Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 366: Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae

Description

Alternative title
P. Blesensis Epistolae cxv
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 2 + 133
Date created
[ca. 1200 - 1299]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
28 and 32 lines to a page
Height (mm)
226
Width (mm)
152
Collation
a(2) 1(8)-16(8) 17(6) (wants 6).
Writing
in several good hands
Foliation
ff. i -viii + (1-2 missing) 3-75 (76-77 missing) + 78-135 (136 missing) + 137-140 + ix-xvi
Provenance
From Dover Priory: at bottom of f. 2r is: : : III : Epistole petri bles ... quia uniuersus iuda ... 143 ... 2. Ancient Libraries, p. 419, no. 133.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
This is a thirteenth-century manuscript containing the letters of Peter of Blois (d. 1212). Cohn identified CCCC MS 366 as one of the 'B' group manuscripts of Peter's letters. The manuscript is from the Benedictine priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Martin, at Dover, Kent, where it was included in a catalogue in 1389.
Contents
Epistolae

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xiii (cir. 1250?)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yj128qx8298/MS_366.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wz488ty1735/366.pdf
Contains
  • Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae. 3r-140v
    James
    P. BlesensisEpistolae cxv. 3r-140v
    Author
    Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath
    Note
    (3r) Table in a somewhat charter-like hand of cent. xiii
    Headed in red
    Rubric
    (3r) Hec sunt nomina Epistolarum. Hi sunt tituli
    Note
    Begins
    Incipit
    (3r) Rogatus a vobis
    Note
    (3r) i. Prefatio Epistolarum Magri Petri Blesensis
    Incipit
    (3r) Audiui et conturbatus
    Note
    (3r) ii. Quod modeste dolendum de mortuis
    Incipit
    (3r) Fletu singu(l)tuoso
    Note
    (3r) iii. Quod nobilis Ignobilem non contempnat
    Ends
    Incipit
    (4v) Sal infatuatum
    Note
    (4v) cxiiii. De inpetuosa et indiscreta prelati sententia
    Incipit
    (4v) Eam speramus
    Note
    (4v) cxv. Quod honesti consanguinei diligendi et promouendi
    The same hand writes many marginalia in the body of the book
    Text
    Rubric
    (5r) Epistole Magistri Petri blesensis Bathon. archidiaconi
    Incipit
    (5r) Henrico dei gratia illustrissimo anglorum regi etc.
    (5r) Rogatus a uobis
    Note
    Ends
    Explicit
    (140v) gratiam uendicat et fauorem
    Note
    Verses in another hand (xiv), rather faint
    a.
    Incipit
    (140v) Pene quibusque bonis fecundis rex reg ...Karole viue precor et plebis h .. tuere (?)Plebem custodi sed linguas quas nimis odiUrendas iure iurantum turpiter ure...
    Note
    18 lines, the last
    Explicit
    (140v) In ducis exitium vicium dux hocc cito mundet
    Note
    b.
    Incipit
    (140v) Ut sompnum fugias ac ocia que nimis odiPetri sepe legas librum blesensis egidi
    Note
    c.
    Incipit
    (140v) Francorum regi soldanus mandat ut ipsiMittat lombardos tres potibus et dape largosNec trutannos tres normannos tresque scientesEt domitos britones tot et anglos non cupientesSoldano regis respondet epistola quod visvel tu virEt petis inuenies cum de mare femina fies
TJames
312
Stanley
3. 14
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/vy908wk5791
MS 366
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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