

46v: A tract on the Psalm 134:7: ‘Qui producit ventos de thesauris suis’. 45r-46r: A scholastic treatise on the Trinity and virtues, beginning: 'Innascibilitas, proprietas, personalitas, filiacio, processio, spiracio'. 44v-45r: A charm against infirmities, beginning with an apocryphal miracle of Christ healing St Peter’s tooth-ache: ‘Sanctus petrus super marmoream petram sedebat manus suas ad maxillam tenebat desuper perveniens dominus dixit' two marginal notes comment that the narrative is apocryphal and false: ‘apocrifum est’ and ‘item falsum’. 28v-44r: Theological sentences excerpted from various authors, beginning: 'Quisquis ad divinam leccionem erudiendus accesserit' an excerpt from Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. 28r: A note on five different types of voices, beginning: 'Quinque sunt significaciones vocis.'ff. 28r: A moral verse, beginning: 'Cur, homo, qui cinis es per avariciam sepelies.'f. 28r: Excerpts from St Jerome and Basil (b. 27r: A short exposition on Job 31:37, beginning: 'per singulos gradus meos pronunciabo eum'.f. 27v: A definition of prayer, beginning: ‘Oratio est pius animi affectus’.f. Mundus est, O Adriane, constitucio celi et terre’. 27r-27v: Anonymous, Questiones Adriani Imperatoris Secundo philosopho in silencio philosophantis (Questions of the Emperor Hadrian to Secundus the Philosopher, Philosophising in Silence), beginning: ‘Quid est mundus, Secundus respondit. 26r-27r: Excerpts from Gregory the Great (b. 25r-26r: Anonymous, Poem on the Word of God, beginning: 'Viri venerabiles, viri litterati’.

24r-25r: Anonymous, De Clarevallensibus et Cluniacensibus (On Clairvaux and Cluny), beginning: ‘Dum Saturno conjuge partus parit Rea’. 1170-1180), Carmina (Songs), Carmen 7, beginning: ‘Eliconis rivulo modice respersus’.ff. 22v-23v: Moral sentences, beginning: 'Radix cuncti mali est superbia’. 21r-22v: A sermon on things that should be desired and avoided, beginning: 'Rerum expetendarum tria sunt genera'.ff. 19r-21r: A collection of Latin sayings, beginning: 'Quinque modis potest dici, Cum mane surgerem’.ff. 18v: A moral verse, ‘Pax, fama, fides, reverentia, cautio damni, defectus veri, poscunt sibi magna caveri’.ff. 13r-16r: Notae excerptae ex diversis voluminibus (Teachings by the Monk Samson, Excerpted from Various Books) collection of theological teachings on vices and virtues, beginning: ‘Docet nos Deus VI modis per internam aspiracionem’ includes a gloss by Lanfranc (b. 8v-12r: A sermon on justice and mercy, beginning ‘Ut discant pastores animarum in omnibus'. 8r: Moral sentences excerpted from various authors. 5r-7r: A sermon for the Nativity, opening with Psalm 97:2: ‘Notum fecit Dominus salutare suum’. 4v: Three lections from the Hours of the Virgin, beginning ‘Veni nobis benedicat de celo et que nata es semel te'.ff. Et dedit ei potestatem, et honorem, et regnum: et omnes populi, tribus, et linguae ipsi servient’. 2r-3r: A sermon for the first Sunday of Advent, imperfect at the end, beginning with Daniel 7.13-14: 'Aspiciebam ergo in visione noctis, et ecce cum nubibus caeli quasi filius hominis veniebat, et usque ad antiquum dierum pervenit: et in conspectu ejus obtulerunt eum. 1113-1150), the first Anglo-Norman poet, composed in 1113.Contents:ff. However, it also includes a copy of the Comput (Computus), the oldest extant scientific text in the vernacular, that Philippe de Thaon (fl. Perhaps they meant "divIno", but "divAno" means nothing but "sofa" in Italian.This 13th-century miscellany mainly contains theological and liturgical works, including monophonic and polyphonic music. That immitation is called Pseudo-Latin or Dog Latin. And by "the rest" I mean this "Divano re" stuff. That's the 'real' part, that is the Latin one. In 1935 Carl Orff set some of the poems to music - his famous scenic cantata "Carmina Burana".Įra have cut some of the lines, though. She governs the circle of the four stages of life, the Wheel of Fortune, and so forth.). (Fortuna is the Roman goddess of fortune, hence the word.

"O Fortuna" in particular is composed early in the 13th century (c. That's Latin.Īctually, Amaranth0, this is "O, Fortuna" from Carmina Burana - a collection of over 250 poems and dramatic texts from the 11th-13th century.
