Cambridge, Trinity College, 376
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Shelfmark
Country:England
Settlement:Cambridge
Repository: Trinity College
Idno:376
AltName:B.15.42
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Date and Language
Date:s. xv2
Language: English
Dialect: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).
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Contents
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: 1
Locus:ff. 1r-2r
Title:Tract on the Sacraments
Incipit:'...churche comaundeth to euery cristen woman to fore trauayle of chylde'.
Explicit:'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'.
Note:Written in a fifteenth-century hand. Marginal notes in a sixteenth-century hand.
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Item: 2
Locus:ff. 2r-5r
Title:Perfectio Vite (IPMEP 660)
Incipit:'The comaundment of god is that we loue oure lorde'.
Explicit:'To žat ioye ye holie trinite brynge vs. Amen'.
Rubric:'Assit principio sancta maria meo'.
Colophon:'Explicit breuis tractatus perfeccio uite uocitatus'.
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Item: 3
Locus:ff. 5r-43r
Title:Life of the Virgin and Christ
Incipit:'Seint ierom seith that anne and emerya were sustre'.
Explicit:'that sche my?t brynge hire goode dedis to a perfy?te ende ffor žou sche dide alle hure besynesse'
Note:A translation of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes vitae Christi.
Bibliography:Edited by Blom-Smith 1992.

Item: 4.1
Locus:ff. 43r-59v
Title:
Incipit:'In the bygynnynge and endinge of alle goodnes'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'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.
Colophon:'What men & wimen of simple conning may think or pray in their begining'.
Note: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: 4.2
Locus:ff. 59v-60v
Title:Meditation on the Passion (IPMEP 362)
Incipit:'Whan thou schappist tho to pray'.
Explicit:'to make the acceptabull to god whos mercy vs nedež in alle tyme'.
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Item: 5
Locus:ff. 62r-86r
Title:The Vision of the Monk of Eynesham with the preface of Adam, Prior of Eynesham.
Incipit:'Usu notissimum habetur quod diem sole post tenebras noctium reportante paulatim vmbrarum densitas lumine succidente atteretur'.
Explicit:'percantatas fuisse estimabam'.
Rubric:'Tractatus de purgatorio scriptus AD 1196'.
Colophon:Epilogue: 'Hec ego vobis que mihi in corpore...dominam quoque meam sanctam mariam in euum merear intueri. Amen'.
Note:Rubric added by a later hand.
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Item: 6
Locus:ff. 86v-91r
Title:
Incipit:'Quoniam karissimi in via huius vite'.
Explicit:'omne quod est nichil est preter amare deum'.
Rubric:'Incipit speculum peccatoris et regula moriendi'.
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Item: 7
Locus:ff. 91r-93r
Title:Vision of Tundal
Incipit:'Anno domini millesimo centesimo et quadaragesimo nono'.
Explicit:'quamuis b. bernardus in quodam sermone de omnibus sanctis contrarium innuere videatur'.
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Item: 8
Locus:ff. 93r-96v
Title:Extracts from the Sentences
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Extracts from the Sentences, Bede, Augustine etc.
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Item: 9
Locus:ff. 96v-98v
Title:Exposition of the Lord's Prayer
Incipit:'Deus pater quando misit filium'.
Explicit:
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Item: 10
Locus:ff. 98v-101r
Title:Of the Conception of the Virgin
Incipit:'Ad dei omnipotentis laudem cum sepe recitentur sanctorum miracula'.
Explicit:
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Item: 11
Locus:ff. 101r-103r
Title:On the Seven Deadly Sins
Incipit:Each of the sins has a distich or quatrain in English: 'Superbia i boste y bragge euer with že beste'.
Explicit:'qua perditur vita eterna'.
Rubric:'Dominus per prophetam'.
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Item: 12
Locus:f. 103r-v
Title:Ten Commandments
Incipit:'Cogitatum habe in preceptis dei'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De x mandatis'.
Note:First four sins only with each followed by an English quatrain. Folio 104 is a slip.
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Item: 13
Locus:ff. 105r-109r
Title:Parody of Donatus de partibus orationis
Incipit:'Evangelica clamat hystoria sine intermissione orate'.
Explicit:'cum descendit in nos spiritus adop...'.
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Parchment
Extent:285 x 195 mm
Collation: 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.
Layout:Pricking not visible. Writing space of 210 x 60 mm with double columns and 44 lines. Frame ruled in drypoint.
Writing: 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.
Decoration: 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.
Binding: Not medieval. Size: 300 x 210 mm with cover of tan leather.
Foliation:ff. 110.
Additions: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'.
Condition:Good
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History
Origin:Unknown
Provenance:Various owners/inscribed names: 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.'
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, June 2004.
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Bibliography
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