Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 155: Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Miscellaneous Works
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 155 is an early fourteenth-century manuscript containing many of the works of Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109), including his Proslogion, Monologion and Cur Deus homo. The manuscript is in a fine hand, with two illuminated historiated and many ornamental initials. The initial on the first folio, in gold and colour, contains a depiction of Anselm. James tentatively suggested a Norwich provenance, but this has been rejected by Ker. The book has fore-edge painting of heraldic shields, and is one of the best examples of this in the collection.
- Contents
- Monologion -- Proslogion -- Contra insipientem -- De ueritate -- De libertate arbitrii -- De casu diaboli -- De incarnatione Verbi -- Cur Deus homo -- De conceptu uirginali et de originali peccato -- De processione spiritus sancti -- De sacrificio azymi et fermentati -- Epistola de sacramentis ecclesiae -- Meditatio 3 de redemptione humana -- De concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis -- Orationes et meditationes -- Deploratio uirginitatis male amissae -- De grammatico -- Oratio ad accipiendum corpus Domini et sanguinem -- De similitudinibus
Description
| Alternative title | Anselmi quaedam |
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| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 284 + 4 |
| Date created | [ca. 1300 - 1325] |
| Language | Latin |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | double columns of 36 lines |
| Height (mm) | 295 |
| Width (mm) | 205 |
| Collation | a(4) 1(12)-24(12) (wants 7-9, 12). |
| Writing | in a fine hand |
| Foliation | ff. i-v + 1-285 + vi |
| Provenance | On f. 1r at top is a fairly old press-mark lined through, B. 44(?). I have conjecturally assigned these late but pre-Parkerian press-marks to Norwich. Omnes libri Anselmi in vno volumine. |
| Research | Is this Bale's Opuscula Anselmi Cantuar. xx, in the list of his MSS. (Scriptt. Britt., p. 165)? |
| Additions | On f. iiv at top is: liber ad-se. us precii xxxs. |
| Decoration | The fore-edges are painted with shields. At top (a) lion rampant gules, (b) an effaced bearing, (c) lion rampant sable.On the front (a) fleur-de-lys apparently arg. on vert, (b) leopards, gules, (c) double-headed eagle displayed, sable. At bottom (a) arg. 3 chevrons gu., (b) cheeky of or(?) or arg. and vert, (c) quarterly arg. and gules a bend sable., The decorative work is exceedingly good. Each tract has a large and fine initial in excellent English style in gold and colour: the partial borders are of very fine design. |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xiv early |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| TJames | 130 |
| Stanley | L. 9 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/tj215yw8785 |
| Location | MS 155 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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