Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 045: Bernard Gui OP, Flores chronicorum and other texts. The pseudo-Map Prose Lancelot

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 045: Bernard Gui OP, Flores chronicorum and other texts. The pseudo-Map Prose Lancelot
Alternate Title:
Bernardi Guidonis Quaedam. Roman de Lancelot
Language:
Latin, English, and French, Old (ca. 842-1400)
Extent:
ff. 84 and 178
Dimensions:
335 Height (mm) and 235 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1399]; [ca. 1275 - 1299]
Table of contents:
  • Flores chronicorum, De origine prima gentis Francorum
  • Flores chronicorum, Genealogia regum Francorum
  • Flores chronicorum, De genealogia comitum Tolosanorum
  • Flores chronicorum, Imperatores Romani
  • De temporibus conciliorum
  • De ordinatione officii missae
  • Nomina discipulorum Christi
  • Libellus breuis et utilis de articulis fidei et sacramentis ecclesiae
  • Prose Lancelot (incomplete)
Description:
CCCC MS 45 contains two distinct volumes. The first volume was very probably copied in France in the mid-fourteenth century and features a number of pastoral and historical works by the Dominican inquisitor and scholar Bernard Gui OP (1261/2-1331) together with a handsomely illustrated genealogical table of the Frankish kings. The second volume is a copy of the prose version of the Roman de Lancelot that has been dated to c. 1250 and may have been produced in England. How this manuscript came into Parker's possession is unknown, but it seems likely that he was more interested in the illustrated historical material than in the Arthurian Lancelot story.
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