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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 408: John Capgrave OESA, De illustribus Henricis

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 408: John Capgrave OESA, De illustribus Henricis

Description

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.

Abstract/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

Bibliographic information

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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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