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Alternative title

Joh. Capgrave de illustribus Henricis

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 2 + 70

Date created

[ca. 1400 - 1499]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

28 lines to a page

Height (mm)

213

Width (mm)

150

Collation

a(2), 1(8)-6(8) (8 canc.) 7(8)-9(8) (8 canc.).

Writing

very clearly written

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-ii + pp. 1-140 + ff. c-d

Provenance

Very possibly from Bury. On f. ir is an old press-mark C. 4 which would suit the Bury Library, but is more roughly done than usual.

Additions

f. iiv has Parkerian table of contents.

Summary

CCCC MS 408 contains a copy of John Capgrave OESA(1393–1464), De illustribus Henricis, a historical collection established around the theme of illustrious men named Henry. It is thought that this manuscript represents Capgrave's autograph version, intended for copying by scribes at the Austin friars' convent at King's Lynn, and was almost certainly written in 1446-7, since it records Henry VI's visit to King's Lynn in 1446 but not the death of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, in the following year. On the basis of the press mark, it has been stated that the manuscript was once at the Benedictine abbey at Bury St Edmunds, although this has been disputed. It has also been argued that this manuscript was once in the collection of the historian, John Bale (1495-1563).

Contents

De illustribus Henricis

M.R. James Date

xv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pp224cy6386/MS_408.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nz675ry9998/408.pdf

Contains

• John Capgrave OESA, De illustribus Henricis. 1-139

  Nasmith

  Liber Ioannis Capgrave de multis Henricis clarissimis ad Henricum VI. regem Angliae. 1-139

  James

  Joh. Capgrave de illustribus Henricis. 1-139

  Author

  John Capgrave OESA

  Note

  Prima pars complectitur vitas Henrici I. Henrici II. Henrici III. Henrici IV. Henrici V. Henrici VI. (imperatorum Allemaniae)
  In secunda parte continentur vitae Henrici I. Henrici II. Henrici III. Henrici IV. Henrici V. Henrici VI. (regum Angliae)
  In tertia parte habentur vitae Henrici regis Dacorum. Henrici regis Franciae. Henrici filii Ricardi imperatoris. Henrici comitis Campaniae. Henrici fratris Ludovici. Henrici ducis Lancastriae. Henrici Bown comitis Hertfordiae. Henrici de Bello-Monte. Henrici le Spenser episcopi Norwicensis. Henrici Huntindunensis. Henrici de Gandauo. Henrici doctoris Paris

  Incipit

  (1) Henrico dei gratia regi anglie et francie

  Note

  (1) ... frater iohannes ( capgrave added later above line in what is said to be Bale's hand Hingeston points out that the book once belonged to Bale) doctor minimus, etc.
  Ends

  Explicit

  (139) et in puritate corporis et anime decedat. ad laudem domini nostri Ihesu Christi qui cum deo patre et spiritu sancto viuit et regnat in secula seculorum. amen

  Rubric

  (139) ffeliciter per Capgrave

  Note

  This is one of two extant copies of the book, the other being Tiberius A. VIII. This one is the autograph of the author. The book was edited by F. C. Hingeston in 1858 for the Rolls Series. He gives a full account of it on pp. li-liii of his introduction

TJames

296

Stanley

V. 1

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 408

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