Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 219
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- MS 219
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- 1100 - 1199
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- Latin
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 219: Gesta Alexandri
- Gesta Alexandri || Historia regis Macedonum Philippi, filiique ejus Alexandri magni, excerpta de libris Pompeii Trogi Orosii Iosephi Ieronimi Solini Augustini Bedae et Ysodori || Gesta Alexandri
- Collatio Alexandri cum Dindimo per Litteras Facta (Collatio I) || Epistolae Alexandri ad Dindimum regem Bragmanorum, et Dindimi ad Alexandrum
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Summary: CCCC MS 219, dating from the fifteenth century, is one of only two known surviving copies of the St Albans Compilation of the Gesta Alexandri (the other being in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 154/204) thought to have been written by Ralph Gobion, abbot of St Albans (1146-51). The manuscript also contains the spurious exchange of letters between Alexander the Great and the eastern potentate Dindimus. The volume is one of seven that James speculated may have been donated to the College by Daniel Rogers (see also MSS 206, 221, 229, 231 and 239) in addition to the seven that can certainly be traced to that donor (MSS 214, 223, 224, 228, 230, 236 and 248). Rogers is presumably to be identified with the scholar, poet, author and diplomat who rose to be clerk to Elizabeth I's Privy Council in 1587 and died in 1591, and who is known to have collected a number of manuscripts of an historical character. A perhaps sixteenth-century note on the last folio of the volume refers to land held in Urswick, Lancashire, by the duke of Suffolk.
Contents :
1r-64r - Gesta Alexandri || Historia regis Macedonum Philippi, filiique ejus Alexandri magni, excerpta de libris Pompeii Trogi Orosii Iosephi Ieronimi Solini Augustini Bedae et Ysodori || Gesta Alexandri
rubric: (1r) Macedonia ante a nomine emathionis uel emathii Regis cuius prima
incipit: (1r) Uirtutis experimenta
Note: Names of authorities are in red in the margin
Note: (11v) Liber II
Note: (22v) Liber III
Note: (37v) Liber IV
Note: Ends
explicit: (64r) Denique hec solutio belli macedonici et hic finis fuit perindeque qui belli finis idem et libri sit
64r-70r - Collatio Alexandri cum Dindimo per Litteras Facta (Collatio I) || Epistolae Alexandri ad Dindimum regem Bragmanorum, et Dindimi ad Alexandrum
rubric: (64r) Incipit epistole Alexandri ad dindium regem bragmannorum et dindimi ad Alexandrum. Alexander
incipit: (64r) Sepius ad aures meas
Note: Ends
explicit: (70r) aut in indie quod a meliore prestantur
Note: See Ward, Catalogue of Romances I 108
Note: On f. 70v a note
Note: (70v) xxti acr. dnic terre in urstwik perten. terr. nuper duce Suff. att intt. milonis brigge per annum S. xiiis iiijd. Urswick is in Lancashire
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