Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 471

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    • CAMBRIDGE. Corpus Christi College Library, 471
    • CAMBRIDGE, Corpus Christi College Library, 471
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 471
    • CCCC MS 471
    • MS 471
    • Parker Library MS 471
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Author : John Hoveden (12..-1275?)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in a clear current hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 2 + 112
  • Dimensions :
    • 109 x 150
  • Codicological details :
    • 24 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-112 + c-d
    • quant fuites
    • a(2) 1(12)-9(12) 10(4).

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  • John de Howden | Rossignos
    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Alme lesse lit de paresse E ta langor e ta tristesse Apreng d'amour la parfondesse E a penser d'amour t'adresse
    Folio 1r - 111r

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 471, contains the unique copy of the devotional poem in Anglo-Norman by John of Howden (d. 1275), Rossignos, the manuscript dating to the late fourteenth century, some hundred years after the poem's original composition. Howden's exact identity is uncertain, but he was probably a royal clerk in the household of Queen Eleanor of Provence, consort of Henry III and the mother of Edward I. The poem is dedicated to Eleanor and is a reworking of Howden's earlier Latin work, Philomena. The manuscript was probably in Parker's possession by 1564, as revealed by a scribbled note bearing that date. Other notes record the name of 'Franciscus Aldriche', but it seems unlikely that this is the same man who attended Clare College in the 1580s and rose to be Master of Sidney Sussex College in 1608.


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


    Intervenants :

    John of Howden - author

    1r-112r - John of Howden, Rossignos

    incipit : (1r) Ci comence la pensee Iohan de Houedene clerc la roine dengleterre mere le roi Edward de la neissance e de la mort e du relieuement e de lascencion ihesu crist e de lassumpcion nostre dame. Et a non ceste pensee. Rossignos, etc

    incipit : (1r) Ceste oeure comence. Ci comence li rossignol.Alme lesse lit de peresseE ta langor e ta tristesseApreng damour la parfondesseE a penser damour tadresse

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (111r) A la roine lesmereeMere au roi Edward la seneeVa chanzon e se li agreeLi soiez leue e recordee

    rubric : (111r) Ci finist li Rossignos Johan de Houdene

    Note : This copy is mentioned by Tanner. The text has not been printed. John Hoveden died in 1275. This may be a French version by another hand of his Latin poem Philomela

    Note : On ff. 111v, 112r are Parker's name and the date 1564 written several times in set hand, I suppose by a secretary

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  • Additions: Flyleaves from a late document, grant of probate by William (Warham) Archbishop of Canterbury.

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.
  • Hesketh, Glynn. Rossignos by John of Howden. Anglo-Norman Texts, ANTS 63. Londres: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2006.
  • Wilkins, Nigel. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Français de La Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library). Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Parker Library Publications, 1993.
  • Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, Thelma S. Fenster, and Delbert W. Russell, eds. Vernacular Literary Theory from the French of Medieval England. Cambridge, 2016.

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