Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 366

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  • 1200 - 1299
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  • Latin
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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 366: Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae
  • Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae || P. BlesensisEpistolae cxv
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  • Preferred form
    • Pierre de Blois (113.-1212?)
    Role
    • Author
    Original form
    • Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath
    Other form
    • Pierre de Blois (113.-1212?)
    • Pierre de Blois
    • Petrus Blesensis
    • Petrus Blesensis (113.-1212?)
    • PETRUS BLESENSIS
    • Peter of Blois
    • Peter of Blois, approximately 1135-approximately 1212
    • Peter of Blois, c 1130-1212
    • Petrus Blesensis, 1135-1212
    • Petrus <Blesensis> (1135-1204)
    • Pierre de Blois (1130?-1212?)
    • Petrus Blesensis, ca. 1135-ca. 1211
    • Petrus Blesensis, ca. 1135-ca. 1211 > , co-autor
    • Petrus Blesensis - ca. 1135 - 1204 - auteur
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Description
  • Summary: This is a thirteenth-century manuscript containing the letters of Peter of Blois (d. 1212). Cohn identified CCCC MS 366 as one of the 'B' group manuscripts of Peter's letters. The manuscript is from the Benedictine priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Martin, at Dover, Kent, where it was included in a catalogue in 1389.


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    3r-140v - Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae || P. BlesensisEpistolae cxv

    Note: (3r) Table in a somewhat charter-like hand of cent. xiii

    Note: Headed in red

    rubric: (3r) Hec sunt nomina Epistolarum. Hi sunt tituli

    Note: Begins

    incipit: (3r) Rogatus a vobis

    Note: (3r) i. Prefatio Epistolarum Magri Petri Blesensis

    incipit: (3r) Audiui et conturbatus

    Note: (3r) ii. Quod modeste dolendum de mortuis

    incipit: (3r) Fletu singu(l)tuoso

    Note: (3r) iii. Quod nobilis Ignobilem non contempnat

    Note: Ends

    incipit: (4v) Sal infatuatum

    Note: (4v) cxiiii. De inpetuosa et indiscreta prelati sententia

    incipit: (4v) Eam speramus

    Note: (4v) cxv. Quod honesti consanguinei diligendi et promouendi

    Note: The same hand writes many marginalia in the body of the book

    Note: Text

    rubric: (5r) Epistole Magistri Petri blesensis Bathon. archidiaconi

    incipit: (5r) Henrico dei gratia illustrissimo anglorum regi etc.

    incipit: (5r) Rogatus a uobis

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (140v) gratiam uendicat et fauorem

    Note: Verses in another hand (xiv), rather faint

    Note: a.

    incipit: (140v) Pene quibusque bonis fecundis rex reg ...Karole viue precor et plebis h .. tuere (?)Plebem custodi sed linguas quas nimis odiUrendas iure iurantum turpiter ure...

    Note: 18 lines, the last

    explicit: (140v) In ducis exitium vicium dux hocc cito mundet

    Note: b.

    incipit: (140v) Ut sompnum fugias ac ocia que nimis odiPetri sepe legas librum blesensis egidi

    Note: c.

    incipit: (140v) Francorum regi soldanus mandat ut ipsiMittat lombardos tres potibus et dape largosNec trutannos tres normannos tresque scientesEt domitos britones tot et anglos non cupientesSoldano regis respondet epistola quod visvel tu virEt petis inuenies cum de mare femina fies

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