Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 205

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 205
    • CCCC MS 205
    • MS 205
    • Parker Library MS 205
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Flavius Blondus (1388?-1463)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1442
  • Script :
    • in a good Italic hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 202
  • Dimensions :
    • 223 x 310
  • Codicological details :
    • 36 lines to a page
    • ff. i-ii + 1-202 + iii-iv
    • 1(10)-4(10) 5(6) 6(10)-20(10) 21 (six).

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  • Résumé : MS 205 contains a mid-fifteenth-century copy of Flavio Biondo (1392-1463), Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii probably made in Florence, c. 1442. Although Thomas James' catalogue records the presence of this manuscript in Corpus Christi by 1600, it does not appear in Parker's register. The volume appears to have been intended as a gift for Thomas Beckington (1390?-1465), bishop of Bath and Wells, who was a correspondent of Biondo.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Flavio Biondo - author

    1r-202v - Flavio Biondo, Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii

    Note : (1r) The initial has a half-length figure of a man in upright cylindrical red cap, and dark red robe, holding a book

    Note : This MS. contains the Third Decade of Flavius Blondus's Historia ab inclinatione Romani imperii, beginning

    incipit : (1r) Laetanti iam mihi et exultanti

    Note : (Decas III, Liber I, ed. Basel, 1559, p. 393)

    Note : and proceeds to Lib. X of this Decade

    Note : Then follow two books of a fourth Decade, of which the first is identical with the xith book of Decas III in the Basel edition. The second is inedited: an extract relating to a mission to Abyssinia is printed by G. Williams (Correspondence of Bishop Bekynton II, 227)

    Note : The books begin as follows

    Note : (22v) Liber II

    Note : (42v) Liber III

    Note : (60v) Liber IV

    Note : (76v) Liber V (initial cut out)

    Note : (92r) Liber VI

    Note : (108v) Liber VII

    Note : (125r) Liber VIII

    Note : (139r) Liber IX

    Note : (156v) Liber X

    Note : Ending

    explicit : (172v) renouaturos expectare curauit

    rubric : (172v) Blondi Flavii Forliuiensis historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decadis quartae liber primus

    incipit : (172v) Interea dum principio anni cuius gesta

    Note : Partial border with curious flourishing in silver

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (189r) et in ueronensibus retenta

    rubric : (189r) Incipit quartae decadi(s) liber secundus foelicissime

    incipit : (189r) Annus hic primus et quadra[gra]gesimus supra millesimum et quadringentesimum

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (202v) et pacis constituendae arbitrium audiendum cremonam conuocari curauit

    Note : Each book has a fine initial on burnished gold (Liber IX on silver): and the first lines of each are in Roman hand

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  • Fol. 1r has a very fine full border of massive gold and colour, of characteristic Florentine work. Three times in the border occurs a blue shield with a representation of a barrel with a fire in it, set on an upright shaft upon a square base, and approached by a ladder. This is thought by George Williams, editor of the Correspondence of Bishop Bekynton (Rolls Series, I, xxxiii) to be the rebus of Thomas Bekynton (Beacon-tun), Bishop of Bath and Wells. Flavio Biondo (the author of the volume before us) was a correspondent of Bekynton's, and in a letter (I, p. 241) promises him a gift, which is probably this book. The letter in question was written at Florence in 1442.

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