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Alternative title

Andr. Horn Speculum Justiciariorum. Breton

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 1 + 52 + 131

Date created

[ca. 1300 - 1399]

Language

French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

48 and 35 lines to a page, two volumes

Height (mm)

275

Width (mm)

190

Collation

1 flyleaf, a(12)-d(12) e(4) || 1(12)-11(12) (wants 2).

Writing

in two charter hands

Foliation

ff. i-iii + 1-183 + iv-v

Additions

The flyleaf (f. iiir) is of cent. xii: on the recto in single lines: De puella mortua fide constricta que coniurato sibi clerico postmortem ap(paruit). Quoniam mi karissime Radulfe de anime utilitate crebro mecum colloqui et ex multis que nesciebam me quondam ... / consueueras. rem uere gestam quam (about two-third of the line erased) relatio ... / didici etc. In line 5: Clericus inquit sibi bene notus (erasure of three words; the 3rd is herefordie) ad se nuper aduenien etc.

The verso (f. iiiv) is headed X and is in two columns, the first rather cut. ... herodes explorare uoluit... miracula uidere concupiuit (evidently on John Baptist, he was a burning and a shining light etc.). Ends: quatinus et lector tanto feruentior ad legendi studium redeat quanto ex lectionis quoque incisione respirat. Expl. lib. decimus.

Summary

CCCC MS 258 is one of two manuscripts in the Parker Collection that was once bound in a single volume, the other being the material now contained in CCCC MS 70. Both manuscripts were the property of Andrew Horn (d. 1328), fishmonger and Chamberlain of London and were bequeathed by him to the Guild Hall in London, from where Parker acquired them. CCCC MS 258 now contains fourteenth-century copies of the anonymous law tracts Speculum justiciarorum and Breton. The Speculum is a unique survival in this manuscript and was much criticised by F. W. Maitland as, at best, a joke in poor taste, though recent attempts have been made to rehabilitate the text as an expression of late thirteenth-century anxiety about the direction of legal reform under Edward I, or possibly as a didactic text.

Contents

Speculum justiciarorum -- Breton

M.R. James Date

xiv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zy429qm2038/MS_258.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zn506hq9134/258.pdf

Contains

• Andrew Horn, Speculum justiciarorum. 1r-52v

  James

  Speculum Justiciariorum: the Mirror of Justices. 1r-52v

  Author

  Andrew Horn

  Note

  This is the unique copy edited (with Introduction by Professor Maitland) for the Selden Society by W. J. Whittaker, 1895
  There is a close connexion between this volume and MS 70. Both belonged to Andrew Horn. Among the MSS. burnt in Westminster Abbey Chapter Library in 1694 was a Summa Legum per Andream Horne (Cat. MSS. Angl. 11, no. 1298 (208))
  Ends f. 51v
  f. 52r-52v blank

• Breton. 53r-183r

  Note

  In a somewhat larger hand

  Rubric

  (53r) Incipit Breton

  Incipit

  (53r) Edward par la grace de dieu

  Note

  Liber V ends

  Explicit

  (182r) sanz jour iusques al retorn de celui

  Rubric

  (182r) Explicit liber qui dicitur Breton

  Note

  (erased)

  Rubric

  (182r) Icy comence les chapitres del primer liure de Breton

  Note

  (erased)
  f. 131v blank

TJames

vac.

Stanley

O. 19

Location

https://purl.stanford.edu/nr221yg5131

MS 258

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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