Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 379: Robert Talbot, Notebook
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 379 is one of the notebooks of Robert Talbot (1505/61558), an antiquarian best remembered for his interest in Anglo-Saxon texts. It contains notes and excerpts from texts in Latin, Greek and Old English from both manuscripts and early printed books as well as runic inscriptions. This notebook has attracted attention both as an artefact of sixteenth-century efforts to learn Old English, and due to the transcription of a large portion of the preface to Genesis by Ælfric of Eynsham (d. 1010) from the now lost first folio of BL Cotton Claudius B.IV. Much of the material in this notebook relates to Talbot's interest in topographical nomenclature, such as his extensive notes on the British section of the Itinerarii Antonini. The Latin version of Oppian's Halieutica with a brief biographical note on the author on ff. 2r-7v appears to be a translation of the Greek version published in the early sixteenth century.
- Contents
- Latin translation of a brief biographical note on Opianus and Opianus's Halieutica -- The Latin and Anglo-Saxon alphabet -- Excerpts from Ælfric's preface to Genesis and an Old-English word list -- Epitaph of Nicholas Hawkins -- Letter of Gregory Nazianzen to Procopius -- Sententia de amicitia -- Itinerarium Antonini -- Notes on the Itinerarium Antonini
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xvi
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wp600qc6851/MS_379.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vq804nr4856/379.pdf
- Contains
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- Latin translation of a brief biographical note on Opianus and Opianus's Halieutica. 2r-8v
- Nasmith
- Opianus poeta Graecus de venatione piscium, cum vita autoris. 2r-8v
- Author
- Opianus
- Rubric
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(2r) Opianus poeta grecus de venatione piscium ad verbum de verbo traductus
(2r) Primum vita authoris - Incipit
- (2r) Opianus poeta patrem quidem habebat Agesilaum
- Explicit
- (4r) de phoca testudine delphino Item de testaceis, etc.
- Rubric
- (4r) Oppiani de Venatione piscium liber primus incipit
- Incipit
- (4r) Gentes maris incolas et late disseminatas piscium turmas
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (7v) grata facias imperatori imperatoris et patri et filio
- Note
- (7v) Accounts connected with a serving-man Thomas
- The Latin and Anglo-Saxon alphabet. 9r-9v
- Nasmith
- Alphabeticum Anglicum ordine Latino. 9r-9v
- Rubric
- (9r) Alphabetum Anglicum ordine Latino nam apud anglos ordo diuersus est ut l(?) prima litera sit
- Note
- f. 9v blank
- Excerpts from Ælfric's preface to Genesis and an Old-English word list. 10r-13v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Elfrici prefixa versioni Saxonicae libri Genesis. 10r-13v
- Author
- Ælfric
- Rubric
- (10r) Incipit prefatio genesis anglice
- Incipit
- (10r) Alfric munuc gret aðelƿeard ealdorman
- Explicit
- (12v) of ledene englisc aƿendan
- Note
- (13r) Notes on A.-S. Genesis xxxvii
- Epitaph of Nicholas Hawkins. 14r-14v
- Nasmith
- Epitaphium D. Nicolai Hanchini serenissimi Anglorum regis oratoris apud invictissimum Caesarem Carolum V. 14r-14v
- Author
- Nicholas Hawkins
- Rubric
- (14r) Epitaphium D. Nicolai Hanchini, etc.
- Incipit
- (14r) Missus ad occiduos Regis legatus hiberos
- Explicit
- (14v) Obiit 6 Januarii A. d. 1534
- Letter of Gregory Nazianzen to Procopius. 15r-15v
- Nasmith
- ΠροκοπιωΝαζιανζηνος. 15r-15v
- Author
- Gregory Nazianzen
- Rubric
- (15r) Προκοπίῳ Ναζιανζηνος
- Incipit
- (15r) έ̓χω μ̀εν όὑτως εἰ δει̑ τά̓ληθ̀ες γράφειν
- Explicit
- (15v) ἀντ' ά̓λλης εὐεργεσίας τ̀ην ἀναχ́ωρησιν
- Sententia de amicitia. 16r-17v
- Nasmith
- Sententia de amicitia. 16r-17v
- Note
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Notes in Latin mostly on Friendship
On f. 17v inter alia ij Wyfes and one howseij cattes and one Mowseij dogges and one bonecan neuer agree alle yn oone
ff. 18r-18v blank
- Itinerarium Antonini. 19r-23v
- Nasmith
- Itinera Britanniae ex Antonino. 19r-23v
- Note
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(19r) In a neat hand. The text of the Iter
f. 23r pasted over with blank paper has some writing on it
On f. 23v is writing - Incipit
- (23v) itinera hic sunt in britannia numero 15
- Note
- Ending
- Explicit
- (23v) fortassis erat ITINER quod corrigere volens sciolus quispiam fecit ITER
- Robert Talbot, Notes on the Itinerarium Antonini. 24r-66v
- Nasmith
- Annotationes in eam partem itinerarii quae ad Britanniam pertinet. 24r-66v
- Author
- Robert Talbot
- Note
- Headed
- Rubric
- (24r) Manus Roberti Talbot clerici
- Note
- Textus
- Incipit
- (24r) Iter Britaniarum a Gessoria de Galliis, etc. Gessoria pro gessoriaco scribitur raptorio seu breuario scribendi modo
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (66v) circa Rutland quae regioni illi primitus nomen dederit, aut circa rateford in notynghamshyre
- Note
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(One paragraph more exists in some copies and in the printed edition)
See also MS 101. 16
Printed in Hearne, Leland's Itin. III 144
- Latin translation of a brief biographical note on Opianus and Opianus's Halieutica. 2r-8v
- TJames
- 333
- Stanley
- 12. 4
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/fp556xm4433
- MS 379
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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