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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 285

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  • MS 285
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Date
  • 1400 - 1499
Language
  • Latin
  • Old English
  • Greek
Title
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 285: Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici V regis Angliae. Aldhelm, De laudibus uirginitatis
  • Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici V regis Angliae
  • Aldhelm, De laudibus uirginitatis
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 285 contains the holograph copy of the Vita Henrici V regis Angliae of Tito Livio Frulovisi (d. after 1456), a biography of the Lancastrian king that, it has recently been argued, was a reworking of the pseudo-Elmham's Vita et Gesta Henrici Quinti. Written while Frulovisi was in England in the later 1430s, perhaps 1436-8, the manuscript was once in the possession of Henry VI, though how it came to be in Parker's possession is not known. It was presumably Parker who bound this fifteenth-century humanist text together, somewhat incongruously, with a tenth- or early eleventh-century copy of De laudibus uirginitatis (De virginitate) by Aldhelm (d. 709) to which have been added glosses in a hand identified with a Worcester Cathedral scribe.


    Contents :


    4r-74v - Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici V regis Angliae

    rubric: (4r) Inuictissimi Anglorum franciaeque Regis henrici quinti ad eius filium christianissi(m)um Regem he(n)ricum sextum uita per T. liuium de frulouisiis ferrarie(n)sem edita feliciter incipit

    incipit: (4r) Cum a primis annis de parente meo

    Note: An exceedingly fine initial of the arms of England and France quarterly, with a splendid excrescence of ornament mostly on burnished gold, with sharply cusped edges, containing grotesques and conventional foliage: cropped at top by the binder

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (73r) regnum tuum franciae bene regundum et gubernandum legauit. τῶ θω̄ δόξα

    Note: ff. 73v-74v blank

    Note: The text of this life was edited by Hearne in 1716


    75r-131v - Aldhelm, De laudibus uirginitatis

    Note: An erasure at top of f. 75r

    Note: Titles in red capitals

    rubric: (75r) Incipit liber Aldhelmi Episcopi de virginitate seu laude sanctorum

    Note: (P. L. LXXXIX 237)

    incipit: (75r) Metrica tirones nunc promant carmina castos

    Note: The slip (f. 92r) supplies 6 lines omitted on f. 91v

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (122v) Plumabant pariter macta uirtute coronam

    rubric: (122v) Explicit libellus Aldhelmi Episcopi de laude sanctorum patrum atque uirginum

    rubric: (122v) Eiusdem de octo uitiis principalibus

    Note: (P. L. LXXXIX 281)

    incipit: (122v) Digestis igitur sanctorum laudibus almis

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (131v) Adduci merear Christo regnante per ethram

    rubric: (131v) Explicit ΛΙΒΗΡ Aldhelmi Archiepiscopi de viii vitiis principalibus

    Note: On f. 132r an erasure

    Note: A scribble cut off at top: - Anglie primati et apostolice sedis ... in spiritualibus generali et officiali ... patri debitas cum honore

    Note: Also the name humfry

    Note: A drawing of an ornament (or notarial mark) below

    Note: Such Anglo-Saxon glosses as occur in this MS. are given by Professor Napier, Old English Glosses, Oxford (p. xiii)

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