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Title

Canticum canticorum, with glossa ordinaria

Authors

• Peter, of Limoges, -1306 (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr2003026022)
• de Lucedio, Ogerius
• Publilius, Syrus, active 1st century B.C. (https://lccn.loc.gov/n85194948)
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. (https://lccn.loc.gov/n79004229)
• Pseudo-Seneca (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr99011706)
• John Chrysostom, Saint, -407 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n80001460)
• Pseudo-Bernardus
• Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n50079116)
• Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n80004066)

Other related names

• Newcastle, Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Duke of, 1785-1851, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n88108973)
• Wynham, William, former owner
• Gordon, Phyllis Walter Goodhart, former owner
• Gordon, John Dozier, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 18
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms18.shtml
• Goodhart: 66

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This is an English manuscript from the twelfth to the thirteenth century, containing various texts in different hands, which includes: the Canticum canticorum; Peter of Limoges' de Oculo Morali; Ogerius de Lucedio's Planctus Beatae Virginis Mariae; Publilius Syrus' Sententiae; Seneca's De beneficiis; Pseudo-Seneca' ad Gallionem de remediis fortuitis; Johannes Chrysostomus' De reparation lapsi; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux's Exceptiones super meditationibus de interiori homine; Hugh of Saint Victor's Commentarium super Regulam Canonicorum; Four unidentified sermons, one on Psalm 98 and one on Deuteronomy 16.1; and Saint Basil's Epistola ad Monachos.

Notes

• Previously Goodhart 66
   
• Text begins on fol. 2 with no apparent loss of text
   
• Parchment brittle and discolored on fols. 125-161
   
• Badly faded ink on parchment that is yellowed and in poor condition making text difficult to read on fols. 178-185
   
• Flyleaves from earlier bindings containing unidentified text on fols. 2-5 and 185-187
   
• Text ending incompletely on fol. 177
   
• Multiple scripts: English proto-gothic book script, the gloss written about half the size as the canticle (fols. 7-43); English cursive script (fols. 44-102); English cursive script, multiple hands (fols. 103-124); English proto-gothic book script (fols. 125-161); English cursive script (fols. 162-177); English book hand (fols. 178-184)
   
• Musical notation (a single stave) on fol. 187
   

Extent

Ii+188+ii; 163 x 120 mm bound to 176 x 138 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (4), 2 (9, +1), 3-5 (8), 6 (4, -1), 7 (2), 8-12 (8), 13 (8, -4), 14 (8, -8), 15 (6, -1), 16 (8), 17 (14), 18 (10, -5 -7), 19 (10, -5 -7), 20 (10, -4 -8), 21 (8), 22 (5, +5), 23-24 (8), 25 (11, +9 +10 +11)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords below text in inner margin of inside column enclosed in a square (fols. 44-102 only)

Binding

Nineteenth-century dark brown morocco, embossed with blind stamping, gold tooled arms of the fourth Duke of Newcastle on cover; on spine: "TRACTATUS/ VARII./ MS."

Layout

Layout varies by section: Fols. 7-43: three columns, each ca. thirty-one lines; ruled in black ink with single vertical bounding lines for each column, full length; remains of prickings in margin; Fols. 44-102: two columns, thirty-one lines with single vertical bounding lines and double horizontal bounding lines, full length, with an additional set of double bounding lines in top margin above text on recto, all in ink; Fols. 103-124: Single column, thirty-two to thirty-six lines with double vertical and horizontal bounding lines full across in lead; remains of pricking in margins; Fols. 125-161: Single column, twenty-four to twenty-seven lines with single vertical bounding lines full length, in ink; Fols. 162-177: Single column, twenty-seven to twenty-nine lines, ruled in lead with vertical and horizontal bounding lines full length; Fols. 178-184: single column, thirty-two to thirty-eight lines with vertical bounding lines full length; text is crowded on page and often disregards bounding lines

Fols. 44-102: two columns, thirty-one lines with single vertical bounding lines and double horizontal bounding lines, full length, with an additional set of double bounding lines in top margin above text on recto, all in ink

Fols. 103-124: Single column, thirty-two to thirty-six lines with double vertical and horizontal bounding lines full across in lead; remains of pricking in margins

Fols. 125-161: Single column, twenty-four to twenty-seven lines with single vertical bounding lines full length, in ink

Fol. 162-177: Single column, twenty-seven to twenty-nine lines, ruled in lead with vertical and horizontal bounding lines full length

Fols. 178-184: single column, thirty-two to thirty-eight lines with vertical bounding lines full length; text is crowded on page and often disregards bounding lines

Decoration

Decoration varies in sections: Fols. 7-43: one illuminated six-line initial, gold on a blue rectangular ground, several two-line initials in red or green ink throughout; Fols. 44-102: one six-line red and blue initial at beginning of text with penwork extensions; three- and two-line red or blue initials with contrasting blue or red penwork flourishes and extensions throughout; red and blue line fillers; rubrication throughout; Fols. 103-124: one six-line red ink initial; several two- and three-line red ink initials; one two-line initial; red paragraph markings throughout; Fols. 125-161: one five-line green initial and one red two-line initial; Fol. 162-177: Two-line red initials introducing both sermons; marginal notations in red and black ink

Script

Protogothic

Gothic--cursiva

Secretary

Provenance

• Written in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and bound together no later than the 14th C. On recto of fol. 6 a table of contents corresponding to the present text and ownership note: "liber Will. Wynham/ Wintoniensis MCCClij"; on fol. 186v: "William Wynham." The arms on the cover suggest that it was in the possession of the fourth Duke of Newcastle (1785-1851). Descriptive catalogue entry no. 1331 fastened to inside cover (possibly from the seventh Duke of Newcastle's Clumber Library sale of 1937 or 1938). In the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College (bookplate) in 1995
   

Related resources

• Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 435, n. 18.
• Glossa ordinaria; Repertorium biblicum medii aevi, Stegmüller, v. 9, no 11804; PL 113, 1128-68.
• Newhauser,Richard, "Inter scientiam et populum: Roger Bacon, Peter of Limoges, and the 'Tractatus moralis de oculo,'" in: J.A. Aertsen, K. Emery, Jr., and A. Speer, eds., Nach der Verurteilung von 1277.
• Philosophie und Theologie an der Universität von Paris im letzten Viertel des 13. Jahrhunderts. Studien und Texte / After the Condemnations of 1277. Philosophy and Theology at the University of Paris in the Last Quarter of the Thirteenth Century. Studies and Texts, Miscellanea Mediaevalia 28 (Berlin, New York, 2001), pp. 682-703.
• Penco, G., "Ogerio di Lucedio e il Planctus Mariae," Benedictina 16 (1969) 126-128.
• Capelleno, M., "Codici delle opere del beato Ogerio di Lucedio," Bolletino storico vercellese 18 (1982) 177-183.
• Publilius Syrus, Sententiae; ed. William Meyer (Leipzig, 1880).
• Seneca, De beneficiis libri vii, Charles Hosius, ed. (Leipzig, 1914).
• Ps.-Seneca, Ad Gallionem de remediis fortuitorum liber. L. Annaei Senecae opera quae supersunt supplementum, Friedrich Haase, ed. (Liepsig, 1902) 44-55.
• Johannes Chrysostomus, De Reparatione Lapsi (Cologne, 1469); German Books Before 1601, microfilm roll 437, item 3.
• Ps-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes de interiori homine (Augsburg, c. 1475).
• Hugonis de S. Victore, Expositio in Regulam Beati Augustini, PL 176, 881-924.

Keywords

• 12th century
• 13th century
• Collection of Sermons
• Miscellany
• Treatise
• Christian
• English
• England
• Damage
• Fragment
• Gloss
• Musical notation
• Theology
• Illumination

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Table of contents

• fol. 7r — Canticum canticorum; incipit: OSCVLETUR me osculo oris sui. Quia meliora sunt ubera tua uino fraglantia unguentis optimis; explicit: Fuge dilecte mi et assimilare capree hymnoloque ceruorum super montes aromatum.
• fol. 44r — Peter of Limoges, de Oculo Morali; incipit: Si diligenter uolumus in lege domini meditari facillime perpendimus ea quae pertinent ad uisionem et occulum prae ceteris; explicit: et reges in folio collocat in perpetuum et illic ergitur ad alium regnum nos perducat qui sine fine regnat. Amen.
• fol. 103r — Ogerius de Lucedio, Planctus Beatae Virginis Mariae; incipit: Quis dabit capiti meo aquam et oculis meis imbrem ut possim flere per diem et noctem donec seruo suo dominus appareat; explicit: Benedicti sint ab ea qui diligunt eam et gratia omnia benedictus sit filius eius dominus noster Iesu Christe qui cum Deo patre et Spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
• fol. 107v — Publilius Syrus, Sententiae; incipit: Alienum est omne quidquid optando euenit.; explicit: Zelum de domino habeas, non contra homines. Zelari hominibus uiciosum est. Expliciunt prouerbia Senece per litteras alphabeti.
• fol. 112v — Seneca, De beneficiis; incipit: Inter omnes ac varios errores nostros nihil peius esse iudico quam quod beneficia nec dare scimus nec recipere.; explicit: Si amas tolleras, si desistis amare, desistis tollerare quoniam minus diligimus, minus tolleramus.
• fol. 113r — Pseudo-Seneca, ad Gallionem de remediis fortuitis; incipit: Male de te opinantur homines, sed mali mouerer si de te, si Marius, si Cato; explicit: Nescio quomodo minus mortem timet, qui minus deliciarum nouit in uita.
• fol. 115r — Johannes Chrysostomus, De reparatione lapsi; incipit: Quis dabis capiti meo aquam et oculis meis fontes lachrimarum. Anima michi flenda est multis gentilibus nobilior multisque urbibus preciosior.; explicit: sed et illud capita quod tibi maiorem audaciam dederit deus eo, illius audaciam labefactabit et uires.
• fol. 120r — Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Exceptiones super meditationibus de interiori homine; incipit: Multi multa sciunt et seipsos nesciunt. Alios inspiciunt et seipsos deseriant. Deum quaerunt per exteriora ista, deserentes interiora ista sua quibus interior est deus.; explicit: bonum meum in tribulatione magis amplecti te, in omnibus habere te mecum quam esse sine te ut in celo.
• fol. 125r — Hugh of Saint Victor, Commentarium super Regulam Canonicorum; incipit: Haec precepta quae subscripta sunt ideo regula appellantur quia uidelicet in eis nobis recte uiuendi norma exprimitur.; explicit: Ubi autem sibi quicumque uestrum uidet aliquid deese, doleat de praeterito, caueat de futuro, orans ut et debitum dimitatur, et in temptationem non inducatur.
• fol. 159r — Two unidentified sermons; incipit: Oseranicae congregationis uenerabili preposito sanctoque, eius conuentui et omnibus in canonico ordine. Secundum dominum uiuentibus.; explicit: Cur dixi non salutate. Semper enim uos salutat et qui salutem uestram semper optat.
• fol. 162r — Unidentified sermon on Psalm 98; incipit: Cantate domino canticum nouum. Merito tenerem cantare canticum nouum quia uetus error abiit.; explicit: Quo nos transferre dignetur puer qui natus est nobis saluator mundi qui cum patre et spiritu uiuet et regnat per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.
• fol. 171r — Unidentified sermon on Deuteronomy 16.1; incipit: Obserua mensam nouarum frugum et uerni primum temporis ut facias phase domino deo tuo. Verba ista Moisi sunt in deuteronomio; explicit: sic in ecclesia maiores minores docent fidem Christi et opera Christi et legem Christi. Si quidem cotidie in...
• fol. 178r — Saint Basil, Epistola ad Monachos; incipit: Audi fili admonitionem patris tui et inclina aurem tuam. Accomoda libenter auditum tuum; explicit: nec aures audiuerunt nec in corde hominis ascendit quae preparauit deus diligentibus eum. Amen.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Phyllis Walter Goodhart
• Inside front cover — In pencil: "543 b. 14 Census 1681 pencil"
• Inside front cover — Descriptive catalogue entry no. 1331 fastened to inside cover (possibly from the seventh Duke of Newcastle's Clumber Library sale of 1937 or 1938)
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bryn Mawr College Library bookplate: "The gift of Mrs. John Dozier Gordan, Jr."
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Note in pencil: "March 1943 - Gift of Mrs. John Dozier Gordan, Jr."
• fol. 6r — Table of contents corresponding to the present text and ownership note: "liber Will. Wynham/ Wintoniensis MCCClii"
• fol. 7r — Six-line illuminated initial O on blue rectangular ground
• fol. 44r — Six-line red and blue initial S
• fol. 125r — Five-line green initial H
• fol. 187v — In ink: "William Wynham"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bryn Mawr College Library bookplate: "The gift of Mrs. John Dozier Gordan, Jr."
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Note in pencil: "March 1943 - Gift of Mrs. John Dozier Gordan, Jr."