Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 194: Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, De conuersione Sancti Pauli. Scala mundi. Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum. Peter of Ickham OSB, Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum etc
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 194 is a miscellany of texts of various periods 'diuersis temporibus et a diuersis scriptoribus exaratus' but mostly copied in the mid-fifteenth century. It contains a copy of Peter of Blois (d. 1212), De conuersione beati Pauli, an extract from the pseudo-Augustinian De spiritu et anima (De creatione primi hominis), the profusely illustrated anonymous Scala mundi chronicle, Martin of Troppau OP (d. 1278), Chronica pontificum et imperatorum and Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum of Peter of Ickham OSB (d. 1295). The Scala mundi contains a well-known early image of Stonehenge, and the historical nature of much of the material in this manuscript surely explains Parker's interest in it. A shelf mark reveals that this manuscript was once in the library of the Hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate, London, though how it came to be in Parker's collection is unknown.
- Contents
- De conuersione Sancti Pauli -- De creatione primi hominis (ch. 35 of pseudo-Augustine, De spiritu et anima) -- Meditatio breuissima -- Scala mundi -- Chronica pontificum et imperatorum -- Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum -- Triginta duo gradus scalae
Description
Alternative title | P. Blesensis, etc. Scala Mundi. Chronicon Martini Poloni. Chronicon P. de Ickham, etc. |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 3 + 75 + 54 + 47 + 6 |
Date created | [ca. 1300 - 1399] |
Language | Latin |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | three main volumes |
Height (mm) | 286 |
Width (mm) | 190 |
Collation | a(4) (wants 1) 1(12) 2(14) 3(12) 4(12) (several cancels) 5(4) 6(6) (folding leaves) 7(4) 8(12) (wants 12) | I(8)-VII(8) (wants 5, 6) | A(12) B(14) (12 canc.) C(10) D(12) | b(6). |
Writing | Small hand |
Foliation | ff. i-ii + 1-78 (79 missing) + 80-132 (133 missing) + 134-181 (182-216 missing) + 217-222 + iii-iv |
Additions | The first leaf, blank, has been cut out, on the second (f. 1r) is a list of contents Continentur hec isto in libro subscripta (xv late). |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xiv (and xv) |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 50 |
Stanley | E. 8 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/cn679rn6130 |
Location | MS 194 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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