Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 295
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 295: Thomas Becket, Epistolae (Alan of Tewkesbury's Collection, Recension III)
- Thomas Becket, Epistolae (Alan of Tewkesbury's Collection, Recension III)
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- Thomas Becket (saint, 1120-1170)
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- Thomas Becket
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- Thomas Becket (saint ; 1120-1170)
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- Becket, Thomas, ?1120-1170, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury
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- Alain de Tewkesbury (11..-1202)
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- Alan of Tewkesbury
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- Alan of Tewkesbury, d 1202, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, later Abbot of Tewkesbury
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Summary: CCCC MS 295 reflects Parker's obvious interest in the history of the English church and the See of Canterbury in particular. It contains an incomplete version of the Epistolae (Recension III) of Thomas Becket compiled by Alan of Tewkesbury (d. 1202) together with a few letters of John of Salisbury (c. 1115-80). The manuscript was copied in the early thirteenth century, probably at Christ Church, Canterbury, where it has been identified in the library catalogue drawn up by Henry of Eastry in the early fourteenth century. A curious inscription in a late fifteenth-century hand recording that the book was the property of 'ecclesiam Blavnsom' means that it cannot be certain that Parker acquired this manuscript directly from Christ Church.
Contents :
iir-207v - Thomas Becket, Epistolae (Alan of Tewkesbury's Collection, Recension III)
rubric: (iir) Incipiunt capitula epistolarum beati thome martiris. Capitula primi libri epistolarum
incipit: (iir) Incipit prologus in actus et exilium beati Thome martiris. Honor et gloria beati martyris
Note: Liber I has 178 epistles. First words of each are given
rubric: (ivr) Incipit Liber II a legatione Willelmi et Othonis cardinalium
Note: 112 epistles
Note: (vr) Liber III
rubric: (vr) a legatione Gratiani et Viuiani cardinalium
Note: 126 epistles
Note: (viv) Liber IV
rubric: (viv) a legatione Symonis de monte dei et Bernardo (!) de corilo
Note: 52 (51) epistles
Note: (viir) Liber V
rubric: (viir) a legatione Rotrodi Rotomagensis archiepiscopi
Note: 97 epistles
Note: 7v blank
rubric: (1r) Incipit prologus in actus et exilium beati martyris thome
incipit: (1r) Honor et gloria beati martyris
explicit: (1r) qualiter fuerit agendum
Note: (Prologue of Alan of Tewkesbury. Giles I, 316)
rubric: (1r) Incipiunt quedam explanationes subsequentium que minus expresse in epistolis continentur
Note: (Alan of Tewkesbury. Giles I, 339)
incipit: (1r) Gloriosus dei martyr thomas qualis et statutas in regno anglorum promulgaret
rubric: (6r) Prima epistola. Thome cantuariensi archiepiscopo Johannes pictauensis episcopus
incipit: (6r) Reuerentissimo domino ... Thome ... suus Johannes ... Vix mihi domine uel unum diem
Note: (71v) Liber II
Note: (114r) Liber III
Note: (154r) Liber IV
Note: (170v) Liber V
Note: Last letter
rubric: (207v) Albertus et teodinus cardinales conuentui cantuar.
incipit: (207v) Albertus ... Letamur nos
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