Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 233: Grammar Treatises etc

Description

Alternative title
Grammatica
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 182
Date created
[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language
Latin, English
Material
Paper
Layout
23, 21 etc. lines to a page
Height (mm)
212
Width (mm)
145
Collation
not practicable.
Writing
roughly written
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-107 + 107a + 108-182 + iii-iv
Additions
On many pages is written Constat hampshyre.
2 fo.
Ynfimis addatur

Abstract/Contents

Summary
CCCC MS 233 is a compendium of grammatical, didactic and devotional works copied in a cursive hand of the last quarter of the fifteenth century. Texts contained in the codex include Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille) (c. 1128-1202), Paruum doctrinale (Liber parabolarum), excerpts from the Doctrinale magnum of Alexander de Villa Dei (c. 1170-1240), a verse treatise on grammar and William de Montibus (d. 1213), Poeniteas cito. There are no clues as to how the manuscript, possibly a university student's commonplace book, came into Parker's possession.
Contents
Verse treatise on grammar -- Facetus -- Poeniteas cito -- Treatise on Grammar (Regimina) -- Treatise on preterites and supines -- Conjugations, wordlist (Latin and English) -- Doctrinale magnum (lines 499-693) with commentary -- Treatise on irregular declension of nouns -- Paruum doctrinale -- Ecloga -- Treatise on orthography -- Treatise on grammar -- Treatise on synonyms -- Treatise on prose -- Treatise on grammar (Latin and English), verses, fables

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mz640hv5027/MS_233.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:xt436zt2315/233.pdf
Contains
  • Verse treatise on grammar. 1r-10r
    Incipit
    (1r) Pro cognitate seruanda horum verborum que dicuntur verba neutra
    Note
    Many verses occur
    Ends
    Explicit
    (9v) Verbi gracia vestri gracia sicque locatur
    Rubric
    (9v) Explicit quot Hampshyre teste Howtyng et? Trew (?)
    Note
    Verses
    Incipit
    (10r) Artuculus claua bene sum [am well] et pluuia senex (Reynold?)Hii diuenes durus comederunt quatuor ancam
  • Facetus. 10v-16v
    James
    Liber Facetiae. 10v-16v
    Incipit
    (10v) (Cum) Nichil utilius humane credo salutiquam morum nouisse modos et moribus uti
    Note
    Notices et Extraits XXVII 2. 16
  • William de Montibus, Poeniteas cito. 17r-20r
    Author
    William de Montibus
    Note
    (J. de Garlandia)
    Incipit
    (17r) Peniteas cito peccator cum sit meserator
  • Treatise on Grammar (Regimina). 20v-34v
    James
    Regimina. 20v-34v
    Incipit
    (20v) Secundum auctorem Catholicon triplex est rectus
    Note
    Many verses
  • Treatise on preterites and supines. 35r-53r
    James
    Preterita et supina. 35r-53r
    Incipit
    (35r) Sequens verborum declinacio et quatuor sunt coniugaciones
  • Conjugations, wordlist (Latin and English). 53v-56r
    James
    List of verbs. 53v-56r
    Incipit
    (53v) Malo mauis lui lle lens
    Note
    (56r) List of words with English equivalents
  • Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale magnum (lines 499-693) with commentary. 56v-65v
    James
    Genera. 56v-65v
    Author
    Alexander de Villa Dei
    Incipit
    (56v) ? (au)tor libri magni doctrinalis genere nomine quolibet
  • Treatise on irregular declension of nouns. 66r-70v
    Incipit
    (68r) Nomina Ethroclita quatuor modis
    Rubric
    (70v) Expliciunt Ethroclita quod Hampshyre et T. Bowet et Brudenell et Howtyng et Trew. Bothe Lychefelde Gundys etc.
  • Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), Paruum doctrinale. 71r-85r
    James
    Alani de Insulis Proverbia. 71r-85r
    Author
    Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille)
    Rubric
    (71r) A Phebo phebe lumen capit a sapiente
    Note
    P. L. CCX 581
  • Theodulus, Ecloga. 85v-94r
    James
    Ecloga Theoduli. 85v-94r
    Author
    Theodulus
    Incipit
    (85v) Ethiopum teras
    Note
    Notes and lists of words
  • Treatise on orthography. 94v-95v
    Incipit
    (94v) Orthographia est prima pars
    Note
    A song
    Incipit
    (95v) Be merye be merye I pray þu euery chonA pryncypal poyntis of charyteIt is so mery for to be, etc.
  • Treatise on grammar. 96r-120v
    Incipit
    (96r) Quatuor sunt partes gramatice
  • Treatise on synonyms. 121r-151r
    James
    Synonyma. 121r-151r
    Note
    (attributed wrongly to J. de Garlandia)
    Incipit
    (121r) Ad mare ne uidear
  • Treatise on prose. 151v-163v
    Incipit
    (151v) Prosidia est secunda pars gramatice
    Note
    (163v) Notes and verses
  • Treatise on grammar (Latin and English), verses, fables. 164r-182v
    Incipit
    (164r) (F)ormula gramaticis hec copulata (compilata?) nouellis
    Note
    With English exposition of rules
    (170r) Verses on the decalogue, etc.
    Fables
    Rubric
    (171r) Rustica deflenti perro iurauerat olim
    Note
    (172r) Further grammatical matter
    The tracts at the end are fragmentary and confused
TJames
374
Stanley
Lib. ab Al. 43
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 233

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