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Alternative title

Bernardi Guidonis Quaedam. Roman de Lancelot

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 84 and 178

Date created

[ca. 1300 - 1399]

[ca. 1275 - 1299]

Language

Latin, English, French, Old (ca. 842-1400)

Material

Vellum

Layout

two volumes, in double columns

Height (mm)

335

Width (mm)

235

Collation

1(12) 2(12) 3(8)-5(8) 6(2) 7(10) 8(12) 9(12). || 1(8)-8(8) (+1) 9(8)-21(8) 22(4) (+1) 23(4).

Writing

two hands seem to be employed, of cent. xiv. They are French, perhaps South French

Foliation

ff. i-ii + 1-262 + iii

2 fo.

parma

Mais de ce est

Summary

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.

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)

M.R. James Date

xiv and perhaps xiii late

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dm597gd7777/MS_45.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vg588gt9600/45.pdf

Contains

• Bernard Gui OP, Flores chronicorum, De origine prima gentis Francorum. 1r-32v

  Author

  Bernard Gui OP

  Note

  (Bernardus Guido)

  Rubric

  (1r) De origine prima gentis francorum et eorum processu

  Incipit

  (1r) Franci origine fuere troiani

  Note

  Ends (on Philip VII)

  Explicit

  (29v) qui eum precesserat ad regnum dei

  Note

  ff. 30r-32v blank
  See Delisle, Notice sur les MSS. de Bernard Gui (Notices et Extraits xxvii 1879) § 94

• Bernard Gui OP, Flores chronicorum, Genealogia regum Francorum. 33r-48v

  James

  Eiusdem Genealogia Regum Francorum. 33r-48v

  Author

  Bernard Gui OP

  Rubric

  (33r) De origine prima Francorum

  Incipit

  (33r) Franci ex sua prima origine fuere troiani

  Note

  (Dated May 1331)
  On f. 33v the genealogical tree begins. At the top is an arcade surmounted by turrets (blue, yellow, green, brown) and under the two middle arches are figures of Turchotus and Franco admirably drawn and painted
  The tree is continued between the columns of text, and illustrated with medallions of kings and innumerable busts of queens, princes and saints on blue and brown-red grounds
  Ends 48r (Philip VII)

  Explicit

  (48r) viii die intrantis mensis aprilis incohato iam anno dominice incarnationis mo ccco xxxo

  Note

  The fifth and last edition. Delisle § 103
  48v blank

• Bernard Gui OP, Flores chronicorum, De genealogia comitum Tolosanorum. 49r-50v

  Author

  Bernard Gui OP

  Note

  [Eiusdem]

  Rubric

  (49r) Comites Tholosani

  Incipit

  (49r) Legitur in gestis et cronicis francorum

  Explicit

  (50v) illustris regis francie deuolutum

  Note

  Delisle § 117

• Bernard Gui OP, Flores chronicorum, Imperatores Romani. 51r-60v

  Author

  Bernard Gui OP

  Note

  [Eiusdem]

  Rubric

  (51r) Imperatores Romani

  Incipit

  (51r) Quoniam sanctorum martirum et confessorum

  Explicit

  (60v) et rediit in theotoniam

  Note

  Delisle § 82, 83

• Bernard Gui OP, De temporibus conciliorum. 61r-67v

  Author

  Bernard Gui OP

  Note

  [Idem]

  Rubric

  (61r) de tempore Celebrationis Consiliorum
  (61r) Incipit tractatus breuis de temporibus et annis generalium et particularium consiliorum

  Incipit

  (61r) De sacrosanctis synodis seu conciliis

  Note

  Ends (1315)

  Explicit

  (67v) que usque tunc steterant in suspenso

  Note

  Second edition. Delisle § 153

• Bernard Gui OP, De ordinatione officii missae. 68r-71v

  Author

  Bernard Gui OP

  Note

  [Idem]

  Rubric

  (68r) de ordinatione officii misse facta a domino Ihesu Christo et sanctis suis apostolis ac demum per summos romanos pontifices successiue

  Incipit

  (68r) Ihesus christus primus et summus pontifex

  Explicit

  (69v) in remissionem peccatorum

  Rubric

  (69v) Casus qui contingere possunt in celebrando missam

  Incipit

  (69v) Inter cetera uero que scire oportet

  Explicit

  (71v) de rasura tabule dictum est supra

  Rubric

  (71v) Explicit

  Note

  Delisle § 213

• Bernard Gui OP, Nomina discipulorum Christi. 72r-79v

  Author

  Bernard Gui OP

  Note

  [Eiusdem]

  Rubric

  (72r) Nomina apostolorum

  Incipit

  (72r) Nomina duodecim apostolorum

  Explicit

  (73r) cum barnaba assumpto tito

  Rubric

  (73r) Nomina discipulorum

  Incipit

  (73r) Designauit dominus et alios

  Note

  (79r) Ending with Mass for the lxx disciples, and a short list of them
  Delisle § 148

• Libellus breuis et utilis de articulis fidei et sacramentis ecclesiae. 80r-84v

  Rubric

  (80r) Libellus breuis et utilis de articulis fidei et sacramentis ecclesie et preceptis decalogi cum quibusdam aliis annexis in fine pro rectoribus et curatis ecclesiarum nostre lodouensis dyocesis ad erudiendum plebes sibi commissas

  Incipit

  (80r) Quoniam ut ait apostolus hebreos xio sine fide etc.

  Explicit

  (84v) alcius duximus conscribendum

  Note

  Delisle § 211
  On another Cambridge MS. of Bernard Gui (Trinity College R.4.23) see my Catalogue in loco
  (84v) A long erased inscription follows, beginning: Iste liber. It is too carefully erased to be successfully revived
  There is also on f. 84v a Parkerian note on the next volume

• pseudo-Map, Prose Lancelot (incomplete). 85r-262r

  Author

  pseudo-Map

  Note

  Prose
  Romance of Lancelot ascribed to Walter Map, incomplete

  Incipit

  (85r) En la marche de gaule et de la petite bretaigne auoit ancienement ii rois

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (262r) et coment il fu deliures de la karole ou il estoit mis

  Note

  Initials in red and green, plain. The text is the work of two scribes at least

TJames

18

Stanley

B. 6

Location

https://purl.stanford.edu/jj548nk9202

MS 045

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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