Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 219: Gesta Alexandri

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Summary
CCCC MS 219, dating from the fifteenth century, is one of only two known surviving copies of the St Albans Compilation of the Gesta Alexandri (the other being in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 154/204) thought to have been written by Ralph Gobion, abbot of St Albans (1146-51). The manuscript also contains the spurious exchange of letters between Alexander the Great and the eastern potentate Dindimus. The volume is one of seven that James speculated may have been donated to the College by Daniel Rogers (see also MSS 206, 221, 229, 231 and 239) in addition to the seven that can certainly be traced to that donor (MSS 214, 223, 224, 228, 230, 236 and 248). Rogers is presumably to be identified with the scholar, poet, author and diplomat who rose to be clerk to Elizabeth I's Privy Council in 1587 and died in 1591, and who is known to have collected a number of manuscripts of an historical character. A perhaps sixteenth-century note on the last folio of the volume refers to land held in Urswick, Lancashire, by the duke of Suffolk.
Contents
Gesta Alexandri -- Collatio Alexandri cum Dindimo per Litteras Facta (Collatio I)

Description

Alternative title Gesta Alexandri
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 70
Date created [ca. 1100 - 1199]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout 29 lines to a page
Height (mm) 243
Width (mm) 170
Collation 1(8) (wants 1, 2) 2(8)-9(8).
Writing in a very good hand
Foliation ff. i-v + 1-70 + vi-x
Additions The covers are lined with bits of a very large printed Psalter, and the flyleaves (ff. ir-iv, xr-xv) are fragments of a MS. service-book (xv) with music on four-line stave.
2 fo. Futuri

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qt818fy4667/MS_219.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gr164fp2368/219.pdf
Contains
Title
Gesta Alexandri. 1r-64r
Nasmith
Historia regis Macedonum Philippi, filiique ejus Alexandri magni, excerpta de libris Pompeii Trogi Orosii Iosephi Ieronimi Solini Augustini Bedae et Ysodori. 1r-64r
James
Gesta Alexandri. 1r-64r
Rubric
(1r) Macedonia ante a nomine emathionis uel emathii Regis cuius prima
Incipit
(1r) Uirtutis experimenta
Note
Names of authorities are in red in the margin
(11v) Liber II
(22v) Liber III
(37v) Liber IV
Ends
Explicit
(64r) Denique hec solutio belli macedonici et hic finis fuit perindeque qui belli finis idem et libri sit
Title
Collatio Alexandri cum Dindimo per Litteras Facta (Collatio I). 64r-70r
Nasmith
Epistolae Alexandri ad Dindimum regem Bragmanorum, et Dindimi ad Alexandrum. 64r-70r
Rubric
(64r) Incipit epistole Alexandri ad dindium regem bragmannorum et dindimi ad Alexandrum. Alexander
Incipit
(64r) Sepius ad aures meas
Note
Ends
Explicit
(70r) aut in indie quod a meliore prestantur
Note
See Ward, Catalogue of Romances I 108
On f. 70v a note
(70v) xxti acr. dnic terre in urstwik perten. terr. nuper duce Suff. att intt. milonis brigge per annum S. xiiis iiijd. Urswick is in Lancashire
TJames vac.
Stanley Lib. ab Al. 32
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/gx795dx4085
Location MS 219
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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