Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 453: Robert Grosseteste, Epistolae (1-126), De cura pastorali (epistola 127)

Description

Alternative title
Rob. Grosseteste Epistolae
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 197
Date created
[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
30 lines to a page
Height (mm)
173
Width (mm)
122
Collation
1(12)-15(12) (12 canc.) 16(12) 17(6).
Writing
in a rather current hand
Foliation
ff. i-iii + pp. 1-56 (57-58 missing) + 59-396 + ff. iv-v
Research
This is the principal MS. used by Luard for his edition. It contains Epistolae 1-127 in that edition (see his Introduction, p. xcvi)
2 fo.
speciosus. ipse est

Abstract/Contents

Summary
CCCC MS 453 contains the Epistolae of Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), bishop of Lincoln 1235-53, copied c. 1430. The letters are an invaluable source for the sometimes brutal ecclesiastical politics of the first half of the thirteenth century and the relationship between the papacy, national churches and the monarchy. It was surely this that made the codex of such interest to Parker, for whom such issues were very far from being mere historical curiosities. This manuscript served as the basis for what remains the only standard edition of Grosseteste's letters, that published for the Rolls Series by Luard in 1861.
Contents
Epistolae (1-126) -- De cura pastorali (epistola 127)

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vh500fd1196/MS_453.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cq567bb0675/453.pdf
Contains
  • Robert Grosseteste, Epistolae (1-126). 1-330
    Nasmith
    Epistolae Roberti Grostest episcopi Lincoln. 1-330
    Author
    Robert Grosseteste
    Note
    (1) A very beautiful initial and partial border of characteristic English work: facsimile of this page in Luard's edition (Rolls Series)
    Letter 1
    Incipit
    (1) Dilecto sibi in Christo Magro Ade Rufo R. Grosseteste
  • Robert Grosseteste, De cura pastorali (epistola 127). 330-395
    Nasmith
    Tractatus ejusdem de cura pastorali. 330-395
    Author
    Robert Grosseteste
    Note
    Letter 127
    Incipit
    (330) Moyses qui tradente domino
    Explicit
    (395) in ipsa superiori potestate obeditur
    Rubric
    (395) Expliciunt Epistole domini Lincol(n)iensis secundum, etc.
    Note
    p. 396 is blank
TJames
227
Stanley
O. 27
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 453

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