Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 40

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • MS 040
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 40
    • CCCC MS 40
    • Parker Library MS 40
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Pétrarque (1304-1374)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1375 - 1399
  • Script :
    • in fine upright English hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 128
  • Dimensions :
    • 240 x 340
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 44 lines
    • ff. i-ii + 1-84 + iii-v
    • censebat artem
    • a(8)-q(8).

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 40 is the earliest known text by Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) (1304-74) to be copied in England in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, his De remediis utriusque fortunae. The text is concerned with the limitations of worldly success and pleasure, and the problems of misfortune and adversity. A large part of this is in the form of a dialogue between joy (Gaudium) and adversity (Dolor) with reason (Ratio). It is given a Humanist emphasis by its supposed use of a classical model - the De remediis fortuitorum, attributed in the Middle Ages to Seneca. There is no evidence for the place of production or ownership of the manuscript.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Francesco Petrarca - author

    1r-127v - Francesco Petrarca, De remediis utriusque fortunae || Petrarchade remediis utriusque fortunae

    Note : Title in red in the upper margin of f. 1r

    rubric : (1r) Francisci petrarche. Incipit liber de remediis utriusque fortune

    Note : Border in blue and pink (white-dotted) on bar of gold. Initial in the same colours on gold ground

    rubric : (1r) Prologus in librum primum de remediis

    incipit : (1r) Cum res fortunasque hominum cogito

    explicit : (2v) parcium proporcione formosum

    rubric : (3r) De etate florida et spe longioris uite. Capitulum 1

    Note : Initials to chapters are normally in blue with red flourishing

    Note : Liber I ends

    explicit : (58r) nisi te spes illa fefellerit

    rubric : (58r) Explicit liber primus qui est de remediis prospere fortune

    rubric : (58r) Incipit liber secundus qui est de remediis aduerse fortune

    Note : Prologue

    incipit : (58r) Ex omnibus que uel mihi

    Note : Initial as for liber I. Partial border, with red lion's head

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (126r) curam hanc hisque uiuentibus

    rubric : (126r) Francisci petrarche de fflorencia lauriati poete explicit liber secundus de remediis utriusque fortune Deo gratia

    rubric : (126r) Rubrice capitulorum libri primi

    rubric : (127r) libri secundi

    Note : f. 128r-128v blank

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  • At the bottom of 33v is pencilled: Johannes Bl...uell decanus assaph. This must be John Blodwell, Dean of St Asaph's from 1418 to 1442. He died in 1462, and his magnificent brass is in Balsham Church not far from Cambridge. Some books were given by Blodwell to Queens' College (Searle, Hist. I 53) but this was not among them.

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