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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

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

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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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