Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 544

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- Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 544
- CCCC MS 544
- MS 544
- Parker Library MS 544
Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Languages : Latin
Author : William Lyndwood (1375?-1446)
Date of Origin :
- 1400 - 1499
Decoration :
- Initials and border.
Support Material : Vellum
Composition :
- ff. 96 + 3
Dimensions :
- 137 x 210
Codicological details :
- ff. i-ii + 1-99 + iii-v
Binding :
- 18th-cent. red morocco binding, gilt-tooled.

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Résumé : CCCC MS 544, contains a fifteenth-century copy of William Lyndwood (d. 1446) Constitutiones prouinciales, although this version lacks Lyndwood's glosses to the same text. This very popular text is a digest of the synodal constitutions of the province of Canterbury from 1222 to 1416. The manuscript was never part of Parker's collection but rather was purchased from the trustees of the Rev. J. C. Bowen of Banbury in May 1932. Bowen had unfortunately gone mad, his only request for reading matter during his confinement being this manuscript, which request was refused on account of the threat that he would damage it.

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Langue(s) des textes : latin

Intervenants :
William Lyndwood - author
1r-99v - William Lyndwood, Constitutiones prouinciales
Note : Constitutiones provinciales, in William Lyndwood's arrangement but without his gloss

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English. Belonged to William Stukeley, who gave it to E. Kelsall; Rev. P. Hookins, curate of Great Barford, Oxon., 1852-91; Walford and Cambray, Banbury, 1893; Rev. C. J. Bowen of St John's Roman Catholic church, Banbury, from whose trustees it was bought in May 1932.