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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 123

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  • MS 123
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  • 1300 - 1399
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  • Latin
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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 123: Herbert of Bosham, Epistolae. Robert Grosseteste, Epistolae
  • Herbert of Bosham, Epistolae
  • Robert Grosseteste, Epistolae
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 123 is the unique collection of the Epistolae of Herbert of Bosham (d. c. 1194), Thomas Becket's secretary and author of a version of the Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis. The Epistolae gathered here do not represent the complete version of the letters as originally conceived, since both the early and later quires have suffered losses. The manuscript was copied in second half of the fourteenth century, though its long-presumed provenance from the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, has been disputed by Neil Ker.


    Contents :


    1r-64v - Herbert of Bosham, Epistolae

    Note: Ep. 1 begins imperfectly

    Note: (1r) (dis)crecio tua serenissime consul. Detracto igitur huic epistole

    Note: Ep. 46.

    rubric: (61r) Hernulfi Lexoviensis Ep. ad Thomam

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (62v) que mutua simul inuicem ratione connexe

    Note: (P. L. CCI, col. 59)

    Note: ff. 63r-64v contain portions of letters which I do not find printed

    Note: f. 63r begins

    Note: (63r) fieri in seculo. cur te subtrahis ab hominibus seculi. dicas uolumus. Tu cum homo sis an sis de celo an sis de mundo an de inferno

    Note: On f. 63v (the writer complains of being at Court)

    Note: (63v) puto si flactus (Flaccus) aduiueret apologum suum de urbano et rusticano mure michi adaptaret... Esopus eciam de sua cornice garriret etc.

    Note: ends

    Note: (63v) Tu ergo bone ihesu qui tres mortuos le...

    Note: f. 64r begins

    Note: (64r) ab omnibus celebratus est in abscondito iam in celebri est ignominiosus iste contractus et scelestum commercium

    Note: Col. 2

    Note: (64r) uulgi genus quod tota die deridendo clamare non cessat. Ecce hic christus, ecce ibi, crucifixus eboracensis cantuariensi preualuit. sic cotidie contendunt et litigant

    Note: f. 64v, col. 2

    Note: (64v) aduerto quod epistolici caracteris iam excesserim modum

    Note: Ends

    Note: (64v) nam absque fortitudine omnes de quibus propheta dicit Dederunt preciosa queque pro cibo ad refocillandam ...


    65r-131r - Robert Grosseteste, Epistolae

    Note: Quires 4, 5 (ff. 38r-61v) contain letters 4-42

    Note: Quires 1, 2 contain letters 74 (end)-130

    Note: (88v) Ep. 130 ends on 24v

    Note: Then follows the letter (Ep. 127, Luard)

    incipit: (89r) Moyses qui tradente domino susceperat gubernaculum

    explicit: (101v) omnium supremo in ipsa superiori potestate obeditur

    Note: (101v) Scripta sunt hec in crastino sancte lucie a. d. 1456, deo gracias

    Note: See also MS 257. 4, MS 453. 2.

    Note: On ff. 62r-63v in double columns is a list of the Epistles (1-121)

    Note: 1. Deus est prima forma et forma omnium

    Note: 2. Quando paulisper a peregrinando supersedebat, etc.

    Note: Then follow Epp. 1 (1 Luard), 3 Luard, 16 Luard

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