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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 50

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  • MS 050
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Date
  • 1250 - 1299
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle French
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 050: Wace, Roman de Brut. Roman de Guy de Warewic
    • Genealogy of the kings of Britain
    • Wace, Roman de Brut || The Brut of Wace
    • Le livere des reis de Britannie
    • Romanz di un chivaler et sa dame e un clerk
    • Amis et Amiloun
    • The Four Daughters of God
    • Roman de Guy de Warewic || Gui de Warwyk
    • see more
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 50 contains a number of works in French and Anglo-Norman copied in the late thirteenth century. Among the most significant texts within it are the Roman de Brut of Wace (after 1100-after 1174), the Roman de Guy de Warewic, The Four Daughters of God, Amis et Amiloun and the short prose chronicle Le livere des reis de Britannie. It also contains the unique text of the fabliau, Romanz di un chivaler et sa dame e un clerk. The manuscript was at one time in the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury as indicated by two library inscriptions. It has been identified as item number 1516 in the Catalogue of the abbey's library drawn up in the late fifteenth century.


    Contents :


    1r-6r - Genealogy of the kings of Britain

    rubric: (1r) Hec sunt nomina Regum britannie ab aduentu Bruti primo in insula albyon usque ad primum aduentum Saxonum in britannia

    incipit: (1r) Primus fuit brutus qui viginti quatuor annis

    explicit: (3r) infra terram combustus est

    rubric: (3r) Hec sunt nomina Regum britonum post primum aduentum anglorum in anglia

    incipit: (3r) Primus erat aurelius

    Note: (3v) (Cadwaladrus)

    explicit: (3v) in domino obdormiuit

    rubric: (3v) Expliciunt nomina regum

    incipit: (3v) Numerus omnium

    explicit: (3v) Hic est, centum

    rubric: (3v) De quatuor viis principalibus britannie

    incipit: (3v) Tante autem gracie

    rubric: (3v) De quatuor mirabilibus britannie

    incipit: (3v) Quatuor autem

    explicit: (3v) per campos diffundi

    rubric: (3v) De quinque plagis britannie

    incipit: (3v) Quinque plagas ab exordio

    explicit: (3v) deuicerunt et optinuerunt

    rubric: (3v) De gygante quem arturus sua uirtute et audacia interfecit

    incipit: (4r) Nunciatur quendam gigantem

    rubric: (4v) De Saxonibus et de regina Sexburgie a Germania ueniente

    rubric: (4v) De prudencia anglorum

    rubric: (5r) De constitucione anglorum et de diuisione terrarum et prouinciarum secundum disposicionem et libitum Sexburge regine

    rubric: (5r) De coronacione anglorum

    Note: List of kings from Hengist to Henry III (CVIII)

    Note: (6r) Paragraph

    rubric: (6r) de stirpe Bruti

    Note: Date of conquest


    6v-90r - Wace, Roman de Brut || The Brut of Wace

    incipit: (6v) Li (sic) uult oir e uult sauerde rei en rei de eir en eir

    explicit: (90r) Mil. e cent. e cinkaunte anzFist mestre Wace cest Romanz

    rubric: (90r) Explicit liber bruti regis britannie maioris

    Note: Ed. Leroux de Lincy. Rouen 1836-8


    90r-90v - Le livere des reis de Britannie

    Note: (90r) In a small hand nearly contemporary

    Note: A short account of the kings from Egbert to Henry III

    incipit: (90r) (L)i reis de Estengle aueit Crantebreggesire. Northfolke etc.

    explicit: (90v) (a)pres Iohan fu rei Henri son fiz


    91r-94v - Romanz di un chivaler et sa dame e un clerk

    rubric: (91r) Romanz de vn chiualer e de sa dame e de vn clerk

    incipit: (91r) Un chiualer iadis estoitKe femme e enfaunz auoitDe sun cors esteit tres pruzA tuz estait corteis e druz

    explicit: (94v) E kant moruht la bone dameA deu rendi sus sa alme

    Note: Printed from this MS. by P. Meyer, Romania, I, 68


    94v-102r - Amis et Amiloun

    rubric: (94v) Ci comence le storieKe deuum auer en memorieDe syres amis e amilunKe furent si tro bon cumpaynu(n)E unke ne amerunt treysun

    incipit: (94v) Ki ueut oir chancoun damurDe loange de grant doucur

    explicit: (102r) Ici finist de amilonE de sire amis sun compaignon

    Note: This is the same version as that in the Royal MS. 12 c. xii (Ward, Catalogue of Romances I, 674), ed. Kölbing in Altenglische Bibliothek, 1884


    102r-102v - The Four Daughters of God

    rubric: (102r) Ci comence lestorie de quatre sorursEn tout le mund ne furunt meliurs

    incipit: (102r) Entendez a moi li ueuz et enfanzParoles oiret ke mult sunt uaillanz

    Note: (102r) De quatre sorurs uus uoil direKe sunt filles nostre sireSi uus dirrai la concordanceDe la primere destaunceKe fu entre deu e hommePur ceo ke adam mort la pomeNul homme si bel serui ne eustDeu. ke li ni estutAl a fin en enfern descendreE la demorer e attendreUnkes ne furent uisitezDeske merci e uerite

    Note: Col. 2

    Note: (102r) Sentre acontrerent a un iourE Justice e sa sorurMult doucement se entrebracerentE de un contek se entrepeiserent

    Note: Ends

    Note: (102v) Beau piere fet misericordeSi peis ne face ceste concordeOd laide ke ieo li fazOu trouerom mes solaz Beau piere fet dunc ueriteNe peut nient estre aquiteLe prison en ceste guiseKe ieo ne fusse ariere miseJeo uois tut dis od teste leueeE ieo serroie trop greuee

    explicit: (102v) Trop matee trop desconfiteSi par uus esteie desdite

    rubric: (102v) Explicit

    rubric: (102v) Ci finit lestorie de quatre sorursKe furent uailanz e de bone murs

    Note: Evidently unfinished in spite of the colophon

    Note: Not printed: other copies in University Library Kk. 4. 20, Harley 1801, Arundel 292. See Romania, XV, 353 (P. Meyer)


    102v-181r - Roman de Guy de Warewic || Gui de Warwyk

    rubric: (102v) E comence lestorie de gyunKe de Warwyk porta le nun

    incipit: (103r) Puis cel tens ke deus fu neze establi crestienetez

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (181r) E cil qi en la sainte triniteUn deu est par sa piteNus doint en terre si seruirKe a li en glorie puissums venir. Amen

    Note: 181v blank

    Note: See Ward, Catalogue, I, 471. Histoire Littéraire, XXII, 841

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