Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 258
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- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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- MS 258
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- Date
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- 1300 - 1399
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- Middle French
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 258: Andrew Horn, Speculum justiciariorum. Breton
- Andrew Horn, Speculum justiciarorum || Speculum Justiciariorum: the Mirror of Justices
- Breton
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- Andrew Horn (1275?-1328)
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- Author
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- Andrew Horn
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- Description
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Summary: CCCC MS 258 is one of two manuscripts in the Parker Collection that was once bound in a single volume, the other being the material now contained in CCCC MS 70. Both manuscripts were the property of Andrew Horn (d. 1328), fishmonger and Chamberlain of London and were bequeathed by him to the Guild Hall in London, from where Parker acquired them. CCCC MS 258 now contains fourteenth-century copies of the anonymous law tracts Speculum justiciarorum and Breton. The Speculum is a unique survival in this manuscript and was much criticised by F. W. Maitland as, at best, a joke in poor taste, though recent attempts have been made to rehabilitate the text as an expression of late thirteenth-century anxiety about the direction of legal reform under Edward I, or possibly as a didactic text.
Contents :
1r-52v - Andrew Horn, Speculum justiciarorum || Speculum Justiciariorum: the Mirror of Justices
Note: This is the unique copy edited (with Introduction by Professor Maitland) for the Selden Society by W. J. Whittaker, 1895
Note: There is a close connexion between this volume and MS 70. Both belonged to Andrew Horn. Among the MSS. burnt in Westminster Abbey Chapter Library in 1694 was a Summa Legum per Andream Horne (Cat. MSS. Angl. 11, no. 1298 (208))
Note: Ends f. 51v
Note: f. 52r-52v blank
53r-183r - Breton
Note: In a somewhat larger hand
rubric: (53r) Incipit Breton
incipit: (53r) Edward par la grace de dieu
Note: Liber V ends
explicit: (182r) sanz jour iusques al retorn de celui
rubric: (182r) Explicit liber qui dicitur Breton
Note: (erased)
rubric: (182r) Icy comence les chapitres del primer liure de Breton
Note: (erased)
Note: f. 131v blank
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