Michael, de Meaux Richard, of Wetheringsett William, de Montibus, approximately 1140-1213 Alanus, de Insulis, -1202 Davies, Robert, -1710, former owner Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216. De contemptu mundi Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. Moralia in Job Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 19914
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Part 1. f. 1: [An incomplete motet; notation in separate parts on 8 red five-line staves per page] Part 1. ff. 1v-2: [A complete motet with notation in separate parts on 8 red five-line staves per page; on f. 2, alternating groups of black and red notes on one line]: Incipit: Maria diceris mater amabilis. Part 1. f. 2v: [Kyrie; in 3 parts with score notation on 9 red five-line staves]. Part 2. ff. 3-114v: [Michael de Meaux, Compilacio super psalterium]: Rubric: Brevis compilacio supe[r psalterium], Quisquis ad divine pagine lectionem accedit. Incipit: Beatus vir qui non abiit, Homo quando cogitacionem suam ad terrena flectit. Explicit: sola enim perseverantia accipit bravium. Finis distinctionum post meldensem collectarum. Amen. Explicit compendiosa exposicio super psalterium. f. 114v blank. Part 3. ff. 115-158v: [Richard of Leicester [also known as Richard Wetheringsett], Speculum sacerdotum]: Rubric: Incipit speculum sacerdotum secundum magistrum Richardum de leycestria cancellarium Cantebrigensem. Incipit: Qui bene presunt presbiteri . . . [f. 115v, Text:] Ad manifestationem singulorum prenominatorum per ordinem possunt introduci auctoritates sanctarum scripturarum. Explicit: Siquid autem residuum fuerit, filiis aaron relinquo. Faciendi quidem libros, nullus est finis. Hic ergo erit consumatus. Finito libro reddatur gloria christo amen. versus. Explicit speculum sacerdotum secundum magistrum Richardum de Leycestria quondam cancellarium Cantebrigensem. Part 3. ff. 159-184: [William de Montibus, Numerale]: Incipit: //In primis igitur ut ab unitate exordiamur innotescendum est, quod scriptum est. Unus deus. Deus unus est. Contra Deut. xix ysay. cxxx. Apostolus ait, sunt multi dii et cetera. Resp. Dicitur deus essencialiter. Explicit: et hic deo gracias agendo huius summe finem facimus cui nomen numerale imponimus, plura quidem hic omissa in aliis opusculis nostris copiosius sunt exarata. Explicit numerale magistri Willelmi lincolnensis ecclesie cancellarii. Sancta Ositha Deo gracias. Latin. [End of text is followed by the chapter on the Four Arms of the Cross marked "vacat"; it had already been copied in its correct position on f. 170]. Part 3. ff. 184v-188v: [Verse compendium of the Old and New Testaments]: Incipit: Ante dies omnes mundi fuit omnis in uno / Machina momento facta iubente deo. Explicit: Illic absque metu pax est risus sine fletu / Absque labore quies et sine nocte dies. Amen. Part 3. ff. 189-200: [Innocent III, De miseria humane conditionis]: Rubric: Incipit tractatus domini pape de contemptu mundi. Incipit: Domino patri karissimo petro dei gracia portuensi episcopo lotarius . . . Modicum ocii quod inter multas angustias . . . Quare de vulva . . . Explicit: terrores et punctiones, amaritudines, fames et sitis, frigus et sulphur et ignis ardens a quibus omnibus liberet nos deus. Amen. Explicit tractatus lotharii de contemptu mundi. Sancta Ositha virgo et martir pretiosa miserere supplicibus tuis. Amen. Deo gracias. Part 3. ff. 200v-226v: [Alan of Lille, Summa de arte predicatoria]: Rubric: Incipit compilacio notabilium pro predicantibus utilis et devota, capitulum primum quod scala est perfectus catholici. Incipit: Vidit iacob scalam a terra usque ad celum attingentem. Explicit: Nube ergo illi de quo dicitur, Potestati eius quis resistit, et alibi, Regni eius non erit finis. Ad quem pervenire valeamus. Amen. Explicit liber artis predicandi. Part 3. ff. 227-229v: [William de Montibus, Peniteas cito]: Rubric: Penitentiarius magistri Willelmi de montibus. Incipit: Peniteas cito peccatorum. Explicit: Secundum ea que peccaverit homo oportet pretium reddi. Quod gula peccaverit ieiunium// Explicit penitentiarius magistri Willelmi de montibus sed incompletus. [End of final rubric followed by 2 lines in red ink, erased]. f. 229v blank. Part 4. f. 230-334v: [Gregory I, Moralia in Job]: Rubric: Incipiunt moralia beati gregorii pape per contemplacionem sumpta in librum Iob Libri quinque pars prima, Inter multos sepe queritur quis libri beati iob scriptor habeatur. Et alii quidem moysen alii unum ex prophetis scriptorem huius operis fuisse suspicantur. Quia enim in libro geneseos. Incipit: Vir erat in terra hus nomine iob. Idcirco sanctus vir ubi habitaverit dicitur. Explicit: Quia is qui in desiderio carnalis corruptionis exestuat ad fetorem putredinis anhelat. Explicit. Coram quo de quo quid ubi cui quomodo quando/ Dicas provideas ne male peniteas. Expliciunt quedam notabilia moralium beati gregorii excerpta pro utilitate contemplativorum. [After the final rubric, an erasure of red ink; f. 334v blank]. Title supplied by cataloger. Composite volume in four parts written in England in the middle of the thirteenth century, containing: 1) parchment flyleaves from a mid-14th century text containing motets and part of a Kyrie; 2) Michael de Meaux's Compilacio super psalterium; 3) several theological and pastoral works; 4) Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. Part 1. Span folios: ff. 1-2v. Support: Parchment. Leaves dating to mid-14th century functioning here as flyleaves. Music: polyphonic notation on red 5-line staves. Part 2. Span folios: ff. 3-114v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-8⁸ 9¹⁰(through f. 76) 10-13⁸ 14⁸(-7, 8). Quires signed in roman numerals on the verso of the last leaf, 1-9 and then 1-4. Ruled space: 140 x 83 mm. 28-30 long lines, ruled in brown crayon with double bounding lines; written above top line. Written in a littera textualis. Part 2. Decoration: Major initials, ff. 3, 3v and 77, 3-line, light blue patterned in white or red patterned in light blue, both with leaf infilling in red touched with a light green wash; the initial on f. 3 enclosed in a square red frame with a leaf extension the length of the text; slashed initials within the text, underlining, paragraph marks and rubrics in red; running headlines numbering the chapters, and marginal notes at the beginnings of chapters in brown ink. Part 3. Span folios: ff. 115-228v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁶(+7) 2⁸ 3⁸(+8, a half leaf, f. 137) 4⁸ 5⁸(+5, a half leaf, f. 151) 6-13⁸ 14¹⁰(-10). Ruled space: 147 x 110 mm. In 2 columns of 40-43 lines, ruled in brown crayon with double bounding lines; written above top line. Written in littera textualis by 2 people: i, ff. 115-226v, except for ff. 137 and 151, additions, each by a different 14th c. hand; ii, ff. 227-229v. Part 3. Decoration: Initials, 4- to 1-line, placed outside the written space, the first in parted red and blue with stylized acanthus extension and flourishing; the others in combinations of pale blue, red or green; slashed initials in the text, paragraph marks, chapter numbers, underlining, rubrics and running headlines, all in red. On ff. 204-205, pouncing or pricking in lower margins. Part 4. Span folios: ff. 229-334v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁸(+1, f. 229) 2⁸ 3⁸(+8; the ninth leaf, between ff. 253-254, has been almost entirely cut away) 4-12⁸ 13⁸(+9). Ruled space: 155 x 120 mm. In 2 columns of 35-36 lines, ruled in lead, with a center line between the columns and a double line in the far left margin; pricking visible in the inner margin.; written above top line. Written in a littera textualis. Part 4. Opening initial, 3-line, green with red leaf-pattern infilling, and rubric in alternating lines of red and green; secondary initials set into the written space, 3- and 2-line, in plain red or green; tinted initials in the text, rubrics and running headlines in red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/5/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound in 17th century English brown calf over pasteboards; paper label on the front cover, also 17th c., "Exposition on the Psalms, Lat. Liber artis praedicandi. Gregorii expositio in Job, et cetera"; edges speckled in red. HM 19914. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
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Although the 1959 Sotheby catalogue suggests that the manuscript may have belonged to the Augustinians of St. Osyth near Colchester because of the invocations of St. Osyth on ff. 184 and 200 (and possibly in the erasures on ff. 229, 334), there is no formal evidence to this effect. The manuscript was almost certainly in an institutional library in the fifteenth century, since below the rubric on f. 3, a later hand has added "2o folio; causa distinctionis." Marginal notes by early owners: f. 2, 15th c.: "Thoma Northall solvit domino Iohanni Wynton v s. viii d.," and on f. 334, 16th c.: "prec. xvi s." followed by an erasure. Belonged to the Welsh antiquary Robert Davies of Llannerch and Gwysaney (ca. 1658-1710). The earliest known catalogue of the Llannerch manuscripts, dated 1740, lists this manuscript as n. 14 (that number in ink on the front pastedown); the manuscript also appears in the 1778 catalogue as n. 69 (the cover of the manuscript has been rebacked, and thus probably lost its label with this designation). Later, when the collection had passed through inheritance to Philip Bryan Davies Cooke, a list of its contents was printed by the HMC, 6th Report , pt. I (1887-88); this manuscript on p. 419. When owned by Lt.-Col. Philip Ralph Davies-Cooke (b. 1896), the collection was placed on deposit in the National Library of Wales, 1947-59, where this book bore the number "Gwysaney 19" (in pencil on the inner front cover). For the history of the collection, see H. D. Emanuel, "The Gwysaney Manuscripts," National Library of Wales Journal 7 (1952) 326-43. Davies-Cooke sale, Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 203 to Maggs for the Huntington Library.
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