Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 295: Thomas Becket, Epistolae (Alan of Tewkesbury's Collection, Recension III)
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 295 reflects Parker's obvious interest in the history of the English church and the See of Canterbury in particular. It contains an incomplete version of the Epistolae (Recension III) of Thomas Becket compiled by Alan of Tewkesbury (d. 1202) together with a few letters of John of Salisbury (c. 1115-80). The manuscript was copied in the early thirteenth century, probably at Christ Church, Canterbury, where it has been identified in the library catalogue drawn up by Henry of Eastry in the early fourteenth century. A curious inscription in a late fifteenth-century hand recording that the book was the property of 'ecclesiam Blavnsom' means that it cannot be certain that Parker acquired this manuscript directly from Christ Church.
- Contents
- Epistolae (Alan of Tewkesbury's Collection, Recension III)
Description
Alternative title | Epistolae Thomae Becket |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 1 + 7 + 207 + 1 |
Date created | [ca. 1200 - 1225] |
Language | Latin |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | double columns of 46 lines |
Height (mm) | 252 |
Width (mm) | 172 |
Collation | 1 flyleaf, I(8) (wants 8) II(8)-8(8) (wants 6) 9(8) 10(8) 11(10) 12(8)-20(8) 21(10) 22(8) 23(8) 24(12) 25(8) (wants 8), 1 flyleaf. |
Writing | very finely written |
Foliation | ff. a-b + i-viii + 1-208 + ix + c-d |
Provenance | From Christ Church, Canterbury. See Ancient Libraries, p. 52, no. 358. I take this to be probably the copy there mentioned as Epistola(-e) S. Thome Alani Prioris belonging to the Cloister. |
Additions | On f. ir at top is an erased inscription which began: Ep. (sancti Tho-)me. Considerably to the R. are legible the letters Ria. Below this in black Lombardic capitals is: ¶ Ep'le . sci . Thome . mris Ecclie . xpi . cantuar'. Below this again a name scribbled over in ink. On iiv Parkerian references to some of the Epistles., The last leaf (f. 208r) has on recto at bottom a late xvth cent. inscription: Iste liber pertinet ad ecclesiam Blavnsom teste m george smith W austin H berliman et omnes stulti in ista villa Iohannes bocher. Amen., On verso of last leaf (f. 208v) in a xiiith cent. hand a list of questiones in two columns and some notes., On last flyleaf (ixr) a slip with a list of books (xvi): 1. Beckett. 2. Manipulus curatorum. 3. Stella clericorum. 4. Summula raymundi. 5, 6. duo libri cartacei. 7. tavernerus de euch. 8. Veron de p'best. 9. lex mahometica. 10. fabulae seu facetiae. 11. inuitato ciceroniana. 12. potestas ecclesiastica. 13. perionii dialectica. (14), 15. so: libri gallice duo. 16. elegantiae valle. |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xiii early |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 11 |
Stanley | A. 11 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/hv214nw9015 |
Location | MS 295 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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