Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 083: Petrus Riga, Aurora. Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum
Abstract/Contents
- 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. |
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| 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 |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| 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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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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