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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 469

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  • MS 469
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Date
  • 1275 - 1299
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle French
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 469: Basil of Caesarea, Admonitio ad filium spiritualem. Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (extract). Chronicles
    • pseudo-Basil of Caesarea, Admonitio ad filium spiritualem || Liber sancti Basilii episcopi Capadociae ad filios spirituales de militia spirituali
    • Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpt from book 12, chapters 4-7) || Tractatus de omnibus animantibus et eorum proprietatibus
    • Proverbs and other edifying words || Proverbia et alia verba edificatoria in ordine disposita
    • Tract on the Roman Emperors || A short tract on the Emperors
    • Brut (to King Edgar) || Brevis chronica a Bruto ad Egbertum || Chronicle of Britain (mostly from Geoffrey of Monmouth)
    • Chronicle of English kings from Egbert to Edgar || Chronique des rois d'Angleterre d'Egbert a Edgar || Chronicle in French
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  • Preferred form
    • Pseudo-Basilius Caesariensis
    Role
    • Author
    Original form
    • Pseudo-Basil of Caesarea
    Other form
    • Basile de Césarée (saint ; 0329?-0379)
    • Basilius Caesarensis
    • Basilius Caesariensis, auteur prétendu
    • Pseudo-Basilius Caesariensis
    • Pseudo-Basil, 330-379
    • Pseudo-Basil (?Porcarius of Lérins)
    • Pseudo-Basilius Magnus
    • Ps.-Basilius Magnus
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  • Preferred form
    • Isidore de Séville (saint, 0560?-0636)
    Role
    • Author
    Original form
    • Isidore of Seville
    Other form
    • Isidorus Hispalensis (saint ; 0560?-0636)
    • S. Isidorus Hispalensis
    • Isidorus Hispalensis
    • Isidore de Séville (saint ; 0560?-0636)
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s.)
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS
    • Sancti Isidori Hispalensis
    • ISIDORE
    • Isidore de Séville (0560?-0636 ; saint)
    • Isidorus
    • Isidore de Séville
    • Isidori Hispalensis
    • Isidori
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s)
    • Isidorus Hispalensis (?),
    • Isidore (Saint), de Séville
    • Isidore de Séville saint 0560?-0636
    • Isidor, de Sevilla, sant, ca. 560-636
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla
    • Isidorus Hispalensis 560-636
    • Isidorus van Sevilla
    • Author: Isidorus, Hispalensis
    • Isidore
    • Isodore of Seville
    • Isidore of Seville, c 560-636, Saint, Bishop of Seville
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
    • Isidorus Hispalensis, 560?-636
    • Isidore de Séville (saint ; (0560?-0636)
    • Isidorus<Hispalensis>
    • Isidorus Hispalensis, 560-636
    • Isidorus, Hispalensis, 560-636
    • Isidore de Séville (saint)
    • Isidorus <Hispalensis> (560-636)
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, author.
    • Divus Isidorus
    • Hisidorus Hispalensis
    • S. Isidorus
    • Isidorus Hispalensis episcopus
    • Isidorus Hispalensis santo
    • Isidorus : Hispalensis santo
    • Isidorus Episcopus Hispalensis
    • Isidore of Seville, Saint (-636)
    • Isidore de Séville (0560-0636)
    • Isidore de Séville (0560-0636) > Père de l'Eglise
    • Isidorus, Hispalensis (ca. 560-636)
    • Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla, ca. 560-636
    • Isidorus <Hispalensis>
    • Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636
    • Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636 > , co-autor
    • Isidorus Hispalensis - ca. 570 - 636 - auteur
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 469 is a late thirteenth-century manuscript containing miscellaneous texts with later additions and notes down to the fifteenth century, containing what was probably a monastic commonplace book compiled as an introduction or guide to matters spiritual and temporal. Thus it includes the pseudonymous work attributed to Basil of Caesarea (c. 330-379), Admonitio ad filium spiritualem, excerpts from book 12 (De animalibus) of Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Etymologiae, a collection of proverbs, a French prose Brut from Egbert to Edgar, extracts from the writings of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), and a list of English kings from William I to Henry V. Doubtless it was the historical material which primarily interested Parker, though how and from where he acquired this manuscript is unknown.


    Contents :


    1r-16v - pseudo-Basil of Caesarea, Admonitio ad filium spiritualem || Liber sancti Basilii episcopi Capadociae ad filios spirituales de militia spirituali

    rubric: (1r) Incipit liber Sancti Basilii episcopi Capadocie ad filios spiritales de milicia spirituali

    Note: (P. L. CIII 684)

    incipit: (1r) Audi fili mi admonitionem

    explicit: (16r) que preparauit deus diligentibus se

    incipit: (16r) Attende tibi fili ut possis dissernere ab utilibus noxia. Nam duplex est uita nostra

    explicit: (16v) et remedii et emendacionis cura pensetur


    17r-28v - Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpt from book 12, chapters 4-7) || Tractatus de omnibus animantibus et eorum proprietatibus

    incipit: (17r) Omnibus animantibus adam primum uocabula indidit

    Note: (P. L. LXXXII 423)

    Note: Last section on Perdix, followed by paragraph on eggs

    explicit: (28v) oua quoque admixta calce glutinare fertur uitri fragmenta


    29r-158r - Proverbs and other edifying words || Proverbia et alia verba edificatoria in ordine disposita

    rubric: (29r) Incipiunt prouerbia et alia uerba edificatoria in ordine disposita

    Note: (De anima)

    incipit: (29r) Anima est substancia creata inuisibilis incorporea inmortalis deo similima

    Note: followed by De amicicia, audacia, etc. in alphabetical order

    Note: The last De xpo and De Antixpo ending

    explicit: (158r) Post hec qua die iudicium fiat omnis ignorat


    158v-166v - Tract on the Roman Emperors || A short tract on the Emperors

    rubric: (158v) De tyranno et principe

    incipit: (158v) Est autem tirannus ut cum (eum) philosophi depincxerunt. Qui uiolenta dominacione premit populum

    rubric: (158v) Quod tyranni sunt ministri dei

    rubric: (159r) De morte sesaris et aliorum principum et tyrannorum

    Note: The Twelve Caesars. Nerva, Trajan, Sennacherib, Philip, Decius, Aurelian, Carus, Constantine, Julian, Valens, Theodosius, Karolus

    explicit: (166r) Cogitetur igitur quomodo predicti imperatores siue boni siue mali exinaniti sunt et ad nichilum deuenerunt

    incipit: (166r) Regnum a regibus dictum

    explicit: (166v) ut uix quisquam principum eorum ad exitum uite natura ducente peruenerit


    167r-177v - Brut (to King Edgar) || Brevis chronica a Bruto ad Egbertum || Chronicle of Britain (mostly from Geoffrey of Monmouth)

    incipit: (167r) Eneas uero Romani generis auctor genuit Ascanium. Ascanius genuit siluium

    explicit: (177v) Post mortem Brithici regis Regnauit Adelbrich super Wessexe. quem Beda uocat Ecgbrit. Anno gratie dccco octauo

    Note: Hardy I 500


    178r-181r - Chronicle of English kings from Egbert to Edgar || Chronique des rois d'Angleterre d'Egbert a Edgar || Chronicle in French

    incipit: (178r) Iadis altens as engles soleyt engletere estre departi a. v. parties ea .v. reis

    Note: After a short prologue resumes with Egbert and ends unfinished with a story of Edgar

    explicit: (181r) Si mist lum le cors en fertre. Iluc an eires recut un forgene sun sens. et un orb la uue

    Note: Mentioned by Hardy I 571

    Note: ff. 181v-183v blank

    Note: ff. 184r-191v have notes and extracts in various hands

    Note: In set hand:

    incipit: (184r) Lex dei et premium habet et penam legentibus eam

    Note: On f. 187v in a later hand

    rubric: (187v) Nomina regum anglie post conquestum

    Note: William I to Henry V

    Note: (188v) Part of the poem Vado mori is on f. 188v

    Note: On the following pages (ff. 189r-191v) the notes are in the hand of those at the beginning of the volume. They are largely from Augustine: two also from Josephus

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