Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 245

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 245
    • CCCC MS 245
    • MS 245
    • Parker Library MS 245
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : English
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1500 - 1599
  • Script :
    • very neatly written in imitation of black-letter printing
  • Support Material : Paper
  • Composition :
    • ff. cir. 400
  • Dimensions :
    • 131 x 169
  • Codicological details :
    • 29, 44 etc. lines to a page
    • ff. a + i-iii + 1-304 + iv-vi

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Contents

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 245 is an early sixteenth-century volume containing the New Testament in English. It has no known association with Matthew Parker; but a hand-written addition to a college-owned copy of the Stanley catalogue records this manuscript was donated to the college in 1745 by John Duncombe (1729-86). Duncombe was an undergraduate and later Fellow of Corpus Christi who went on to combine his career in the church with life as a celebrated critic and poet. Duncombe frequently contributed to The Gentleman's Magazine under the pseudonym 'Crito' and enjoyed success with his poem An Evening's Contemplation in a College, a burlesque of Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Perhaps the quatrains at the end of each gospel in this manuscript are Duncombe's early attempts at poetic expression.


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    Langue(s) des textes : anglais


    1r-304r - New Testament in English || New Testament in English

    Note : At the end of each Gospel is a quatrain (f. 54r; f. 89r; f. 136v), e.g.: f. 162v So Iohn hath thus his endeThe Actes of the Apostles are next setThe whiche in ordre ye shall haue Yf god geue us no let

    Note : (302r) At the end of the Revelation: Here is the ende of that be sureThe text of S. Johns RevelacionThe whiche euer shall endureWhen the worlde is paste and gone

    Note : Table of Epistles and Gospels follows (ff. 302v-304r)

    Note : f. 54v, f. 137r, ff. 194v - 197r blank

Provenance

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  • Added in manuscript in the College copy of Stanley's Catalogue, with the note: Ex dono Mri Duncomb: 1745. John Duncombe became Fellow in 1751 and died in 1786.
  • On a blank leaf (f. 194v) at the end of Acts is: 1570. IHon HAYES. His initials are also on an ornamental frame decorated with the Royal arms, enclosing a list of the Epistles, etc.

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