Defensor, active 7th century. Liber scintillarum Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216. De contemptu mundi Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 36337
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Part 1. f. 3: [Title of the Liber scintillarum]: Liber scintillarum, meditaciones beati Bernardi Et de trinitate cum multis aliis; [added later:] excepciones biblie; [f. 3v,13th/14th cent. contents of the Liber Scintillarum:] De caritate, De Paciencia ... De personarum acceptis, De itinere; [f. 3v, 15th cent. contents of the volume]: Libri contenti in hoc volumine videlicet Liber scintillarum vii cum versibus, Excepciones biblie, tractatus de verbis defectivis, De trasgressione [sic] ade, Beda de trinitate, Tractatus de sequentia sancti Michelis, De miseria humane condicionis, Pater noster expositus, Sermones qui sicut incipiunt Vide iacob scalam, Meditaciones bernardi. Part 1. ff. 4-54v: [Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum]: Rubric: Liber scintillarum primus. De caritate incipit. Incipit: Dominus dicit in evangelio Maiorem caritatem nemo habet ... Explicit: et multi sunt qui intrant per eam. Liber scintillarum explicit. [followed by an erasure of 2 lines; f. 55r-v, well washed material of undetermined date, illegible under ultraviolet light. Additional extracts from the Fathers added in the outer margins in the fourteenth century by 2 hands; those on f. 6 added over an erased note; book numbers and occasionally topics added as running headlines]. Part 1. f. 56: [12 verses on the voices of animals, followed by additional verses]: Incipit: Infans vagit, ovis balat, rugire leones ... est hominumque loqui quod dico prevalet omni. Explicit: Excaturizat aves, pisces eventerat ille/ Ustulat hic porcos, excoriatque boves; Fons scaturit, vinum [?] scatet, pullos scaturizat/hustullat porcos excoriatque boves [the last 2 verses added in a 13th/14th cent. anglicana script]. Part 1. ff. 56v-61: [Anonymous poem on old age]: Incipit: Magne [sic] fuit quondam capitis reverentia cani ... Explicit: Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies/ Cernis ut ignavum corrumpunt ocia corpus. [ ff. 60v-61, washed; f. 61v, blank.] Part 1. ff. 62-81: [Definitions, descriptions and exegesis on the Old and New Testaments; occasional citations from the Fathers and Zacharias]: Rubric: Incipiunt exceptiones de libro Genesis. Quid sit annalis historia. Incipit: Annalis historia est rei facte per annum complete commemoratio. Kalendaria historia est alicuius insignis rei . . . [chapter 2:] Quid sit febris effimera, . . . [chapter 3:] Quid sit allegoria, . . . [chapter 4:] Unde dicuntur elementa, . . . [chapter 5:] Sentencia platonis aristotilis Epicuri Moysi, . . . [last chapter: Quod petrus et paulus uno eodem die sint passi, . . . :]. Explicit: Petrus vero crucifixus est in vaticano vico scilicet qui est extra civitatem ubi fiebant dolia. Explicit actus apostolorum. Part 1. f. 81: [Saying attributed to Gregory I]: Rubric: Ex dictis egregii pape gregorii. Incipit: Tribus moris culpa perpetratur, Suggestione, Delectatione, Consensu ... ; Item Gregorius, Quattuor moris peccatum perpetratur in corde ... Part 1. ff. 81v-83v: [On defective verbs]: Rubric: Incipit de verbis defectivis. Incipit: Plurima deficiunt vario cum tempore verba/ Deficiunt alia plurima per genera ... Que bene verba tenet versificalis apex ... Versus de verbis defectivis, Cedo, sodes, faxo, cepi, sis, infit et inquit/ Nolo, facello, volo, queso, capello, fero ... Designata tunc dulciter ista placunt; Tractatus de verbis defectivis, Sunt verba defectiva ut donacius ait, Alia per modos ut cedo ... Super piget redet inflectuntur. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 84-87: [Hildebert of Le Mans, De transgressione ade triformi] Rubric: De transgressione ade triformi. Incipit: Vicit adam veterem gula, gloria vana, cupido ... Explicit: Nox aurora dies umbra figura deus. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 87v-90: [Eucher of Lyons; extract from De formulis spiritualis intelligentiae (also attributed to Pseudo-Augustine)]: Rubric: Beda de trinitate. Incipit: Omnipotens deus pater et filius et spiritus sanctus, unus atque trinus. Unus videlicet in natura ... Explicit: Vigilare dei est in defensionem electorum suorum et ultionem inimicorum se manifestum demonstrare. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 90-95: [De sequencia sancti Michaelis]: Rubric: Tractatus de sequencia Sancti Michaelis. Incipit: Nota hoc nomen canticum nec stricte nec large accepi ... Explicit: Idem est ergo alleluia quod laudate universalem id est dominum. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 95-97v: [Brief exegetical texts, with rubrics as follow]: De septem hostibus, Septem sunt hostes de quibus in deuteronomio dicit, per unam viam venient ...; De triplici modo compassione, Triplex est compassionis modus ... ; De Sunamite et helyseo, Dixit sunamitis viro suo de heliseo ... ; Ubi antichristus nascetur, Nascetur antichristus in babilone de tribu Danielis iuxta quod Iacobus ait ... ; De tribus missis in natali domini, Tres misse que in natale domini celebrantur ... ; De pascha, In diebus hiis est pascha dei id est transitus quando transivit de hoc mundo ad patrem ... [f. 97, blank; f. 97v:] De mendacio, Perdes omnes qui loquuntur mendacium ... ; De perfectione vite, Tria sunt que ducunt hominem ad vite perfectionem, Cordis contritio ... Part 1. ff. 97v-109v: [Innocent III, De miseria humane conditionis]: Prologue: Incipit liber de miseria humane conditionis editus a lothario diacono cardinali sanctorum Sergii et Bachi qui postea Innocentius iiius appellatus est, Domino patri Karissimo petro portuensi episcopo Lotharius ... Modicum ocii quod inter multas angustias ... Incipit: Quare de vulva. Explicit: terrores, fames, sitis, frigus, cauma, sulphur et ignis ardens in secula seculorum. Explicit liber Domini pape Innocentii iii de Contemptu Mundi. Part 1. ff. 110-112: [Exegesis on the Pater Noster]: Incipit: Pater noster, hec est oratio dominica ceteris oracionibus omnibus et instituentis auctoritate sublimior et utilitate petitionum fecundior ... Explicit: ad illas delicias dilectores suos nos assumat summe bonus ihesus christus qui est benedictus in secula Amen. Part 1. ff. 112-166: [Brief exegetical texts]: Septem scale quibus ascenduntur regna celorum prima castitas ... [f. 163:] Preceptum obediencia obedienciam signa comitantur. Explicit; [f. 163v, in the upper margin, Additiones ut supra:] Beda in omelis illa, Si diligitis me mandata mea servate et cetera, Quinquagesima die post occisionem agni data est lex ... [followed by 11 other sermons; f. 165:] Sepe in evangelio causa designatur nomine sui effectus ... Omnia michi ex patre nota in quibus electorum salus consistit per me scietis. [f. 166 blank]. Part 1. f. 166v: [Charm to staunch blood]: Incipit: Pur seink estanger, Iesu crist notre seignur el flum Iordan entra/ Cent cinquaunte veines de euue i truva/ Cent cinquaunte veines chescun home a/ estaunche saunc par tutes les vertuz ke damnedeus a. Part 1. f. 167: blank. f. 167v: Table of roman numerals and their Latin names, one to one million. ff. 168-169v, washed. On f. 169v, notes in lead point. Part 2. ff. 1-2v: [Bifolium from a late 12th cent. Missal; here bound reversed]: [f. 1: canon of the mass]: Incipit: //fides cognita est ... offerimus preclare maiestati tue de tuis donis ac datis// [f.2: prefaces]: //celestis exercitus, ymnum glorie tue canimus ...Celi celorumque virtutes ac beata seraphim socia exultacione//. Florilegium, mostly theological texts, written in England in the first third of the thirteenth century. Also includes contemporary flyleaves, originating as a bifolium in a separate Missal, written in England in the second half of the twelfth century. Part 1. Span folios: ff. 1-169 (ff. 1-3 medieval flyleaves; ff. 55r-v, 60v-61, 168-169, washed). Support: Parchment. Layout: 1²(+3, added as a flyleaf) 2-7⁸ 8⁴(through f. 55) 9¹⁰(-7, 8) 10-13⁸ 14²(ff. 96-97) 15-23⁸. Quires 17-22 signed b-g in lower inner corner of the first recto. On ff. 4-54v, 25 long lines; the other texts in 2 columns of 34-35 lines; both written on the top line; ruled in crayon and lead point; pricking visible. Written by 2 people; i, ff. 4-54v, in a spiky littera textualis; ii, ff. 62-165v, in a small spiky littera textualis. Part 1. Decoration: On ff. 4-54v, 3- to 2-line initials up to f. 25v (thereafter uncompleted) and rubrics in orange-tinged red; in the other texts, 3- to 2-line initials, placed outside the written space, in red, dark green or light blue. Part 2. Span folios: ff. 1-2v. Support: Parchment. Contemporary flyleaves, included in the foliation as ff. 1-2, but originating as a bifolium in a separate codex (i.e. a missal, bound here in reversed order). Written in a pregothic script. Music: Neumes on 4-line staves with C or F clef indicated. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/24/2012. Bound in contemporary (?) calf (varnished later) over oak boards; evidence of a fore edge strap closing to pin on back cover; tabs to mark texts on lower edge of ff. 81, 97, 112; pastedowns removed; spine crudely strengthened with a piece of brown leather (the same repair on the binding of HM 28174, also a Tollemache book). HM 36337. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
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Cloth label on spine:"MS 8." Belonged to the Tollemache Library, Helmingham Hall: n. 24 in the old Helmingham catalogue; label on inside of front cover:"L.J.II.6" altered to"L.H.II.28" and"24" in pencil (for a brief history of this library, see the Sotheby catalogue, 14 June 1965, iii-viii). Acquired by the Huntington Library from Alan G. Thomas, Catalogue 28 (1972) n. 4.
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