Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 366

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 366
    • CCCC MS 366
    • MS 366
    • Parker Library MS 366
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Pierre de Blois (113.-1212?)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1200 - 1299
  • Script :
    • in several good hands
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 2 + 133
  • Dimensions :
    • 152 x 226
  • Codicological details :
    • 28 and 32 lines to a page
    • ff. i -viii + (1-2 missing) 3-75 (76-77 missing) + 78-135 (136 missing) + 137-140 + ix-xvi
    • a(2) 1(8)-16(8) 17(6) (wants 6).

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  • Résumé : This is a thirteenth-century manuscript containing the letters of Peter of Blois (d. 1212). Cohn identified CCCC MS 366 as one of the 'B' group manuscripts of Peter's letters. The manuscript is from the Benedictine priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Martin, at Dover, Kent, where it was included in a catalogue in 1389.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


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    Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath - author

    3r-140v - Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae || P. BlesensisEpistolae cxv

    Note : (3r) Table in a somewhat charter-like hand of cent. xiii

    Note : Headed in red

    rubric : (3r) Hec sunt nomina Epistolarum. Hi sunt tituli

    Note : Begins

    incipit : (3r) Rogatus a vobis

    Note : (3r) i. Prefatio Epistolarum Magri Petri Blesensis

    incipit : (3r) Audiui et conturbatus

    Note : (3r) ii. Quod modeste dolendum de mortuis

    incipit : (3r) Fletu singu(l)tuoso

    Note : (3r) iii. Quod nobilis Ignobilem non contempnat

    Note : Ends

    incipit : (4v) Sal infatuatum

    Note : (4v) cxiiii. De inpetuosa et indiscreta prelati sententia

    incipit : (4v) Eam speramus

    Note : (4v) cxv. Quod honesti consanguinei diligendi et promouendi

    Note : The same hand writes many marginalia in the body of the book

    Note : Text

    rubric : (5r) Epistole Magistri Petri blesensis Bathon. archidiaconi

    incipit : (5r) Henrico dei gratia illustrissimo anglorum regi etc.

    incipit : (5r) Rogatus a uobis

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (140v) gratiam uendicat et fauorem

    Note : Verses in another hand (xiv), rather faint

    Note : a.

    incipit : (140v) Pene quibusque bonis fecundis rex reg ...Karole viue precor et plebis h .. tuere (?)Plebem custodi sed linguas quas nimis odiUrendas iure iurantum turpiter ure...

    Note : 18 lines, the last

    explicit : (140v) In ducis exitium vicium dux hocc cito mundet

    Note : b.

    incipit : (140v) Ut sompnum fugias ac ocia que nimis odiPetri sepe legas librum blesensis egidi

    Note : c.

    incipit : (140v) Francorum regi soldanus mandat ut ipsiMittat lombardos tres potibus et dape largosNec trutannos tres normannos tresque scientesEt domitos britones tot et anglos non cupientesSoldano regis respondet epistola quod visvel tu virEt petis inuenies cum de mare femina fies

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  • From Dover Priory: at bottom of f. 2r is: : : III : Epistole petri bles ... quia uniuersus iuda ... 143 ... 2. Ancient Libraries, p. 419, no. 133.

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