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• Résumé : MS 400 is formed from four manuscripts, the first three of which contain tracts by Gerald of Wales (1146–1226). They contain an early thirteenth-century second edition of his Topographia Hiberniae with additions from the third edition; a highly flawed sixteenth-century copy of the Descriptio Kambriae; and early thirteenth-century copies of Retractationes, Catalogus brevior librorum suorum, De iure et statu Meneuensis ecclesiae, and Verses. The latter two texts in particular are good versions. The final pages of the manuscript contain a late thirteenth-century copy of the verses from the windows in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral which M. R. James identified as the source for the copy on a roll held by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Gerald of Wales - author

  vir-45v - Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae

  Note : On f. 1r is a late note erased

  Note : (viv) blank

  Note : (viir) verses (xvi) copied, in fine 3i libri.

  Note : On f. 2v a map (in brown and green) of the British Isles. Aquilo is on L., Britain, Ireland and the Orkneys are shown, without any real attempt to give the outline: and no places are markedAn exactly similar map is in Arundel MS. 14 (Brit. Mus.). See Dimock, Girald. Camb. V, p. xviii

  Note : It is MS. C in Dimock's edition (Girald. Camb., p. xiv) and ranks as a MS. of the Second Edition, but has many marginal additions and some inserted leaves which 'if considered an integral part of the manuscript' would make it rank as a MS. of the Third Edition

  Note : The modern foliation omits what I have called ff. 1r-2v. I use it here

  rubric : (1r) Introitus in recitationem

  incipit : (1r) Consideranti

  Note : (1r) Good initial, gold, with external blue and internal pink ground

  Note : (2v) Capitula

  Note : Text

  incipit : (5r) Placuit excellentie

  Note : (5r) Large initial. Pink ground within, Giraldus on L. tonsured, in purplish habit offers gold book to Henry II in pale pink and yellow, seated on R. with crown and sceptre. Small medallions in stalk of initial represent a fish, a bird and two beasts

  Note : (17v) Distinctio II Centaur on blue ground in initial

  Note : f. 24r-24v is added

  Note : (31v) Distinctio III Shipful of men and women in the initial

  explicit : (45r) a tanta maiestate fuerit iniunctum

  rubric : (45r) Explicit

  rubric : (45r) Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci

  Note : (red and blue)

  Note : On f. 45v in another hand is the letter Guillelmo (?) Hereford. Episcopo (Dimock, p. 203) beginning

  incipit : (45v) Lectis certa prodest

  explicit : (45v) elegantior inuenitur

  
  

  46r-87v - Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Kambriae, Retractationes, Catalogus breuior librorum suorum || Giraldi Descriptio Cambriae

  Note : "imperfect and valueless" (Dimock, p. xiv note)

  explicit : (84r) pro hoc terrarum angulo respondebit

  Note : (Dimock VI 227)

  Note : The lacunae are described by Dimock VI, p. xxv

  rubric : (84v) Tractatum retractionum et cathologum librorum diligentia Giraldi compositorum in calce libelli de Cambrie descriptione digne duximus adiciendum

  incipit : (84v) Quoniam itaque cunctorum habere notitiam

  rubric : (86r) Sequitur de cathalogo et numero Librorum a giraldo compositorum

  incipit : (86r) Occurrit hic igitur in primis tempore tenerior cronographia nostra

  incipit : (87v) In historia anglorum libro quinto de Calixto papa scribitur

  incipit : (78r) Vir quidam magnus in anglia dixit et assensit laborem mri giraldi multis ex causis commendabilem esse

  explicit : (79r) et in nullo prorsus articulo ecclesie sue pro posse defecit

  rubric : (79r) Ex quodam vetusto libro Jo. Price post descriptionem Cambrie

  Note : (79v) blank

  Note : Note: Volume II was reordered after James, hence the discrepancy between James and CCC foliation

  
  

  88r-149v - Gerald of Wales, De iure et statu Meneuensis ecclesiae; Verses || De Jure et Statu Menevensis Ecclesiae

  Note : There is no old title

  incipit : (88r) Reuerendo patri et domino S[tephano] dei gracia Cantuariensis archiepiscopi

  Note : Brewer, Gir.Camb. III 101

  Note : This copy was not known to Brewer. It is noticed by Dimock V, xiv note, as being valuable. Like Vitellius E. 5 it contains only Distinctions I, II and VII of the work

  rubric : (96v) Breuis subsequencium explanacio

  Note : (red and blue)

  Note : Brewer, Gir. Camb., III 117

  Note : Most of p. 20 is blank

  Note : The hand changes 21 (quire C) to a rather finer one, which continues to p. 113

  rubric : (98r) Incipit dialogus duorum etc.

  Note : Brewer, p. 119

  Note : Some rubrics etc. are still in the hand of the quires A, B

  Note : (109r) Distinctio II

  Note : (121v) ending

  Note : (121v) Distinctio III

  Note : The first few words are given and then follows the note given from Vitell. E. 5 in Brewer, p. 186

  Note : (121v) Distinctio VII

  Note : Most of 113 is in the hand of quire A, ending

  explicit : (145r) et indulgere curauit

  rubric : (145r) Explicit

  Note : (145v) blank

  Note : The following leaves are partly in the hand of quire A, partly in other hands. They contain poems, printed from Vitellius E. 5 by Brewer, Gir. Camb. I, 374 sqq.

  rubric : (146r) Epigramma metricum nuper editum ex uersu uirgiliano tanquam themate carmen incipiens

  Note : (This title imperfect in Brewer) p. 374

  incipit : (146r) Nocte pluit tota

  incipit : (146r) Prodiit ex L. P.

  Note : Brewer, p. 374

  incipit : (146r) Pax datur hinc

  Note : Brewer, p. 375

  incipit : (146r) Vrbs igitur cesset

  Note : Brewer, p. 375

  Note : etc.

  explicit : (146v) flectere regna suum

  rubric : (146v) Explicit

  Note : Brewer, p. 377

  Note : The gaps in Brewer can be supplied from this copy

  rubric : (146v) Epigramma Philippicum

  Note : Brewer, p. 377

  explicit : (146v) nosse sciat

  Note : Paragraph in prose

  incipit : (146v) Utinam autem emulus hic noster illud iniure scriptum interdum aduerteret

  explicit : (146v) aut honor et dignitas auferatur

  rubric : (146v) Explicit

  rubric : (148r) Carmen tanquam epithalamicum

  Note : Brewer, p. 378

  Note : (147v) The end supplied on a slip

  rubric : (148r) Carmen quasi comedicum

  Note : Brewer, p. 380

  incipit : (148r) Cum non sis albus albinus qua rationeDiceris. antifrasis nomina multa facit etc.

  Note : (148r) Sentence from Ambrose on rebukes of friends. Brewer, p. 369

  rubric : (148v) Carmen epitaphicum

  incipit : (148v) Clauditur hoc tumulo

  Note : Brewer, p. 381

  rubric : (148v) Pro quodam crebris infortuniis grauiter afflicto

  incipit : (148v) Semper adest homini

  Note : Brewer, p. 354

  incipit : (148v) Kambriagiraldum

  Note : Brewer, p. 381

  incipit : (148v) Incurrit culpam

  Note : Brewer, p. 381

  incipit : (148v) Id recolas lapidem

  Note : Brewer, p. 382

  rubric : (148v) Carmen magistri symonis de fraxino etc.

  Note : Brewer, p. 382

  incipit : (148v) Fons sine fine fluens

  rubric : (149r) Breuis magistri Giraldi responsio

  incipit : (149r) Florida fructifera

  Note : Brewer, p. 384

  
  

  150r-153r - Verses from the windows in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral

  Note : A copy of the verses in the windows of Canterbury Cathedral. It was not known to me when I published the text from the Roll in possession of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury (C. A. S., Verses formerly inscribed on the Twelve Windows, etc. 1901)

  incipit : (150r) Prima fenestra moyses cum rubo

  explicit : (153r) Approbat extractus latebris sit (fit) papa coactus

  Note : The text is essentially the same, preserving exactly the same order, as that of the Roll: but one or two mistakes of the latter may be corrected from this. There are indications that the Roll must have been copied from this text

  Note : The principal improvements of the text which I have noted may be given here

  Note : p. 13 Fenestra prima, last line: Read

  Note : (150r) Operuit celos gloria eius et laudis eius plena est terra

  Note : Fenestra secunda, line 5:

  Note : (150r) Qui sequitur me non ambulat in tenebris

  Note : p. 18 Fenestra VI, line 9:

  Note : (152r) Hii sunt qui credunt temptanti sicque recedunt

  Note : line 18:

  Note : (152r) Iob. Daniel. Noe. semen cecidit in terram bonam

  Note : p. 19 3rd line from bottom:

  Note : (152r) Hic iri factum etc.

  Note : p. 21 lines 1-3:

  Note : (152v) Dominus crucifigitur. Hic stater extractus precium datur in cruce factus Ludibrium turbe deus est eiectus ab urbe

  Note : p. 24 line 13:

  Note : (151v) tegit ecce mariam