Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 444
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- Library
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
- Shelfmark
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- MS 444
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- Date
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- 1290 - 1310
- Language
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- Middle English
- Title
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 444: Genesis and Exodus in Middle English Verse
- Genesis and Exodus in English Verse || Genesis and Exodus in English Verse
- Description
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Summary: CCCC MS 444 is a c. 1300-25 copy of the Middle English Genesis and Exodus, a biblical paraphrase in verse written c. 1250, and derived from the Historia scholastica by Petrus Comestor (d. c. 1187). It is considered to be in an East Midlands dialect and is the earliest English paraphrase from the Historia scholastica. The title is misleading because the text also contains paraphrases of sections of Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Numbers. The vocabulary and syntax of the text has been much studied by philologists of early Middle English dialects.
Contents :
1r-81r - Genesis and Exodus in English Verse || Genesis and Exodus in English Verse
Note: (Genesis)
incipit: (1r) Man og to lunen ðat rimes ren
explicit: (49v) And god so graunte amen amen
Note: (Exodus)
incipit: (49v) Godes bliscing be ƿið usher nu biginned exodus
explicit: (81r) Wið muð and herte sey ƿe Amen
rubric: (81r) Explicit liber Exodus
Note: f. 81v blank
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