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• Résumé : CCCC MS 425 consists of two once-separate volumes. The first contains the unique surviving copies of two hagiographical works by Gerald of Wales (1146-1226), his lives of St Remigius and St Hugh. It has been suggested that the manuscript could be an autograph, and on these grounds has been located to Lincoln between 1209 and 1223. The second volume is a c. 1450 copy of letters of Peter of Blois (d. 1212). The two were probably combined by Matthew Parker. He added a table of contents and the initials "TW" to the start of the first volume, perhaps suggesting that he acquired it from one of the Twynes or from Thomas Wootton.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Gerald of Wales - author

  6r-45v - Gerald of Wales, Vita Sancti Remigii episcopi || Gulielmus de Barri dictus Cambrensis de vitis sancti Remigii et episcoporum Lincolniensium illi succedentium et aliorum sex Angliae episcoporum sui temporis || Vita Sancti Remigii

  Note : hoc ordine Vita sancti Remigii, p. 20. Roberti Bloet, p.37. Alexandri, p.38. Roberti de Chimel, p.39. Gaufredi Electi, p. 40. Walteri Constantiensis, p.41. Hugonis Burgundiensis, p. 42. Vitae episcoporum Angliae tergeminorum, viz. Thomae Cantuar. et Henrici Winton. p. 45. Bartholomei Exoniensis et Rogeri Wigor. p. 62. Baldwini Cisterciensis postea Cantuar. et Hugonis Cartusiensis postea Lincoln. p. 73

  Note : Printed by Dimock in Vol. VII of the Rolls ed. of Giraldus. He says of the MS. of all the early manuscripts of Giraldus's different works which I have had to study, this C.C.C. 425 seems to me to have the best claim to be looked upon, if not as his own autograph copy, yet as written and revised and added to under his own eye. At any rate it was, in all likelihood, written before Giraldus' death: it certainly gives us a most correct text: and the text, probably, of Giraldus's last revision. (Introd., p. ix.)

  Note : It is the only manuscript of these Lives extant

  rubric : (6r) Prefatio donum declarans et gratiam comparans

  Note : (6r) Gold initial with half-length of a mitred archbishop (Stephen Langton) on blue ground

  incipit : (6r) Reuerendo patri ac domino Stephano dei gratia Cantuariensi archiepiscopo

  Note : (p. 1 Rolls)

  Note : (9r) Capitula (p. 9 Rolls)

  rubric : (9v) Incipit proemium

  incipit : (9v) Vitas uirorum

  Note : (p. 11 Rolls)

  Note : (11v) Text (p. 14 Rolls)

  Note : (11v) Initial has half-length of Remigius in blue with crozier

  Note : 47 is an added slip, cf. p. 44 of print

  Note : On 54 the hand that wrote the title on p. 1 adds a title in capitals

  rubric : (27v) De Thoma Cantuarenci

  Note : (31v) (Dimock, p. 57 )

  rubric : (31v) De Bartholomeo Exoniensi et Rogero Wigorniensi

  Note : (31v) An initial with half-lengths of the two

  Note : (37r) Similarly, (Dimock, p. 67)

  rubric : (37r) de Baldewino Cisterciensi et Hugone Cartusiensi

  Note : (37r) An initial with two half-length figures

  explicit : (44v) sub hoc conpendio terminetur

  rubric : (44v) Explicit

  Note : 89, 90 blank

  
  

  46r-80v - Gerald of Wales, Vita Sancti Hugonis || Vita S. Hugonis Lincoln || Vita Sancti Hugonis

  Note : Edited by Dimock in Vol. VII of the Rolls ed. of Giraldus. This is the only manuscript

  rubric : (46r) Incipiunt capitula in vitam Sancti Hugonis

  Note : Dimock, p. 83

  Note : 93, 94 are an added slip with capitula of the Third Distinction of the work: 93 being blank

  rubric : (47r) Incipit proemium in uitam Sancti Hugonis Lincolniensis

  incipit : (47r) Quanto rarius

  Note : (Dimock, p. 87)

  Note : (48r) Text. Initial with half-length of Hugh blessing

  Note : (60v) Distinctio II

  Note : (68v) Distinctio III

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (79r) regnat et imperat in secula seculorum. Amen

  rubric : (79r) Explicit

  Note : 160-162 blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath - author

  81r-191r - Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae || Petri Blessensis epistolae LXXVIII

  rubric : (81r) Epistole Petri Blesensis

  Note : (P. L. CCVII)

  rubric : (81r) Scribitur regi ad cuius mandatum presentis operis epistolas dispersas collegerat et est hoc quasi prohemium operis

  incipit : (81r) Henrico dei gratia illustrissimo

  rubric : (82r) Consolacio ad regem de obitu filii junioris regis

  Note : There are 78 Epistles. The last

  rubric : (189v) Congratulatur istis de reparacione ecclesie blesensis et hortatur eos

  incipit : (190r) Dilectis dominis ... R. decano ... Gratias ago gratie largitori

  Note : Ends unfinished

  explicit : (191r) Ille qui infirma

  Note : (191r) The verso of this leaf and recto of the next are blank and pasted together

  Note : (192r) A blank leaf follows

  Note : On the margin of f. 110v

  Note : (190v) martinus clamidem cum paupere dimidiauit