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Miscellany of patristic literature : [manuscript]
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- Description
- ff. 1v-43. [William of Malmesbury]. [De gestis regum anglorum. Excerpts] Incipit: Anno ab incarnatione domini cccc xl ixo venere angli et saxones britanniam. Explicit: et fumea volumina peplo suo submovens. Rubric: Incipit liber primus de gestis anglorum. Latin. W. Stubbs, ed., Willelmi Malmesburiensis Monachi De Gestis Regum Anglorum. RS 90 (London 1887-89), excerpts only, up to Bk. 3 chapt. 286; this manuscript described by Stubbs, pp. cii-ciii. ff. 43-44. [De confessione in ultimis positorum Patristic excerpts]. Incipit: Vera ad dominum confessio in ultimis positorum mente est potius estimanda quam tempore. Nunquam enim est sera penitentia confessio propheta attestante qui ait, Cum conversus ingemueris salvus eris. Explicit: Vir prudens ab imprudente muliere avertit oculos suos. Luxuriosus autem intuens eam solvetur ut cera a facie ignis. Christus non in corporis sed in anime pulcritudine delectatur. Tua ergo et tu dilige in quibus delectatur deus. Rubric: De confessione in ultimis positorum. Latin. Quotations from Isidore, Jerome, Augustine, Bernard, Hilary, Gregory, Seneca, Cyprian, Origenes, Paul, Basil, Caesarius. ff. 44v-53v. [Cassiodorus]. [De institutione divinarum scripturarum]. Incipit: Primus scripturarum divinarum codex est eptateucus. Explicit: si dicta ipsius nulla presumptione carpamus//. Rubric: Incipit liber cassiodori senatoris de institutione divinarum scripturarum, De eptateuco. Latin. R. A. B. Mynors, ed., Cassidori Senatoris Institutiones (Oxford 1961) 3-48, breaking defectively; this manuscript listed on p. xlii. The text is preceded by a preface and a chapter list. ff. 54-58. [Hugh of Fouilloy]. [De claustro animae]. Incipit: //reatur. Si autem cui parti phylosophie supponatur queritur ethice supponitur. Explicit: in futuro autem dabit virtutem incorruptionis fortitudinem immortalitatis benedictus deus. Amen. Explicit liber de claustro non manufacto. Latin. Hugh of Fouilloy, De claustro animae. PL 176:1171-1182, beginning defectively. ff. 58-64. [Hugh of Fouilloy]. [De medicina animae]. Incipit: Homo microcosmus id est minor mundus appellari ab antiquis solet. Explicit: necesse est ut emplastrum verecundie fronti superponat. Explicit liber de medicina anime. Rubric: Incipit liber de medicina anime. De homine qui microcosmus id est minor mundus appellatur. Latin. Hugh of Fouilloy, De medicina animae. PL 176:1183-1202. The text is preceded by a preface and a chapter list. ff. 64-69. [Hugh of Fouilloy]. [De nuptiis]. Incipit: Secundum phylosophos, Fertur aureolus teophrasti liber de nuptiis in quo querit an vir sapiens uxorem ducat. Explicit: et fac animam tuam talem quam summi regis adoptet filius, qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivit et regnat per eterna secula. Amen. Explicit libellus ad socium volentem nubere. Latin. Hugh of Fouilloy, De nuptiis. PL 176:1201-1218. The text is preceded by a preface. ff. 69-83v. [Hugh of Fouilloy]. [De avibus]. Incipit: Si dormiatis inter medios cleros penne columbe deargentate et posteriora dorsi eius in pallore auri. In sacra scriptura frater tres columbas legendo repperi. Explicit: qui ad petram rostrum acuit dum se ipsum christo per bonam operationem conformem reddit. Rubric: Incipit libellus cuiusdam ad Ragnierum conversum cognomine corde benignum. De tribus columbis. Latin. Hugh of Fouilloy, De avibus. PL 177:13-55. The text is preceded by two prologues. ff. 84-85v. [Pseudo John Chrysostom]. [De eo quod scriptum est in psalmo xxx iii quis est homo qui vult vitam et cupit bidere dies bonos Sermons]. Incipit: Sermo divinus peragrans currensque per campos singulis velut luminaria ecclesiis claritatem contulit. Explicit: Quotquot ergo perfecti sumus hoc sapiamus ut credentes deum pacis nobiscum habeamus. Rubric: De eo quod scriptum est in psalmo xxx iii quis est homo qui vult vitam et cupit bidere dies bonos. Latin. Ps. Chrysostom, Sermons 5 and 29, PL Suppl. 4:752-756 and 821-825. ff. 86-110v. [John Chrysostom]. [De laudibus sancti Pauli apostoli. Incipit: Nichil prorsus erraverit qui pratum quoddam insigne virtutum ad paradysum spiritualem pauli animum nuncupaverit]. Explicit: Oremus etiam ut ipsi quoque eisdem perfruamur bonis gratia et misericordia domini nostri ihesu christi per quem et cum quo gloria patri cum sancto spiritu in secula seculorum. Amen. Explicit omelia vii. Rubric: Incipit liber sancti iohannis crisostomi de laudibus beati pauli apostoli. Incipit omelia 1. Latin. Chrysostom, De laudibus sancti Pauli apostoli. PG 50:471-514. The text is preceded by a prologue. ff. 111-121. [Peter Damian]. [Sermo in natali sancti iohannis evangeliste Sermons]. Incipit: Hodie nobis dilectissimi letitie gaudia geninantur quia recenti adhuc nativitate dominica beati iohannis occurit sollempnitas gloriosa. Explicit: ad eum qui calcato mortis imperio celum cum triumphali gloria penetravit ihesus christus dominus noster qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivit et re[gnat. Amen.]. Rubric: Sermo in natali sancti iohannis evangeliste. Latin. Peter Damian, Sermons 63 and 64. PL 144:857-875. ff. 121v-124v. [Alexandri et Dindimi collatio]. Incipit: Sepius ad aures meas fando pervenit rationem vite vestre a communi qui ubique sunt hominum discrepare. Explicit: his si tuendo valueris [sic] abstinere aut superbie notaberis quia donata repudias aut invidie quod a meliore prestantur. Expliciunt scripta alexandri regis magni macedonum ad dindimum regem bragmanorum de natura et statu vite ipsorum et responsio ipsius ad inquisiciones eorundem dictorum. Rubric: Incipit alexandri magni macedonum regis et dindimi regis bragmanorum de phylosophia per litteras facta collatio. Latin. B. Kübler, ed., Iulii Valerii, Alexandri Polemi res gestae Alexandri Macedonis (Leipzig 1888) 169-89. ff. 125-130. [Alexandri Epistola ad Aristotelem]. Incipit: Semper memor tui etiam inter dubia bellorum nostrorum pericula. Explicit: ut invidendum mortalibus esset perpetuo de nobis opinio et animo et industria optime aristotiles ponderari. Explicit epistola alexandri magni ad aristotilem doctorem. Rubric: Incipit epistola alexandri quam ab india de situ indie aristoteli magistro suo direxit,. Latin. W. W. Boer, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem. Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 50 (Meisenheim am Glan 1973) 1-60. For a list of the manuscripts of arts. 11 and 12, see D. J. A. Ross,"A Check-List of Manuscripts of three Alexander Texts: the Julius Valerius Epitome, the Epistola ad Aristotelem and the Collatio cum Dindimo," Scriptorium 10 (1956) 127-32, this manuscript recorded on p. 132; see also T. Hahn,"Notes on Ross's Check-List of Alexander Texts," Scriptorium 34 (1980) 275-78. f. 130. [Note on Alexander the Great]. Incipit: Phylippus magnus procreat qualibet olympias alexandri mater nobiliorem ei patrem acquirere affectaverit. Explicit: victor omnium vino et ira victus morbo vinolentie [sic] apud babylonem humiliore quam auxerat fortuna exemptus est. Latin. f. 130. [Note on chronology]. Incipit: Collatis nostris et grecorum temporibus invenimus olympiade septima romam conditam anno post ilium captum ccccm xxx iii. Explicit: Sic inter exortum urbis et troiam captam iure esse annos ccc xxx iii constat. Latin. ff. 130v-155. [Palladius]. [Opus agriculture]. Incipit: Ars [sic] est prima prudentie ipsam cui preceptuus [sic] es estimare personam. Explicit: Hora xi pedes xxix. Palladii rutili tauri emiliani viri clarissimi et illustrissimi opus generale de omni agricultura de edificiis hortis nemoribus vinetis olivetis arbustis frutectis seminariis plantis insitionibus translationibus remediis restitutionibus de amariis armentis gregibus apibus mellificationibus sationibus messionibus __illegible___ sive ceteris omnibus ad ea pertinentibus disciplinis per menses et titulos diligenter distinctum explicit feliciter. Amen. Rubric: De preceptis rei rustice, i. Latin. R. H. Rodgers, ed., Palladii Opus Agriculturae, De Veterinaria Medicina, De Insitione (Leipzig 1975) 1-198, 218-40; last quire misbound and to be read ff. 154, 150, 151, lacuna of 2 leaves with loss of text (XI, 6-XII, 3), 152, 153, 155; last leaf badly damaged with loss of text. See also Rodgers, An Introduction to Palladius, University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, Bulletin Supplement n. 35 (London 1975), listing this manuscript on p. 169. The text is preceded by a chapter list.
- Date
- [between 1140 and 1160]
- Call number
- mssHM 627
- Provenance
- Written in the Netherlands, or possibly in England, towards the middle of the twelfth century; ff. 121v-155 may be somewhat later. Belonged to the Cistercian abbey of Aulne in the diocese of Liège. For the 1632 Aulne catalogue, see A. Sanderus, Bibliotheca Belgica Manuscripta (Lille 1641-43/44; repr. London 1967 and in Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, n. special 7, Brussels 1972) 2:234-62, this manuscript on pp. 250-51. E. van Balberghe and G. Zelis, "Medieval Libraries of Belgium: A List of Surviving Manuscripts," Scriptorium 28 (1974) 103-09, HM 627 on p. 109. Acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1831; his MS 4621. Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 10 June 1896, lot 846 to Quaritch. Quaritch Cat. 164 (1896) n. 109, Cat. 193 (1899) n. 27. Sotheby's, 17 December 1919, lot 705 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
- Restrictions
- RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
- Dimensions
- 110 x 180 mm
- Associated people
- William, (approximately 1090-1143.)
- Hugh, (-1172 or 1173.)
- Cassiodorus, (approximately 487-approximately 580.)
- John Chrysostom, (-407.)
- Peter Damian, (1007?-1072.)
- Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus. (1792-1872,)
- Phillipps, Thomas,
- Associated organizations
- Aulne Abbey,
- Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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