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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 425

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  • MS 425
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Date
  • 1200 - 1225 - 1400 - 1499
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 425: Gerald of Wales, Vita Sancti Remigii episcopi, Vita Sancti Hugonis. Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae
    • Gerald of Wales, Vita Sancti Remigii episcopi || Gulielmus de Barri dictus Cambrensis de vitis sancti Remigii et episcoporum Lincolniensium illi succedentium et aliorum sex Angliae episcoporum sui temporis || Vita Sancti Remigii
    • Gerald of Wales, Vita Sancti Hugonis || Vita S. Hugonis Lincoln || Vita Sancti Hugonis
    • Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae || Petri Blessensis epistolae LXXVIII
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 425 consists of two once-separate volumes. The first contains the unique surviving copies of two hagiographical works by Gerald of Wales (1146-1226), his lives of St Remigius and St Hugh. It has been suggested that the manuscript could be an autograph, and on these grounds has been located to Lincoln between 1209 and 1223. The second volume is a c. 1450 copy of letters of Peter of Blois (d. 1212). The two were probably combined by Matthew Parker. He added a table of contents and the initials "TW" to the start of the first volume, perhaps suggesting that he acquired it from one of the Twynes or from Thomas Wootton.


    Contents :


    6r-45v - Gerald of Wales, Vita Sancti Remigii episcopi || Gulielmus de Barri dictus Cambrensis de vitis sancti Remigii et episcoporum Lincolniensium illi succedentium et aliorum sex Angliae episcoporum sui temporis || Vita Sancti Remigii

    Note: hoc ordine Vita sancti Remigii, p. 20. Roberti Bloet, p.37. Alexandri, p.38. Roberti de Chimel, p.39. Gaufredi Electi, p. 40. Walteri Constantiensis, p.41. Hugonis Burgundiensis, p. 42. Vitae episcoporum Angliae tergeminorum, viz. Thomae Cantuar. et Henrici Winton. p. 45. Bartholomei Exoniensis et Rogeri Wigor. p. 62. Baldwini Cisterciensis postea Cantuar. et Hugonis Cartusiensis postea Lincoln. p. 73

    Note: Printed by Dimock in Vol. VII of the Rolls ed. of Giraldus. He says of the MS. of all the early manuscripts of Giraldus's different works which I have had to study, this C.C.C. 425 seems to me to have the best claim to be looked upon, if not as his own autograph copy, yet as written and revised and added to under his own eye. At any rate it was, in all likelihood, written before Giraldus' death: it certainly gives us a most correct text: and the text, probably, of Giraldus's last revision. (Introd., p. ix.)

    Note: It is the only manuscript of these Lives extant

    rubric: (6r) Prefatio donum declarans et gratiam comparans

    Note: (6r) Gold initial with half-length of a mitred archbishop (Stephen Langton) on blue ground

    incipit: (6r) Reuerendo patri ac domino Stephano dei gratia Cantuariensi archiepiscopo

    Note: (p. 1 Rolls)

    Note: (9r) Capitula (p. 9 Rolls)

    rubric: (9v) Incipit proemium

    incipit: (9v) Vitas uirorum

    Note: (p. 11 Rolls)

    Note: (11v) Text (p. 14 Rolls)

    Note: (11v) Initial has half-length of Remigius in blue with crozier

    Note: 47 is an added slip, cf. p. 44 of print

    Note: On 54 the hand that wrote the title on p. 1 adds a title in capitals

    rubric: (27v) De Thoma Cantuarenci

    Note: (31v) (Dimock, p. 57 )

    rubric: (31v) De Bartholomeo Exoniensi et Rogero Wigorniensi

    Note: (31v) An initial with half-lengths of the two

    Note: (37r) Similarly, (Dimock, p. 67)

    rubric: (37r) de Baldewino Cisterciensi et Hugone Cartusiensi

    Note: (37r) An initial with two half-length figures

    explicit: (44v) sub hoc conpendio terminetur

    rubric: (44v) Explicit

    Note: 89, 90 blank


    46r-80v - Gerald of Wales, Vita Sancti Hugonis || Vita S. Hugonis Lincoln || Vita Sancti Hugonis

    Note: Edited by Dimock in Vol. VII of the Rolls ed. of Giraldus. This is the only manuscript

    rubric: (46r) Incipiunt capitula in vitam Sancti Hugonis

    Note: Dimock, p. 83

    Note: 93, 94 are an added slip with capitula of the Third Distinction of the work: 93 being blank

    rubric: (47r) Incipit proemium in uitam Sancti Hugonis Lincolniensis

    incipit: (47r) Quanto rarius

    Note: (Dimock, p. 87)

    Note: (48r) Text. Initial with half-length of Hugh blessing

    Note: (60v) Distinctio II

    Note: (68v) Distinctio III

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (79r) regnat et imperat in secula seculorum. Amen

    rubric: (79r) Explicit

    Note: 160-162 blank


    81r-191r - Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae || Petri Blessensis epistolae LXXVIII

    rubric: (81r) Epistole Petri Blesensis

    Note: (P. L. CCVII)

    rubric: (81r) Scribitur regi ad cuius mandatum presentis operis epistolas dispersas collegerat et est hoc quasi prohemium operis

    incipit: (81r) Henrico dei gratia illustrissimo

    rubric: (82r) Consolacio ad regem de obitu filii junioris regis

    Note: There are 78 Epistles. The last

    rubric: (189v) Congratulatur istis de reparacione ecclesie blesensis et hortatur eos

    incipit: (190r) Dilectis dominis ... R. decano ... Gratias ago gratie largitori

    Note: Ends unfinished

    explicit: (191r) Ille qui infirma

    Note: (191r) The verso of this leaf and recto of the next are blank and pasted together

    Note: (192r) A blank leaf follows

    Note: On the margin of f. 110v

    Note: (190v) martinus clamidem cum paupere dimidiauit

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