Cambridge, University Library, MS Hh.6.11
Compilation of theological texts
Contents
Language(s): Latin, with few notes in Middle English and Anglo-Norman French
Anno domini .mo.cco.xxo.iiijo. In ocatbis sancte trinitatis obsedit Henricus .iiii. [sic] Rex castrum de Bedeford per .ix. sept . et In vigilia assumpcionis beate marie cepit illud et omnis castri[sic] ministros suspendit
Notes on events on years 1266, 1271, 1276, and 1280, added in various hands.
1v text in lower inner corner: After a brief note about the construction of a new refectory, the land transaction records a transfer of land where Abbot William of Gomecestre (Godmanchester) purchased the manors of Barnwell (Berne Welle), Hemington (Hemmingthone), Crowthorp (Crowethorpe), and Littlethorp (Littleþorp) from Berengar le Moyne for 2500 marks.
The list of contents includes fourteen items, ten of which are missing (starred in the following):
- Doctrinale uel disciplinale magistri Hugonis de sancto Victore
- *De quatuor uirtutibus cardinalibus
- *Formula uite monachorum secundum beatum Bernardum edita
- *Regula sancti Benedicti
- *Bernardus de precepto et dispensacione
- *Meditaciones eiusdem
- *De vii mortalibus ⟨peccatis⟩ et eorum speciebus
- Liber Aurelii Augustini de uera penitencia
- Tractatus de xii abusionibus domini Hugonis de folieto
- Epistola Turpini Archiepiscopi Remensis ad Leoprandum decanum aquisgranensis
- *Decem precepta decalogi
- *Septem sacramenta
- *Templum domini a magistro R. cognomento Grosseteste compilatum
- *Donatus
Full transcription. A list of the towns from Wissant to Lyon, via Paris, and back to Paris .
The same riddle can be found in two other 13th-century manuscripts, one now in Auxerre, Bibliothèque municipale, 007, f. 2r and the other, in a manuscript from Bayeux, France c. 1268-1274, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud. misc. 644 f. 123vb (after item 10 in the Quarto Catalogue entry).
In a large hand, the names of "Gregorius, Augustinus, Cassiodorus, Origenes, Ambrosius, Ieronimus, Beda, Isidore" and the line: "Interius scripta latitare putetis eorum. Externis picta calamo sunt nomina quorum."
Ten brief petitions in prose. Only known survivors of Anglo-Norman bidding prayers, and one of the earliest versions in French to survive.
Addessed to a religious community, probably monks of Ramsey Abbey, closing with absolution.
Most of f. 4r and all of f. 4v blank.
Ends imperfectly.
f. 29 blank.
Quote from Aquinas's Commentary on Aristotle, Ethics, Bk. 4 Lectio 8.738, followed by a commentary.
Three additions written by two different late 13th- and 14th-century hands in previously blank space; f. 29r-v ruled but blank.
Part of Hugh's work De claustro anime.
A paragraph added by a late 13th-century hand about a rich man's son wishing to enter a monastery.
Ends imperfectly in chapter 19. Part of the D recension of the text, and a direct copy of BnF, Latin 14703 (Meredith-Jones, p. 17).
Exerpts from Chronica, book 3 p. 256-59 and book 4 p. 275 (years 1307-1308); added with a 14th-century cursive hand.
A charter of William of Godmanchester (abbot of Ramsey Abbey 1267-1285), appointing bailiffs of the manor of Gravenhurst in 1282.
Upper margin includes few lines of verse in Latin; f. 66r blank.
Appears also in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 468, f. vii recto.
A brief excerpt (Vitae Patrum 38) added in the empty space in the column.
Upper margin includes a trimmed Latin distich and English equivalent: | I am Rose wo is me ∙ sutere þat i suete þe | I wacs þat weylawey. cherles hand me þristet ay.
A charter of Hugh of Sulgrave (abbot of Ramsey Abbey 1254-1267).
Appears also in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 468 , f. vii verso.
Bottom of the leaf cut.
Appears also in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 468 , f. vii verso
Prophecy of deaths of the 4 sons of Henry II.
Appears also in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 468 , ff. viii recto- x recto
On 69r are added a number of verses and notes, for example notes on quantities of flour etc. received in the year; and a note on the symbolism of pastoral staff.
With 4 line stave
f. 69v: added note in the lower margin: In vento minime pluuia niue sole sedere | possumus in claustro nec scribere neque studere.
1275. Deed of William (de Gomecestre?) appointing Hugo de Banham proctor at Rome. Vig. S. Barthol.
Declensions of cherub and seraph; derivation of 'Adam' from Anathole, dysis, Arthos, mesimbrios
1277. Archbishop Robert de Chuluartby (Kilwardby) visited the abbey.
On upper and lower margin, moral and memorial verses
Two remedies against fever.
Full transcription.
Not in Dean and Boulton.
1240 16 Kal. Dec. Death of St Edmund.
1246 5 Id. Jun. Translatio of St Edmund. Indulgence.
Not in Dean and Boulton.
Physical Description
20th-century foliation:
[i] + 1-71 + [ii]
Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos, coinciding with foliation in ink (see below).18th-/19th-century foliation:
Occasional foliation in ink in the lower right-hand corner of the rectos, see e.g., f. 13r.Collation
10 quires of varied composition arranged as follows:
- Quire 12 (ff. 1-2)
- Quire 22 (ff. 3-4)
- Quire 310-2 (9th and 10th missing, stub visible between ff. 6v-7r, perhaps misbound; ff. 5-12)
- Quire 410 (ff. 13-22)
- Quire 58-1 (8th cancelled; ff. 23-29)
- Quire 68 (ff. 30-37)
- Quire 78 (ff. 38-45)
- Quire 88 (ff. 46-53)
- Quire 912-1 (12th cancelled; ff. 54-64)
- Quire 10two (ff. 65-66)
- Quire 11five (ff. 67-71)
1-22, 310-2 (9th and 10th leaves missing), 410, 58-1 (8th cancelled), 6–88, 912-1 (12th cancelled), 10two, 11five
Catchwords present on f. 37v and 45v.Layout
140-145 × 95-100 mm. Mainly double columns with 27 lines to the page, ruled in ink. Folios 1v-4r and 65r-66v ruled and written in single columns; f. 67v ruled in double columns but written in single column; ff. 69v-70r written in single columns with red ink ruling for the notation; ff. 70v-71r unruled. Written above the top line.
Hand(s)
Northern textualis
Various 13th- and 14th-century cursive hands added texts on ff. 1v-4v and 65r-71r.
Decoration
Folios 5-64: pen-flourished initials in red and blue.
Folios 5-64: plain initials alternating in red and blue.
Folios 5-64: rubrication in red.
Additions
Notes on collation on the rear pastedown by Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886), University Librarian 1867-1886. Corresponding quire signatures (x, †, A, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, 4A) in the bottom right-hand corner of the recto side of the first leaf of each quire, written in pencil also presumably by Bradshaw. He considered the current Quires 10 and 11 to be one quire of 4 sheets with the 3rd leaf (after f. 66v) missing (see Collation for more recent assessment).
Binding
17th-century paper cover over couched-laminate boards. Brown leather spine with a general title tooled in gold: Tracts M.S. All three edges coloured in blue.
Binding height: 205 mm, width: 55 mm, depth: 25 mm.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
f. 2r: Ramsey Abbey: Given to the treasury (armariolo) of Ramsey Abbey by brother Ralph de Olneya, inscribed rubric for the list of contents, Isti libri continentur in hoc uolumine quod quidem uolumen frater R. de Olneya dedit Armariolo Ramesye.
f. i recto: possibly Samuel Clarke : ownership inscription, perhaps date of acquisition: Sam Clarke. Maij 17, 1658.
John Moore (1646-1714), bishop of Ely : no. 881 in the handwritten supplementary list of Moore's manuscripts, now MS Oo.7.50.2, compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735) after the publication of Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697).
Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I : donation bookplate engraved by John Pine in 1736 on the front pastedown.
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