The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark B.1.37
Manuscript Title

Anselm, Cur Deus homo, Epistolae; Proslogion; Epistolae (17); Tracts; Monologion (imperfect)

Alternative Title

Anselmi Quaedam etc

James Number 35
Century 11th12th14th15th
Physical Description

Number of lines varying. Vol. I. Well written. 28 lines to a page. Vol. II. 42 lines to a page. Vol. III. Of similar aspect to I, 34 lines to a page. Vol. IV. -- Vol. V. 34 lines to a page.

Provenance

Given by Whitgift.

Second Folio Ratio quod
Donor Whitgift, John (1530/31?–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity
Size (cm) 22 x 16
Folio 116 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

a8 (wants 1: 8 now misbound at beginning of vol.) b10 c10 d14 (2, 3, 6, 8 cancelled) || 18-38 412 (4, 5 canc.) 52 | 612 712 810 (4, 8 canc.) || A12 (wants 12), quire 8 should follow c.

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.1.37/manifest.json
Online Since 24/06/2015

Contents

I. f.1 S. Anselmi Cur deus Homo
Of cent. xi, xii, well written: 28 lines to a page.
Inc. prefatio in librum cur deus homo (red capitals).
Opus subditum -- non despiciat.
Expl. prefatio. Inc. capitula (of the two books).
Text f.2b.
Sepe et studiosissime.
Ends f.37a, benedictus in secula. Expl. cur deus homo liber anselmi archiepi. Cantuariensis.
f.37b is blank.
Quire 8 (ff.90-105) should follow f.27.

II. 1. f.38 Cent. xii early, 42 lines to a page
Domino et patri uniuerse ecclesie... urbano fr. anselmus.
Ends f.45a, in eodem libello aperte inueniat.
2. f.45 Domino et patri abbati reuerendo Willelmo fr.
anselmus etc.
Ex quo probitas tua.
Ends imperf. f.45b, esse uidetur ad quod multos.

III. f.46 Inc. prohemium in proslogion librum anselmi
Of similar aspect to I, 34 lines to a page.
Postquam opusculum -- alloquium nominaui.
Capitula.
f.46b Text. Eia nunc homuncio
Ends f.54b, qui es trinus et unus deus bened. in sec. Amen.
Ergo domine qui das.
Quod utique sic uere est.
Uerum quomodo dixit in corde.
Cur deus magis assumpserit.
Est et aliud cur magis conueniat
-corpus petis quam anima (f.57b).
2. f.57b Epistolae quaedam Anselmi.
1. Ep. balnacensi Fulconi.
2. Monacho Roberto.
3. Dom. Rodulfo.
4. Dom. Gundulfo.
5. D. henrico.
6. D. Hugoni.
7. D. Arnulfo.
8. D. herluino.
9. D. Frodeline.
10. D. Fulconi.
11. D. Gundulfo. Et meus gundulfus.
12. Dilecto...Lanzoni.
13. Odoni et Lanzoni.
14. f.67 (alia manu). A. cantuar.. O. seriberiensis ecclesie
15. A. gratia dei... Ep. serberiensi O.
16. f.68 A. vocatur Archiep. filie... M. filie ricardi
17. A. cunctipotentis disposicione... O. coepiscopo.
f.68b blank.
Quidam christiane ac paterne caritatis obliti intentum existimationem nostram quoquo modo student ledere
-censeant debere puniri.
f.73a Quod d. n. I. C. non pro omnium hominum salute et redemptione sit passus.
-uoluntatem dei sentient uindicantem
f.73b blank.

IV. f.74 Anselmi Monologion
Reuerando et amando suo...lanfranco fr. Anselmus
-uolentibus prebeatur.
Quidam fratres sepe me studioseque.
-prolatum inueniet.
f.75 Capitula
f.76b Text. Si quis unam naturam summam omnium
Ends in §lv imperf.
doceat omnino id ipsum esse quod est pater et (f.97b).
ff.98-105 are part of the Cur deus homo and follow f.27.
At the bottom of f.105b is written (xvii, xviii).
Scheda hinc ablata in librum de kalandario inseritur, ad quem pertinebat.

V. Cent. xv, 34 lines to a page.
Prophetia
Febribus infectis requies fuerat mihi lectus.
Vexatus mente dormiui nocte repente.
Noscere ventura fatus fuerat mihi cura.
Ends f.116. Per summum iuro te credere non michi curo.
Iudicium faciet gestorum quisque suorum.
Mercedem capiet propriorum quisque laborum.
Ad mortem tendo mortu mea carmina pendo.
2. Two paragraphs on Algorismus.
Omnia que a primeua origine rerum processerunt ratione numerorum formata sunt
-inueniri significatiuas.
3. On the verso in a late xv hand.
Iste sunt naciones que tenuerunt cum Iohanne papa in tempore cismatis.
Engelond- Jermayne- Almayne- Beme
Fraunce Selond hongorie Poloyne
Maveye (= Norway) holond Vtaly Cracowe
Twethe (= Sweden) brabayn Venyse Prage
denmarke Flaundres Bomonye.
Ista sunt nomina eorum qui tenuerunt cum Gregorio error
dux de Boyer. Episcopus de Spire.
Episcopus de Wermons Ep. de Trendrent.
Iste sunt naciones que tenuerunt cum petro de luna Eretico.
Spayne Nauerne Imperator Almayne
Aragunne Scottelond Rex hungor.} Isti fuerunt
Rex syrye.} presentes
Rex swisie.} cum im-
Rex romanorum.} peratore.
Nomina ducum qui fuerunt ibi presentes
dux de Boyer cum duobus de fratribus suis
-- -- Baurez cum tribus fratribus suis
-- -- Attilbyn dux de Sana prince
-- -- payne -- -- louell
-- -- Ostrych -- -- geldre.

In the cover at end is a leaf of a Pie in double columns of cent. xiv, xv. On f.7 (bound as f.1) lower margin is part of a xiiith cent. inscription ...deus homo Anselmus. proslogion liber Anselmi et monologion ad francum.

Bibliography

Gameson, R., The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford, 1999), nos. 128-31 [in four sections of xii in. and xii1]

Gneuss, H. and Lapidge, M., Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Biographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014), no. 157.7

Sharpe, R. and Webber, T., ‘Four Early Booklets of Anselm’s Work from Salisbury Cathedral: MS Cambridge, Trinity College B.1.37’, Scriptorium, 63 (2009), 58-72 + plates 1-2

 

Webber, T., ‘Where were Books Made and Kept’, in Da Rold, O. and Treharne, E. (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts (Cambridge, 2020), 214-33, esp. pp. 216-18

 

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