Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 008: Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 1-14
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- The main text in CCCC MS 8, dating to the first half of the fourteenth century, is the encyclopaedia of history, Speculum historiale, of the Dominican, Vincent of Beauvais (1189/94-1264), which is also in CCCC MSS 13, 14. The version in this MS is close to that in Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 568, dating to 1244, but omits the dedicatory letter and prologue. The back flyleaf of the book, bound in at a later date, contains polyphonic music on a five-line stave, dating to the middle years of the thirteenth century. The earliest English motet, 'Worldes blisce have god day,' is on the recto, and an Anglo-Norman love song, 'Volez oyer le castoy', on the verso.
- Contents
- Speculum historiale, books 1-14
Description
Alternative title | Vincentii Speculum Historiale. Libb. i-xiv |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 268 + 1 |
Date created | [ca. 1300 - 1325] |
Language | Latin |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | double columns of 61 lines |
Height (mm) | 430 |
Width (mm) | 290 |
Collation | 1(12) (3 mut. 11 a fragment) 2(12) 3(12) (wants 7) 4(12) 5(4) (wants 4) 6(12)-9(12) 10(10) 11(14) (ista pecia continet xiiii fol.) 12(12) 13(12) 14(?) (five) 15(12)-17(12) 18(8) 19(12)-23(12) 24(6) 25(10) (wants 1, 2, 10), 1 flyleaf. |
Writing | well written |
Foliation | ff. aa + a + 1-269 + i + b |
Additions | Several quires are marked Cor = correctum or completum., The flyleaf (Ar-Av) is interesting: it is the best part of two leaves of a music book of cent. xiii with music on a five-line stave. Fragments of a similar book are in the St John's College MS F. 1 which comes from Bury St Edmund's. On the recto, L. at top, the number 558. The L. edge cut off. Ten staves of music, Latin words ... fecit do thrice and suauitatis. On R. the number 547. End of a song: in lyde ioye and blisce bringet me to bride. Another song: Worldes blisce haue god day. Nou fram min herte wand away him for / to louen min hert his went þat þurȝ his side spere rent · his herte blod / ssadde for me · nayled to þe harde tre · þat swete bodi was y tend prened wit nay / les þre · Ha iesu þin holi hefd wit ssarpe þornes was by weued þi feyre neb was al / bi spet wit spot and blod meynd al by wet fro þe crune to þe to þi body was ful of / pine and wo · and wan and red · ha iesu þi smarte ded be my sseld and my red fram / deueles lore ha suete iesu þin hore for þine pines sore thech min herte riȝt loue / þe ȝwas herte blod was ssed for me. Verso on L. 548. Song: Uolez oyer le castoy cum gynot pert sa peyne dun amiette kil ad ke trop / luy est lungtayne nout e iour luy va proyant kele ne soyt pas vyleine mes ame / rousette Douce camousette kar eez pite de voz amourettes. In red. Secundus: li puis dy Below the next stave, in red. Primus. On R. 557. R. half gone. Latin words: A nobis twice and Ne dampnemur twice. Other fragments of leaves of this book occur as patches in various parts of this volume. |
2 fo. | s. ignoramus |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xiv early |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 349 |
Stanley | Under B. 4 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/cv176gb0028 |
Location | MS 008 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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