Cambridge, Trinity College, 376
England |
Cambridge |
Trinity College |
376 |
B.15.42 |
s. xv2 |
English |
Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin note that for the Speculum Christiani the language is 'possibly of S. Warwicks' (1986, p. 246). |
A fifteenth-century manuscript containing Rolle's
Perfectio Vite, and various religious texts regarding Christ and the Virgin, the sacraments, and commandments etc. in Latin and English. A note on f. 110 is dated 1468.
Item: 1ff. 1r-2r |
Tract on the Sacraments |
'...churche comaundeth to euery cristen woman to fore trauayle of chylde'. |
'his clothis onest of schappe as fallith for his state and namelyche yn holy churche no?t to be aschemyd to bere his merke and croune that barfor'. |
Written in a fifteenth-century hand. Marginal notes in a sixteenth-century hand. |
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Item: 2ff. 2r-5r |
Perfectio Vite (IPMEP 660) |
'The comaundment of god is that we loue oure lorde'. |
'To žat ioye ye holie trinite brynge vs. Amen'. |
'Assit principio sancta maria meo'. |
'Explicit breuis tractatus perfeccio uite uocitatus'. |
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Item: 3ff. 5r-43r |
Life of the Virgin and Christ |
'Seint ierom seith that anne and emerya were sustre'. |
'that sche my?t brynge hire goode dedis to a perfy?te ende ffor žou sche dide alle hure besynesse' |
A translation of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes vitae Christi. |
Edited by Blom-Smith 1992.
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Item: 4.1ff. 43r-59v |
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'In the bygynnynge and endinge of alle goodnes'. |
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'This schort pystell žat folowithe is diuidid in diuers maters.'... etc. A table of contents listed a-z follows: '.a. Whi euery man schulde desire to loue god....z. What man & wymmen of symple cunnynge mow thinke or pray in her bygynnynge. |
'What men & wimen of simple conning may think or pray in their begining'. |
The colophon has been added in an Elizabethan hand. Folio 61 was originally blank but now contains two Sunday letters, 1539-2017 and 1616-2074. |
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Item: 4.2ff. 59v-60v |
Meditation on the Passion (IPMEP 362) |
'Whan thou schappist tho to pray'. |
'to make the acceptabull to god whos mercy vs nedež in alle tyme'. |
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Item: 5ff. 62r-86r |
The Vision of the Monk of Eynesham with the preface of Adam, Prior of Eynesham. |
'Usu notissimum habetur quod diem sole post tenebras noctium reportante paulatim vmbrarum densitas lumine succidente atteretur'. |
'percantatas fuisse estimabam'. |
'Tractatus de purgatorio scriptus AD 1196'. |
Epilogue: 'Hec ego vobis que mihi in corpore...dominam quoque meam sanctam mariam in euum merear intueri. Amen'. |
Rubric added by a later hand. |
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Item: 6ff. 86v-91r |
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'Quoniam karissimi in via huius vite'. |
'omne quod est nichil est preter amare deum'. |
'Incipit speculum peccatoris et regula moriendi'. |
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Item: 7ff. 91r-93r |
Vision of Tundal |
'Anno domini millesimo centesimo et quadaragesimo nono'. |
'quamuis b. bernardus in quodam sermone de omnibus sanctis contrarium innuere videatur'. |
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Item: 8ff. 93r-96v |
Extracts from the Sentences |
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Extracts from the Sentences, Bede, Augustine etc. |
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Item: 9ff. 96v-98v |
Exposition of the Lord's Prayer |
'Deus pater quando misit filium'. |
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Item: 10ff. 98v-101r |
Of the Conception of the Virgin |
'Ad dei omnipotentis laudem cum sepe recitentur sanctorum miracula'. |
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Item: 11ff. 101r-103r |
On the Seven Deadly Sins |
Each of the sins has a distich or quatrain in English: 'Superbia i boste y bragge euer with že beste'. |
'qua perditur vita eterna'. |
'Dominus per prophetam'. |
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Item: 12f. 103r-v |
Ten Commandments |
'Cogitatum habe in preceptis dei'. |
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'De x mandatis'. |
First four sins only with each followed by an English quatrain. Folio 104 is a slip. |
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Item: 13ff. 105r-109r |
Parody of Donatus de partibus orationis |
'Evangelica clamat hystoria sine intermissione orate'. |
'cum descendit in nos spiritus adop...'. |
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Codex |
Parchment |
285 x 195 mm |
18 (wants 1-5); 2-38; 44; 58; 68; 74 (wants 4); 8-98; 10? (three left); 11-158; 16? (four left); 1712? (wants 3, 4, 9-12). Catchwords.
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Pricking not visible. Writing space of 210 x 60 mm with double columns and 44 lines. Frame ruled in drypoint. |
One scribe writing in black/brown ink in an Anglicana script. Characteristics: reversed circular e; dotted y; 8-shaped g; v-shaped r in middle position; double compartment a in initial position; sigma s in final position; long s in middle position; hooked ascender on h. Body height: 1-2 mm. Item 13 is in another hand.
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Item 2 - rubric and colophon in red.
Item 2 - in the margin are five rough pictures of bleeding wounds.
Item 3 - two-line blue lombards, some letters tinted red, red paraphs.
Item 4 - Prologue, first column and a half, in red.
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Not medieval. Size: 300 x 210 mm with cover of tan leather.
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ff. 110. |
F. 61 originally blank, has a sixteenth- and a seventeenth-century table of Sunday letters etc. One runs from 1539 to 2017, the other from 1616 to 2074. On the flyleaf is a seventeenth-century pen and ink drawing of the bust of an old man in a cap. Under it is written 'GRVNSON. 1196 floruit'. |
Good |
Unknown |
Various owners/inscribed names: Ant. Scattergood on folio 1r: 'Ex dono Ant. Scattergood, S.T.D., huiis Collegii quondam sacellani 1662'. written on the leaf after f. 103 - a stub, 'Oh Lord thuwghe j be sometyme afrayd yet do j put my trust in thee. Tho. Leventhorp 1581'. and written on the end flyleaves in a fifteenth-century hand (dated 1468), 'ffiat litere versus Ricm Palgrav de Ad(?)raske in Com. Deuon. de sub pena ad sect (?) Walter Glower (?) pro...'. , a further inscription on the flyleaf: 'Anno dni mo cccco seruiuit fr. Wills Caston sub egidio carn pro matre sua qui obiit viijo idus octobris litera dominicalis g.' |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, June 2004.
- Allen, H. E. 1927. Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole and Materials for his Biography, Modern Language Association of America Monograph series, 3, New York and London: Modern Language Association of America.
- Blom-Smith, E. M. 1992. The Lyf of Oure Lord and the Virgyn Mary edited from MS Trinity College Cambridge B.15.32 and MS Bodley 578, diss. London.
- Holmstedt, G. 1933. Speculum Christiani: A Middle English Religious Treatise of the 14th Century, EETS, os, 182, London: Oxford University Press, pp. lxxxiv-lxxxv.
- James, M. R. 1900. The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity Cambridge: A Descriptive Catalogue, 3 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1, pp.510-513.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
- Mooney, L. R. 1995. The Index of Middle English prose: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Handlist XI , Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, pp. 19-20.
- Ogilvie-Thompson, S. J. 1988. Richard Rolle: Prose and Verse edited from MS Longleat 29 and related manuscripts, EETS, os, 293, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. xlv-xlvi.