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• Résumé : CCCC MS 407 contains two distinct types of material, but all copied in the second quarter of the fourteenth century. The first is a series of travelogues including Simon Simeonis OFM (d. after 1322) Itinerarium in terram sanctam, Willelmus de Rubruk OFM (c. 1215-c. 1270) Itinerarium ad partes orientales and the Itinerarium of Odoricus of Pordenone (c. 1286-1331). The second type of material, written in a different hand, includes the Arabic version of the Secretum secretorum translated by Philip of Tripoli (fl. c. 1243) and another broadly medical treatise, De complexione humana. This volume was owned by, and quite probably copied for, Simon Bozoun OSB (d. 1352), prior of Norwich Cathedral Priory, as revealed by an inscription on the first folio. The manuscript was almost certainly acquired by Parker from Norwich.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Simon Simeonis OFM - author

  1r-36v - Simon Simeonis OFM, Itinerarium in terram sanctam || Itinerarium fratrum Symonis Semeonis et Hugonis illuminatoris, ordinis fratrum minorum professorum, ad terram sanctam A.D. 1322 || Itinerarium Symeonis Semeonis et Hugonis illuminatoris

  Note : (1r) (No title)

  incipit : (1r) Culmine honoris spreto

  Note : Ed. by Nasmith, Cambridge 1778, with William of Worcester

  Note : It is unfinished, ending

  explicit : (33v) ad quam nullum christianum permittunt accedere

  Note : See an article on this Itinerary by Mario Esposito Hermathena 1911, p. 264

  Note : ff. 34r-36v blank

  
  

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  Willelmus de Rubruk OFM - author

  37r-68v - Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales || Itinerarium fratris Willelmi de Rubruk de ordine fratrum minorum anno gratiae MCCLIII ad partes orientales

  Note : Desunt multa ad finem

  rubric : (37r) Itinerarium fratris Willelmi de Rubruk de ordine fratrum minorum anno gratie millo cco liij ad partes orientales

  incipit : (37r) Excellentissimo domino ...Lodowyco ...W. de Rubruc. etc. Scriptum est in ecclesiastico de sapiente

  Note : Ends imperfect

  explicit : (66r) In ista terra sunt multe prouincie quarum plures adhuc non obediunt moallis et inter

  Note : (66r) Marginalia: hic deficit multum. vide apud Sanctum Edmundum residuum

  Note : Cf. no. 66. 10, no. 181. art. 9. Ed. by d'Avezac, 1839

  Note : ff. 66v-68v blank

  Note : The words apud S. Edmundum may very probably refer to the copy of Rubruc in no. 66 which is a Bury MS. On the text of this and of MS 66 see C. R. Beazley, Carpini and Rubruquis, Hakluyt Society 1903

  
  

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  Odoricus of Pordenone - author

  69r-92v - Odoricus of Pordenone, Itinerarium || Itinerarium fratris Odorici ordinis fratrum minorum de mirabilibus orientalium Tartarorum

  rubric : (69r) Incipit Itinerarium fratris Odorici ordinis fratrum minorum de mirabilibus orientalium tartarorum

  incipit : (69r) Licet multa et uaria de ritibus et condicionibus huius mundi

  explicit : (91r) sed non de omnibus quia sunt innumerabilia et michi difficilia ad scribendum

  Note : ff. 91v-92v blank

  Note : See no. 275. Printed Acta SS. 1 Jan. 986 (should be 992), 1 Apr. 52: Wadding III sub ann. 1331

  
  

  93r-128v - Liber de terrae partibus et diversis provinciis || Liber de terrae partibus et diversis provinciis

  Note : Regiones ordine alphabetico describuntur: desiderantur quaedam ad finem

  Note : Another hand

  rubric : (93r) Incipit hic liber de terre partibus et diuersis prouinciis

  incipit : (93r) De terre autem partibus et diuersis prouinciis per quas orbis generaliter est diuisus pauca huic operi sunt adiuuante domino breuiter inserenda, etc.

  rubric : (93r) De orbe in generali

  incipit : (93r) Orbis ut dicit ysidorus li. xv tripharie est diuisus

  Note : The places described are in alphabetical order beginning with Asya. They go down to Sicilia (the rubric says wrongly de Surtes) in which the text ends imperfectly

  explicit : (128v) fistulis penetrabilis uentis et sulphure plena

  
  

  129r-176r - Secretum secretorum || Liber secreti secretorum sive de regimine principum et dominorum ad instantiam Alexandri magni ab Aristotele editus

  Note : Another hand, headed

  rubric : (129r) De Regimine dominorum

  rubric : (129r) Incipit liber secreti secretorum ad instanciam Alexandri magni ab aristotile editus

  incipit : (129r) Domino suo excellentissimo ... Wydoni ... Philippus

  explicit : (130r) feliciter peruenire

  rubric : (130r) Tituli maioris huius operis

  rubric : (131r) Prologus cuiusdam doctoris de commendacione aristotilis

  incipit : (131r) Deus omnipotens custodiat

  explicit : (131v) ob hac forma

  rubric : (131v) Epistola Alex. ad Aristot.

  incipit : (131v) Doctor egregie rector iusticie

  explicit : (131v) omnes alienaciones

  rubric : (131v) Prol. Joh. translatoris huius libri

  incipit : (131v) Iohannes qui transtulit

  explicit : (132r) sub hac forma

  rubric : (132r) Incipit liber primus. Epistola ad Alexandrum

  incipit : (132r) O fili gloriosissime

  explicit : (176v) ad meliorem et probabiliorem partem. Completus est tractatus de signis et moribus naturalibus hominum ad regem magnificum Alexandrum directus qui dominatus fuit toti orbi terrarum dictus monarcha in septemtrione

  rubric : (176v) Explicit liber Aristotilis qui intitulatur de secretis secretorum siue de regimine principum et dominorum

  
  

  176v-178v - De complexione humana || Aliud documentum de complexione humana

  rubric : (176v) Aliud documentum de complexione humana

  incipit : (176v) Caput nostrum commissuras habet v

  Note : (177r) Hand changes

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (178v) Colera rubea estate ab viii Idus Maii usque ad viii Idus augusti et sunt dies nonaginta