Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 213: Jean Galopes, Le livre doré de la vie de nostre seigneur Jesu Crist
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- Title:
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 213: Jean Galopes, Le livre doré de la vie de nostre seigneur Jesu Crist
- Alternate Title:
- Jean de Galopes. Bonaventure
- Language:
- French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) and English
- Extent:
- ff. 161 + 1
- Dimensions:
- 263 Height (mm) and 197 Width (mm)
- Approximate Date:
- [ca. 1400 - 1425]
- Provenance:
- On the flyleaf (f. iv) a partially erased inscription doubtless importing that the book belonged to Henry V. The first part cannot be recovered wholly: what remains I read thus: .. livre fu au. henry le grant (or prince?) deu par sa grace ait mercy de son ame. Amen.
- Table of contents:
- Le livre doré de la vie de nostre seigneur Jesu Crist
- Description:
- CCCC MS 213 is a copy of Jean Galopes, Le livre doré de la vie de nostre seigneur Jesu Crist, made for presentation to Henry V probably c. 1420, which is depicted in a miniature at the beginning of the book. The dating of the book is after 1419 when Rouen surrendered to the English and Normandy came under the custody of the uncle of Henry V, Thomas Beaufort, duke of Exeter, who together with the king is mentioned in the presentation inscription. The text is a translation into French by Jean Galopes of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes uitae Christi, an expanded version of the Gospel account of the life of Christ, whose Latin text has been attributed to John de Caulibus OFM. Jean Galopes was dean of the collegiate church of St Louis de Saulsoye in the diocese of Evreux in Normandy.