Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 383
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- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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- MS 383
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- Date
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- 1125 - 1130
- Language
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- Old English
- Middle French
- Latin
- Title
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 383: Anglo-Saxon Laws
- Laws of the Anglo-Saxons
- Description
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Summary: CCCC MS 383 is a late eleventh- or early twelfth-century manuscript, possibly from St Paul's Cathedral in London. It contains a very early version of the Anglo-Saxon law codes as they were gathered together to form part of the textual tradition known as the Quadripartitus. Parker was no doubt fascinated by the presence of Anglo-Saxon material in this volume, which contains a number of texts unique to it, such as the Gerefa. The manuscript was, at some stage, in the hands of Robert Talbot, prebendary of Norwich (d. 1558) and contains notes in his hand as well as that of Parker's secretary, John Joscelyn (1529-1603). It has been much studied throughout its history; the sixteenth-century antiquarians' notes accompany glosses dating from the thirteenth century .
Contents :
2r-69v - Laws of the Anglo-Saxons
Note: (69r) In another hand of cent. xii: Matrosenstellung aus Landgütern der Kirche London um 1000. Ed. by Liebermann, Archiv für neuere Sprache CIV 23S 1458a. It begins
incipit: (69r) (S)cipmen. Of ticc .IIII. Of tillingaham .II.
explicit: (69v) Of hæþlege .7 of Codanham .I.
Note: Follows a note on genealogy of West Saxons
Note: Cameron B18.1
incipit: (69v) (Ƿ)a ƿæs agangen fram cristes acennednesse cccc 7 xciiii ƿintra þa cerdic 7 cynric his sunu coman up æt cerdices oran mid fif scipun 7 se cerdic ƿes elesing. elesa geƿising, etc.
explicit: (69v) þa feng æscƿine to rice þes cyn gæð to cerdice 7 he heold .II. gear. þa feng centƿine
Note: (70r) Four blank vellum flyleaves
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