Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 492: Catalogue of Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Volume 1

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 492: Catalogue of Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Volume 1

Alternate Title:

[Untitled]

Language:

English, Greek, Modern (1453- ), and Latin

Extent:

pp. 208

Dimensions:

197 Height (mm) and 157 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1700 - 1725]

Provenance:

Formerly Phillipps MSS. 7260 and 20958. Purchased at the Phillipps sale of 1898, lot 512. and I have little doubt that this is in the autograph of Dr Stanley, the compiler of the Catalogus Vetus.

Table of contents:

Catalogue of Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Volume 1

Description:

CCCC MS 492 is the second of two volumes of the autograph notes of William Stanley (1647-1731) for his Catalogue of the Parker Library manuscripts published in 1722, containing the descriptions of manuscripts in Stanley's classification (itself derived from the Parker Register CCCC MS 575) for the volumes A.1 through to G.5. Both this and it companion volume, CCCC MS 491, were purchased at the auction of the Thomas Phillipps collection in 1898, this volume being Phillipps MS 20958.