Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 145: South English Legendary
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 145 is one of the most important manuscripts of the South English Legendary, a collection of over eighty saints' lives in Middle English compiled in the late thirteenth century. This copy is of the early fourteenth century and has been used for the edition of the text. It belonged to the priory of Augustinian canons at Southwick (Hampshire).
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- South English Legendary
Description
| Alternative title | Legendary |
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| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 218 |
| Date created | [ca. 1300 - 1325] |
| Language | English, Middle (1100-1500); Latin |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | 40 lines to a page |
| Height (mm) | 312 |
| Width (mm) | 192 |
| Collation | a(2), 1(12)-18(12) (+ 3 leaves after 6: wants 12). |
| Writing | very clearly written |
| Foliation | ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-218 + c-d |
| Provenance | From Southwick Priory (not Litchewyk)., Res sane notatu digna quod lingua Anglicana in tantillo tempore, viz. infra quadringentos annos possit tantam variationem verborum et phraseωn pati ut hic videre licet. The above is a Parkerian note. Hic liber est ecclesiae beatae Mariae de Suthewyk de dono fratris Iohannis Kateryngton canonici ibidem, quem qui ab eadem ecclesia sive per venditionem vel donationem vel furtum sive per fraudem aliquem alienaverit, vel titulum hunc dolo deleverit, nisi eidem ecclesiae condigne satisfecerit, sit anathema maranatha: fiat, fiat, Amen. The above inscription given by Nasmith (corrected by me) is on the lower margins of f. 1v, 2r. It is of cent. xiv-xv. |
| Additions | On the flyleaf is some scribbled music on five-line stave. The words are de lan gar sovstes., On f. iiv, a list of the contents in red., At the end of the legend is a note in red: Hec sunt nomina mulierum qui(!) fuerunt cum Maria matre domini in natiuitate eius Zebel Salome. A note to the same effect is on f. 218r., At f. 214r we have a hand of the original time, writing more closely, the Stories of Judas (f. 214r); Pilate (f. 215r); Translation of S. Thomas (f. 217v). f. 218v is blank., At the end f. 218r are the initials J. K. (John Katerington) in red. |
| Writing | Two main hands wrote the text to f. 210v where three quarters of a page is erased and re-written (De S. Guthlaco) in a later hand, and 2 and a half leaves in the same hand inserted (ff. 211r-213r). |
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 | 157 |
| Stanley | R. 4 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/gv047cr2285 |
| Location | MS 145 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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