub, between two women; one pours water over His head (7v) 21. Christus passus: on the Cross Title De duodecim gradibus humilitatis. 8r-8v Note (8r) has a series of rhyming quatrains on the gradus humilitatis et superbie. The former begins at bottom on L. Rubric (8r) Incipit prefatio de XII. gradibus humilitatis Incipit (8r) Nolens tibi quippiam frater denegareCogor de duodecim gradibus tractare Note (8r) The gradus superbie descend from top, ending with Rubric (8r) Excusatio autoris super opere Explicit (8r) Credo tibi stephane uel nunc satisfeciDum et primis gradibus secundos adieciIn quo si quid aliter quam decet effeciFac donari ueniam. tu te donans preci Note f. 8v is blank Title Alexander of Ashby OSA, Comprehensio historiarum ueteris ac noui testamenti. 9r-25r Author Alexander of Ashby OSA Rubric (9r) Incipit proemium in libro compendii qui breuiter scribitur Incipit (9r) Laborem in ludum conuertit fructus Explicit (10v) frui colloquio Rubric (10v) Quomodo historie memoriter debeant retineri uersus sequentes docent Incipit (10v) Ut autem historie ueteris et noui testamenti etc. Note (10v) Eight lines: Incipiens ab adam quem plantauit deus etas ... Claudere fulgorem uespera nulla potest Rubric (10v) Incipit liber compendii. In primo uersus de Genesy. Incipit prima etas Incipit (11r) Ante dies omnes mundi fuit omnis in uno Note This epitome ends Rubric (24v) De cognitione dei et pace ecclesie Explicit (25r) Huc properemus eo pace fruemur ibi Title Petrus Riga, Aurora. 25r-246v James Petri de Riga Aurora. 25r-246v Author Petrus Riga Rubric (25r) Incipit proemium in libro qui dicitur aurora Incipit (25r) Frequens sodalium peticio Explicit (25r) totus refulgurat Rubric (25v) Incipit liber (proemium) magistri petri Canonici Beati Dionisii Remensis in librum qui intitulatur aurora etc. Incipit (25v) Primo facta die duo celum terra leguntur Note The books paraphrased are: Gen. - 4 Reg., Tobit, Esther, Judith, Daniel, 1, 2 Macc., ending Explicit (156r) cesar in aure tua Note (156v) Then follows Euuangelica Hystoria Incipit (156v) Post legem ueterem respira petre refulget Note ends Explicit (200r) Petrus finit et ipse suum Note (200r) Actus Incipit (200r) Dixi me finisse librum sed rursus in actus Note ends Explicit (215v) Denecat obque fidem detur [nobis] iob idem petre metrum Rubric (215v) Expliciunt actus apostolorum Note (215v) Iob Incipit (215v) Librum iob moysi quidam tribuere magistri Note ends Explicit (225v) compleuit fine decenti Note (225v) Cantica Incipit (225v) Solus origenes cum doctos uicerit omnes Note Ends Explicit (246v) ueterum de germine natus Rubric (246v) Explicit liber in canticis canticorum Note The lower part of this leaf (f. 246r-246v) is cut off. It doubtless had a mark of ownership
TJames	43
Stanley	E. 1
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/rb715wf5291
Location	MS 083
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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