Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 494

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • CAMBRIDGE. Corpus Christi College Library, 494
    • CAMBRIDGE, Corpus Christi College Library, 494
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 494
    • CCCC MS 494
    • MS 494
    • Parker Library MS 494
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Author : Anonyme | Laurent d'Orléans
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in two clear hands
  • Support Material : Paper
  • Composition :
    • ff. 117
  • Dimensions :
    • 142 x 200
  • Codicological details :
    • 25 lines to a page
    • ff. i + 1-117 + ii. Partially imaged: front cover exterior and interior + ff. 49r-53v + back exterior only
    • quire gone | 1(12)-10(12) (wants 10-12).

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Contents

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  • Anonyme | Lancelot en prose
    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : En la marche de Gaule et de la petite Bretaigne ot deus rois anciennement qui estoient frere germain

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  • Résumé : The sole text in CCCC MS 494, dating to the fifteenth century, is a unique translation in Middle English of La somme le roi, a treatise on religious instruction compiled for Philip III of France in 1279 by Laurent (or Lorens) d'Orléans OP. It was given to the College by John Booth, Fellow, 1627-40. The paste downs are fragments of a French romance, the prose Lancelot. The book retains its original medieval stamped binding. As a result of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the front cover, the exterior of the back cover, and part of the text pages, ff. 49r-53v.


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    Langue(s) des textes : anglais, français


    Intervenants :

    Laurent d'Orléans OP - author

    1r-117v - Laurent d'Orléans OP, La somme le roi, translated into English

    Note : (1r) Begins imperfectly

    incipit : (1r) unauysed he deyeth that lerneth not to deye. thu shuldest lerne to dye if thu kowdest weel lefe

    Note : (34r) Liber II

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (117v) to whom be all honour wiche vs brynge to hys companye where is euere lastyng lyf. Amen

    rubric : (117v) This book compyled and made yn frensch a frer prechour at the Requeste of Phylypp the kyng of fraunce the yer of thyncarnacion of our lord ml cc lxxix

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Provenance

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  • In the cover (f. iv): Ex dono dignissimi viri Johannis Boothe Collegii Corp. Xti in Cant. dudum socii. John Booth was Fellow 1627-40. He bequeathed a printed book to the College and says Masters (Lamb, p. 175) at the same time a MS. of his own was presented, whose contents I could never learn. Probably this is the volume in question.

Notes

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  • Traduction anglaise de la Somme le Roi; sur les ff. de garde, un fragment du Lancelot en prose

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  • Additions: Old stamped binding over boards, clasps gone.
  • Additions: The covers are lined with portions of 2 leaves (f. ir-iv, f. iir-iiv) of a xivth cent. MS. in double columns in French prose, perhaps from a romance. The name Galelzout (Galehot) occurs several times.

Bibliography

  • 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.

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