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• Résumé : CCCC MS 406 contains a number of texts copied in a series of early thirteenth-century hands. Among these is what is thought to be one of the earliest versions of the 'A' recension of Seneca's Tragoediae to be copied in England. The text has been much used and discussed by modern editors of Seneca's Tragedies. Alongside this there appears a broad variety of texts typical of a monastic or university commonplace book including satirical verse, classical history, cosmology and poetics. The texts include the Architrenius of Iohannes de Alta Villa (fl. late twelfth century) and the Anticlaudianus of Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille, c. 1128-1203), Joseph of Exeter (d. 1210) Bellum Troianum, Walter of Châtillon (fl. c. 1160-90) Alexandreis, the first part of Bernardus Silvestris (d. after 1159) Cosmographia (the Megacosmos) and Geoffrey of Vinsauf (d. after 1200) Poetria noua. There has been some suggestion that the manuscript has an Oxford provenance, but when and how this manuscript passed into Parker's possession is not known.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Seneca - author

  1r-40v - Seneca, Tragedies || Senecae Tragoediae

  Note : Triple columns. Misbound. The true order of the quires is 1, 4, 3, 2, 5

  Note : a.

  Note : (1r) Hercules Furens

  rubric : (1r) Iuno

  incipit : (1r) Soror tonantis hoc enim solum mihi

  Note : b.

  Note : (5r) Thiestes

  Note : Ending imperfect

  explicit : (8v) Parere crescit pondus et dextram grauat

  Note : l. 986

  Note : Continued f. 25r

  Note : c.

  Note : (9r) Medea

  Note : Begins imperfect l. 387

  incipit : (9r) Flammata facies spiritum ex alto citat

  Note : The beginning is on f. 23v

  Note : d.

  Note : (11r) Agamemnon

  Note : e.

  Note : (14r) Octauia

  Note : Breaks off at l.761

  explicit : (16v) Superos adora maneat ut presens metus

  Note : Continued on f. 33r

  Note : f.

  Note : (17r) Edippus

  Note : Beginning at l. 285

  incipit : (17r) Gelidumque dirimit

  Note : The beginning is on f. 32r

  Note : g.

  Note : (19v) Troas

  Note : c.

  Note : (23v) Beginning of Medea

  Note : b.

  Note : (25r) End of Thiestes

  Note : h.

  Note : (25r) Thebais

  Note : i.

  Note : (27v) Ypolitus

  Note : g.

  Note : (32r) Beginning of Edippus

  Note : e.

  Note : (33v) End of Octavia

  Note : k.

  Note : (33v) Hercules Oetheus

  Note : Ending 39v

  explicit : (39v) Fulmina mutes

  rubric : (39v) Lucii. Annei. Senece. Hercules Oe ... neus explicit feliciter

  Note : f. 40r-40v blank

  Note : Examined by Mr C. E. Stuart, Trinity College, Craven Student 1907. It is one of the earliest of the English MSS.

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Iohannes de Alta Villa - author

  41r-64v - Iohannes de Alta Villa, Architrenius || Iohannis de Alta villa Architrenius

  Note : Another hand: double columns

  incipit : (41r) Velificatur athos dubio mare ponte ligatur

  Note : Wright, Satirical Poets of the Twelfth Century I 240

  Note : Ends f. 64r

  explicit : (64r) Equet in eternum populus dilectus et ultra

  rubric : (64r) Explicit

  Note : On f. 64v in 4 columns are the capitula to the Architrenius

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Bernardus Silvestris - author

  65r-74r - Bernardus Silvestris, Epistola ad Terricum in Megacosmum || Bernardi Siluestris Megacosmus

  Note : Another hand: double columns

  rubric : (65r) Incipit Epistola magistri bernardi siluestris ad magistrum Terricum in megacosmum

  incipit : (65r) Terrico ueris scientiarum titulis doctori

  explicit : (65r) ualeatque uita uestra

  rubric : (65r) Incipit megacosmus bernardi siluestris

  incipit : (65r) Congeries informis adhuc cum silua teneret

  Note : (69r) Liber II

  Note : Ends 74r

  explicit : (74r) Ductoresque pedes omnificasque manus

  rubric : (74r) Explicit cosmographia magistri bernardi siluestris

  Note : Ed. Wrobel and Barach, Biblioth. philos. mediae aetatis I, Innsbruck, 1875

  
  

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  Joseph of Exeter - author

  74v-86v - Joseph of Exeter, Bellum Troianum || Iosephi Exoniensis Ilias

  Note : (74v) (Prologue)

  incipit : (74v) Cresce Ioseph nomen augmenti moribus impleNe uirtute minor nomine maior eas...Nam uacuus labor est carpere mortis iter

  rubric : (74v) Frigii Daretis Yliados liber primus de prima pergamorum euersione incipit

  incipit : (75r) Iliadum lacrimas concessaque pergama fatisPrelia bina ducum bis adactam cladibus urbem

  Note : (77r) Herethe hand changes and there are 3 columns to a page

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (86v) Quam pascit presens extremaque krminat etas

  rubric : (86v) Frigii Daretis yliados liber explicit

  Note : Printed several times: e.g. in the London reprint of the Delphin edition of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis (1825)

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille) - author

  86v-100v - Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), Anticlaudianus || Alani Anticlaudianus (without the prose preface)

  incipit : (86v) Auctoris mendico stilum falerasque poete

  Note : Wright, Satirical Poets of the Twelfth Century II 272

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (100v) Supplantare nouas saltem post fata silebit

  
  

  101r-101v - De coloribus sententiarum

  Note : a.

  Note : (101r) Poem exemplifying colores, double columns

  Note : Headings in margin

  rubric : (101r) Exempla colorum sententiarum

  incipit : (101r) Ecce Est pape leges sacras dictantere minorum

  Note : (101r) Distinctio

  Note : (101r) Prescriptam iuris formam seruare sed errant

  Note : (101r) Licencia

  Note : (101r) Quam plures quorum ce pape redarguit error. Parcis non punis enormia lucra sequentes, etc....

  Note : (101r) (Breuitas)

  Note : (101r) Non persona patris uel sacri flaminis esse Debuit ipsa salus hominis sic collige paucis

  Note : (101v) Demonstracio

  explicit : (101v) Ciuibus angelicis celo nascente creatis Lucifer egregie lucis de luce creantis ... Istius radix sic sum quasi causa remota Huius pestis ero uicine causa salutis

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Geoffrey de Vinsauf - author

  102r-112v - Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria noua

  Note : b.

  rubric : (102r) Incipit liber magistri Galfridi (Vinesauf: cut off) Anglici ad Willelmum de Wrotham epistola prima

  incipit : (102r) Quem pape scripsi munus speciale libelliAccipe flos regni primo pocieris honore...Sed licet omnis apex tibi crescat honoris, honoreCrescere non poteris quantum de iure mereris

  Note : Text begins

  incipit : (102r) Papa stupor mundi si dixero papa nocenti

  Note : Ends 112v

  explicit : (112v) Plene. sed res est longe fecundior ore

  rubric : (112v) Explicit artificium lepide loquendi

  Note : Printed in Leyser, pp. 861-978

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Walter of Châtillon - author

  113r-144v - Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis || Gualteri de Castellione Alexandreis

  Note : (113r) Another hand

  incipit : (113r) Primus aristotiles imbutum nectare sacro...Pergama miratur et sompnia uisa retractat

  incipit : (113r) Gesta ducis macedonie totum digesta per orbem

  explicit : (113r) nostram paciare camenam

  Note : The next eleven lines in another hand

  incipit : (113r) Nondum prodierat mature plena tenellis...Confusos turbare duces primumque (?) leonis

  Note : (141v) Liber X ends

  explicit : (141v) Gloria Willelmi nullum moritura per euumLaus tibi sit christe quia finitur liber iste

  rubric : (141v) Explicit liber Alexandri

  Note : (141v) Prose prologue

  incipit : (141v) Moris est usitati cum in auribus multitudinis

  explicit : (141v) totum opus per capitula distinguamus

  Note : Capitula follow, ending with the argument of Liber I (Primus Aristotiles) as above

  Note : See Hist. Litt. XV 100. Ward, Catalogue of Romances I 94. Often printed

  Note : On ff. 142v-144r are scribbles, notes, memorial verses, lists of sins, etc.

  Note : Liber VII 331, etc. reads

  incipit : (132r) Nollet corruptus munere iudexNon caderent hodie nullo discrimine sacriPontifices. quales nuper cecidisse querunturVicine modico distantes equore terreSed quia labilium, etc.