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Résumé : CCCC MS 448 is a tenth-century manuscript, probably from Worcester, with later provenance at Winchester. It illustrates the way in which Parker made use of his collections to argue some of his strongly-held beliefs. Among other texts it contains a poem from a certain Prosper to his wife; Parker identified this Prosper with a bishop of that name, and therefore took it as evidence for married bishops in the late antique or early medieval church. He had the text printed with a translation, and this is now bound into the manuscript after f. 40, where it seems to be the unique surviving copy. Parker married his wife, Margaret, before it became legal for priests to marry in England; there is a story that they had both long before vowed never to marry another. They had a happy and fruitful marriage, and Parker never recovered from her death in 1570, five years before his.
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Langue(s) des textes : latin
Intervenants :
Prosper of Aquitaine - author
1r-36r - Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini || Epigrammata Prosperi viri eruditissimi Augustini deflorata
Note : Heading in red capitals
rubric : (1r) In nomine dei S... (erased)
incipit : (1r) Haec augustini ex sacris epigramata dictisDulcisono rethor componens karmine prosper, etc.
explicit : (1r) cupiunt qui scandere regnum
Note : In capitals
rubric : (1r) Incipiunt epigramata Prosperi viri eruditissimi Augustini deflorata libro
Note : (P. L. LI 497)
incipit : (1r) Dum sacris mentem placet exercere loquelis
Note : (P. L. LI 498)
Note : (1r) Initial surrounded by dots
Note : Ends
explicit : (36r) Crescere non cupiens perdit adepta tepens
rubric : (36r) Expliciunt epigramata Prosperi
Prosper of Aquitaine (attrib.) - author
36r-40v - Prosper of Aquitaine (attrib.), Poema coniugis ad uxorem
rubric : (36r) Versus Prosperi ad coniugem suam
Note : (P. L. LI 611, 737)
incipit : (36r) Age iam precor mearum comes inremota rerum
Note : Ending
explicit : (39r) Vna sit atque duos spiritus unus alat
Note : 39v-40v blank
Prosper - author
40ar-40tv - Prosper his meditation with his wife [printed book] || Prosper his meditation with his wife, as it is advouched by an auncient written copie in olde Saxon carecters, where as the printed works have dissembled the same, newly translated into Englyshe verse, printed according to order by Richard Watkins
Note : Title as given by Nasmith. The MS. alluded to is doubtless the one before us
Note : This item is printed material on paper.
Isidore of Seville - author
41r-86v - Isidore of Seville, Synonyma || Synonima Isidori Hispalensis urbis episcopi
Note : Title in red capitals
rubric : (41r) In nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi Incipit prologus in libro synonimae Bedae (sic) Ysidoris spalensis urbis episcopi
Note : (P. L. LXXXIII 825)
incipit : (41r) In subsequenti hoc libro qui nuncupatur synonima
explicit : (41v) et regnat deus in secula seculorum. Amen
rubric : (41v) Incipit Synonima
incipit : (41v) Anima mea in angustiis est
Note : (61r) Liber II
explicit : (86v) tu mihi supra uitam meam placeas
rubric : (86v) Explicit synonima Ysidori episcopi
Note : Initials are filled in with red. At each paragraph is the letter K in the margin. (Cf. Trin. Coll. O. 1. 18, O. 2. 31) There are a good many interlinear glosses, but I have seen none that are not in Latin
87r-87v - Sybilline prophecies || Versus Sybillae
Note : In a larger round straggling hand, not of English complexion. Title in red capitals
rubric : (87r) In nomine domini Incipiunt versus de die iudicii sibille antiqui poetae
Note : (P. L. XC 1186)
incipit : (87r) Iudicii signum tellus sudore madescet
explicit : (87v) et sulphuris amnis
incipit : (87v) Hec de christi natiuitate
incipit : (87v) Et si quis in greco horum uersuum capita discernere uoluerit
incipit : (87v) Excepto quinto (v) nono (viiii) octauo decimo (xviii) et nono decimo (xviiii) uersu inueniet iesus cristos
explicit : (87v) dei filius saluator
Note : Capitals
rubric : (87v) Hos uersus Sanctus Augustinus ex greco in Latinum transtulit
88r-89v - Physiologus (only the lion, unicorn, and panther) || De trimoda leonis natura
rubric : (88r) Incipit de trimoda leonis natura
incipit : (88r) Leo tres naturas habet. Quarum prima est. Nam cum ambulet
explicit : (88r) suscitauit a mortuis
rubric : (88r) De unicornis natura
incipit : (88r) Unicornis animal est pulchrum
rubric : (88v) De panthera
incipit : (88v) Propheta dicit. Factus sum sicut leo
explicit : (89r) diabolo inimicus factus est
Note : pseudo-Vergil, Nocte pluit tota
rubric : (89r) Uersus Maronis poete
incipit : (89r) Nocte pluit tota
explicit : (89r) fertis oues
Note : Note on the languages of the world
incipit : (89r) Quot sunt lingue in mundo .lxxii. cur non plures uel pauciores. propter tres filios noe sem cham et iafeth. Sem habuit filios xxti viitem cham xxxta iafeth uero xv. His simul iunctis fiunt lxxii
89v-90r - Prosper of Aquitaine, Sententiae ex operibus S. Augustini, no. 390 || Sancti Augustini salubris admonitio
rubric : (89v) Sancti Augustini salubris ammonitio ad compescendam superbiam
incipit : (89v) Diuitiis et floribus et maiorum nobilitate te iactas
explicit : (90r) Memor autem eris si te ipsum respexeris
90r-90r - Poem Ve homini illi || Terribilis ad negligentes invectio
rubric : (90r) Terribilis ad neglegentes inuectio
Note : i.
incipit : (90r) Ve homini illi homini hominem amantiEt deum uerum se diligentem non diligenti
Note : vii.
explicit : (90r) Ve illi homini mundanos amico(s) habentiEt angelorum amicitiam non facienti
Prudentius - author
90v-91r - Prudentius, Peristephanon (prologue only) || Versus seu hymni Prudentii de historia veteris et novi testamenti
rubric : (90v) Incipit de opusculis suis Prudentius Immolat patri deo
Note : (Peristeph. prol.)
incipit : (90v) Pius fidelis innocens pudicus
explicit : (91r) personasse christum. quo regente uiuimus
91r-98r - Prudentius, Dittochaeon
rubric : (91r) Adam et Eua
incipit : (91r) Eua columba fuit tunc candida nigra deinde
Note : (Dittochaeon)
Note : After f. 96v should follow 99r-101v, then 97r-98r: ending 98r
explicit : (98r) Et septem potuit signacula pandere solus
Note : There are many glosses
98v-103v - Septem miracula mundi || Septem miracula mundi
rubric : (98v) De septem miraculis manu factis
rubric : (98v) Incipiunt septem miracula grandia mundi. Mirari poterit quisquis ea legerit
incipit : (98v) Primum ac maximum est miraculum. Nam capitolium saluum rome habetur quod tutius est quam ciuitas quelibet
Note : Continues f. 102r
rubric : (102r) ii
Note : (102r) Pharus Alexandrina
rubric : (102r) iii
Note : (102r) Colosi imago in insula rodo
rubric : (102v) iv
Note : (102v) Bello proprium nomen rofontis simulacrum ferreum cum equo suo in smirna
rubric : (102v) v
Note : (102v) Theatrum in heraclea urbe
rubric : (103r) vi
Note : (103r) Balneum apud taneos
rubric : (103r) vii
Note : (103r) Templum dianae
explicit : (103v) Et super lxta iiii arcus c. xxti et viiito columne finem faciunt tam mirabilis aedificii
rubric : (103v) Expliciunt septem miracula grandia mundi
Note : This text seems akin to that printed from the Charleville MS. 220 (of cent. xii) in Cat. Gén. des MSS. des Dépts, 4to, vol. V p. 647
Note : (103v) Lectorem prudentem obsecro humiliterUt hoc corrigere dignetur benigniterUix hoc sic scriptor poterat scriberequia rectum exemplum non ualuit adquirere
Note : (103v) Among other scribbles and pen-trials on the last page is: Henr. dei gratia Wint. ecclesie minister Rich. archidiacono suo sal
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