Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 491: Catalogue of Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Volume 2

purl.stanford.edu/mg233bg3829

Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 491: Catalogue of Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Volume 2

Alternate Title:

[Untitled]

Language:

Latin and English

Extent:

pp. 220

Dimensions:

182 Height (mm) and 155 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1700 - 1725]

Provenance:

Formerly Phillipps MSS. 7260 and 20958. Purchased at the Phillipps sale of 1898, lot 512. and I have little doubt that this is in the autograph of Dr Stanley, the compiler of the Catalogus Vetus.

Table of contents:

Catalogue of Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Volume 2

Description:

CCCC MS 491 is the first of two volumes of the autograph notes of William Stanley (1647-1731) for his Catalogue of the Parker Library manuscripts published in 1722. These contain the descriptions of manuscripts in Stanley's classification (itself derived from the Parker Register, CCCC MS 575) for the volumes G.6 through to the Liber ab aliis donati. Both this and its companion volume, CCCC MS 492, were purchased at the auction of the Thomas Phillipps collection in 1898, this volume being Phillipps MS 7260.