Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 063: Prayers, Meditations, Works on Vices and Virtues, and Documents Pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury

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Summary
CCCC MS 63 is complicated textual compilation, comprising five separate sections. The first, which includes meditative and spiritual works by Anselm of Canterbury (d. 1109), Ralph of London OSB (fl. thirteenth century), and Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), was given to Christ Church, Canterbury, by Thomas Stoyl, who was a monk there, 1299-1333. The second volume includes an anonymous tract on the virtues and vices, and works by Bonaventure OFM (1217/21-74); the third volume contains important documents and letters pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury; the fourth volume is a copy of the letters of Bernard of Clairvaux OCist (1090-1153); and the final volume contains a number of religious texts, including the Formula vitae honestae of Martin of Braga (c. 515-80). These volumes are dated to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. On f. 3 is a copy of the poem Les neuf joies nostre dame, attributed to Rutebeuf (c. 1245-1285).
Contents
Oratio 7. Meditatio 3: De redemptione humana. Oratio 1. Meditatio 2: Deploratio uirginitatis male amissae. Meditatio -- Proslogion -- De laudibus sanctae Dei genetricis (extract) -- Texts on confessionMeditationesMeditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis -- De conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum -- De miseria humanae conditionis -- Electuarium -- De statu interioris hominis -- Liber mandatorum Dei -- Summa de septem sacramentis -- Etymologiae (book 5, chapter 39) -- Sermons -- De septem uirtutibus (excerpt) -- Ars fidei catholicae -- Itinerarium mentis in Deum -- Breuiloquium pauperis -- De officio et ordine missarum -- Lanfranc's statutes for Christ Church, Canterbury -- Tituli decretalium -- Letters and other instruments pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury -- Epistolae -- Speculum humanae saluationis -- Formula uitae honestae -- De paupertate -- Meditatio

Description

Alternative title Opuscula Anselmi etc. Epistolae etc. Cantuarienses. Epistolae Bernardi etc.
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 260 + 4
Date created [ca. 1200 - 1399]
Language Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Material Vellum
Layout five volumes
Height (mm) 322
Width (mm) 236
Collation a(2) 1(16) (wants 16) 2(12)-6(12) 7(8) | 8(8) 9(8) | 10(12) 11(12) (+2) 12(4) | 13(8)-18(8) | 19 (one) | 19* 20(8) 21(8) | 22(8)-24(8) 25(10) 26 (four) | 27(12) 28(12) b(2).
Writing In a fine hand
Foliation ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-260 + iii-iv + c-d
Provenance From Christ Church, Canterbury, as will appear. On f. ir is a list of contents, of nos. 1-19, headed: Prosologion Anselmi fratris Thome Stoyl. The hand is of cent. xiv early. Thomas Stoyl, admitted monk of Christ Church in 1299, died in 1333 (Searle, Christ Church, Canterbury, p. 178). He owned Lambeth MS. 180.
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Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xiii-xiv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jz203yt6854/MS_63.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nr297wg8453/63.pdf
Contains
Title
Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Oratio 7. Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Meditatio 3 De redemptione humana. Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Oratio 1. Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Meditatio 2 Deploratio uirginitatis male amissae. John de Scalis, Meditatio. 1r-25v
Nasmith
Orationes quam plures ad redemptorem nostrum et sanctos quarum pleraeque Anselmum Cantuariensem habuerunt auctorem. 1r-25v
Author
Anselm of Canterbury OSB
John de Scalis
Note
Prayers
a.
Incipit
(3r) Aue maria saluans seculum
Note
b.
Incipit
(3r) O mater clementie
Note
c.
French verse
Incipit
(3r) Rayne de pite marie en ky deytez pure e clere
Explicit
(3v) Od les noef ordres mansiuns nous doynt en cele haute eglise. Amen
Note
d.
Incipit
(3v) Sancte stephane beate stephane
Note
e.
Rubric
(4r) Incipiunt orationes seu meditationes edite ab Anselmo Cantuariensis archiepiscopo
Incipit
(4v) Dominus Ihesus Christus redempcio mea
Note
(P. L. CLVIII 902)
Ending with
Rubric
(14v) Oratio ad Sanctum Benedictum
Note
(P. L. CLVIII 1006)
Explicit
(15r) gloriemur coram deo. Qui uiuis
Note
15v blank
f.
Rubric
(16r) Orationes quamplures ad ipsum redemptorem nostrum
Incipit
(16r) Oraciones siue meditaciones que subscripte sunt
Note
The first are
Incipit
(16r) Deus piissime
Rubric
(16r) Meditacio redempcionis nostre
Incipit
(16r) Anima Christiana
Note
(P. L. CLVIII 762)
Rubric
(17v) Ad trinitatem
Incipit
(17v) O pater clementissime
Note
(P. L. CLVIII 875)
Rubric
(17v) Anselmi ad deum patrem
Incipit
(17v) Omnipotens deus et misericors
Note
After four more prayers to the Father follow prayers at Confession, at Mass, to the Trinity, Angel, Virgin, John Baptist, Andrew, Martin, Patron of Church
Rubric
(24r) Deploracio uirginitatis male amisse
Incipit
(24r) Anima mea anima erumpnosa
Note
(P. L. CLVIII 726)
Rubric
(24r) Johannis de Scalis
(24r) R. Primum et principale principium
Incipit
(24r) Interminabilis deus
Title
Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Proslogion. 25v-29r
Nasmith
Prosologion ejusdem Anselmi. 25v-29r
Author
Anselm of Canterbury OSB
Note
Prologue
Incipit
(25v) Postquam opusculum
Note
Capitula
Text
Incipit
(26r) Eya nunc
Note
(P. L. CLVIII 225)
Title
Oglerio of Locedio OCist, De laudibus sanctae Dei genetricis (extract). 29r-31r
Nasmith
Planctus beati Bernardi, ut dicitur, de dolore Dei et genetricis in morte filii sui. 29r-31r
Author
Oglerio of Locedio OCist
Rubric
(29r) Planctus beati Bernardi
Incipit
(29r) Quis dabit capiti
Explicit
(31r) filius eius dominus noster Ihesus Christus. Qui cum deo patre etc.
Title
Texts on confession. pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Meditationes. pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis. 31r-43r
Nasmith
De confessione; - de contemplatione cujuslibet horae diei; - meditationes Bernardi et Augustini. 31r-43r
Author
pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor
pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist
Rubric
(31r) De confessione utile documentum
Incipit
(31r) Do me totum. nichil. dixi captus es et cepisti me
Explicit
(31v) eatenus confitere
Rubric
(31v) De oratione
Incipit
(31v) Oracione que semper confessione sequi debet
Explicit
(31v) affectu postulabis
Rubric
(31v) De contemplacione cuiuslibet hore diei
Incipit
(31v) Nunc quomodo preparandum sit
Explicit
(34r) mox futurum
Rubric
(34r) De tribus necessariis in peticione
Incipit
(34r) Tria uidentur michi esse necessaria
Rubric
(34v) Incipit meditacio beati Augustini
Incipit
(34v) Domine deus meus da cordi
Rubric
(36r) De eodem
Incipit
(36r) Inuoco te deus meus
Rubric
(36v) De eodem
Incipit
(36v) Quid rex meus
Note
(37r) Extracts from Bernard, Gregory, Augustine
Rubric
(37v) Meditaciones Bernardi
Note
(P. L. CLXXXIV 485)
Incipit
(37v) Multi multa sciunt
Title
Ambrosius Autpertus, De conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum. 43v-47r
Nasmith
Liber sancti Augustini [Hipponensis] de conflictu vitiorum et virtutum. 43v-47r
Author
Ambrosius Autpertus
Rubric
(43v) Augustinus de conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum
Note
(P. L. XL 1091)
Incipit
(43v) Apostolica uox clamat
Title
Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis), De miseria humanae conditionis. 47r-56v
Nasmith
Tractatus Lotarii de contemptu mundi. 47r-56v
Author
Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis)
Incipit
(47r) Domino patri karissimo petro
(47r) Quare de uulua
Note
(P. L. CCXVII 701)
Title
Ralph of London OSB, Electuarium. 57r-83v
Nasmith
Electuarium in delectatione et refocillatione animae, de creatione primi hominis et prevaricatione ejus. 57r-83v
Author
Ralph of London OSB
Rubric
(57r) Incipiunt capitula sequentis opusculi in quo agitur de lapsu et reparacione seu redempcione hominis et dicitur liber iste Electuarium eo quod collectus et electus extractus et confectus sit de uariis libris tractatibus et sermonibus tam auctenticis quam magistralibus
Note
(58 Chapters)
Rubric
(57v) Incipit Electuarium in delectacione et refocillatione anime
Incipit
(57v) Consideranti diligencius quid sit homo
Note
By Radulphus de Londonia: another copy in MS. Lambeth 142
Ends
Explicit
(81r) qui transiit ex hoc mundo ad patrem. Cui cum eodem patre et spiritu sancto sit honor et uirtus, laus et gloria per infinita secula seculorum. Amen
Note
81v-83v blank
Title
Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De statu interioris hominis. 84r-98v
Nasmith
[Ricardus de Sancto Victore] de statu interioris hominis post lapsum. 84r-98v
Author
Richard of Saint-Victor OSA
Note
Similar hand but double columns of 52 lines
(84r) Capitula
Text
Incipit
(84r) Omne capud languidum
Note
cf. P. L. CXCVI 1117
Explicit
(98v) societate gaudere
Title
Liber mandatorum Dei. 99r-99v
Nasmith
Liber mandatorum Dei sive sylloge theologiae. 99r-99v
Note
uno duntaxat constat folio
In tabular form headed
Rubric
(99r) Hic est liber mandatorum dei
Note
Notes on Scripture. Division of Sciences, Theology, Penitence, Giving of Thanks
(99r) This leaf in another hand
Title
Summa de septem sacramentis. 100r-116v
Nasmith
Tractatus de septem sacramentis. 100r-116v
Note
In the first hand: head-line
Rubric
(100r) Tractatus de Sacramentis
(100r) Hic incipit primus rotulus
Incipit
(100r) Augustinus Sacramentum est inuisibilis gracie uisibilis forma
Note
In tabular form. There are three rotuli
(116v) Ends treating of baptism
Title
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (book 5, chapter 39). 116v-118r
Nasmith
De seculis et aetatibus sive tabula chronologica a creatione ad decimum annum Recensuithini regis Hispaniarum et mortem Heraclii imperatoris. 116v-118r
Author
Isidore of Seville
Incipit
(116v) Secula generacionibus consistunt
(116v) Prima etas in exordio sui continet creacionem mundi
Explicit
(118r) usque in presentem gloriosi recenswithin(!) principis annorum xmum qui est era dc. lvi. v. dccc. liii.
Note
From Isidore Etymologiae V xxxviii sqq.
Title
Sermons. 118v-129v
Nasmith
Sermones varii de Christo, angelorum ordinibus, &c. 118v-129v
Incipit
(118v) Habitantibus in regione umbre mortis lux orta est eis
Note
Frater bone fortune (Bonaventura) is quoted
Change of hand
Incipit
(125v) Ascendit super cherubin
Note
On the Ascension
Explicit
(128r) de ista gloriosa solempnitate ascensionis
Note
128v-129v blank
Title
De septem uirtutibus (excerpt). 130r-141v
Nasmith
De septem virtutibus, de oratione dominica, de septem vitiis capitalibus, de septem sacramentis. 130r-141v
Incipit
(130r) Gratia expellit morbum peccati
Note
Ends
Explicit
(141v) alter sit iudeus alia patent
Note
(141v) A good sketch of two heads in pencil
Title
Nicholas of Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae. 142r-145v
Nasmith
Libellus qui dicitur ars fidei. 142r-145v
Author
Nicholas of Amiens
Incipit
(142r) Clemens papa cuius rem nominis
Note
(P. L. CCX 595)
Explicit
(144v) sic patet propositum
Rubric
(144v) Explicit ars fidei catholice a clemente papa auctorizata
Note
(144v) A Distinctio follows
f. 145r+145v blank
Title
Bonaventure OFM, Itinerarium mentis in Deum. 146r-151v
Nasmith
Itinerarium mentis euntis ad Deum secundum fratrem bonae fortunae [Bonaventuram]. 146r-151v
Author
Bonaventure OFM
Rubric
(146r) Incipit prologus generalis ministri minorum in Itinerarium mentis in deum
Incipit
(146r) In principio primum principium
Rubric
(146r) Incipit itinerarium mentis euntis ad deum secundum fratrem bone fortune
Incipit
(146r) Beatus uir cuius est auxilium abs te
Explicit
(151v) dicet omnis populus fiat fiat Amen
Rubric
(151v) Explicit etc.
Title
Bonaventure OFM, Breuiloquium pauperis. 151v-176r
Nasmith
Ejusdem breviarium, libri VI. 151v-176r
Author
Bonaventure OFM
Rubric
(151v) Incipit prohemium in libro qui dicitur breuiarium magistri bonefortune ordinis minorum ministri generalis
Incipit
(151v) Flecto genua
(154r) Liber I. In principio intelligendum est
Note
Hand gets smaller towards the end
Ends
Explicit
(176r) Excita te nunc anima mea
Title
De officio et ordine missarum. 176v-177v
Nasmith
De officio et ordine missarum, quod unusquisque papa addidit a tempore beati Petri usque ad papam Clementem tertium. 176v-177v
Note
In double columns
Incipit
(176v) De officio et ordine misse tractaturi
Explicit
(177r) pro posse disseruimus
Note
177v blank
Title
Lanfranc's statutes for Christ Church, Canterbury. 178r-188v
Nasmith
Statuta praescripta priori et conventui Christi Cantuariensi per Lanfrancum archiepiscopum Cantuariensem. 178r-188v
Author
Lanfranc
Note
a.
Incipit
(178r) Vt nulli hominum liceat hanc paginam
Note
f. 178r-178v contains Papal confirmations ending imperfectly. A gap after it
b.
Incipit
(179r) Lanfrancus indignus sancte Dorobernensis ecclesie antistes
Explicit
(179r) clementer absoluat. Amen
Incipit
(179r) Abbas cum eligitur
Explicit
(188v) in congregacione defuncto fieri solent
Note
(Opera, 1648, p. 253), cf. MS 462. 5
Title
Tituli decretalium. 189r-195v
Nasmith
Tituli decretalium, digestorum, veterum et novorum, codicis, inforciati, autenticorum. 189r-195v
Note
In triple columns: hand resembles that of vol. I
Title
Letters and other instruments pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury. 195v-198v
Nasmith
Epistolae et alia instrumenta ad monasterium Christi Cantuariensem pertinentia. 195v-198v
Note
(1) Epistola prioris et conventus de Tynterna ad capitulum ecclesiae Cantuariensis,- se mutuo amicitiae vinculo esse astrictos, negotiaque ecclesiae Cantuariensis, a Willelmo Wake commonacho suo Romanae ecclesiae capellano et penitentiario inchoata, eidem optato fine concludenda commendasse.(2) Epistola A. prioris ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis ad subpriorem et capitulum ejusdem, quod dominus Portuensis concessit ei ut presentarent Galfridum de I. ad ecclesiam de Aldermane-Cherche in London. per resignationem Lamberti ejusdem domini clerici et nepotis jam in curia vacantem, cujus collatio ratione statuti de beneficiis in curia vacantibus ad dictum dominum pertinebat, orat igitur ut dictam presentationem acceptantes omnia quae restant facienda fideliter exequantur(3) Epistola W. de la Cornere papae capellani ad suppriorem ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis ut latori plenam velit adhibere fiduciam(4) Obligatio prioris et capituli ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis ad solvendum dominae Katerinae Lovell LXXVIII marcas ab eadem domina mutuo acceptas, dat. 1268 mense aprili(5) Epistola A. prioris et electi Cantuariensis ad suppriorem et capitulum ejusdem, quod acta super confirmatione Roberti de Withampton electi Sarisburiensis ab aliquibus advocatis correcta, eis confirmanda misit(6) Confirmatio electionis ejusdem Roberti per capitulum Cantuariensem 1270(7) Forma epistolae supplicatoriae ut preces fiant pro anima defuncti 7. There are erasures of several lines (8) Quaedam de lite inter episcopos suffraganeos et capitulum Cantuariensis circa electionem officialis curiae Cantuariensis sede vacante 8. Refers to the bishops of London, Winchester, Worcester (9) Forma epistolae a monacho ad priorem de morte amici(10) Procuratorium capituli Cantuariensis(11) Epistola scholaris cujusdam Oxoniis ad quendam monachum de ratione studiorum suorum et aliis negotiis11. The student is hearing the Digest: mentions Johannes de Ludham: commends Adam de Nortoft: has written a tract de electionibus prelatorum (12) Epistola capituli ecclesiae Sarum ad capitulum ecclesiae Cantuariensis. - obnixe rogant ut, cum ecclesia Sarum multas passa sit injurias pro reverentia quam tempore vacationis exhibuit ecclesiae Cantuariensis non negent tuicionem appellationis propter alicujus curiae vel curialis potentiam(13) Epistola capituli Cantuariensis ad omnia monasteria ordinis Sancti Benedicti de lite orta inter eos et archiepiscopum suum(14) Donatio annuae pensionis x marcarum facta magistro W. de la Cornere per capitulum Cantuariensem
In double columns: charter-like hand
Title
Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, Epistolae. 199r-236v
Nasmith
Epistolae CIII Bernardi Claraevallensis. 199r-236v
Author
Bernard of Clairvaux OCist
Note
1.
Rubric
(199r) Ad Robertum nepotem
Note
(P. L. CLXXXII 67)
Incipit
(199r) Satis et plusquam satis sustinui
Note
103.
Incipit
(236r) Odor in flore
Note
(Epistola 125)
Explicit
(236r) non esse dampnosum
Note
(unfinished)
Title
Speculum humanae saluationis. 237r-258r
Nasmith
Speculum humanae salvationis, versibus Latinis rythmicis. 237r-258r
Note
On f. 237r a xvith cent. note: vide Prints or Drawings 3/2 N. 20.
(237r) Table to the Speculum
Rubric
(237v) Incipit prohemium cuiusdam noue compilationis
Explicit
(258r) Qui cum patre et spiritu sancto est in eternum benedictus. amen
Rubric
(258r) Explicit tractatus dictus speculum saluacionis humanis quod. G. C.
Title
Martin of Braga, Formula uitae honestae. 258r-259v
Nasmith
Seneca de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus. 258r-259v
Author
Martin of Braga
Incipit
(258r) Quatuor uirtutum species
Explicit
(259v) contempnat ignauiam
Rubric
(259v) Explicit sentencia de quatuor uirtutibus cardinalibus
Note
Spicilegium Liberianum 564 etc.
Title
pseudo-Seneca, De paupertate. 259v-260r
Nasmith
Idem de paupertate honesta. 259v-260r
Author
pseudo-Seneca
Incipit
(259v) Honesta inquit epicurus
Explicit
(260r) dant diuicie insolenciam
Rubric
(260r) Explicit Ceneca de paupertate honesta
Title
pseudo-Bonaventure OFM, Meditatio. 260r-260r
Nasmith
Brevis et valida meditatio de beneficiis Dei ejusdem Bonaventurae. 260r-260r
Author
pseudo-Bonaventure OFM
Incipit
(260r) Non paruum estimo beneficium
Explicit
(260v) ostendere se peccatorem non esse
Rubric
(260v) Explicit meditatio. Cuius supra etc.
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