Description
Alternative title
[Untitled]
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 117
Date created
[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500), French, Old (ca. 842-1400)
Material
Paper
Layout
25 lines to a page
Height (mm)
200
Width (mm)
142
Collation
quire gone | 1(12)-10(12) (wants 10-12).
Writing
in two clear hands
Foliation
ff. i + 1-117 + ii. Partially imaged: front cover exterior and interior + ff. 49r-53v + back exterior only
Provenance
In the cover (f. iv): Ex dono dignissimi viri Johannis Boothe Collegii Corp. Xti in Cant. dudum socii. John Booth was Fellow 1627-40. He bequeathed a printed book to the College and says Masters (Lamb, p. 175) at the same time a MS. of his own was presented, whose contents I could never learn. Probably this is the volume in question.
Additions
Old stamped binding over boards, clasps gone.
The covers are lined with portions of 2 leaves (f. ir-iv, f. iir-iiv) of a xivth cent. MS. in double columns in French prose, perhaps from a romance. The name Galelzout (Galehot) occurs several times.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- The sole text in CCCC MS 494, dating to the fifteenth century, is a unique translation in Middle English of La somme le roi, a treatise on religious instruction compiled for Philip III of France in 1279 by Laurent (or Lorens) d'Orléans OP. It was given to the College by John Booth, Fellow, 1627-40. The paste downs are fragments of a French romance, the prose Lancelot. The book retains its original medieval stamped binding. As a result of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the front cover, the exterior of the back cover, and part of the text pages, ff. 49r-53v.
- Contents
- La somme le roi, translated into English
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