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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 464: John Grandisson, Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis, Miracula Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 464: John Grandisson, Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis, Miracula Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis

Description

Alternative title
Ioh. de Grandison. Vita S. Thomae
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 4 + 149
Date created
[ca. 1475-1499]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
20 lines to a page: wide margin
Height (mm)
175
Width (mm)
125
Collation
a(4), 1(8)-4(8) 5(10) 6(10) (9 canc.) 7(10) (8 canc.) 8(10) 9(8) (wants 1) 10(8)-15(8) 16(10) (7 canc.) 17(8)-18(8) (wants 8).
Writing
clearly written
Foliation
ff. a-b + i-iv + 1-149 + c-d
Additions
ff. 1r-10v blank. On f. 1r at top scribbled (xvi) ... de sneyd (?).
2 fo.
iuerit

Abstract/Contents

Summary
CCCC MS 464 is a fifteenth-century copy of the Life and Miracles of St Thomas Becket by John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter (d. 1369). On the grounds of its decoration it has been dated to the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It may once have been at Lincoln Cathedral: Ker linked the partially legible inscription "de sneyd" with the Lincoln prebendary Ralph Sneyd who removed books thence.
Contents
Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis -- Miracula sancti Thomae Cantuariensis

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xv, rather late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gj424gn7073/MS_464.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pn981cr2665/464.pdf
Contains
  • John Grandisson, Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis. 1r-70v
    Nasmith
    Vita beati Thomae martyris compendiose et historice a Iohanne de Grandissono collecta. 1r-70v
    Author
    John Grandisson
    Rubric
    (1r) Prologus vite beati Thome martiris compendiose et historice tantum a Ihoanne de Grandissono Exoniensi collecte
    Incipit
    (1r) Archipresulis necnon et archimartiris Anglorum
    Note
    (1v) Capitula
    Rubric
    (10r) Incipit primum capitulum prime partis
    Incipit
    (10r) Benedictionibus diuine dulcedinis preuentus
    Note
    Part IV ends
    Explicit
    (68v) festumque eius solempniter celebrandum ad laudem et gloriam domini nostri Ihesu Christi qui cum patre et spiritu sancto viuit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen
    Rubric
    (68v) Explicit Vita gloriosissimi Martiris sancti Thome Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi
    Note
    ff. 69r-70v blank
    See MS 177. 20, MS 275. 17, MS 467
  • John Grandisson, Miracula sancti Thomae Cantuariensis. 71r-146r
    Nasmith
    Idem de miraculis B. Thomae. 71r-146r
    James
    Miracula sancti Thomae. 71r-146r
    Author
    John Grandisson
    Note
    (71r) beginning imperfectly
    Incipit
    (71r) Quasi qui operi sequenti sompnia pro fundamento substernam, etc. ... dicendi sumatur exordium
    Rubric
    (71r) Incipit liber
    Incipit
    (71r) Aspiciebam in visu noctis martirii eius
    Note
    (144v) The last is of Ralph fitz Bernard and Bernard filius Rachinaldi ending
    Explicit
    (146r) Uestrum est martiri famulancium laudum preconia
    Rubric
    (146r) Prosequi
    Note
    ff. 146v-150r blank
TJames
259
Stanley
Q. 4
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 464

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