Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 518: Spiritual and Theological Tracts
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Mary Pernham on f. 1v.
List of contents on the flyleaf (f. iv).
Binding as before: four metal tags, label illegible, trace of staple for chain (bottom of front cover), bosses, no clasps.
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CCCC MS 518, made in Prague, is part of the Elbing collection brought back from the abandoned Brigittine monastery at what is now Elblag near Gdansk Poland by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) in the early 1620s and donated to Corpus Christi either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is inscribed in many books of the collection. Like many manuscripts in this collection, this codex consists of a collection of devotional and theological tracts copied in a number of late fourteenth-century hands. These include extracts from the Compendium ueritatis theologicae by Hugo Ripelinus (Hugh of Strasbourg) OP (c. 1200-68), Soliloquium de arra animae by Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (c. 10961141), the De occultatione uitiorum sub specie uirtutum and Tractatus de quatuor instinctibus attributed to Heinrich von Friemar (Henricus de Frimaria) OESA (1250-1340), the De miseria humanae conditionis by Innocent III (1160/61-1216), and the Quaestiones sentenciarum by Petrus de Aquila OFM (d. 1361), a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160). This last item ends with a note that it was written in Prague in 1376.
xiv (1376, etc.)
Quaestiones sententiarum Petri Lombardi -- De diligendo Deo -- De occultacione uiciorum sub specie uirtutum -- Soliloquium de arra animae -- Tractatus de quatuor instinctibus -- De mensuratione crucis -- Sermo de spiritu sancto -- Tractatus de quatuor instinctibus (extracts) -- De miseria humanae conditionis -- Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis -- Proslogion -- Soliloquia animae ad Deum -- Sermo de corpore Christi (De odore Christi) -- Stimulus amoris -- Paradisus animae -- Incipits and explicits of various works -- Tractatus de laude dei -- Compendium ueritatis theologicae (extracts)
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Petrus de Aquila OFM, Quaestiones sententiarum Petri Lombardi
1r-43v
Questiones sentenciarum
1r-43v
Petrus de Aquila OFM
author
(1r) Veteris ac novi. In ista prima distinctione que est prohemium
(43r) Expliciunt questiones sentenciarum prage scripte et finite post natiuitatem beate virginis gloriose. Anno domini mo ccco lxxvjo
(43v) De corpore Christi
pseudo-Augustine, De diligendo Deo
44r-56r
Meditaciones Augustini
44r-56r
pseudo-Augustine
author
(partly misbound - extent covers ff. 44r-48v, 54r-56r)
(44r) Vigili cura
(56r) non distabunt
(56r) Clauses of the Creed, and Prophecies, assigned to the Prophets and Apostles
Henricus de Frimaria OESA, De occultacione uiciorum sub specie uirtutum
56v-52r
De occultacione viciorum sub specie virtutum
56v-52r
Henricus de Frimaria OESA
author
(56v) Est via que videtur homini recta
ff. 49r-51r belong to this tract
Correct order is ff. 56v-60v, 49r-52r
Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, Soliloquium de arra animae
52r-64r
Hugo de arra anime
52r-64r
Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA
author
Begins on f. 51r
Ends f. 64r
Correct order is ff. 52r-53v, 61r-64r
Henricus de Frimaria OESA, Tractatus de quatuor instinctibus
64r-72v
Tract. de 4or instinccionibus s. angelico diuino dyabolico et naturali
64r-72v
Henricus de Frimaria OESA
author
(64r) Semen cecidit in terram bonam
(71v) proprietate nature et sic est finis
Cf. no. 500. 8
(72v) blank
pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury OSB, De mensuratione crucis
73r-77r
Anshelmus de commensuracione crucis
73r-77r
pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury OSB
author
(73r) Cum (or quando) iubente filio tuo christo perfecti estote ... plange commissum dole obmissum
(76v) Explicit libellus anshelmi de commensuracione crucis
(77r) Some extracts (Bernhardus, etc.) follow
Sermo de spiritu sancto
77v-80r
Sermo de spiritu sancto in verse
77v-80r
(77v) Istud nec legere quisquam nec scribere curatNam modicum vel nil utilitatis habetSed si quis super hec legit istud corrigat oroTam metrum quam sensum nec nihil (?) puto me reprehendi tocius sacre scriptureRes et signa sunt doctrine duo membraRem voco nil signans signum rem significare
Ends
(80r) Quod (?) nisi sumpsisset reus ut modo criminis esset
Henricus de Frimaria OESA, Tractatus de quatuor instinctibus (extracts)
80v-94v
Tractatus quidam parvus de pluribus collectus
80v-94v
Henricus de Frimaria OESA
author
(80v) Malum triplex est
Extracts: ff. 85r-90r blank, also ff. 93r-94r
(94v) Classification of Virtues
Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis), De miseria humanae conditionis
95r-109v
Innocencius de miseria humane coilditionis
95r-109v
Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis)
author
(95r) Domino patri
(95r) Quare de vulua
pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis
109v-118v
Meditaciones b. Bernhardi
109v-118v
pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist
author
(109v) Multi multa scirunt (sciunt)
Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Proslogion
118v-124r
Prosologion b. Augustini (Anselmi)
118v-124r
Anselm of Canterbury OSB
author
(118v) Postquam opusculum
pseudo-Augustine, Soliloquia animae ad Deum
124r-137v
Soliloquium beati Augustini
124r-137v
pseudo-Augustine
author
(124r) Cognoscam te
pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, Sermo de corpore Christi (De odore Christi)
138r-140v
Bernhardus de odore Christi
138r-140v
pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist
author
(138r) Pater sanctissime petre audi quid loquatur dominus in pauperculo seruo suo
(140v) blank
James of Milan OFM, Stimulus amoris
141r-154v
Stimulus amoris b. Bernhardi (PS.-Bonaventurae)
141r-154v
James of Milan OFM
author
(141r) Currite gentes undique
(153r) Quis dabit capiti meo aquam - ut plorare valeam perfectorum statum
(153v) Quia cor a contemplatiuis non cesset
pseudo-Albertus Magnus OP, Paradisus animae
155r-166r
Paradisus anime (attributed to Albertus Magnus)
155r-166r
pseudo-Albertus Magnus OP
author
(155r) Sunt quedam vicia que f ... speciem virtutis assumunt
(166r) quod omnes (?) unite sunt (?) in gloria per omnia secula seculorum. Amen
(166r) Finis est libri qui vocatur paradysus anime
Extracts
Incipits and explicits of various works
166v-170r
Multorum librorum inicia et fines
166v-170r
(166v) Notandum quod libros origenalium sanctorum, etc.
Gives the beginnings and endings of works of: Dionysius. Gregory. Rabanus. Augustine. Bernard. Prosper. Ambrose. Hilary. Anselm. Jerome. Chrysostom. Richard of St Victor. Hugo of St Victor. Rabimoyses. Tullius. Alquinus. Valerius Maximus. Boecius. Alanus. dissuasio Valerii. Seneca. Pliny. Macrobius (somn. Scip.)
ff. 169v, 170r blank
Heidenricus, bishop of Chelmno, OP, Tractatus de laude dei
170v-176v
Parvus tractatus de laude dei
170v-176v
Heidenricus, bishop of Chelmno, OP
author
Headed
(170v) Incipit opusculum domini Hedynrici episcopi Culmensis necessarium omnibus deum diligentibus et est prologus beati Anshelmi de commensuracione crucis
(170v) Te deum laudamus ... unde hec presumpcio domine deus ut audeat te laudare homo putredo
Unfinished? ends
(172r) laudantibus et orantibus sunt necesse (?) transferendo
ff. 172v-176v blank
Hugo Ripelinus OP, Compendium ueritatis theologicae (extracts)
177r-188v
Pars quedam compendii theologice veritatis
177r-188v
Hugo Ripelinus OP
author
(177r) Ueritatis theoloyce sublimitas
(188v) Ends unfinished
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