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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 407

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  • MS 407
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Date
  • 1300 - 1399
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 407: Simon Simeonis OFM, Itinerarium. Willelmus de Rubruk, Itinerarium. Odoricus of Pordenone, Itinerarium. Secretum secretorum
    • Simon Simeonis OFM, Itinerarium in terram sanctam || Itinerarium fratrum Symonis Semeonis et Hugonis illuminatoris, ordinis fratrum minorum professorum, ad terram sanctam A.D. 1322 || Itinerarium Symeonis Semeonis et Hugonis illuminatoris
    • Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales || Itinerarium fratris Willelmi de Rubruk de ordine fratrum minorum anno gratiae MCCLIII ad partes orientales
    • Odoricus of Pordenone, Itinerarium || Itinerarium fratris Odorici ordinis fratrum minorum de mirabilibus orientalium Tartarorum
    • Liber de terrae partibus et diversis provinciis || Liber de terrae partibus et diversis provinciis
    • Secretum secretorum || Liber secreti secretorum sive de regimine principum et dominorum ad instantiam Alexandri magni ab Aristotele editus
    • De complexione humana || Aliud documentum de complexione humana
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 407 contains two distinct types of material, but all copied in the second quarter of the fourteenth century. The first is a series of travelogues including Simon Simeonis OFM (d. after 1322) Itinerarium in terram sanctam, Willelmus de Rubruk OFM (c. 1215-c. 1270) Itinerarium ad partes orientales and the Itinerarium of Odoricus of Pordenone (c. 1286-1331). The second type of material, written in a different hand, includes the Arabic version of the Secretum secretorum translated by Philip of Tripoli (fl. c. 1243) and another broadly medical treatise, De complexione humana. This volume was owned by, and quite probably copied for, Simon Bozoun OSB (d. 1352), prior of Norwich Cathedral Priory, as revealed by an inscription on the first folio. The manuscript was almost certainly acquired by Parker from Norwich.


    Contents :


    1r-36v - Simon Simeonis OFM, Itinerarium in terram sanctam || Itinerarium fratrum Symonis Semeonis et Hugonis illuminatoris, ordinis fratrum minorum professorum, ad terram sanctam A.D. 1322 || Itinerarium Symeonis Semeonis et Hugonis illuminatoris

    Note: (1r) (No title)

    incipit: (1r) Culmine honoris spreto

    Note: Ed. by Nasmith, Cambridge 1778, with William of Worcester

    Note: It is unfinished, ending

    explicit: (33v) ad quam nullum christianum permittunt accedere

    Note: See an article on this Itinerary by Mario Esposito Hermathena 1911, p. 264

    Note: ff. 34r-36v blank


    37r-68v - Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales || Itinerarium fratris Willelmi de Rubruk de ordine fratrum minorum anno gratiae MCCLIII ad partes orientales

    Note: Desunt multa ad finem

    rubric: (37r) Itinerarium fratris Willelmi de Rubruk de ordine fratrum minorum anno gratie millo cco liij ad partes orientales

    incipit: (37r) Excellentissimo domino ...Lodowyco ...W. de Rubruc. etc. Scriptum est in ecclesiastico de sapiente

    Note: Ends imperfect

    explicit: (66r) In ista terra sunt multe prouincie quarum plures adhuc non obediunt moallis et inter

    Note: (66r) Marginalia: hic deficit multum. vide apud Sanctum Edmundum residuum

    Note: Cf. no. 66. 10, no. 181. art. 9. Ed. by d'Avezac, 1839

    Note: ff. 66v-68v blank

    Note: The words apud S. Edmundum may very probably refer to the copy of Rubruc in no. 66 which is a Bury MS. On the text of this and of MS 66 see C. R. Beazley, Carpini and Rubruquis, Hakluyt Society 1903


    69r-92v - Odoricus of Pordenone, Itinerarium || Itinerarium fratris Odorici ordinis fratrum minorum de mirabilibus orientalium Tartarorum

    rubric: (69r) Incipit Itinerarium fratris Odorici ordinis fratrum minorum de mirabilibus orientalium tartarorum

    incipit: (69r) Licet multa et uaria de ritibus et condicionibus huius mundi

    explicit: (91r) sed non de omnibus quia sunt innumerabilia et michi difficilia ad scribendum

    Note: ff. 91v-92v blank

    Note: See no. 275. Printed Acta SS. 1 Jan. 986 (should be 992), 1 Apr. 52: Wadding III sub ann. 1331


    93r-128v - Liber de terrae partibus et diversis provinciis || Liber de terrae partibus et diversis provinciis

    Note: Regiones ordine alphabetico describuntur: desiderantur quaedam ad finem

    Note: Another hand

    rubric: (93r) Incipit hic liber de terre partibus et diuersis prouinciis

    incipit: (93r) De terre autem partibus et diuersis prouinciis per quas orbis generaliter est diuisus pauca huic operi sunt adiuuante domino breuiter inserenda, etc.

    rubric: (93r) De orbe in generali

    incipit: (93r) Orbis ut dicit ysidorus li. xv tripharie est diuisus

    Note: The places described are in alphabetical order beginning with Asya. They go down to Sicilia (the rubric says wrongly de Surtes) in which the text ends imperfectly

    explicit: (128v) fistulis penetrabilis uentis et sulphure plena


    129r-176r - Secretum secretorum || Liber secreti secretorum sive de regimine principum et dominorum ad instantiam Alexandri magni ab Aristotele editus

    Note: Another hand, headed

    rubric: (129r) De Regimine dominorum

    rubric: (129r) Incipit liber secreti secretorum ad instanciam Alexandri magni ab aristotile editus

    incipit: (129r) Domino suo excellentissimo ... Wydoni ... Philippus

    explicit: (130r) feliciter peruenire

    rubric: (130r) Tituli maioris huius operis

    rubric: (131r) Prologus cuiusdam doctoris de commendacione aristotilis

    incipit: (131r) Deus omnipotens custodiat

    explicit: (131v) ob hac forma

    rubric: (131v) Epistola Alex. ad Aristot.

    incipit: (131v) Doctor egregie rector iusticie

    explicit: (131v) omnes alienaciones

    rubric: (131v) Prol. Joh. translatoris huius libri

    incipit: (131v) Iohannes qui transtulit

    explicit: (132r) sub hac forma

    rubric: (132r) Incipit liber primus. Epistola ad Alexandrum

    incipit: (132r) O fili gloriosissime

    explicit: (176v) ad meliorem et probabiliorem partem. Completus est tractatus de signis et moribus naturalibus hominum ad regem magnificum Alexandrum directus qui dominatus fuit toti orbi terrarum dictus monarcha in septemtrione

    rubric: (176v) Explicit liber Aristotilis qui intitulatur de secretis secretorum siue de regimine principum et dominorum


    176v-178v - De complexione humana || Aliud documentum de complexione humana

    rubric: (176v) Aliud documentum de complexione humana

    incipit: (176v) Caput nostrum commissuras habet v

    Note: (177r) Hand changes

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (178v) Colera rubea estate ab viii Idus Maii usque ad viii Idus augusti et sunt dies nonaginta

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