Description
Alternative title
Ioh. de Grandison. Vita S. Thomae
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 2 + 126
Date created
[ca. 1400 - 1425]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
12 lines to a page
Height (mm)
164
Width (mm)
113
Collation
a(2), 1(8)-11(8) 12(12) (11, 12 canc.) 13(8)-15(8) 16(4).
Writing
in a good upright hand, with handsome, rather rough, English decoration
Foliation
ff. a + i-ii + 1-126 + b
Provenance
On f. iv: Liber Roberti Hare ex dono Iohannis Swyfte auditoris. f. iir-iiv blank.
2 fo.
qualiter ab
testa
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 467 is a fifteenth-century copy of the Life of St Thomas Becket by John Grandisson (d. 1369), also found in CCCC MSS 275 and 464. It has some decorated initials. The manuscript has an inscription saying that it was given to Robert Hare (d. 1611) by John Swift, auditor (d. 1570). It had presumably passed into the hands of Matthew Parker before 1575. Hare was a recusant - he gave the famous manuscript by Thomas Elmham OSB (d. c. 1427) to Trinity Hall (MS 1) in Cambridge on condition that it was returned to St Augustine's Canterbury if it was ever rebuilt - and his antiquarian links with scholars such as Parker, Arthur Agarde, John Stow, etc, shed an interesting light on the friendly scholarly relations which could exist between Protestants and Roman Catholics at this time.
- Contents
- Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis
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