Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 446: Elias of Evesham OSB, Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis

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Summary: CCCC MS 446 is a fifteenth-century copy of the Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis by the Benedictine monk Elias of Evesham (fl. c. 1200), written in 1198-9. It is the recension of the text known as the 'second' version, although confusingly recent scholarship has suggested that the 'second' version is earlier than the 'first'. It was dedicated to Henry de Longchamp, abbot of Crowland. This manuscript has been dated to the second quarter of the fifteenth century on the grounds of its decoration. The 'Jacobus Tutyll' of the inscription on f. vi recto has not been identified, and the manuscript's provenance before it came into the hands of Parker is not known. Parker compared it with a manuscript owned by John Twyne (d. 1581) and made notes about the omissions in MS 446 at the end.
Contents: Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis, 'second' (earlier) version

Description

Alternative title	Vita S. Thomae
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 2 + 144 + 4
Date created	[ca. 1475 - 1499]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	25 lines to a page
Height (mm)	185
Width (mm)	119
Collation	a(2), 1(8)-16(8) 17(6) 18(10), b(4).
Writing	in a peculiar and pretty hand
Foliation	ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-144 + iii-vi + c
Provenance	On the last flyleaf (vir): Jacobus Tutyll.
2 fo.	tis nec studiosos

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xv late?
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jw077qd5037/MS_446.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yn175dx4525/446.pdf
Contains	Title Elias of Evesham OSB, Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis, 'second' (earlier) version. 1r-143v Nasmith Vita S. Thomae archiepiscopi Cantuar. et martyris de plurium narratione collecta. 1r-143v Author Elias of Evesham OSB Note Haec vita, quas in aliis codicibus nominatur quadrilogus sive historia quadripartita, ab annotatore quodam imperito Stephano Cantuariensi attribuitur Rubric (1r) Uita Sancti Thome de plurium narracione collecta (1r) Incipit prologus in vita Sancti Thome Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis et martiris Note (1r) Handsome initial in gold and colour and partial border of feathery work Incipit (1r) Post summi fauoris dote uestitos preclaros pugiles Explicit (3r) omnibus inuideas liuide nemo tibi Note Robertson, Materials for the History of Archbishop Thomas Becket, IV 266. It is the so-called second quadrilogue by Elias (?) of Evesham Ends Explicit (143v) virtus et imperium est per infinita secula seculorum. Amen Rubric (143v) Explicit vita et passio beati thome martiris Note (Robertson, Materials for the History of Archbishop Thomas Becket, IV, p. 408) In a hand of cent. xvi (143v) omnino haec desunt que habentur in libro Willmi Twyne De gestis post martirium, etc. (a list of chapters) In another hand of cent. xvi early Incipit (144r) Inspecta huius operis compilatione in qua vicesimo scilicet primo capite circa finem inveni authorem regias consuetudines scribi in calce huius historie policiturum
TJames	75
Stanley	G. 12
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/bk144vn3835
Location	MS 446
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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