The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.4.42
Manuscript Title Rule of St Basil etc
Alternative Title Regula S. Basilii etc
James Number 1272
Century 13th
Physical Description

Double columns of 37 lines. In a fine black upright hand. Initials in red and blue. The quires are numbered throughout in red. The margins of several leaves have been cut off.

Provenance Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. Marked H. 5. No. 319. From Abbey Dore, a Cistercian monastery in Herefordshire. On the bottom of f.1 of text is (xv?) Liber Monachorum Sancte Marie Vallis Dore ● qui eum fraude furauerit Anathema sit.
Second Folio tabitur die
Religious House Dore, Herefordshire, Cistercian Abbey
Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 30.5 x 22.5
Folio 113 + 4 ff.
Binding

Original binding, white skin over boards, strap and pin-fastening gone.

Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation 2 flyleaves, i8-xiii8 xiv10 (1 canc.). 2 flyleaves.
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.4.42/manifest.json
Online Since 12/01/2015

Contents

On the second cover near the R. lower corner, is a label still partially covered with horn nailed over it, inscribed in a good hand of cent. xiii:
Regula sci basilii ● et uita ipsius, et liber de panibus ● et alii libri.

On the second flyleaf, from the top of which a slip has been cut, is an original table of contents headed in red:
In hoc uolumine continentur hii libri.

Contents: On the first flyleaf, in a good hand, 32 verses.
Vado mori · res certa quidem · nil certius illa:
Queque sub incerto fit mora · uado mori.
Vado mori · quid amem quod finem spondet amarum.
Cuius inanis amor · non amo · uado mori.
...
Vado mori monachus mundi moriturus amori.
Vt moriatur amor hic michi uado mori.
Vado mori logicus · aliis concludere nolo ·
Conclusit breuiter mors michi · uado mori.
1. f.1 Inc. prologus Rufini presbiteri in regulam b. Basilii episcopi (P.L. CIII.483)
Satis libenter karissime frater ursaci
-uel obseruationibus uiuant. Expl. prol.
f.1 Inc. Consulta b. Basilii Cesariensis episcopi
Humanum genus diligens deus (l.c. 487).
Ends f.34b: sed sufficientia nostra ex deo est.
Expl. consulta Beati Basilii.
f.34b 2. Inc. eiusdem B. Basilii Archiep. Cesariensis admonitiones ad monachos (l.c. 613)
(Title and first words in blue and red.)
Audi fili admonitionem patris tui.
Ends f.42: que preparauit deus diligentibus etc.
Expl. admonit. B. Basilii ad monachos.
f.42 3. Inc. sermo S. Augustini Ep. de humilitate et obedientia
Nichil sic deo placet (P.L. XL.1221).
-audiat: in Christo Ihesu domino nostro. Amen.
f.43b 4. Inc. Prefacio Amphilochii et Dionisii episcoporum in uita et miraculis S. Basilii Archiep. Capadocie (P.L. LXXIII.295)
Dilectissimi non erat indecorum
-uirtutes ipsius enarrantes. Expl. pref.
f.44 Inc. uita S. Basilii Ep. Kal. Januarii
De tempore quo doctrine uacauit et conuersatione magistri sui Euboli.
Basilius itaque solus ut sic dicam.
Ends f.55b: cui cum patre et sancto ac uiuifico spiritu est gloria nunc et semper et in sec. sec. Amen.
5. f.55b Inc. uita siue passio S. Juliani martyris et S. Basilisce uxoris eius (see Acta SS. Jan. tom. I. 575)
Beati iuliani martyris passionem intimabo.
Ends f.66: et tantam gloriam prestat sanctis suis per omnia sec. sec. Amen.
Expl. passio S. iuliani martyris et aliorum sanctorum.
6. f.66b Inc. excerpta ex libro de panibus dompni Petri cellensis abbatis ad mag. Johannem Sales(buriensem) scripto (P.L. CCII.929)
Humilis Christi minister
-ad eius mensam deferat.
De mensa domini breuiter etc.
In tabernaculo testimonii iubente domino.
Ends (de pane calido) f.103: plenitudinem supercrescat.
Hec de panum uarietate dicta sufficiant.
f.103b 7. Idem qui supra ad Alcherum monachum Clareuall. de conscientia (l.c. 1083)
Karissimo suo A.
-agnoscere et conseruare conscientiam. Explicit.
8. f.106b Inc. uita S. Wenefrede uirginis et martyris xo Kal. Julii
In occidua maioris Britannie regione.
It is the Life by 'Robertus Salopianus,' without the Prologue (which is in Bodl. Laud. Misc. 114), according to an old note on the flyleaf).
Ends f.117: et feliciter ad celi palacia peruenit. Expl. uita S. Wenefrede uirg. et mart. xo Kal. Julii.
Hardy, Catalogue of Materials, I.179, notices this MS.

Bibliography

Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964)

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