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Alternative title

Vita S. Thomae

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 2 + 144 + 4

Date created

[ca. 1475-1499]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

25 lines to a page

Height (mm)

185

Width (mm)

119

Collation

a(2), 1(8)-16(8) 17(6) 18(10), b(4).

Writing

in a peculiar and pretty hand

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-144 + iii-vi + c

Provenance

On the last flyleaf (vir): Jacobus Tutyll.

2 fo.

tis nec studiosos

Summary

CCCC MS 446 is a fifteenth-century copy of the Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis by the Benedictine monk Elias of Evesham (fl. c. 1200), written in 1198-9. It is the recension of the text known as the 'second' version, although confusingly recent scholarship has suggested that the 'second' version is earlier than the 'first'. It was dedicated to Henry de Longchamp, abbot of Crowland. This manuscript has been dated to the second quarter of the fifteenth century on the grounds of its decoration. The 'Jacobus Tutyll' of the inscription on f. vi recto has not been identified, and the manuscript's provenance before it came into the hands of Parker is not known. Parker compared it with a manuscript owned by John Twyne (d. 1581) and made notes about the omissions in MS 446 at the end.

Contents

Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis, 'second' (earlier) version

M.R. James Date

xv late?

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jw077qd5037/MS_446.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yn175dx4525/446.pdf

Contains

• Elias of Evesham OSB, Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis, 'second' (earlier) version. 1r-143v

  Nasmith

  Vita S. Thomae archiepiscopi Cantuar. et martyris de plurium narratione collecta. 1r-143v

  Author

  Elias of Evesham OSB

  Note

  Haec vita, quas in aliis codicibus nominatur quadrilogus sive historia quadripartita, ab annotatore quodam imperito Stephano Cantuariensi attribuitur

  Rubric

  (1r) Uita Sancti Thome de plurium narracione collecta
  (1r) Incipit prologus in vita Sancti Thome Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis et martiris

  Note

  (1r) Handsome initial in gold and colour and partial border of feathery work

  Incipit

  (1r) Post summi fauoris dote uestitos preclaros pugiles

  Explicit

  (3r) omnibus inuideas liuide nemo tibi

  Note

  Robertson, Materials for the History of Archbishop Thomas Becket, IV 266. It is the so-called second quadrilogue by Elias (?) of Evesham
  Ends

  Explicit

  (143v) virtus et imperium est per infinita secula seculorum. Amen

  Rubric

  (143v) Explicit vita et passio beati thome martiris

  Note

  (Robertson, Materials for the History of Archbishop Thomas Becket, IV, p. 408)
  In a hand of cent. xvi
  (143v) omnino haec desunt que habentur in libro Willmi Twyne De gestis post martirium, etc. (a list of chapters)
  In another hand of cent. xvi early

  Incipit

  (144r) Inspecta huius operis compilatione in qua vicesimo scilicet primo capite circa finem inveni authorem regias consuetudines scribi in calce huius historie policiturum

TJames

75

Stanley

G. 12

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 446

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