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Other shelfmark(s): Gijsel Q2b1
Physical description: vellum, 200× 142 mm, ii + 96 + 175 + i fols. (578 pages), 2 cols.
Language: Latin
Date: ca. 1200–1299
Provenance: Christ Church, Canterbury
Contents:
Gospel of Nicodemus (pp. 393–414)
Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (pp. 415–438) prefaced by the spurious letters between Chromatius and Heliodorus and Jerome and Trinubium Annae.
Additional contents: Richard of Thetford, Ars dilatandi sermones (pp. 13–30); Hrabanus Maurus, De agno paschali (pp. 30–33); Hrabanus Maurus, De pascha (pp. 33–35); De proprietatibus festivitatum (pp. 35–36); Robert of Flamborough, Liber poenitentialis (pp. 37–134); Treatise on Confession (pp. 134–47); De quatuor elementis (p. 148); Tract on Vices and Virtues extracted from Gregory the Great and Augustine (pp. 149–87); Tractatus de corpore Domini (pp. 187–200); Tract on the Seven Sacraments (pp. 200–4); Robert Grosseteste, Testamenta XII patriarcharum (pp. 205–53); Nigel Witeker, Contra curiales et officiales clericos siue De eruditione praelatorum (pp. 253–310); Pseudo-Seneca, De morum institutione (pp. 310–15); Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis (pp. 315–52); Martin of Braga, Formula uitae honestae (pp. 352–59); Instructio nouiciorum secundum ecclesiae Cantuariensis (pp. 359–91); Gregory of Tours, De passione et resurrectione Domini (p. 392); Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo de sabbato pasche (pp. 392–93); Miracle of the Virgin Mary (Historia sancte Marie de Sardenay) (pp. 439–42); Richard the Premonstratensian, De canone missae (pp. 442–55); Questiones de sacramento altaris (pp.455–60); De dominica oratione (pp. 460–62); Tract on the Apostles Creed (pp. 462–68); Thomas of Chobham, Summa confessorum (extract) (pp. 468–72); Tract on Antichrist (pp. 473–77); De penis inferni (p. 477); Fifteen Signs before Doomsday (pp. 477–78); Odo of Cheriton, Parabolae (pp. 479–520); Exempla miscellany (pp. 520–28; cf. CCCC 288, fols. 84v–88r); Verses on seasons, temperament, bloodletting, mortal sins (pp. 529–30); Conflictus inter ducem et philosophum de natura hominis humana (pp. 531–78); Miraculous remedy for wounds (Tres boni fratres) (p. 578).
Catalogs:
Gijsel, Jan, ed. Libri de nativitate Mariae: Pseudo-Matthaei Evangelium, textus et commentarius, Libellus de nativitate sanctae Mariae, textux et commentarius. CCSA 9 Turnhout: Brepols, 1997 (p. 161).
Gijsel, Jan. Die unmittelbare Textüberlieferung des sogenannten Pseudo–Matthäus. Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Letteren 96. Brussels: Paleis der Academiën, 1981 (pp. 187–88).
James, M.R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911 (pp. 349–55).
Entry created by Brandon Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 3 February 2018.