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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 133

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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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  • MS 133
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Date
  • 1300 - 1399
Language
  • Middle French
  • Middle English
  • Latin
Title
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 133: Algorism. Thomas Gray, Scala Chronica
  • Algorism || Ars subtilis computandi quae dicitur Algorismus || Algorismus
  • Thomas Gray, Scala Chronica || Scala cronica, incepta A. D. 1355, autore Thoma Gray || Scala Cronica
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 133 contains the unique copy of Sir Thomas Gray's Anglo-Norman Scala Chronica, begun while its English author was awaiting ransom from Scottish captivity in 1355-1356 and completed some time after 1363, where the account ends. The work is a uniquely valuable source for the history of the troubled Anglo-Scottish border region and wider English politics of the mid-fourteenth century. The unique copy in this manuscript, probably dating to c. 1400, was made not long after the date of the original text's completion and, since the early fifteenth century, has been bound with a late fourteenth-century copy of the Algorism, a verse and prose treatise on mathematics in Anglo-Norman and English. The manuscript was almost certainly in the hands of Gerald FitzGerard, Earl of Kildare (d. 1534) and may have come to that family from a descendant of the work's original author. It was subsequently acquired by the historian John Bale (1495-1563), during his brief tenure as bishop of Ossory in 1552, and probably came to Parker from Bale's collection.


    Contents :


    iv-iiir - Algorism || Ars subtilis computandi quae dicitur Algorismus || Algorismus

    Note: versibus Gallicis

    Note: Arabic digits in red

    incipit: (iv) Cest art algorism hom apeleUn art daconter bon et bele

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (iiir) Et le nombre quil primer imestezSus leueroi si bien le fiestez

    rubric: (iiir) Explicit ars subtilis computandi que dicitur Algorismus

    Note: (iiir) Other rhymes in French and one in English follow on measures of length, of land, a puzzle, on addition etc., and (in prose) on notation


    1r-234v - Thomas Gray, Scala Chronica || Scala cronica, incepta A. D. 1355, autore Thoma Gray || Scala Cronica

    Note: De autore hujus chronici dubitavit Cl. Tanner, et nihil certi attulit Lelandus, quod eo magis miror cum in prologo nomen suum etsi non disertis verbis, enigmatice tamen revelaverit, ut ipse innuit Lelandus, neque Oedipo opus est ad nodum solvendum; haec enim ipsius sunt verba, Soit VIII [H] joynt apres XIX [T]: si mettez XII [M] apres XIIII [O], un [A] et XVIII [S] encountrez, soun propre nom en saverez: VII [G] a XVII [R] mettez, le premier vowel [A] au tierce [I] ajoignez, soune droit surnome entrouverez solunc l'alphabet. Exhinc manifeste apparet autorem fuisse Thomam Graium Anglum, et ut ipse testatur apud Edinburgam captivum, ubi haec quae in quodam invenerat poemate, eadem lingua scilicet Gallica, soluta oratione contexuit. Continet historiam Angliae a mundo condito ad A. D. 1362.

    Note: Begins

    incipit: (1r) Ke eit delite ou voet sauoir coment le isle del grant Bretaigne

    Note: There is a very pretty border on three sides, of characteristic English work: and a nice decorative initial

    Note: Subsequent initials are on gold with ground of red and blue quarterly, patterned

    Note: Smaller initials on blue with red penwork

    Note: See an English version of the Preface in MS 119. 124

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (234v) Cest matremoigne fust fait soulement par force damours qui toutz veint

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