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Alternative title

Herberti de Bosham Epistolae. Rob. Grosseteste Epistolae

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 64

ff. 68

Date created

[ca. 1300 - 1399]

Language

Latin

Material

Paper

Layout

Double columns of 31 lines

Height (mm)

312

Width (mm)

215

Collation

Volume I: i(2) || e(8)-m(8) (wants 4, 5) | gap | first and last leaves of another quire: quire a-d gone. Volume II: 1(12) (wants 1) 2(12) 3(14) 4(12)-6(12) (wants 2-6, 12).

Writing

in a large clear black hand

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-132 + iii-v + c-d

Material

Vellum

Summary

CCCC MS 123 is the unique collection of the Epistolae of Herbert of Bosham (d. c. 1194), Thomas Becket's secretary and author of a version of the Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis. The Epistolae gathered here do not represent the complete version of the letters as originally conceived, since both the early and later quires have suffered losses. The manuscript was copied in second half of the fourteenth century, though its long-presumed provenance from the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, has been disputed by Neil Ker.

Contents

Epistolae -- Epistolae

M.R. James Date

xiv?

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rm623nt6817/MS_123.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pc195sp7495/123.pdf

Contains

• Herbert of Bosham, Epistolae. 1r-64v

  Author

  Herbert of Bosham

  Note

  Ep. 1 begins imperfectly
  (1r) (dis)crecio tua serenissime consul. Detracto igitur huic epistole
  Ep. 46.

  Rubric

  (61r) Hernulfi Lexoviensis Ep. ad Thomam

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (62v) que mutua simul inuicem ratione connexe

  Note

  (P. L. CCI, col. 59)
  ff. 63r-64v contain portions of letters which I do not find printed
  f. 63r begins
  (63r) fieri in seculo. cur te subtrahis ab hominibus seculi. dicas uolumus. Tu cum homo sis an sis de celo an sis de mundo an de inferno
  On f. 63v (the writer complains of being at Court)
  (63v) puto si flactus (Flaccus) aduiueret apologum suum de urbano et rusticano mure michi adaptaret... Esopus eciam de sua cornice garriret etc.
  ends
  (63v) Tu ergo bone ihesu qui tres mortuos le...
  f. 64r begins
  (64r) ab omnibus celebratus est in abscondito iam in celebri est ignominiosus iste contractus et scelestum commercium
  Col. 2
  (64r) uulgi genus quod tota die deridendo clamare non cessat. Ecce hic christus, ecce ibi, crucifixus eboracensis cantuariensi preualuit. sic cotidie contendunt et litigant
  f. 64v, col. 2
  (64v) aduerto quod epistolici caracteris iam excesserim modum
  Ends
  (64v) nam absque fortitudine omnes de quibus propheta dicit Dederunt preciosa queque pro cibo ad refocillandam ...

• Robert Grosseteste, Epistolae. 65r-131r

  Author

  Robert Grosseteste

  Note

  Quires 4, 5 (ff. 38r-61v) contain letters 4-42
  Quires 1, 2 contain letters 74 (end)-130
  (88v) Ep. 130 ends on 24v
  Then follows the letter (Ep. 127, Luard)

  Incipit

  (89r) Moyses qui tradente domino susceperat gubernaculum

  Explicit

  (101v) omnium supremo in ipsa superiori potestate obeditur

  Note

  (101v) Scripta sunt hec in crastino sancte lucie a. d. 1456, deo gracias
  See also MS 257. 4, MS 453. 2.
  On ff. 62r-63v in double columns is a list of the Epistles (1-121)
  1. Deus est prima forma et forma omnium
  2. Quando paulisper a peregrinando supersedebat, etc.
  Then follow Epp. 1 (1 Luard), 3 Luard, 16 Luard

TJames

387

Stanley

Misc. 22

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 123

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