Description
Alternative title
Basilius. Bestiary. Chronica
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 4 + 191
Date created
[ca. 1275 - 1299]
Language
Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Material
Vellum
Layout
28 lines to a page
Height (mm)
154
Width (mm)
112
Collation
a(4), 1(8) 2(8) 3(12)-16(12) (7 canc.) 17(8).
Writing
well written
Foliation
ff. a-b + i-iv + 1-191 + c-d
Additions
On f. ir (faint), a xvth cent. list of contents. On ff. iv-ivr are notes in a good hand of cent. xiii-xiv. On ff. iiv-iiir Extracts from the Testaments of Dan, Joseph, Aser, Zabulon. On f. iiiv: Dixit autem Ieremias hec dicit dominus. Ego iuraui in nomine meo magno quod omnes uiri iuda qui sunt in terra egipti gladio et fame peribunt. donec penitus consumantur. Et insurrexit populus aduersus Jeremiam et lapidauerunt eum. Hic est ieremias qui regibus egipti signum dedit quod eorum idola euerti oporteret cum uirgo pareret. Legitur enim quod saluator noster in egiptum descendit cum herodes querebat animam illius. Quo intrante omnia idola egipti collisa corruerunt in terram. Dixit itaque presentibus. Dominus ex syon recessit ad celos inde rursus in uirtute uenturus. Erit signum presencie eius quando uniuerse gentes adorauerint lignum. Extracts from Testaments of Simeon, Levi, Juda. On f. ivv in a pretty hand: Semen feniculi xi habet uirtutes. Fugat demones ... Deponit uentositatem. Lower down is an erasure. Another at top of f. 1r.
2 fo.
accipit
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- 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.
- 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
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