Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 258

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • CAMBRIDGE. Corpus Christi College Library, 258
    • CAMBRIDGE, Corpus Christi College Library, 258
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 258
    • CCCC MS 258
    • MS 258
    • Parker Library MS 258
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Author : Andrew Horn (1275?-1328)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in two charter hands
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 1 + 52 + 131
  • Dimensions :
    • 190 x 275
  • Codicological details :
    • 48 and 35 lines to a page, two volumes
    • ff. i-iii + 1-183 + iv-v
    • 1 flyleaf, a(12)-d(12) e(4) || 1(12)-11(12) (wants 2).

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  • Andrew Horn | Miroir des justices
    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Hanc legum summam si quis vult jura tueri
    Folio 1 - 51r
  • Jean Britton | Livre sur la justice
    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Edward, par la grace de Dieu Roi d'Engleterre et sire d'Irlande, a touz ses feals et leals
    Folio 53r - 183r

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 258 is one of two manuscripts in the Parker Collection that was once bound in a single volume, the other being the material now contained in CCCC MS 70. Both manuscripts were the property of Andrew Horn (d. 1328), fishmonger and Chamberlain of London and were bequeathed by him to the Guild Hall in London, from where Parker acquired them. CCCC MS 258 now contains fourteenth-century copies of the anonymous law tracts Speculum justiciarorum and Breton. The Speculum is a unique survival in this manuscript and was much criticised by F. W. Maitland as, at best, a joke in poor taste, though recent attempts have been made to rehabilitate the text as an expression of late thirteenth-century anxiety about the direction of legal reform under Edward I, or possibly as a didactic text.


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    Langue(s) des textes : français, latin


    Intervenants :

    Andrew Horn - author

    1r-52v - Andrew Horn, Speculum justiciarorum || Speculum Justiciariorum: the Mirror of Justices

    Note : This is the unique copy edited (with Introduction by Professor Maitland) for the Selden Society by W. J. Whittaker, 1895

    Note : There is a close connexion between this volume and MS 70. Both belonged to Andrew Horn. Among the MSS. burnt in Westminster Abbey Chapter Library in 1694 was a Summa Legum per Andream Horne (Cat. MSS. Angl. 11, no. 1298 (208))

    Note : Ends f. 51v

    Note : f. 52r-52v blank


    53r-183r - Breton

    Note : In a somewhat larger hand

    rubric : (53r) Incipit Breton

    incipit : (53r) Edward par la grace de dieu

    Note : Liber V ends

    explicit : (182r) sanz jour iusques al retorn de celui

    rubric : (182r) Explicit liber qui dicitur Breton

    Note : (erased)

    rubric : (182r) Icy comence les chapitres del primer liure de Breton

    Note : (erased)

    Note : f. 131v blank

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Notes

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  • Additions: The flyleaf (f. iiir) is of cent. xii: on the recto in single lines: De puella mortua fide constricta que coniurato sibi clerico postmortem ap(paruit). Quoniam mi karissime Radulfe de anime utilitate crebro mecum colloqui et ex multis que nesciebam me quondam ... / consueueras. rem uere gestam quam (about two-third of the line erased) relatio ... / didici etc. In line 5: Clericus inquit sibi bene notus (erasure of three words; the 3rd is herefordie) ad se nuper aduenien etc.
  • Additions: The verso (f. iiiv) is headed X and is in two columns, the first rather cut. ... herodes explorare uoluit... miracula uidere concupiuit (evidently on John Baptist, he was a burning and a shining light etc.). Ends: quatinus et lector tanto feruentior ad legendi studium redeat quanto ex lectionis quoque incisione respirat. Expl. lib. decimus.

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