Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 471
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- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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- MS 471
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- 1375 - 1399
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- Middle French
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 471: John of Howden, Rossignos
- John of Howden, Rossignos
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- John Hoveden (12..-1275?)
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- John of Howden
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- Description
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Summary: CCCC MS 471, contains the unique copy of the devotional poem in Anglo-Norman by John of Howden (d. 1275), Rossignos, the manuscript dating to the late fourteenth century, some hundred years after the poem's original composition. Howden's exact identity is uncertain, but he was probably a royal clerk in the household of Queen Eleanor of Provence, consort of Henry III and the mother of Edward I. The poem is dedicated to Eleanor and is a reworking of Howden's earlier Latin work, Philomena. The manuscript was probably in Parker's possession by 1564, as revealed by a scribbled note bearing that date. Other notes record the name of 'Franciscus Aldriche', but it seems unlikely that this is the same man who attended Clare College in the 1580s and rose to be Master of Sidney Sussex College in 1608.
Contents :
1r-112r - John of Howden, Rossignos
incipit: (1r) Ci comence la pensee Iohan de Houedene clerc la roine dengleterre mere le roi Edward de la neissance e de la mort e du relieuement e de lascencion ihesu crist e de lassumpcion nostre dame. Et a non ceste pensee. Rossignos, etc
incipit: (1r) Ceste oeure comence. Ci comence li rossignol.Alme lesse lit de peresseE ta langor e ta tristesseApreng damour la parfondesseE a penser damour tadresse
Note: Ends
explicit: (111r) A la roine lesmereeMere au roi Edward la seneeVa chanzon e se li agreeLi soiez leue e recordee
rubric: (111r) Ci finist li Rossignos Johan de Houdene
Note: This copy is mentioned by Tanner. The text has not been printed. John Hoveden died in 1275. This may be a French version by another hand of his Latin poem Philomela
Note: On ff. 111v, 112r are Parker's name and the date 1564 written several times in set hand, I suppose by a secretary
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