Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 492

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 492
    • CCCC MS 492
    • MS 492
    • Parker Library MS 492
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : English, Greek, Latin
  • Date of Origin :
  • Support Material : Paper
  • Composition :
    • pp. 208
  • Dimensions :
    • 157 x 197
  • Codicological details :
    • ff. i-iii + pp. 1-8 + a-h (loose leaves) + 9-42 (43-46 missing) + 47-78 + ff. 79-83 + pp. 84-87 (88-180 missing) + 181-208

Contents

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 492 is the second of two volumes of the autograph notes of William Stanley (1647-1731) for his Catalogue of the Parker Library manuscripts published in 1722, containing the descriptions of manuscripts in Stanley's classification (itself derived from the Parker Register CCCC MS 575) for the volumes A.1 through to G.5. Both this and it companion volume, CCCC MS 491, were purchased at the auction of the Thomas Phillipps collection in 1898, this volume being Phillipps MS 20958.


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    Langue(s) des textes : anglais, grec, latin


    1-208 - Catalogue of Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Volume 1

    Note : Title on front outer cover: Catalogue of MSS in S. Benet's College or Corpus Christi, Cambridge, Vol. 1

    Note : For Vol. 2, see MS 491

    Note : Vol. 1, pp. 208, has descriptions of the Miscellanea and of MSS. A. 1 to G. 5 followed by notes on the Miscellanea mostly crossed out

Provenance

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  • Formerly Phillipps MSS. 7260 and 20958. Purchased at the Phillipps sale of 1898, lot 512.
  • I have little doubt that this is in the autograph of Dr Stanley, the compiler of the Catalogus Vetus.

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