Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 295

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 295
    • CCCC MS 295
    • MS 295
    • Parker Library MS 295
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Thomas Becket (saint, 1120-1170) | Alain de Tewkesbury (11..-1202)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1200 - 1225
  • Script :
    • very finely written
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 1 + 7 + 207 + 1
  • Dimensions :
    • 172 x 252
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 46 lines
    • ff. a-b + i-viii + 1-208 + ix + c-d
    • 1 flyleaf, I(8) (wants 8) II(8)-8(8) (wants 6) 9(8) 10(8) 11(10) 12(8)-20(8) 21(10) 22(8) 23(8) 24(12) 25(8) (wants 8), 1 flyleaf.

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Contents

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 295 reflects Parker's obvious interest in the history of the English church and the See of Canterbury in particular. It contains an incomplete version of the Epistolae (Recension III) of Thomas Becket compiled by Alan of Tewkesbury (d. 1202) together with a few letters of John of Salisbury (c. 1115-80). The manuscript was copied in the early thirteenth century, probably at Christ Church, Canterbury, where it has been identified in the library catalogue drawn up by Henry of Eastry in the early fourteenth century. A curious inscription in a late fifteenth-century hand recording that the book was the property of 'ecclesiam Blavnsom' means that it cannot be certain that Parker acquired this manuscript directly from Christ Church.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Thomas Becket - author

    Alan of Tewkesbury - author

    iir-207v - Thomas Becket, Epistolae (Alan of Tewkesbury's Collection, Recension III)

    rubric : (iir) Incipiunt capitula epistolarum beati thome martiris. Capitula primi libri epistolarum

    incipit : (iir) Incipit prologus in actus et exilium beati Thome martiris. Honor et gloria beati martyris

    Note : Liber I has 178 epistles. First words of each are given

    rubric : (ivr) Incipit Liber II a legatione Willelmi et Othonis cardinalium

    Note : 112 epistles

    Note : (vr) Liber III

    rubric : (vr) a legatione Gratiani et Viuiani cardinalium

    Note : 126 epistles

    Note : (viv) Liber IV

    rubric : (viv) a legatione Symonis de monte dei et Bernardo (!) de corilo

    Note : 52 (51) epistles

    Note : (viir) Liber V

    rubric : (viir) a legatione Rotrodi Rotomagensis archiepiscopi

    Note : 97 epistles

    Note : 7v blank

    rubric : (1r) Incipit prologus in actus et exilium beati martyris thome

    incipit : (1r) Honor et gloria beati martyris

    explicit : (1r) qualiter fuerit agendum

    Note : (Prologue of Alan of Tewkesbury. Giles I, 316)

    rubric : (1r) Incipiunt quedam explanationes subsequentium que minus expresse in epistolis continentur

    Note : (Alan of Tewkesbury. Giles I, 339)

    incipit : (1r) Gloriosus dei martyr thomas qualis et statutas in regno anglorum promulgaret

    rubric : (6r) Prima epistola. Thome cantuariensi archiepiscopo Johannes pictauensis episcopus

    incipit : (6r) Reuerentissimo domino ... Thome ... suus Johannes ... Vix mihi domine uel unum diem

    Note : (71v) Liber II

    Note : (114r) Liber III

    Note : (154r) Liber IV

    Note : (170v) Liber V

    Note : Last letter

    rubric : (207v) Albertus et teodinus cardinales conuentui cantuar.

    incipit : (207v) Albertus ... Letamur nos

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Provenance

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • From Christ Church, Canterbury. See Ancient Libraries, p. 52, no. 358. I take this to be probably the copy there mentioned as Epistola(-e) S. Thome Alani Prioris belonging to the Cloister.

Notes

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  • Additions: On f. ir at top is an erased inscription which began: Ep. (sancti Tho-)me. Considerably to the R. are legible the letters Ria. Below this in black Lombardic capitals is: ¶ Ep'le . sci . Thome . mris Ecclie . xpi . cantuar'. Below this again a name scribbled over in ink. On iiv Parkerian references to some of the Epistles.
  • Additions: The last leaf (f. 208r) has on recto at bottom a late xvth cent. inscription: Iste liber pertinet ad ecclesiam Blavnsom teste m george smith W austin H berliman et omnes stulti in ista villa Iohannes bocher. Amen.
  • Additions: On verso of last leaf (f. 208v) in a xiiith cent. hand a list of questiones in two columns and some notes.
  • Additions: On last flyleaf (ixr) a slip with a list of books (xvi): 1. Beckett. 2. Manipulus curatorum. 3. Stella clericorum. 4. Summula raymundi. 5, 6. duo libri cartacei. 7. tavernerus de euch. 8. Veron de p'best. 9. lex mahometica. 10. fabulae seu facetiae. 11. inuitato ciceroniana. 12. potestas ecclesiastica. 13. perionii dialectica. (14), 15. so: libri gallice duo. 16. elegantiae valle.

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