Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 414: Gervase of Tilbury, Otia imperialia. Julius Valerius, transl., Historia Alexandri magni. pseudo-Turpinus, Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi. 'Dares Phrygius', De excidio Troiae historia. Walter Map, Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum, Tractatus de ortu deorum, Historia de adventu Enee in Italiam, De primis habitatoribus Anglia. Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 414: Gervase of Tilbury, Otia imperialia. Julius Valerius, transl., Historia Alexandri magni. pseudo-Turpinus, Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi. 'Dares Phrygius', De excidio Troiae historia. Walter Map, Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum, Tractatus de ortu deorum, Historia de adventu Enee in Italiam, De primis habitatoribus Anglia. Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 414: Gervase of Tilbury, Otia imperialia. Julius Valerius, transl., Historia Alexandri magni. pseudo-Turpinus, Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi. 'Dares Phrygius', De excidio Troiae historia. Walter Map, Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum, Tractatus de ortu deorum, Historia de adventu Enee in Italiam, De primis habitatoribus Anglia. Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae
Alternate Title:
Gervasius Tilberiensis. Gesta Alexandri, etc.
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 3 + 282
Dimensions:
206 Height (mm) and 149 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1399]
Provenance:
The heading of no. 6 points to a Franciscan house, and the general aspect of the book suggests East Anglia.
Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum ne ducat uxorem (De nugis curialium, dist. 4, 3-5), with the Commentary of John Ridewall OFM
Tractatus de ortu deorum
Historia de adventu Enee in Italiam
De primis habitatoribus Anglia
Historia regum Britanniae
Description:
CCCC MS 414 is a classic example of a medieval miscellany of historical, romantic and spiritual texts. Copied in the fourteenth century, the single most substantial text in this volume is the Otia imperiala by Gervase of Tilbury (c. 1140 -1220), an encyclopaedia of history and geography. Other texts present include the Historia Alexandri magni, the Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi of pseudo-Turpin (fl. second quarter of twelfth century), the Historia regum Britanniae and Prophetia Ambrosii Merlini of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), accounts of the siege of Troy and of Aeneas' return to Italy, Walter Map (c. 1140-1210) Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum (also in CCCC MSS 107 and 177) with the commentary of John Ridewall OFM (d. after 1340), and a tract on the ancestry of Christ. James postulated an East Anglian provenance on the basis of the script and decoration, but this has never been confirmed. The manuscript contains a Parkerian guide to the contraction of words used by medieval scribes.