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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 446: Elias of Evesham OSB, Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 446: Elias of Evesham OSB, Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis

Description

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

Abstract/Contents

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

Bibliographic information

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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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