Description
Alternative title
Joh. Salisberiensis Policraticus et Metalogicon
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 1 + 22 + 240
Date created
[ca. 1100 - 1199]
[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 40 lines
Height (mm)
342
Width (mm)
247
Collation
1 flyleaf, | a(8) b(8) c(8) | I(8)-XXX(8).
Writing
very finely written
Foliation
ff. a-c + 1a-22a + i-ii + 1-238 + d-e
Provenance
From Christ Church, Canterbury. It is the copy owned by Thomas a Becket and very likely presented to him by his friend the author. Ancient Libraries of Canterbury , pp. 85, 158, 510. Apparently Parker acquired it from Dean Nicholas Wotton of Canterbury.
Research
The text of the Policraticus in this MS. has been now first used by Mr C. C. J. Webb of Magdalen College, Oxford, for his edition (Oxford, 1909).
Additions
On the flyleaf (f. cr) is: D. II. Gra X. Policraticus Johannis de saleberi Item metalogicon eiusdem (added xiii Sci Thome martiris).
Above (f. cr) (xiii): Die secunda.
On f. ir of text (xv): Policraticus Johanni Carnot., erased words follow.
Also (f. 1ar) xvi early: huius possessor Johannes Armoror pbssi(?).
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 46 contains copies of two works by John of Salisbury (c. 1120-1180), the Policraticus and the Metalogicon. The Corpus manuscript is sometimes described as the author's own copy that was presented by Salisbury to Archbishop Thomas Becket. Whether this was the case or not, it was certainly at the Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity, Christ Church, Canterbury in the later twelfth century and remained there until it came into Parker's possession. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century editors and commentators stressed the importance of the texts in this manuscript as early versions of John of Salisbury's work. A more recent editor, however, has described the texts preserved in CCCC MS 46 as 'corrupt'.
- Contents
- Table indexing John of Salisbury's Policraticus -- Policraticus -- Metalogicon
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