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• Anonyme | Algorithme
  Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Cest art algorism hom apele / Un art daconter bon et bele
  Garde début vr
• Thomas Gray | Scalachronica
  Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Ke eit delite ou voet savoir coment le isle del grant Bretaigne
  Folio 1 - 233v

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• Résumé : CCCC MS 133 contains the unique copy of Sir Thomas Gray's Anglo-Norman Scala Chronica, begun while its English author was awaiting ransom from Scottish captivity in 1355-1356 and completed some time after 1363, where the account ends. The work is a uniquely valuable source for the history of the troubled Anglo-Scottish border region and wider English politics of the mid-fourteenth century. The unique copy in this manuscript, probably dating to c. 1400, was made not long after the date of the original text's completion and, since the early fifteenth century, has been bound with a late fourteenth-century copy of the Algorism, a verse and prose treatise on mathematics in Anglo-Norman and English. The manuscript was almost certainly in the hands of Gerald FitzGerard, Earl of Kildare (d. 1534) and may have come to that family from a descendant of the work's original author. It was subsequently acquired by the historian John Bale (1495-1563), during his brief tenure as bishop of Ossory in 1552, and probably came to Parker from Bale's collection.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : français, anglais, latin

  
  

  iv-iiir - Algorism || Ars subtilis computandi quae dicitur Algorismus || Algorismus

  Note : versibus Gallicis

  Note : Arabic digits in red

  incipit : (iv) Cest art algorism hom apeleUn art daconter bon et bele

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (iiir) Et le nombre quil primer imestezSus leueroi si bien le fiestez

  rubric : (iiir) Explicit ars subtilis computandi que dicitur Algorismus

  Note : (iiir) Other rhymes in French and one in English follow on measures of length, of land, a puzzle, on addition etc., and (in prose) on notation

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Thomas Gray - author

  1r-234v - Thomas Gray, Scala Chronica || Scala cronica, incepta A. D. 1355, autore Thoma Gray || Scala Cronica

  Note : De autore hujus chronici dubitavit Cl. Tanner, et nihil certi attulit Lelandus, quod eo magis miror cum in prologo nomen suum etsi non disertis verbis, enigmatice tamen revelaverit, ut ipse innuit Lelandus, neque Oedipo opus est ad nodum solvendum; haec enim ipsius sunt verba, Soit VIII [H] joynt apres XIX [T]: si mettez XII [M] apres XIIII [O], un [A] et XVIII [S] encountrez, soun propre nom en saverez: VII [G] a XVII [R] mettez, le premier vowel [A] au tierce [I] ajoignez, soune droit surnome entrouverez solunc l'alphabet. Exhinc manifeste apparet autorem fuisse Thomam Graium Anglum, et ut ipse testatur apud Edinburgam captivum, ubi haec quae in quodam invenerat poemate, eadem lingua scilicet Gallica, soluta oratione contexuit. Continet historiam Angliae a mundo condito ad A. D. 1362.

  Note : Begins

  incipit : (1r) Ke eit delite ou voet sauoir coment le isle del grant Bretaigne

  Note : There is a very pretty border on three sides, of characteristic English work: and a nice decorative initial

  Note : Subsequent initials are on gold with ground of red and blue quarterly, patterned

  Note : Smaller initials on blue with red penwork

  Note : See an English version of the Preface in MS 119. 124

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (234v) Cest matremoigne fust fait soulement par force damours qui toutz veint