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• Résumé : CCCC MS 46 contains copies of two works by John of Salisbury (c. 1120-1180), the Policraticus and the Metalogicon. The Corpus manuscript is sometimes described as the author's own copy that was presented by Salisbury to Archbishop Thomas Becket. Whether this was the case or not, it was certainly at the Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity, Christ Church, Canterbury in the later twelfth century and remained there until it came into Parker's possession. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century editors and commentators stressed the importance of the texts in this manuscript as early versions of John of Salisbury's work. A more recent editor, however, has described the texts preserved in CCCC MS 46 as 'corrupt'.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  1ar-22av - Table indexing John of Salisbury's Policraticus

  Note : Quires a, b, c are of cent. xv in double columns of 54 lines, and contain

  Note : Tabula super polycraticum

  incipit : (1ar) Absolui. Non extorquetis absolui

  Note : (21av) to Ypodamia

  Note : 22ar-22av blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  John of Salisbury - author

  ir-183v - John of Salisbury, Policraticus

  Note : The original book begins

  rubric : (ir) Incipit entheticus Iohannis saresberiensis in policraticum

  incipit : (ir) Si mihi credideris linguam cohibebis et aule

  Note : (P. L. CXCIX 379)

  explicit : (iiv) Vix pateris dici pauca uel ista tene

  Note : These leaves are not numbered in the old foliation, which I use

  rubric : (iiv) Incipit prologus Policratici de curialium nugis et uestigiis philosophorum

  incipit : (1r) Iocundissimus cum in multis tum in eo

  Note : (P. L. CXCIX 385)

  explicit : (2v) magni consilii angelus

  rubric : (2v) Explicit prologus I libri

  Note : (2v) Capitula

  rubric : (2v) Incipit liber primus policratici

  incipit : (2v) Inter omnia que uiris solent obesse

  Note : (2v) Fine initial in gold, blue, red, green, pink, set in a panel of green. It has interlaced top, panelled stalk, and leaf ornament at bottom

  Note : (13r) Liber II with capitula (on f. 12v). Initial in blue and red

  Note : (37v) Liber III

  Note : (52r) Liber VI (should be IV)

  Note : (62v) Liber V

  Note : (82v) Liber VI (capitula on f. 82r)

  Note : (101r) Liber VII, pretty initial on f. 101v

  Note : (134v) Liber VIII

  explicit : (183v) dirigat in eo gressus nostros

  rubric : (183v) Explicit Policraticus Johannis de Saresberie. Liber VIII

  
  

  184r-240v - John of Salisbury, Metalogicon

  rubric : (184r) Incipit prologus Iohannis in Metalogicon

  Note : (P. L. CXCIX 823)

  incipit : (184r) In humanis rebus nichil fere

  explicit : (184v) placita uoluntati

  rubric : (184v) Explicit prologus

  rubric : (184v) Incipiunt capitula libri primi

  rubric : (185r) Incipit metalogicon Johannis. Liber I

  incipit : (185r) Aduersus insigne donum nature

  Note : (198v) Liber II

  Note : (213r) Liber III (prol.)

  Note : (224r) Liber IV

  explicit : (238r) amatorem pariter et cultorem

  rubric : (238r) Metalogicon Iohannis de Saeresberie liber quartus explicit

  Note : (238r) A Parkerian note on the author's date follows