Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 145
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- Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
- Library
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
- Shelfmark
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- MS 145
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- Date
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- 1300 - 1325
- Language
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- Middle English
- Latin
- Title
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 145: South English Legendary
- South English Legendary || The lives of the saints as they stand in the kalendar in old English verse || Legendary
- Description
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Summary: CCCC MS 145 is one of the most important manuscripts of the South English Legendary, a collection of over eighty saints' lives in Middle English compiled in the late thirteenth century. This copy is of the early fourteenth century and has been used for the edition of the text. It belonged to the priory of Augustinian canons at Southwick (Hampshire).
Contents :
1r-218r - South English Legendary || The lives of the saints as they stand in the kalendar in old English verse || Legendary
Note: A full list of the contents is given by Horstmann in his Introduction to the E.E.T.S. edition of the South English Legendary, p. xiv. He assigns the MS to about 1320. Zupitza also gives a full list in Anglia, I, 393
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