Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 8

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • CAMBRIDGE. Corpus Christi College Library, 008
    • CAMBRIDGE, Corpus Christi College Library, 008
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 8
    • CCCC MS 8
    • MS 008
    • Parker Library MS 8
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Author : Anonyme | Vincent de Beauvais (1190?-1264)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1300 - 1325 (Source: Parker on the Web)
    • 1300-1325 (début 14e s. (le ms. latin); le feuillet de garde avec le texte français est de la fin du 13e s.) (Source: Jonas)
  • Script :
    • well written
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 268 + 1
  • Dimensions :
    • 290 x 430
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 61 lines
    • ff. aa + a + 1-269 + i + b
    • s. ignoramus
    • 1(12) (3 mut. 11 a fragment) 2(12) 3(12) (wants 7) 4(12) 5(4) (wants 4) 6(12)-9(12) 10(10) 11(14) (ista pecia continet xiiii fol.) 12(12) 13(12) 14(?) (five) 15(12)-17(12) 18(8) 19(12)-23(12) 24(6) 25(10) (wants 1, 2, 10), 1 flyleaf.

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Contents

Data Source: Jonas

  • Anonyme | Motet
    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Volez oyer le castoy / cum Jynot per sa peyne
    Garde début

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : The main text in CCCC MS 8, dating to the first half of the fourteenth century, is the encyclopaedia of history, Speculum historiale, of the Dominican, Vincent of Beauvais (1189/94-1264), which is also in CCCC MSS 13, 14. The version in this MS is close to that in Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 568, dating to 1244, but omits the dedicatory letter and prologue. The back flyleaf of the book, bound in at a later date, contains polyphonic music on a five-line stave, dating to the middle years of the thirteenth century. The earliest English motet, 'Worldes blisce have god day,' is on the recto, and an Anglo-Norman love song, 'Volez oyer le castoy', on the verso.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Vincent of Beauvais OP - author

    1r-269v - Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 1-14

    rubric : (1r) Incipit speculum hystorie fratris Vincencii

    rubric : (1r) Apologia tocius operis

    rubric : (1r) De causa suscepti operis et eius materia

    incipit : (1r) Quoniam multitudo librorum

    Note : (3r) with beginning of Capitula mutilated

    Note : (11r) with beginning of text almost gone

    Note : (30v) A leaf gone after f. 30v

    Note : (31v) Liber II

    Note : (51r) Liber III

    Note : (68v) Liber IV

    Note : (91r) Liber V

    Note : (110r) Liber VI

    Note : (133r) Liber VII

    Note : (153v) Liber VIII

    Note : (172v) Liber IX

    Note : (186v) Liber X

    Note : (199r) Liber XI

    Note : (209r) Liber XII

    Note : (231r) Liber XIII

    Note : (246r) Liber XIV

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (262v) huius exordium sumamus

    Note : (263r) Table of Capitula to Libb. XX-XXXI

    Note : Two leaves are gone at the beginning and one at the end

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Notes

Data Source: Jonas

  • Le feuillet de garde début est un remploi de ms lyrique anglo-française (voir Wilkins, 1993)

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Additions: Several quires are marked Cor = correctum or completum.
  • Additions: The flyleaf (Ar-Av) is interesting: it is the best part of two leaves of a music book of cent. xiii with music on a five-line stave. Fragments of a similar book are in the St John's College MS F. 1 which comes from Bury St Edmund's. On the recto, L. at top, the number 558. The L. edge cut off. Ten staves of music, Latin words ... fecit do thrice and suauitatis. On R. the number 547. End of a song: in lyde ioye and blisce bringet me to bride. Another song: Worldes blisce haue god day. Nou fram min herte wand away him for / to louen min hert his went þat þurȝ his side spere rent · his herte blod / ssadde for me · nayled to þe harde tre · þat swete bodi was y tend prened wit nay / les þre · Ha iesu þin holi hefd wit ssarpe þornes was by weued þi feyre neb was al / bi spet wit spot and blod meynd al by wet fro þe crune to þe to þi body was ful of / pine and wo · and wan and red · ha iesu þi smarte ded be my sseld and my red fram / deueles lore ha suete iesu þin hore for þine pines sore thech min herte riȝt loue / þe ȝwas herte blod was ssed for me. Verso on L. 548. Song: Uolez oyer le castoy cum gynot pert sa peyne dun amiette kil ad ke trop / luy est lungtayne nout e iour luy va proyant kele ne soyt pas vyleine mes ame / rousette Douce camousette kar eez pite de voz amourettes. In red. Secundus: li puis dy Below the next stave, in red. Primus. On R. 557. R. half gone. Latin words: A nobis twice and Ne dampnemur twice. Other fragments of leaves of this book occur as patches in various parts of this volume.

Bibliography

  • Dean, Ruth J, Maureen B. M. Boulton, and MAUREEN B M BOULTON. Anglo-Norman Literature. A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts. Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series 3. Londres: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999.
  • Wilkins, Nigel. “Fragments et Feuilles de Garde.” In Les Manuscrits Français de La Bibliothèque Parker. Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Actes Du Colloque 24-27 Mars 1993, 167–77. Cambridge: Parker Library Publications, 1993.
  • Wilkins, Nigel. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Français de La Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library). Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Parker Library Publications, 1993.

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