Poetic anthology, including lives of saints, poems on Thomas Becket, poems by Walter of Chatillon, the composite Templum Salomonis by the priors of Jerusalem, and a composite poem on the Mass — 1190s; English or French | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Poetic anthology, including lives of saints, poems on Thomas Becket, poems by Walter of Chatillon, the composite Templum Salomonis by the priors of Jerusalem, and a composite poem on the Mass — 1190s; English or French

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 603

Place of origin

English or French

Date

1190s

Language

Latin

MS. Bodl. 603, fols. 1–46 – part I (a)

1. (fols. 1r–5r) Clement of Llanthony De sex alis cherubim

2. (fols. 5v–7v) Lament of a sinful soul

3. (fol. 7v) Mortality poem

4. (fols. 8r–22r) Hildebert of Lavardin Life of St Mary of Egypt

5. (fols. 22r–27r) Marbod Life of St Lawrence

6. (fols. 27r–31v) Petrus Riga Passio sanctae Agnetis

7. (fols. 31v–35r) Marbod Life of St Mauritius

Poem on Thomas Becket

a. (fol. 35r) Incipit: A et A karissimi patris pax et homo

b. (fols. 35r–43v) Incipit: Ante chaos iurgium indigestę molis

c. (fol. 43v) Incipit: Anno milleno centeno septuageno

9. (fol. 43v–45r) Verse life of Thomas Becket

10. (fols. 45r–45v) Canonization of Thomas Becket

11. (fol. 46r–v) Walter of Châtillon Incipit: Felix erat studium ilia sub etate

MS. Bodl. 603, fols. 47–118 – part I (b)

Walter of Châtillon Carmina satirica

12. (fols. 47r–48v) Rubric: Ad comitem Henricum

13. (fols. 48v–49v) Rubric: Treueris in capitulo

14. (fols. 50r–51ra) Rubric: Apud bissontium

15. (fol. 51ra–52vb) Incipit: Coram domino papa in consistorio Tanto uiro locuturi / Studeamus esse puri

16. (fol. 52v–54r) Rubric: Controuersia habita coram imperatore de scismate

17. (fol. 54r–58r) Incipit: Sermo recitatus bononię coram episcopo et scolaribus in Dominica ‘letare ierusalem’

18. (fols. 58ra–58vb) Incipit: Propter syon non tacebo

19. (fols. 58v–59v) Rubric: De scismate

20. (fols. 59va–61ra) Incipit: Baculare sacramentum / Non recenter est inuentum

21. (fol. 61r) Poem on numbers

22. (fols. 61va–66vb) Rhythmical series

Bernard of Clairvaux, pseudo Parvus Contemptus mundi

a. (fols. 67r–68v) Incipit: Cur cito non spernis quę pretereuntia cernis

b. (fol. 68v–69v) Incipit: Huius amor mundi putei parat ima profundi

c. (fols. 69v–72r) Incipit: Pauper amabilis est uenerabilis et benedictus

24. (fol. 72r) Punctuation poem

Two couplets

a. (fol. 72r) Incipit: Mira iunctura defuncto languida xura

b. (fol. 72r) Incipit: Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere uitam

Templum Salomonis

a. (fols. 72v–85r) Achardus de Arroasia De templo salomonis

b. (fols. 85r–103v) Gaufridus de Templo De templo salomonis

c. (fols. 103v–117br) Gaufridus de Templo Incipit: Contaminare [sic for Continuare] uolumus quędam quę dicit iosephus

d. (fol. 117br–v) Gaufridus de Templo Incipit: Annus erat millesimus et centesimus atque

27. (fol. 117bv) Pseudo-Damasus WIC 14885. Ed. J. B. De Rossi, Inscriptiones Christianae Vrbis Romae 2.1 (Rome, 1888), Nos. 219–220, p. 449; M. Ihm, Anthologiae latinae supplementa: Damasi epigrammata (Leipzig, 1895), Appendix: Carmina Pseudodamasiana et alia, No. 63, pp. 66–67, and No. 1, pp. 1–3. The order in Bodley 603, which differs from that printed by De Rossi and Ihm (where ‘Psallere qui docuit’ is treated as a separate poem) follows a very old recension.

Incipit: Psallere qui docuit dulci modulamine sanctos

Incipit: Nunc Damasi monitis aures prebete benignas

Incipit: Prophetam Christi sanctum cognoscere debes

28. (fol. 118r) Eugenius of Toledo Incipit: Nescit mens nostra fixum seruare tenorem

29. (fol. 118r) Transitoriness

Fol. 118v originally blank: see Part II.

MS. Bodl. 603, fols. 119–144 – part II

Composite poem on the Sacraments

A. (fol. 118v) Two short introductory prose passages

Incipit: Corpus ihesu euangelium puto

Incipit: In principio huius libri hęc possunt inquiri

B. (fols. 119r–129r) Petrus Pictor WIC 16200, 13623; PL 171.1198–1212 (cf. 1193); Scott, MARS, pp. 76–77.

Rubric: Prologus in libro de sacramentis altaris

Rubric: Liber primus dom⟨ini⟩ ildeberti episcopi de corpo⟨re et⟩ sanguine domini

C. (fols. 129r–138v) Hildebert of Lavardin De mysterio missae

Rubric: Prologus in libro secundo

Rubric: Liber secundus in expositione super missam

3. (fol. 138v–143v) Hildebert of Lavardin Carmina minora

Incipit: Ante legem pro peccato

Incipit: Melchisedech domino

Incipit: In partes fracta tres hostia iam caro facta

Incipit: Impia Judea

Incipit: Ecclesię circa

Incipit: Est ratio quod pars

Incipit: Baptismalis quędam forma

Incipit: Hostia coniugium

Incipit: Affines consanguineos

Incipit: Adę peccatum

Incipit: Ecclesię partes

Incipit: Dum diuine bonitatis

Incipit: Tollimur e medio

Incipit: Statio quid dextra

Incipit: In natale sacro

31. (fol. 143v) Hymn to St Stephen

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

145 leaves

Hands

Written about 1200 by a single scribe in two (possibly three) sections.

Decoration

Red and green initials alternate.

Headings in red, initials touched in red.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard. Stations for cloth ties, removed.

Acquisition

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Cuthbert Ridley in 1601. The original endleaves were removed in 1923 and now form part of Bodleian MS. Lat. misc. d. 48.

Provenance

Neil Ker discovered an extra leaf (fol. 117b) in the binding of an All Souls College manuscript, later returned to this volume: see ‘Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts in Bindings’, Bodleian Library Record 3 (1950–51) 6.

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