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Data Source: Parker on the Web

• Résumé : CCCC MS 386 is prefaced by a printed version of an English translation of the works of Terence (195-159 B.C), which appears to be the only surviving copy of this edition of the text. This is followed by a manuscript collection of fourteenth and fifteenth-century treatises on the various disciplines of written composition and aids to producing texts. These include De metro, a text on metre and scansion, the Synonyma, frequently attributed to John of Garland (d. c. 1272), an incomplete version of Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille, c. 1128-1203) Liber parabolarum, and a collection of verses. The dating for this last section has been suggested as c. 1475-1500.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Therentii - author

  1r-24v - Fragmentum libelli impressi, cujus titulus Vulgaria Therentii in Anglicanam linguam traducta || Fragmentum libelli impressi, cujus titulus Vulgaria Therentii in Anglicanam linguam traducta, Londoniis impressa in Abchirchelane per me Gulielmum Faques Normannum.

  Note : The only known copy. E. G. Duff, Westminster and London Printers, p. 170

  
  

  25r-32v - Collectanea quaedam de metro et versu, cum multis versibus || Collectanea quaedam [MSS. seculo xv exarata] de metro et versu, cum multis versibus, de quibus hoec annnotavit Parkerus ad frontem codicis [see Summary above for these notes]

  rubric : (25r) De metro

  incipit : (25r) Tria sunt que exiguntur

  Note : Printed to end of f. 5r by Nasmith in Itin. Simeonis, etc. 1778, p. 381

  Note : Two sections follow

  Note : (1)

  incipit : (29v) Multis modis capit metrum denominacionem, etc.

  Note : (2)

  rubric : (30v) De metro hymnorum

  Note : with examples

  
  

  33r-47v - Synonyma

  Note : (Synonyma attributed, wrongly, to Johannes de Garlandia)

  incipit : (33r) Ad mare ne videar latices deferre, etc.

  Note : Roughly written

  Note : (44v) Prose notes

  Note : Scribbles of names occur

  Note : (41r) De Johanne atte merche de Nasing(?)

  Note : (46v) Johanne atte melle de hertford

  incipit : (47v) Cricheland in Reyndon que reddet per annum domino X8, etc.

  Note : Lavenham is mentioned

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille) - author

  48r-61v - Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), Liber parabolarum (incomplete)

  incipit : (48r) Quot sunt falcitates in uersu. quinque, etc.

  incipit : (50r) A phebo phebe lumen capit a sapiente

  Note : (Alani de Insulis Proverbia. P. L. CCX 581)

  explicit : (57r) Ne seruos nequam nos vocet ira dei

  Note : ff. 10v - 13v blank [scribbles on 57v-58r]

  
  

  62r-100v - Verses

  incipit : (62r) Sanguis prosapia kynred sanguis quoque dicito(?) sudorSanguis sit zima signat sanguis quoque vitam....Eleyson miserere sonat que sonat nobis ymas

  Note : Hand changes:

  rubric : (69r) Versus differenciales post festum Sancti Michaelis

  incipit : (69r) Os es mel mare far rus tus ius ordea vinaTres in plurali casus amittere debentOs oris loquitur corrio vestitur os ossis

  Note : This seems to continue to the end. Many English words occur

  explicit : (100v) libraque multorum colleccio sit solidorumpro signo celi poterit quandoque teneri