Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 220

  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 220
    • CCCC MS 220
    • MS 220
    • Parker Library MS 220
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Petrus de Vineis (1190?-1249)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • well written
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 24
  • Dimensions :
    • 165 x 245
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 27 and 36 lines
    • ff. i-ii + 1-24 + iii-iv
    • 1(10) 2(10) (wants 8, 9) || 3(?) (six).

Contents

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 220 is a late thirteenth-century manuscript containing letters of Petrus de Vinea (c. 1190-1249), some of which are incomplete, and a copy of the Life of St Eustace (BHL 2760). Petrus de Vinea was a stateman and lawyer at the court of the Emperor Frederick II in southern Italy and Sicily. It has been suggested that this manuscript was donated to Corpus Christi College by Christopher Kaley (admitted 1636).


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Petrus de Vinea - author

    1r-18v - Petrus de Vinea, Summa dictaminis (Epistolae) || Fragmentum epistolarum Petri de Vineis || Petrus de Vineis

    Note : Begins imperfectly

    incipit : (1r) ligarentur et facta conspiracione cum Ianuensibus

    Note : The next letter is

    rubric : (1r) Iusticiario terre laboris super deposicione sua

    incipit : (1v) Hucusque satis ut loquamur

    Note : Parts of 15 letters remain

    Note : The last ends unfinished on f. 17r

    Note : ff. 17v-18v are blank

    Note : Pertz's Archiv, VII 949

    Note : The MS. contains Liber I 9 (part), 10-15, 17, 16, 18-21, 24


    19r-23v - Life of St Eustace || Historia Eustachii, qui cum uxore et duobus filiis mortem passus est sub Adriano imperatore ob fidem christianam || Vita Sancti Eustachi

    incipit : (19r) In diebus traiani Imperatoris demonis preualente fallacia Erat quidam magister militum nomine placidas

    explicit : (23v) impetrant que promissa sunt sanctis per gratiam domini nostri et saluatoris Iesu Christi cui gloria et potestas in secula seculorum. Amen

    Note : Cf. Legenda Aurea cap. 161, ed. Graesse, and Acta Sanctorum Sept. VI 123. (BHL. 2760)

    Note : f. 24r-24v blank

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Provenance

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  • This may possibly be the book entered in the MS. Catalogue of Benefactors as De Vitis Sanctorum liber manuscriptus, the gift of Christopher Kaley admitted 1636, Fellow elect and afterwards Fellow of Jesus College.

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