Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 469: Basil of Caesarea, Admonitio ad filium spiritualem. Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (extract). Chronicles

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 469: Basil of Caesarea, Admonitio ad filium spiritualem. Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (extract). Chronicles
Alternate Title:
Basilius. Bestiary. Chronica
Language:
Latin and French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Extent:
ff. 4 + 191
Dimensions:
154 Height (mm) and 112 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1275 - 1299]
Table of contents:
  • Admonitio ad filium spiritualem
  • Etymologiae (excerpt from book 12, chapters 4-7)
  • Proverbs and other edifying words
  • Tract on the Roman Emperors
  • Brut (to King Edgar)
  • Chronicle of English kings from Egbert to Edgar
Description:
CCCC MS 469 is a late thirteenth-century manuscript containing miscellaneous texts with later additions and notes down to the fifteenth century, containing what was probably a monastic commonplace book compiled as an introduction or guide to matters spiritual and temporal. Thus it includes the pseudonymous work attributed to Basil of Caesarea (c. 330-379), Admonitio ad filium spiritualem, excerpts from book 12 (De animalibus) of Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Etymologiae, a collection of proverbs, a French prose Brut from Egbert to Edgar, extracts from the writings of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), and a list of English kings from William I to Henry V. Doubtless it was the historical material which primarily interested Parker, though how and from where he acquired this manuscript is unknown.
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