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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 400

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  • MS 400
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Date
  • 1100 - 1299 - 1500 - 1599 - 1300 - 1399
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 400: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Verses, etc. Verses from Canterbury Cathedral Windows
    • Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae
    • Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Kambriae, Retractationes, Catalogus breuior librorum suorum || Giraldi Descriptio Cambriae
    • Gerald of Wales, De iure et statu Meneuensis ecclesiae; Verses || De Jure et Statu Menevensis Ecclesiae
    • Verses from the windows in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral
    • see more
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Description

  • Summary: MS 400 is formed from four manuscripts, the first three of which contain tracts by Gerald of Wales (1146–1226). They contain an early thirteenth-century second edition of his Topographia Hiberniae with additions from the third edition; a highly flawed sixteenth-century copy of the Descriptio Kambriae; and early thirteenth-century copies of Retractationes, Catalogus brevior librorum suorum, De iure et statu Meneuensis ecclesiae, and Verses. The latter two texts in particular are good versions. The final pages of the manuscript contain a late thirteenth-century copy of the verses from the windows in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral which M. R. James identified as the source for the copy on a roll held by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.


    Contents :


    vir-45v - Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae

    Note: On f. 1r is a late note erased

    Note: (viv) blank

    Note: (viir) verses (xvi) copied, in fine 3i libri.

    Note: On f. 2v a map (in brown and green) of the British Isles. Aquilo is on L., Britain, Ireland and the Orkneys are shown, without any real attempt to give the outline: and no places are markedAn exactly similar map is in Arundel MS. 14 (Brit. Mus.). See Dimock, Girald. Camb. V, p. xviii

    Note: It is MS. C in Dimock's edition (Girald. Camb., p. xiv) and ranks as a MS. of the Second Edition, but has many marginal additions and some inserted leaves which 'if considered an integral part of the manuscript' would make it rank as a MS. of the Third Edition

    Note: The modern foliation omits what I have called ff. 1r-2v. I use it here

    rubric: (1r) Introitus in recitationem

    incipit: (1r) Consideranti

    Note: (1r) Good initial, gold, with external blue and internal pink ground

    Note: (2v) Capitula

    Note: Text

    incipit: (5r) Placuit excellentie

    Note: (5r) Large initial. Pink ground within, Giraldus on L. tonsured, in purplish habit offers gold book to Henry II in pale pink and yellow, seated on R. with crown and sceptre. Small medallions in stalk of initial represent a fish, a bird and two beasts

    Note: (17v) Distinctio II Centaur on blue ground in initial

    Note: f. 24r-24v is added

    Note: (31v) Distinctio III Shipful of men and women in the initial

    explicit: (45r) a tanta maiestate fuerit iniunctum

    rubric: (45r) Explicit

    rubric: (45r) Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci

    Note: (red and blue)

    Note: On f. 45v in another hand is the letter Guillelmo (?) Hereford. Episcopo (Dimock, p. 203) beginning

    incipit: (45v) Lectis certa prodest

    explicit: (45v) elegantior inuenitur


    46r-87v - Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Kambriae, Retractationes, Catalogus breuior librorum suorum || Giraldi Descriptio Cambriae

    Note: "imperfect and valueless" (Dimock, p. xiv note)

    explicit: (84r) pro hoc terrarum angulo respondebit

    Note: (Dimock VI 227)

    Note: The lacunae are described by Dimock VI, p. xxv

    rubric: (84v) Tractatum retractionum et cathologum librorum diligentia Giraldi compositorum in calce libelli de Cambrie descriptione digne duximus adiciendum

    incipit: (84v) Quoniam itaque cunctorum habere notitiam

    rubric: (86r) Sequitur de cathalogo et numero Librorum a giraldo compositorum

    incipit: (86r) Occurrit hic igitur in primis tempore tenerior cronographia nostra

    incipit: (87v) In historia anglorum libro quinto de Calixto papa scribitur

    incipit: (78r) Vir quidam magnus in anglia dixit et assensit laborem mri giraldi multis ex causis commendabilem esse

    explicit: (79r) et in nullo prorsus articulo ecclesie sue pro posse defecit

    rubric: (79r) Ex quodam vetusto libro Jo. Price post descriptionem Cambrie

    Note: (79v) blank

    Note: Note: Volume II was reordered after James, hence the discrepancy between James and CCC foliation


    88r-149v - Gerald of Wales, De iure et statu Meneuensis ecclesiae; Verses || De Jure et Statu Menevensis Ecclesiae

    Note: There is no old title

    incipit: (88r) Reuerendo patri et domino S[tephano] dei gracia Cantuariensis archiepiscopi

    Note: Brewer, Gir.Camb. III 101

    Note: This copy was not known to Brewer. It is noticed by Dimock V, xiv note, as being valuable. Like Vitellius E. 5 it contains only Distinctions I, II and VII of the work

    rubric: (96v) Breuis subsequencium explanacio

    Note: (red and blue)

    Note: Brewer, Gir. Camb., III 117

    Note: Most of p. 20 is blank

    Note: The hand changes 21 (quire C) to a rather finer one, which continues to p. 113

    rubric: (98r) Incipit dialogus duorum etc.

    Note: Brewer, p. 119

    Note: Some rubrics etc. are still in the hand of the quires A, B

    Note: (109r) Distinctio II

    Note: (121v) ending

    Note: (121v) Distinctio III

    Note: The first few words are given and then follows the note given from Vitell. E. 5 in Brewer, p. 186

    Note: (121v) Distinctio VII

    Note: Most of 113 is in the hand of quire A, ending

    explicit: (145r) et indulgere curauit

    rubric: (145r) Explicit

    Note: (145v) blank

    Note: The following leaves are partly in the hand of quire A, partly in other hands. They contain poems, printed from Vitellius E. 5 by Brewer, Gir. Camb. I, 374 sqq.

    rubric: (146r) Epigramma metricum nuper editum ex uersu uirgiliano tanquam themate carmen incipiens

    Note: (This title imperfect in Brewer) p. 374

    incipit: (146r) Nocte pluit tota

    incipit: (146r) Prodiit ex L. P.

    Note: Brewer, p. 374

    incipit: (146r) Pax datur hinc

    Note: Brewer, p. 375

    incipit: (146r) Vrbs igitur cesset

    Note: Brewer, p. 375

    Note: etc.

    explicit: (146v) flectere regna suum

    rubric: (146v) Explicit

    Note: Brewer, p. 377

    Note: The gaps in Brewer can be supplied from this copy

    rubric: (146v) Epigramma Philippicum

    Note: Brewer, p. 377

    explicit: (146v) nosse sciat

    Note: Paragraph in prose

    incipit: (146v) Utinam autem emulus hic noster illud iniure scriptum interdum aduerteret

    explicit: (146v) aut honor et dignitas auferatur

    rubric: (146v) Explicit

    rubric: (148r) Carmen tanquam epithalamicum

    Note: Brewer, p. 378

    Note: (147v) The end supplied on a slip

    rubric: (148r) Carmen quasi comedicum

    Note: Brewer, p. 380

    incipit: (148r) Cum non sis albus albinus qua rationeDiceris. antifrasis nomina multa facit etc.

    Note: (148r) Sentence from Ambrose on rebukes of friends. Brewer, p. 369

    rubric: (148v) Carmen epitaphicum

    incipit: (148v) Clauditur hoc tumulo

    Note: Brewer, p. 381

    rubric: (148v) Pro quodam crebris infortuniis grauiter afflicto

    incipit: (148v) Semper adest homini

    Note: Brewer, p. 354

    incipit: (148v) Kambriagiraldum

    Note: Brewer, p. 381

    incipit: (148v) Incurrit culpam

    Note: Brewer, p. 381

    incipit: (148v) Id recolas lapidem

    Note: Brewer, p. 382

    rubric: (148v) Carmen magistri symonis de fraxino etc.

    Note: Brewer, p. 382

    incipit: (148v) Fons sine fine fluens

    rubric: (149r) Breuis magistri Giraldi responsio

    incipit: (149r) Florida fructifera

    Note: Brewer, p. 384


    150r-153r - Verses from the windows in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral

    Note: A copy of the verses in the windows of Canterbury Cathedral. It was not known to me when I published the text from the Roll in possession of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury (C. A. S., Verses formerly inscribed on the Twelve Windows, etc. 1901)

    incipit: (150r) Prima fenestra moyses cum rubo

    explicit: (153r) Approbat extractus latebris sit (fit) papa coactus

    Note: The text is essentially the same, preserving exactly the same order, as that of the Roll: but one or two mistakes of the latter may be corrected from this. There are indications that the Roll must have been copied from this text

    Note: The principal improvements of the text which I have noted may be given here

    Note: p. 13 Fenestra prima, last line: Read

    Note: (150r) Operuit celos gloria eius et laudis eius plena est terra

    Note: Fenestra secunda, line 5:

    Note: (150r) Qui sequitur me non ambulat in tenebris

    Note: p. 18 Fenestra VI, line 9:

    Note: (152r) Hii sunt qui credunt temptanti sicque recedunt

    Note: line 18:

    Note: (152r) Iob. Daniel. Noe. semen cecidit in terram bonam

    Note: p. 19 3rd line from bottom:

    Note: (152r) Hic iri factum etc.

    Note: p. 21 lines 1-3:

    Note: (152v) Dominus crucifigitur. Hic stater extractus precium datur in cruce factus Ludibrium turbe deus est eiectus ab urbe

    Note: p. 24 line 13:

    Note: (151v) tegit ecce mariam

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