HUGO DE S. VICTORE. PETRUS CLUNIACENSIS

MRJ number
230
College classmark
K.25

Vellum, 10.5 x 7.375, ff. 107, double columns of 38 lines.  12th,13th cent., very well written.

Donor, T. C. S.   

From St Augustine’s, Canterbury.  On f. 1 at bottom:

    Hugo de arra anime cum aliis tractatibus suis Item liber petri clunensis.

        De adquisicione Mag. Joh. Preston.  De librario S. Aug. Cant.

 

At top:

        Liber Joh. Preston de librario S. Aug. Cant.  D. 6. G. primo.

Ancient Libraries, p. 251, no. 482, and p. 517.

Collation :  18 210 – 610 (wants 1, 2) 78 (+ 1) 88 – 118 1210 :  wrongly foliated in old hand.

 

Contents :

 

    I. 1. Inc. prefacio S. Hugonis in libro de arra anime    .               .               .         f.    1

Dilectissimo fratri G.

      -conscribi exopto.   Valete.

Inc. lib. Hugonis de arra anime.  Loquar secreto (CLXXVI 951).

Initial to preface.  Hugo in white habit on L. leaning on staff

    addresses a seated group on R.  Blue ground.

      -hoc totis precordiis concupisco.

       2. Tractatus Mag. Hugonis de archa         .               .               .               .               10

Cum sederem aliquando in conuentu (CLXXVI 618).

Lib.  II, 18b; III, 24; IV, 32.

       -affectum suum prouocet.  Sit deus benedictus in sec. sec.

        Expl. tract. mag. Hug. de archa.

       3. Ex dictis Mag. hugonis.  Quatuor sunt iuditia      .               .               .               51

Item alibi.  Mors anime est obliuio.

Inc. tract. M. Hugonis de tribus diebus               .               .               .               51

Inuisibilia ipsius a creatura mundi

       -octauus pertinet ad resurrectionem.

       4. Sermo eiusdem          .               .               .               .               .               .               64b

Contemplantis anima ierusalem dicitur

       -necessitatis loco cupiditatem admittere.

Tria sunt oscula       .               .               .               .               .               .               65b

       -constat esse amabilius.

67b blank.

  II.  5. Inc. prol. in librum domini Petri Abb. Cluniacensis             .               .               66

Cum inter spiritus sancti karismata

       -narrare incipiam.  Expl. prol.

Initial cut out.

Capitula.  Ending: Item de apparicione cuiusdam in hispania.

    Expl. capit.

Text.  De miraculo quod in aruernico (territorio) contigit.

Erat in aruernico territorio rusticus (CLXXXIX 851).

Initial cut out.

The capitula are evidently incomplete.  The last of those

    enumerated in the list is followed in the text by twenty-one

    more.  The ninth is the Vision of S. Barontus, the last twelve

    are Miracula SS. uirginum euoraci monasterio patrata.  De

sisetrude uirgine (at Burgundofara = Faremoutier).

The last, f. 106b, de beractrude, ends:

Sub febris correptione in hac uita morauit, sicque demum

    uitam finiuit.

107b blank.

Manuscript extra information

Negative microfilm in St John's College Library.

Fols 49 and 50 have been cut out.

D. Bouthillier, 'La tradition manuscrite du De Miraculis de Pierre le Vénérable: bilan d'une première recherche',  Revue d'Histoire des Textes 6 (1976), 99-142.  Copy in St John's College Library.

D. Bouthillier, 'Un nouveau témoin du De Miraculis de Pierre le Vénérable: le manuscrit de Neuchatel Armoire de fer A.25', Medieval Studies 41 (1979), 524-34.

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