Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 158

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 158
    • CCCC MS 158
    • MS 158
    • Parker Library MS 158
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Cicéron (0106-0043 av. J.-C.) | Pseudo-Cicero
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1400 - 1499
  • Script :
    • in a beautiful Roman hand rather sloped, but not by and Italian scribe
  • Decoration :
    • The decorative initials are very beautiful. The letter is in gold: coloured foliage (pale brown) surrounds it on a ground, parti-coloured, of blue and red dotted with white: these grounds have sharply cusped edges. There are finely painted grotesque figures in grisaille and dragons (compare this with MS 285).Sub-sections have plain gold initials.
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 136 + 3
  • Dimensions :
    • 200 x 290
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 27 lines
    • ff. i-ii + a-b + 1-136 + c + iii-iv
    • a(2) A(8)-R(8) b(1).

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Contents

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  • Résumé : The text and script of CCCC MS 158, dating to c. 1450-1475, are a very good example of the sort of manuscript made for English humanists of the middle years of the fifteenth century. It is a copy of two works of Cicero on rhetoric. It was written in Italian-influenced humanist script by the scribe, John Pacy, who also worked on Cambridge, Pembroke MS 235, which is dated 1464. M. R. James thought that it came from the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, but it does not appear to be listed in the catalogue. Matthew Parker, misled by the Roman form of the script, notes on f. 1 that the book belonged to Theodore, the seventh-century archbishop of Canterbury. The book contains fine decorative initials containing grotesques and dragons in grisaille.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero) - author

    1r-72v - Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero), De inuentione

    Note : (1r) In red capitals

    rubric : (1r) Marci Tullii Ciceronis Rethoricorum liber primus Incipit

    incipit : (1r) Sepe multum hoc mecum cogitaui

    explicit : (3r) considerare poterit

    rubric : (3r) Finit prologus

    rubric : (3r) Incipit de genere artis Rethorice Liber Primus

    incipit : (3r) Civilis quedam racio est

    Note : (35r) Liber II

    Note : (35r) Initial. Man shooting at butterfly

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (72r) que restant reliquis dicemus

    Note : f. 72v blank


    Intervenants :

    pseudo-Cicero - author

    73r-136v - pseudo-Cicero, De ratione dicendi ad Herennium (Rhetorica ad Herennium)

    rubric : (73r) Marci Tullii Ciceronis in nova Rethorica Liber Primus Incipit

    incipit : (73r) At si in negociis familiaribus

    Note : Liber II

    incipit : (80v) In primo libro herenni

    Note : Liber III

    incipit : (95v) Ad omnem iudicialem causam

    Note : Liber IV

    incipit : (106v) Quoniam in hoc libro herenni

    explicit : (124v) ad sentenciarum exornacionem transeamus

    Note : Liber V

    Note : This manuscript preserves as Liber V the section of Liber IV concerning Figures of Thought (Liber IV: 47-69)

    incipit : (124v) Distribucio est cum in plures res

    Note : (Liber IV 47)

    Note : On f. 135r the lower part of col. 2 and all col. 1 on f. 135v are erased from

    Note : (135r) contorquet brachium et dubitanti gracho (Liber IV 68)

    Note : to

    Note : (135v) erceantur non habent, aut si diffisus sit (Liber IV 69)

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (136r) diligencia consequemur exercitacionis

    Note : On f. 136v is scribbled hart hary (?)

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Provenance

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  • At top of f. 1r (xvi): Liber quondam Theodori Archiepi Cantuariensis Doubtless the book was found by Parker at Canterbury and he was deceived by the Roman script into thinking it an early work.

Notes

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  • Research: Mr E. H. Minns of Pembroke College has called attention to the probable identity of the scribe of this MS. with the scribe of the Pembroke College MS. no. 235, who gives his name as John Pacy, Chaplain, with the date 1464. There is no decorative work in the Pembroke MS.

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