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Data Source: Parker on the Web
Résumé : CCCC MS 469 is a late thirteenth-century manuscript containing miscellaneous texts with later additions and notes down to the fifteenth century, containing what was probably a monastic commonplace book compiled as an introduction or guide to matters spiritual and temporal. Thus it includes the pseudonymous work attributed to Basil of Caesarea (c. 330-379), Admonitio ad filium spiritualem, excerpts from book 12 (De animalibus) of Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Etymologiae, a collection of proverbs, a French prose Brut from Egbert to Edgar, extracts from the writings of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), and a list of English kings from William I to Henry V. Doubtless it was the historical material which primarily interested Parker, though how and from where he acquired this manuscript is unknown.
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Langue(s) des textes : latin, français
Intervenants :
pseudo-Basil of Caesarea - author
1r-16v - pseudo-Basil of Caesarea, Admonitio ad filium spiritualem || Liber sancti Basilii episcopi Capadociae ad filios spirituales de militia spirituali
rubric : (1r) Incipit liber Sancti Basilii episcopi Capadocie ad filios spiritales de milicia spirituali
Note : (P. L. CIII 684)
incipit : (1r) Audi fili mi admonitionem
explicit : (16r) que preparauit deus diligentibus se
incipit : (16r) Attende tibi fili ut possis dissernere ab utilibus noxia. Nam duplex est uita nostra
explicit : (16v) et remedii et emendacionis cura pensetur
Isidore of Seville - author
17r-28v - Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpt from book 12, chapters 4-7) || Tractatus de omnibus animantibus et eorum proprietatibus
incipit : (17r) Omnibus animantibus adam primum uocabula indidit
Note : (P. L. LXXXII 423)
Note : Last section on Perdix, followed by paragraph on eggs
explicit : (28v) oua quoque admixta calce glutinare fertur uitri fragmenta
29r-158r - Proverbs and other edifying words || Proverbia et alia verba edificatoria in ordine disposita
rubric : (29r) Incipiunt prouerbia et alia uerba edificatoria in ordine disposita
Note : (De anima)
incipit : (29r) Anima est substancia creata inuisibilis incorporea inmortalis deo similima
Note : followed by De amicicia, audacia, etc. in alphabetical order
Note : The last De xpo and De Antixpo ending
explicit : (158r) Post hec qua die iudicium fiat omnis ignorat
158v-166v - Tract on the Roman Emperors || A short tract on the Emperors
rubric : (158v) De tyranno et principe
incipit : (158v) Est autem tirannus ut cum (eum) philosophi depincxerunt. Qui uiolenta dominacione premit populum
rubric : (158v) Quod tyranni sunt ministri dei
rubric : (159r) De morte sesaris et aliorum principum et tyrannorum
Note : The Twelve Caesars. Nerva, Trajan, Sennacherib, Philip, Decius, Aurelian, Carus, Constantine, Julian, Valens, Theodosius, Karolus
explicit : (166r) Cogitetur igitur quomodo predicti imperatores siue boni siue mali exinaniti sunt et ad nichilum deuenerunt
incipit : (166r) Regnum a regibus dictum
explicit : (166v) ut uix quisquam principum eorum ad exitum uite natura ducente peruenerit
167r-177v - Brut (to King Edgar) || Brevis chronica a Bruto ad Egbertum || Chronicle of Britain (mostly from Geoffrey of Monmouth)
incipit : (167r) Eneas uero Romani generis auctor genuit Ascanium. Ascanius genuit siluium
explicit : (177v) Post mortem Brithici regis Regnauit Adelbrich super Wessexe. quem Beda uocat Ecgbrit. Anno gratie dccco octauo
Note : Hardy I 500
178r-181r - Chronicle of English kings from Egbert to Edgar || Chronique des rois d'Angleterre d'Egbert a Edgar || Chronicle in French
incipit : (178r) Iadis altens as engles soleyt engletere estre departi a. v. parties ea .v. reis
Note : After a short prologue resumes with Egbert and ends unfinished with a story of Edgar
explicit : (181r) Si mist lum le cors en fertre. Iluc an eires recut un forgene sun sens. et un orb la uue
Note : Mentioned by Hardy I 571
Note : ff. 181v-183v blank
Note : ff. 184r-191v have notes and extracts in various hands
Note : In set hand:
incipit : (184r) Lex dei et premium habet et penam legentibus eam
Note : On f. 187v in a later hand
rubric : (187v) Nomina regum anglie post conquestum
Note : William I to Henry V
Note : (188v) Part of the poem Vado mori is on f. 188v
Note : On the following pages (ff. 189r-191v) the notes are in the hand of those at the beginning of the volume. They are largely from Augustine: two also from Josephus
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