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Anglo-Norman at Waterford: the Mute Testimony of MS Cambridge Corpus Christi College 405

Title:

Anglo-Norman at Waterford: the Mute Testimony of MS Cambridge Corpus Christi College 405

Author:

Sinclair, K. V.

Location:

London

Notes:

CCCC MS 405 Discussion of the origins of the text of ’The Rule of the Order of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem’ as found in CCCC MS 405, where it is concluded that the text was produced in the south west of England especially for the Hospitaler commandery at Waterford, pp. 219-38 Identification of the text in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 3v-5v as Prophecies attributed to Merlin, noting that this is not the text of this name by Richard of Ireland but the one composed in the time of Edward I, pp. 223-4 Identification of the text in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 5v-6v as chapters xvi-xxii of De temporibus liber, attrib. to Bede, pp. 224-5 Identification of the tract in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 9v-10v as a collection of material including a copy of the apocryphal letter from Jesus responding to a request from Abgarus, King of Edessa for a cure for leprosy, pp. 227-8 Identifies the anonymous verse sermon in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 183v-196v as Deu le omnipotent, pp. 231, 5 Identifies the poem in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 196v-212r as Perot de Garbelei’s Divisiones Mundi. Notes that it is based on Honorius of Autun’s De Imagine Mundi and includes material quoted from an earlier versification of the text: Pierre de Beauvais’s Mappemonde, pp. 232, 235 Identifies the poem in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 212r-228r as Lucidaire by Gillebert de Cambres; a French version of Honorius of Autun’s Elucidarium, pp. 232-3, 235 Identifies the tract in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 158r-170v as Elie of Winchester’s adaptation of Cato’s Distichs, pp. 230, 236-7 Identifies the tract in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 228r-230v as an incomplete copy of Adam de Ross’s Vision of St Paul, pp. 233, 235-6 Identifies the tract in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 231r-247r as Livre des Moralit√嬩s, a text which draws heavily on Guillaume de Conches’s Moralium dogma philosophorum, pp. 233-4 Identifies the verses in CCCC MS 405 at 171r-183v (items 25 and 26) as Po√嬨me sur l’amour de Dieu et sur la haine du p√嬩ch√嬩, pp. 230-1, 235 Identifies the verses in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 157r - 158r as a ’Litany to the Saints’, separate from the ’Five Joys of the Virgin’ which precede it, pp. 229-30 Notes the account of Lunar risings in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 7r-7v, p. 226 Notes the Anglo-Norman text of the Rule of the of the Order of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 127r - 154v. See Sinclair, The Hospitallers’ "Riwle" (London, 1984), p. 228, n. 49 Notes the charm for ’lessening the effects of a lance wound’ in CCCC MS 405 at f. 7r, pp. 225-6 Notes the charm to protect corn from rodents in CCCC MS 405 at f. 7v, p. 226 Notes the list of kings in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 6v-7r, p. 225 Notes the tract on the interpretation of dreams in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 8v-8r, noting that it is the only copy of the tract, pp. 226-7 Notes the tract on unlucky days in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 7v-8r, p. 226 Notes the verses in CCCC MS 405 at ff. 155r - 157r are concerned with five of the Joys of the Virgin - the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension and the Assumption, pp. 228-9, 234-5

Editor:

Short, I.

Pages:

219–38

Book Title:

Medieval French Textual Studies in Memory of T. B. W. Reid

Reference Type:

Book section

Manuscript:

vv924dt3892