Description
Alternative title
Gir. Cambrensis Vita Gaufridi
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 1 + 35
Date created
[ca. 1175-1225]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 26 lines
Height (mm)
226
Width (mm)
139
Collation
1 flyleaf, 1 (three) 2(8)-5(8) (or six with two smaller leaves added in the middle).
Writing
in a clear good upright hand
Foliation
f. i + pp. 1-38 + 38a + 39a + 39-70 + f. c
Research
This is the only known MS. of the text, which was last printed by J. S. Brewer, Giraldus Cambrensis Rolls, Vol. IV, pp. 357-431.
Additions
The flyleaf (f. ir) has Parkerian notes and a title of cent. xv: In hoc vol. continetur vita Gaufridi eboracensis archiepiscopi
2 fo.
nes et rote
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 390 is the kind of manuscript that always interested Parker. It contains the late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century unique copy of De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi by Gerald of Wales (1146-1226). As such, it surely appealed to Parker's interest both in the oldest manuscripts and in those dealing with history in general, and ecclesiastical history in particular. The later medieval provenance of this manuscript is evinced by a fifteenth-century contents list written by 'Morganus canonicus de Kermerden', whose name and hand appear in a number of manuscripts known to have been in the library of the Augustinian priory of the Blessed Virgin and St John the Baptist at Lanthony secunda, Gloucestershire.
- Contents
- De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi Eboracensis
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