Description
Alternative title
T. Livius Foroliviensis. Aldhelmus
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 3 + 71 + 57 + 1
Date created
[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language
Latin, English, Old (ca. 450-1100), Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material
Vellum
Layout
29 and 27 lines to a page
Height (mm)
259
Width (mm)
173
Collation
Volume I: a(4) (wants 1) 1(8)-8(8) 9(6) 10 (one). 3 + 71. Volume II: A(6) B(8) C(8) (+ slip) D(8)-G(8) H (two), 1 flyleaf. 57 + 1.
Writing
in Italian-like minuscule
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-132 + iii-iv
Additions
On f. 1r covered with paper are some scribbles. On f. 1v in red: Hoc tuus exiguo te munere donat amator / Nemo carens magnis tradere magna potest. ff. 2r-3v blank.
2 fo.
Spes erat
Piscibus
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- 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.
- Contents
- Vita Henrici V regis Angliae -- De laudibus uirginitatis
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