Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 219

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 219
    • CCCC MS 219
    • MS 219
    • Parker Library MS 219
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1100 - 1199
  • Script :
    • in a very good hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 70
  • Dimensions :
    • 170 x 243
  • Codicological details :
    • 29 lines to a page
    • ff. i-v + 1-70 + vi-x
    • Futuri
    • 1(8) (wants 1, 2) 2(8)-9(8).

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 219, dating from the fifteenth century, is one of only two known surviving copies of the St Albans Compilation of the Gesta Alexandri (the other being in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 154/204) thought to have been written by Ralph Gobion, abbot of St Albans (1146-51). The manuscript also contains the spurious exchange of letters between Alexander the Great and the eastern potentate Dindimus. The volume is one of seven that James speculated may have been donated to the College by Daniel Rogers (see also MSS 206, 221, 229, 231 and 239) in addition to the seven that can certainly be traced to that donor (MSS 214, 223, 224, 228, 230, 236 and 248). Rogers is presumably to be identified with the scholar, poet, author and diplomat who rose to be clerk to Elizabeth I's Privy Council in 1587 and died in 1591, and who is known to have collected a number of manuscripts of an historical character. A perhaps sixteenth-century note on the last folio of the volume refers to land held in Urswick, Lancashire, by the duke of Suffolk.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    1r-64r - Gesta Alexandri || Historia regis Macedonum Philippi, filiique ejus Alexandri magni, excerpta de libris Pompeii Trogi Orosii Iosephi Ieronimi Solini Augustini Bedae et Ysodori || Gesta Alexandri

    rubric : (1r) Macedonia ante a nomine emathionis uel emathii Regis cuius prima

    incipit : (1r) Uirtutis experimenta

    Note : Names of authorities are in red in the margin

    Note : (11v) Liber II

    Note : (22v) Liber III

    Note : (37v) Liber IV

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (64r) Denique hec solutio belli macedonici et hic finis fuit perindeque qui belli finis idem et libri sit


    64r-70r - Collatio Alexandri cum Dindimo per Litteras Facta (Collatio I) || Epistolae Alexandri ad Dindimum regem Bragmanorum, et Dindimi ad Alexandrum

    rubric : (64r) Incipit epistole Alexandri ad dindium regem bragmannorum et dindimi ad Alexandrum. Alexander

    incipit : (64r) Sepius ad aures meas

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (70r) aut in indie quod a meliore prestantur

    Note : See Ward, Catalogue of Romances I 108

    Note : On f. 70v a note

    Note : (70v) xxti acr. dnic terre in urstwik perten. terr. nuper duce Suff. att intt. milonis brigge per annum S. xiiis iiijd. Urswick is in Lancashire

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  • Additions: The covers are lined with bits of a very large printed Psalter, and the flyleaves (ff. ir-iv, xr-xv) are fragments of a MS. service-book (xv) with music on four-line stave.

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