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Vellum, 7.25 x 5.25, f. 107 + 11, 28-27 lines to a page. Early 13th cent., very well written.
Skin over boards, fastening gone.
Donor, T. C. S. 2 fo. carnis que.
At end:
Sir Nicholas Hyckman est possessor libri.
Collation: 6 flyleaves, 112 (5, 12 canc.) 28 - 58 66 78 88 (3, 5 canc.) 98 - 118
(8 canc.) 128 - 148 (5 and another canc.), 5 flyleaves.
The flyleaves are folded leaves of an antiphoner of the 13th cent., not unlike the Westacre book (D.21).
On f. 1, originally blank, is matter in a small hand of the 13th cent., viz.:
A long prayer. D. I. C. qui in hunc mundum propter peccatores de sinu patris
aduenisti: ending 1b, peccata mea hic et in futuro.
Notes follow.
Contents:
1. Exceptiones de diuersis librorum uoluminibus . . . f. 1
Peccator quando peccat deum et quicquid a deo creatum est
aduersum se ad iram prouocat.
The initials are usually in red with odd green flourishing, or
vice versa.
The main topics treated of are the Commandments, marriage.
Story of the Cross, 29b. Expulso adam propter peccatum.
Versus Sybille (Judicii signum), 32. Penitence of Solomon, 34.
De officio quod in ecclesia cantari solet. Dum medium
silentium . . . . . . . . . 43
Abstinence, 46. Vigils, 49b. The Hours, 50b. Church
seasons, Septuagesima, etc., 55. 58b partly blank: a later
note on psalmody.
De octo criminalibus uiciis, 59. A paradisi gaudiis.
De iiii principalibus uirtutibus, 62b.
Inc. primum sciendum est quid sit aut quare dicatur virtus.
Expl. deus qui est virtutum omnium proprietas et origo contulerit.
This is an adaptation of Halitgarius of Cambrai ,
'De virtutibus et vitiis', book 2 of De Poenitentia.
De vii gradibus humilitatis, 64.
Verses. Dic homo qui transis per me circumspice quid sis
…
Teque deus saluet teque ualere precor.
2. Inc. capitula prime particule libri de miseria condicionis humane 67
Inc. prol. d. lotharii diaconi cardinalis ss. sergii et bachi anno
iiiio d. celestini (pape) III indictione xiiia.
Domino pater karissimo . . . . . . . 67b
Text. Quare de uulua matris (CCXVII 701).
Pars II, f. 80b. Pars III, 97
-ignis ardens in sec. sec. amen. Expl. lib. de mis. cond.
humane.
3. In a small hand of the 13th cent.
Benedictio carnium - casei buturi ouorum. Bened. quando
uolueris . . . . . . . . . 105b
Later form of exorcism. Insufflo te diabole.
4. In 3 columns (xiii).
Poem on the day of judgment, in French . . . . 106
Amur e pour ad deu mis
Pur bien garder ses amis
Pour lur fet lur pechez lesser
Et amur vertuz enbracer.
Ends: Les diables vrunt prestement
Pur mener les en fort turment.
5. Song in Latin and English, with music on 4-line stave (xiii) . 106b
Latin: Stabat iuxta Christi crucem. stabat uite uidens ducem.
nitens uale facere.
English: Stand wel moder under rode. bihalt {th}i child vyt
glede mode. bli{th}e moder mai {th}u bie.
Ending: Lat. et fit riui sanguinis.
Engl. itholie det for {th}ine sake.
On f. 107a a receipt in French: Pur fere entrete contre plaie.
A prayer in Latin: Huic sacratissimo corpori.
On item 4, H. J. Chaytor (ed.), 'Poem on the day of judgement', in O. H. Prior (ed.), Cambridge Anglo-Norman texts, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1924).
On item 5, C. Brown, English lyrics of the thirteenth century (Oxford, 1932), pp. 203-4.
According to Mrs M. L. Brown (10 June 1981), the Latin hymn has not been edited by anyone.
Fol. 107a, T. Hunt, 'Anglo-Norman receipts', in Ian Short (ed.), Anglo-Norman anniversary essays, Anglo-Norman Text Society, no. 2 (London, 1993), 183.
R. T. Davies (ed.), Medieval English lyrics (London, 1963), pp. 86 and 317.
Iain Fenlon (ed.), Cambridge music manuscripts 900-1700 (Cambridge, 1982).
E. J. Dobson and F. Li. Harrison (eds), Medieval English songs (London, 1979), text and music.
A. M. Bouly de Lesdian, 'Les manuscrits didactiques antérieurs au 14th siècle: essai d'inventaire', Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes 13 (1964-5), 57-79.
István Bejczy, 'A medieval treatise on the cardinal virtues (Cambridge, St. John's College, ms. E.8 (111), fol. 62v-64r)', Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, Band 38, 1, 2. Heft (2003), 239-247.