Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 390

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 390
    • CCCC MS 390
    • MS 390
    • Parker Library MS 390
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Giraldus Cambrensis (1146?-1223?)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1175 - 1225
  • Script :
    • in a clear good upright hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 1 + 35
  • Dimensions :
    • 139 x 226
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 26 lines
    • f. i + pp. 1-38 + 38a + 39a + 39-70 + f. c
    • nes et rote
    • 1 flyleaf, 1 (three) 2(8)-5(8) (or six with two smaller leaves added in the middle).

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 390 is the kind of manuscript that always interested Parker. It contains the late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century unique copy of De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi by Gerald of Wales (1146-1226). As such, it surely appealed to Parker's interest both in the oldest manuscripts and in those dealing with history in general, and ecclesiastical history in particular. The later medieval provenance of this manuscript is evinced by a fifteenth-century contents list written by 'Morganus canonicus de Kermerden', whose name and hand appear in a number of manuscripts known to have been in the library of the Augustinian priory of the Blessed Virgin and St John the Baptist at Lanthony secunda, Gloucestershire.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Gerald of Wales - author

    1-70 - Gerald of Wales, De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi Eboracensis

    rubric : (1) Introitus primus

    incipit : (1) Uarias rerum humanarum uices

    Note : Good initials, gold on blue edged with green, salmon pink within, and silver

    Note : (3) Capitula. Two good initials of the same character

    rubric : (5) Introitus secundus

    rubric : (7) Incipit liber de promotionibus

    Note : in blue

    Note : (7) Initial of text, gold on blue, salmon pink within. Half-length of Geoffrey in mitre, green chasuble with pall, over blue, holding long cross and blessing. Edged with green

    Note : (29) Liber II, decorative initial as before: another on p. 30

    Note : A Parkerian copy of a marginal addition is added on a slip (p. 38a) opposite p. 38

    Note : pp. 61-64 are of smaller size

    Note : There are a good many marginal additions not uniformly noticed as such by Brewer, but incorporated into his text. They are in another, but not much later hand. The text ends

    explicit : (70) ad hoc perpetrandum tam horrendum

    Note : Brewer, p. 426

    Note : The remainder is to be found in the Symbolum Electorum of Giraldus of which the only complete copy is at Trinity College (R. 7. 11). From this Brewer has printed it

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Notes

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  • Research: This is the only known MS. of the text, which was last printed by J. S. Brewer, Giraldus Cambrensis Rolls, Vol. IV, pp. 357-431.
  • Additions: The flyleaf (f. ir) has Parkerian notes and a title of cent. xv: In hoc vol. continetur vita Gaufridi eboracensis archiepiscopi

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