Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 464

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 464
    • CCCC MS 464
    • MS 464
    • Parker Library MS 464
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : John Grandison (1292-1369)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • clearly written
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 4 + 149
  • Dimensions :
    • 125 x 175
  • Codicological details :
    • 20 lines to a page: wide margin
    • ff. a-b + i-iv + 1-149 + c-d
    • iuerit
    • a(4), 1(8)-4(8) 5(10) 6(10) (9 canc.) 7(10) (8 canc.) 8(10) 9(8) (wants 1) 10(8)-15(8) 16(10) (7 canc.) 17(8)-18(8) (wants 8).

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 464 is a fifteenth-century copy of the Life and Miracles of St Thomas Becket by John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter (d. 1369). On the grounds of its decoration it has been dated to the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It may once have been at Lincoln Cathedral: Ker linked the partially legible inscription "de sneyd" with the Lincoln prebendary Ralph Sneyd who removed books thence.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    John Grandisson - author

    1r-70v - John Grandisson, Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis || Vita beati Thomae martyris compendiose et historice a Iohanne de Grandissono collecta

    rubric : (1r) Prologus vite beati Thome martiris compendiose et historice tantum a Ihoanne de Grandissono Exoniensi collecte

    incipit : (1r) Archipresulis necnon et archimartiris Anglorum

    Note : (1v) Capitula

    rubric : (10r) Incipit primum capitulum prime partis

    incipit : (10r) Benedictionibus diuine dulcedinis preuentus

    Note : Part IV ends

    explicit : (68v) festumque eius solempniter celebrandum ad laudem et gloriam domini nostri Ihesu Christi qui cum patre et spiritu sancto viuit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen

    rubric : (68v) Explicit Vita gloriosissimi Martiris sancti Thome Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi

    Note : ff. 69r-70v blank

    Note : See MS 177. 20, MS 275. 17, MS 467


    71r-146r - John Grandisson, Miracula sancti Thomae Cantuariensis || Idem de miraculis B. Thomae || Miracula sancti Thomae

    Note : (71r) beginning imperfectly

    incipit : (71r) Quasi qui operi sequenti sompnia pro fundamento substernam, etc. ... dicendi sumatur exordium

    rubric : (71r) Incipit liber

    incipit : (71r) Aspiciebam in visu noctis martirii eius

    Note : (144v) The last is of Ralph fitz Bernard and Bernard filius Rachinaldi ending

    explicit : (146r) Uestrum est martiri famulancium laudum preconia

    rubric : (146r) Prosequi

    Note : ff. 146v-150r blank

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  • Additions: ff. 1r-10v blank. On f. 1r at top scribbled (xvi) ... de sneyd (?).

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