Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 282: Robert de Gretham, The Mirror

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 282: Robert de Gretham, The Mirror

Alternate Title:

The Mirror

Language:

English, Middle (1100-1500) and Latin

Extent:

ff. 1 + 139

Dimensions:

260 Height (mm) and 190 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1375 - 1399]

Table of contents:

The Mirror

Description:

The Mirror, contained in CCCC MS 282, is a collection of sermons, of which this manuscript is a copy of the late fourteenth century, produced in Middlesex. It contains sixty sermons on the Sunday gospel readings in a Middle English prose version of Robert de Gretham's Anglo-Norman verse Miroir (Evangiles des domnees), written in the middle of the thirteenth century. Robert was possibly an Augustinian canon.