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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 390: Gerald of Wales, De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi Eboracensis

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 390: Gerald of Wales, De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi Eboracensis

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

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xii late, xiii early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tv517js4813/MS_390.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wt362vc2815/390.pdf
Contains
  • Gerald of Wales, De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi Eboracensis. 1-70
    Author
    Gerald of Wales
    Rubric
    (1) Introitus primus
    Incipit
    (1) Uarias rerum humanarum uices
    Note
    Good initials, gold on blue edged with green, salmon pink within, and silver
    (3) Capitula. Two good initials of the same character
    Rubric
    (5) Introitus secundus
    (7) Incipit liber de promotionibus
    Note
    in blue
    (7) Initial of text, gold on blue, salmon pink within. Half-length of Geoffrey in mitre, green chasuble with pall, over blue, holding long cross and blessing. Edged with green
    (29) Liber II, decorative initial as before: another on p. 30
    A Parkerian copy of a marginal addition is added on a slip (p. 38a) opposite p. 38
    pp. 61-64 are of smaller size
    There are a good many marginal additions not uniformly noticed as such by Brewer, but incorporated into his text. They are in another, but not much later hand. The text ends
    Explicit
    (70) ad hoc perpetrandum tam horrendum
    Note
    Brewer, p. 426
    The remainder is to be found in the Symbolum Electorum of Giraldus of which the only complete copy is at Trinity College (R. 7. 11). From this Brewer has printed it
TJames
65
Stanley
G. 1
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 390

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