Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 446
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- MS 446
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- 1475 - 1499
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 446: Elias of Evesham OSB, Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis
- Elias of Evesham OSB, Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis, 'second' (earlier) version || Vita S. Thomae archiepiscopi Cantuar. et martyris de plurium narratione collecta
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- Elias Eveshamensis
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- Elias of Evesham OSB
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- Elias of Evesham, fl 1200
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Summary: CCCC MS 446 is a fifteenth-century copy of the Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis by the Benedictine monk Elias of Evesham (fl. c. 1200), written in 1198-9. It is the recension of the text known as the 'second' version, although confusingly recent scholarship has suggested that the 'second' version is earlier than the 'first'. It was dedicated to Henry de Longchamp, abbot of Crowland. This manuscript has been dated to the second quarter of the fifteenth century on the grounds of its decoration. The 'Jacobus Tutyll' of the inscription on f. vi recto has not been identified, and the manuscript's provenance before it came into the hands of Parker is not known. Parker compared it with a manuscript owned by John Twyne (d. 1581) and made notes about the omissions in MS 446 at the end.
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1r-143v - Elias of Evesham OSB, Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis, 'second' (earlier) version || Vita S. Thomae archiepiscopi Cantuar. et martyris de plurium narratione collecta
Note: Haec vita, quas in aliis codicibus nominatur quadrilogus sive historia quadripartita, ab annotatore quodam imperito Stephano Cantuariensi attribuitur
rubric: (1r) Uita Sancti Thome de plurium narracione collecta
rubric: (1r) Incipit prologus in vita Sancti Thome Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis et martiris
Note: (1r) Handsome initial in gold and colour and partial border of feathery work
incipit: (1r) Post summi fauoris dote uestitos preclaros pugiles
explicit: (3r) omnibus inuideas liuide nemo tibi
Note: Robertson, Materials for the History of Archbishop Thomas Becket, IV 266. It is the so-called second quadrilogue by Elias (?) of Evesham
Note: Ends
explicit: (143v) virtus et imperium est per infinita secula seculorum. Amen
rubric: (143v) Explicit vita et passio beati thome martiris
Note: (Robertson, Materials for the History of Archbishop Thomas Becket, IV, p. 408)
Note: In a hand of cent. xvi
Note: (143v) omnino haec desunt que habentur in libro Willmi Twyne De gestis post martirium, etc. (a list of chapters)
Note: In another hand of cent. xvi early
incipit: (144r) Inspecta huius operis compilatione in qua vicesimo scilicet primo capite circa finem inveni authorem regias consuetudines scribi in calce huius historie policiturum
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