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Résumé : CCCC MS 50 contains a number of works in French and Anglo-Norman copied in the late thirteenth century. Among the most significant texts within it are the Roman de Brut of Wace (after 1100-after 1174), the Roman de Guy de Warewic, The Four Daughters of God, Amis et Amiloun and the short prose chronicle Le livere des reis de Britannie. It also contains the unique text of the fabliau, Romanz di un chivaler et sa dame e un clerk. The manuscript was at one time in the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury as indicated by two library inscriptions. It has been identified as item number 1516 in the Catalogue of the abbey's library drawn up in the late fifteenth century.
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Langue(s) des textes : latin, français
1r-6r - Genealogy of the kings of Britain
rubric : (1r) Hec sunt nomina Regum britannie ab aduentu Bruti primo in insula albyon usque ad primum aduentum Saxonum in britannia
incipit : (1r) Primus fuit brutus qui viginti quatuor annis
explicit : (3r) infra terram combustus est
rubric : (3r) Hec sunt nomina Regum britonum post primum aduentum anglorum in anglia
incipit : (3r) Primus erat aurelius
Note : (3v) (Cadwaladrus)
explicit : (3v) in domino obdormiuit
rubric : (3v) Expliciunt nomina regum
incipit : (3v) Numerus omnium
explicit : (3v) Hic est, centum
rubric : (3v) De quatuor viis principalibus britannie
incipit : (3v) Tante autem gracie
rubric : (3v) De quatuor mirabilibus britannie
incipit : (3v) Quatuor autem
explicit : (3v) per campos diffundi
rubric : (3v) De quinque plagis britannie
incipit : (3v) Quinque plagas ab exordio
explicit : (3v) deuicerunt et optinuerunt
rubric : (3v) De gygante quem arturus sua uirtute et audacia interfecit
incipit : (4r) Nunciatur quendam gigantem
rubric : (4v) De Saxonibus et de regina Sexburgie a Germania ueniente
rubric : (4v) De prudencia anglorum
rubric : (5r) De constitucione anglorum et de diuisione terrarum et prouinciarum secundum disposicionem et libitum Sexburge regine
rubric : (5r) De coronacione anglorum
Note : List of kings from Hengist to Henry III (CVIII)
Note : (6r) Paragraph
rubric : (6r) de stirpe Bruti
Note : Date of conquest
Intervenants :
Wace - author
6v-90r - Wace, Roman de Brut || The Brut of Wace
incipit : (6v) Li (sic) uult oir e uult sauerde rei en rei de eir en eir
explicit : (90r) Mil. e cent. e cinkaunte anzFist mestre Wace cest Romanz
rubric : (90r) Explicit liber bruti regis britannie maioris
Note : Ed. Leroux de Lincy. Rouen 1836-8
90r-90v - Le livere des reis de Britannie
Note : (90r) In a small hand nearly contemporary
Note : A short account of the kings from Egbert to Henry III
incipit : (90r) (L)i reis de Estengle aueit Crantebreggesire. Northfolke etc.
explicit : (90v) (a)pres Iohan fu rei Henri son fiz
91r-94v - Romanz di un chivaler et sa dame e un clerk
rubric : (91r) Romanz de vn chiualer e de sa dame e de vn clerk
incipit : (91r) Un chiualer iadis estoitKe femme e enfaunz auoitDe sun cors esteit tres pruzA tuz estait corteis e druz
explicit : (94v) E kant moruht la bone dameA deu rendi sus sa alme
Note : Printed from this MS. by P. Meyer, Romania, I, 68
94v-102r - Amis et Amiloun
rubric : (94v) Ci comence le storieKe deuum auer en memorieDe syres amis e amilunKe furent si tro bon cumpaynu(n)E unke ne amerunt treysun
incipit : (94v) Ki ueut oir chancoun damurDe loange de grant doucur
explicit : (102r) Ici finist de amilonE de sire amis sun compaignon
Note : This is the same version as that in the Royal MS. 12 c. xii (Ward, Catalogue of Romances I, 674), ed. Kölbing in Altenglische Bibliothek, 1884
102r-102v - The Four Daughters of God
rubric : (102r) Ci comence lestorie de quatre sorursEn tout le mund ne furunt meliurs
incipit : (102r) Entendez a moi li ueuz et enfanzParoles oiret ke mult sunt uaillanz
Note : (102r) De quatre sorurs uus uoil direKe sunt filles nostre sireSi uus dirrai la concordanceDe la primere destaunceKe fu entre deu e hommePur ceo ke adam mort la pomeNul homme si bel serui ne eustDeu. ke li ni estutAl a fin en enfern descendreE la demorer e attendreUnkes ne furent uisitezDeske merci e uerite
Note : Col. 2
Note : (102r) Sentre acontrerent a un iourE Justice e sa sorurMult doucement se entrebracerentE de un contek se entrepeiserent
Note : Ends
Note : (102v) Beau piere fet misericordeSi peis ne face ceste concordeOd laide ke ieo li fazOu trouerom mes solaz Beau piere fet dunc ueriteNe peut nient estre aquiteLe prison en ceste guiseKe ieo ne fusse ariere miseJeo uois tut dis od teste leueeE ieo serroie trop greuee
explicit : (102v) Trop matee trop desconfiteSi par uus esteie desdite
rubric : (102v) Explicit
rubric : (102v) Ci finit lestorie de quatre sorursKe furent uailanz e de bone murs
Note : Evidently unfinished in spite of the colophon
Note : Not printed: other copies in University Library Kk. 4. 20, Harley 1801, Arundel 292. See Romania, XV, 353 (P. Meyer)
102v-181r - Roman de Guy de Warewic || Gui de Warwyk
rubric : (102v) E comence lestorie de gyunKe de Warwyk porta le nun
incipit : (103r) Puis cel tens ke deus fu neze establi crestienetez
explicit : (181r) E cil qi en la sainte triniteUn deu est par sa piteNus doint en terre si seruirKe a li en glorie puissums venir. Amen
Note : 181v blank
Note : See Ward, Catalogue, I, 471. Histoire Littéraire, XXII, 841
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