Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 285: Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici V regis Angliae. Aldhelm, De laudibus uirginitatis

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 285: Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici V regis Angliae. Aldhelm, De laudibus uirginitatis

Alternate Title:

T. Livius Foroliviensis. Aldhelmus

Language:

Latin, English, Old (ca. 450-1100), and Greek, Modern (1453- )

Extent:

ff. 3 + 71 + 57 + 1

Dimensions:

259 Height (mm) and 173 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1400 - 1499]

Table of contents:

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• Vita Henrici V regis Angliae
• De laudibus uirginitatis

Description:

CCCC MS 285 contains the holograph copy of the Vita Henrici V regis Angliae of Tito Livio Frulovisi (d. after 1456), a biography of the Lancastrian king that, it has recently been argued, was a reworking of the pseudo-Elmham's Vita et Gesta Henrici Quinti. Written while Frulovisi was in England in the later 1430s, perhaps 1436-8, the manuscript was once in the possession of Henry VI, though how it came to be in Parker's possession is not known. It was presumably Parker who bound this fifteenth-century humanist text together, somewhat incongruously, with a tenth- or early eleventh-century copy of De laudibus uirginitatis (De virginitate) by Aldhelm (d. 709) to which have been added glosses in a hand identified with a Worcester Cathedral scribe.