Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 066A: Jacques de Vitry, Historia orientalis. Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales. pseudo-John of Damascus, Barlaam et Iosaphat (Parker Manuscripts)
MS 66, as described by M. R. James, included half of a manuscript belonging to the Cistercian abbey of Sawley (Yorks.) and half of a manuscript belonging to the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds. The other two halves of the Bury and Sawley manuscripts are bound together as Cambridge, UL MS Ff. 1. 27. However, MS 66 has since been separated into MS 66 (Sawley MS) and MS 66A (Bury MS). MS 66A contains copies of Jacques de Vitry's Historia orientalis; Willelmus de Rubruk's Itinerarium ad partes orientales; Itinerarium usque ad paradisum terrestrem; Imago mundi; the letter of Prester John; Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera; Barlaam et Iosaphat by pseudo-John of Damascus; the Legend of the Cross Before Christ; Seth or The Holy Rood in Verse; the Childhood of Jesus; excerpts from Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and the Legenda Aurea; Visio Rodulfi; De Stephano monacho cartusiensi and pseudo-Methodius's Revelations. There are illuminated historiated initials at the beginning of most of these texts.
Historia orientalis -- Itinerarium ad partes orientales -- Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum -- Tractatus de sphaera -- Barlaam et Iosaphat -- Legend of the Cross Before Christ -- Seth or The Holy Rood in Verse -- Childhood of Jesus -- Historia orientalis (excerpt) -- Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (excerpt from book 5) -- Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (excerpt from book 5) -- The Birth and Life of Pilate (extract from Legenda Aurea) -- The Birth and Life of Judas (extract from Legenda Aurea) -- Visio Rodulfi -- De Stephano monacho cartusiensi -- Revelations
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