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• Résumé : CCCC MS 414 is a classic example of a medieval miscellany of historical, romantic and spiritual texts. Copied in the fourteenth century, the single most substantial text in this volume is the Otia imperiala by Gervase of Tilbury (c. 1140 -1220), an encyclopaedia of history and geography. Other texts present include the Historia Alexandri magni, the Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi of pseudo-Turpin (fl. second quarter of twelfth century), the Historia regum Britanniae and Prophetia Ambrosii Merlini of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), accounts of the siege of Troy and of Aeneas' return to Italy, Walter Map (c. 1140-1210) Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum (also in CCCC MSS 107 and 177) with the commentary of John Ridewall OFM (d. after 1340), and a tract on the ancestry of Christ. James postulated an East Anglian provenance on the basis of the script and decoration, but this has never been confirmed. The manuscript contains a Parkerian guide to the contraction of words used by medieval scribes.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Gervase of Tilbury - author

  3-248 - Gervase of Tilbury, Otia imperialia || Gervasii Tilberiensis otia imperialia ad Ottonem IV

  Note : Tria diversa opera quae Gervasio vulgo attribuuntur, nempe Commentarius de regnis imperatorum Romanorum Mundi descriptio, et Tractatus de mirabilibus mundi omnia in his otiis imperialibus continentur

  Note : (3) Gervasii TilberiensisOtia imperialia

  rubric : (3) Serenissimo domino suo Ottoni quarto, etc. (added)

  incipit : (3) Ottoni quarto romano imperatori semper augusto Geruasius tilberiensis vester dignacione marescallus, etc.

  rubric : (3) Collaccio regni et sacerdocii

  incipit : (3) Duo sunt imperator Auguste quibus hic mundus regitur

  explicit : (7) conregnetis in eternum cum Christo

  rubric : (7) Explicit prefatio Secuntur tituli capitulorum operis sequentis

  rubric : (8) Prima libri decisio

  incipit : (8) Cum uniuscuiusque rei principium

  Note : The end of Decisio I and beginning of II (from capitulum 24 de diluuio et archa: Leibnitz, p. 906) are wanting. A marginal note on p. 51 says, Hic deficiunt x folia de alio libro. require (?) supra in principio sed et ait augustinus

  Note : Decisio II begins in the section de ortu tigris et gangis (Leibnitz, p. 911 ?)

  Note : At p. 79 a page and a half are left blank: a quire was wanting, but was evidently supplied. The text on p. 81 continues without break

  rubric : (172) Incipit tercia decisio continens mirabilia uniuscuiusque prouincie

  incipit : (172) Ut operi cepto debitam consummacionis

  Note : (178) The hand changes

  Note : There is a gap after p. 182, after the heading

  rubric : (182) De visione portarum inferni

  Note : p. 183 deals with 'celatura lapidum'

  Note : Ends with the letter to John on p. 242

  explicit : (242) continuans aput deuotum dominum Imperatorem

  Note : In a smaller hand, paragraphs mostly from the Letter and Gesta of Alexander, the Gesta Karoli, and Justin

  rubric : (242) De calice aque et arundinibus

  incipit : (242) In libro de situ indie et generibus hominum et ferarum ita legitur

  Note : De ypotamis. De Scorpionibus. De miranda belua maris indici ... De valle iordia ... grippis, arundinibus, etc., seribus, signis in morte Alexandri, signis in morte Karoli, 7 dormientibus in germania, scripto hominis et umbra hominis, Cariboli, etc., statu iudeorum et balsamo, Parthis et eorum ortu

  Note : Ending imperfectly, p. 248

  explicit : (248) persequi destructores omiserunt. Eo tempore eciam theodotus

  Note : The only printed text of the whole work is that in Leibnitz, Scriptores Rerum Brunsvicensium I 881-1005, taken from a MS. at Wolfenbüttel formerly at St Augustine's, Canterbury, collated for Leibnitz with the Corpus Christi MS. by Chr. Wasse of Queens' College

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Julius Valerius - author

  249-275 - Julius Valerius transl., Historia Alexandri magni || Vita Alexandri magni

  Note : In the first hand

  rubric : (249) Incipiunt gesta Alexandri Magni et eius genere atque vita

  incipit : (249) Egipti sapientes sati genere diuino

  explicit : (275) extinctus occubuit

  rubric : (275) Explicit vita Alexandri

  Note : Abridgment of Julius Valerius. Ed. Zacher. Ward, Catalogue of Romances I, p. 186 [actually pp. 120-122]

  
  

  Intervenants :

  pseudo-Turpinus - author

  275-320 - pseudo-Turpinus, Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi || Turpini historia Caroli magni

  rubric : (275) Epistola turpini de gestis Karoli

  incipit : (275) Turpinus dei gratia Archiepiscopus Remensis

  explicit : (275) deo placeas

  rubric : (275) Explicit

  rubric : (275) Incipit tituli capitulorum sequentis hystorie que est de bello Roscidiuallensi karoli imperatoris magni

  Note : Capitula (34)

  Note : Text

  incipit : (277) Gloriosissimus Christi apostolus Iacobus

  explicit : (316) beatus Matheus apostolus et ewangelista sua predicacione conuertit ad dominum

  rubric : (316) Explicit

  Note : Ward, Catalogue I 546. Cf. MS 292, MS 318

  rubric : (316) Qui legis hoc carmen turpino posce iuuamenUt pietate dei subueniatur ei

  rubric : (316) Finitur hystoria Belli Roscidiuallis

  Note : pp. 317-320 blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Dares Phrygius - author

  321-343 - 'Dares Phrygius', De excidio Troiae historia || Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troja historia, Cornelio Nepote interprete

  Note : (321) Dares Phrygius

  incipit : (321) Cornelius nepossalustio

  explicit : (321) ad pollicitum reuertamur

  incipit : (321) Peleus rex in peloponense essonem fratrem habuit

  Note : (341) Hand changes

  Note : The last section on f. 340 begins

  incipit : (340) Pentesilea ex consuetudine

  Note : The first on p. 341 begins

  incipit : (341) Hoc postquam multis verbis dixit

  explicit : (343) huc usque historia daretis scripta est

  incipit : (343) Quis troianorum quem grecorum occiderit. Hector prothesilaum

  explicit : (343) palamonem. ephistrephum. ficidium

  Note : Added

  Note : (343) Tot numerus occisorum 1839000 .i. occidentium centum milia triginta milia et nouem milia

  Note : Ward, Catalogue I p. 12

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Walter Map - author

  John Ridewall OFM - author

  343-366 - Walter Map, Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum ne ducat uxorem (De nugis curialium, dist. 4, 3-5), with the Commentary of John Ridewall OFM || Valerius ad Rufinum de nuptiis non habendis cum expositione

  Note : (343) Valerius ad Rufinum (Mapes, De Nugis Curialum Distinctio IV)

  incipit : (343) Loqui prohibeor et tacere non possum - scripsisse videar. Vale. Amen

  rubric : (349) Explicit epistola Valerii ad Ruffini de non ducenda uxore

  incipit : (349) Incipit exposicio eius

  incipit : (349) Loqui, etc. Hec epistola continet principaliter tria

  explicit : (366) rugose frontis et tristis offenditque correptos

  rubric : (366) Explicit

  Note : This is the comment of John Rideval or Ridewas. Tanner, Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica, p. 630

  
  

  367-396 - Tractatus de ortu deorum || Tractatus de ortu deorum

  Note : The former hand

  rubric : (367) Incipit tractatus de ortu deorum et integ(umen)tis breuibus et utilibus

  rubric : (367) Maria. Jhesus. Jhoannes. Andreas. franciscus

  incipit : (367) Dii quos pagani finxerunt et adhuc colendo uenerantur homines olim fuisse

  explicit : (396) quod equum constat esse velocissimum

  rubric : (396) Explicit tractatus de ortu deorum et integumentis breuibus et utilibus

  Note : By Johannes Anglicus? a copy of his Integumenta on the Metamorphoses of Ovid is in Bodl. MS. Digby 104, f. 161

  
  

  397-419 - Historia de adventu Enee in Italiam || Historia adventus Eneae in Italiam

  rubric : (397) Incipit hystoria de itinere de aduentu Enee in ytaliam

  incipit : (397) Superius autem excidio troie secundum Daretem explicito. Iter enee in ytaliam casusque suos quidam Paulus ita prosequitur. Eneas igitur cum anchise patre et ascanio filio

  explicit : (419) et cepit albanum ciuitas Rome subiecta esse, etc.

  
  

  419-421 - De primis habitatoribus Anglia || De primis habitatoribus Angliae

  incipit : (419) Anglia modo dicta olim Albion dicebatur et habebat inhabitatores gigantes

  explicit : (421) Et sic veritas clarescit historie de primis habitatoribus huius terre, etc.

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Geoffrey of Monmouth - author

  421-562 - Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae || Galfredi Monumetensis historia Britanniae

  rubric : (421) (Galfridus Monumetensis)

  incipit : (421) Dum mecum multa

  explicit : (422) gratulatur affectu

  incipit : (422) Britannia insularum optima

  Note : The prophecies of Merlin occur as usual

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (562) transferre curaui

  Note : Apparently not mentioned by Hardy