Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 426: Coluccio Salutati, De fato et fortuna. Roger Bacon OFM, Opus maius (extract). Bede the Venerable, De locis sanctis. Mandeville's Travels (extract)

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 426: Coluccio Salutati, De fato et fortuna. Roger Bacon OFM, Opus maius (extract). Bede the Venerable, De locis sanctis. Mandeville's Travels (extract)

Alternate Title:

Colucius Pierius de fato. Bacon, Beda, Joh. Mandeville

Language:

Latin

Extent:

ff. 2 + 83 + 75 + 1

Dimensions:

199 Height (mm) and 136 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1375 - 1499]

Table of contents:

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• De fato et fortuna
• Opus maius (extract from part 4)
• De locis sanctis
• The travels of Sir John Mandeville (extract)
• Extract from a description of the Holy Land

Description:

CCCC MS 426 is formed from two manuscripts. The first, of the fifteenth century, is a copy of De fato et fortuna by Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406). The second volume, dating from c. 1475, is made up of extracts containing descriptions of the Holy Land from Opus maius (pt. iv, sec. 5: Geographia) by Roger Bacon (c. 1214-c. 1292), The travels of Sir John Mandeville (possibly by Jean le Long, d. 1388) and a third, unidentified text as well as a copy of Bede's De locis sanctis. The tracts by Bede and Roger Bacon are both incomplete, lacking their final sections. At the end of Mandeville's Travels there is a full-page map of the Holy Land.