Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 080: Henry Lovelich, The History of the Holy Grail, Merlin.

Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 080: Henry Lovelich, The History of the Holy Grail, Merlin.

Alternate Title:

Louelich. The Graal. Merlin

Language:

English, Middle (1100-1500) and Latin

Extent:

ff. 200

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1400 - 1499]

Collection:

Parker Manuscripts

Table of contents:

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• The History of the Holy Grail
• Merlin

Description:

CCCC MS 80 contains Henry Lovelich's English versions of The History of the Holy Grail and Merlin written c. 1450-75. The Corpus manuscript is the unique copy of these texts, translated and versified from the French prose version. Lovelich was a member of the Skinners' Company of London, and it seems likely that, until it came into Parker's possession, this manuscript had remained in or around London. Certainly it contains a number of notes added in the later fifteenth century in the hand of John Cok, a priest at the Augustinian hospital of St Bartholomew at Smithfield.