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Alternative title

Diodorus Siculus translated by Skelton. Sermon

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 2 + 261 + 1 + 13

250 ff. written

Date created

[ca. 1300 - 1525]

Language

English, Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)

Material

Paper and vellum

Vellum

Layout

two volumes

Height (mm)

272

Width (mm)

191

Writing

in a rather rough clear hand

Foliation

ff. aa (front board) + a + i-iii + 1-282 + b

Provenance

At bottom of f. 1r: Iste liber constat Robar peid (or pew).

Additions

Flyleaves from a Concordance of cent. xiii, in triple columns.

Summary

CCCC MS 357 contains two distinct volumes. The first is a unique late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century copy of the translation into English by John Skelton (c. 1460-1529) of the Latin translation by Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459) of the first five books of the Bibliotheca historica by Diodorus Siculus (fl. 60-30 B.C.). The second is a late fourteenth-century text of the sermon of Thomas Wimbledon (d. after 1388), Redde racionem villacionis tue, preached at St Paul's Cross in 1387 or 1388. The name 'Robert Pen' inscribed in the manuscript probably refers to a Gentleman of the Royal Chapel under Henry VII and Henry VIII.

Contents

Bibliothecae historicae libri VI, transl. by John Skelton -- Redde racionem villicacionis

M.R. James Date

xv-xvi early and xiv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:xs073dd5326/MS_357.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mr161vk1553/357.pdf

Contains

• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliothecae historicae libri VI, transl. by John Skelton. 1r-270r

  James

  Diodorus Siculus translated by Skelton. 1r-270r

  Author

  Diodorus Siculus

  Rubric

  (1r) Interpretatio skeltoni poetae Laureati

  Incipit

  (1r) Most reverent holy fader ther ne hath be wryter of maters in tyme of seasons passid

  Explicit

  (2v) lete diodorus hymself haue the langage

  Rubric

  (2v) Thus endeth the prohemye of Poggius
  (3r) Diodori siculi historiarum Priscarum a Poggio ref.

  Note

  Capitula
  The Prohemy of Diodorus thauctour

  Incipit

  (3r) Men ar hyghly bounde of a congruence

  Note

  There is a dislocation of the text on f. 243v sqq.: a modern note on aa says: From the middle after 3rd line on L. hand page (243v) the translation passes to the R. hand page. The remainder of the L. page comes in after the mark # five pages further on
  Ends imperfectly in liber v, f. 249v (on Hercules)

  Explicit

  (256v) The peple shold bee rewlyd and gouernyd to the prosperous wele in comyn

  Note

  A Latin note on 250r: Hec charta de industria vacua relicta est ut occasio daretur Juueni in liberis exercitato aggrediendi translationem etc.
  ff. 251r-261v blank. Vellum flyleaf and one blank paper leaf follow
  An edition for the E. E. T. S. is in contemplation

• Thomas Wimbledon, Redde racionem villicacionis. 270v-282v

  James

  Sermon. 270v-282v

  Author

  Thomas Wimbledon

  Rubric

  (270r) Redde racionem villicacionis tue Luce sexto decimo

  Incipit

  (270r) My dere ferendis ȝe shullen vnderstonde þt crist Ihesus auctour and doctour of trwþe

  Note

  Part II begins f. 7v
  ending

  Explicit

  (282v) þt þey haue in syȝt of god. cui sit honor et gloria in secula seculorum amen

  Note

  Usually attributed to W. Wimbledon

TJames

318

Stanley

vac.

Location

https://purl.stanford.edu/dd998pq6752

MS 357

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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