Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 045: Bernard Gui OP, Flores chronicorum and other texts. The pseudo-Map Prose Lancelot

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Summary: CCCC MS 45 contains two distinct volumes. The first volume was very probably copied in France in the mid-fourteenth century and features a number of pastoral and historical works by the Dominican inquisitor and scholar Bernard Gui OP (1261/2-1331) together with a handsomely illustrated genealogical table of the Frankish kings. The second volume is a copy of the prose version of the Roman de Lancelot that has been dated to c. 1250 and may have been produced in England. How this manuscript came into Parker's possession is unknown, but it seems likely that he was more interested in the illustrated historical material than in the Arthurian Lancelot story.
Contents: Flores chronicorum, De origine prima gentis Francorum -- Flores chronicorum, Genealogia regum Francorum -- Flores chronicorum, De genealogia comitum Tolosanorum -- Flores chronicorum, Imperatores Romani -- De temporibus conciliorum -- De ordinatione officii missae -- Nomina discipulorum Christi -- Libellus breuis et utilis de articulis fidei et sacramentis ecclesiae -- Prose Lancelot (incomplete)

Description

Alternative title	Bernardi Guidonis Quaedam. Roman de Lancelot
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 84 and 178
Date created	[ca. 1300 - 1399]; [ca. 1275 - 1299]
Language	Latin; English; French, Old (ca. 842-1400)
Material	Vellum
Layout	two volumes, in double columns
Height (mm)	335
Width (mm)	235
Collation	1(12) 2(12) 3(8)-5(8) 6(2) 7(10) 8(12) 9(12). \|\| 1(8)-8(8) (+1) 9(8)-21(8) 22(4) (+1) 23(4).
Writing	two hands seem to be employed, of cent. xiv. They are French, perhaps South French
Foliation	ff. i-ii + 1-262 + iii
2 fo.	parma, Mais de ce est

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xiv and perhaps xiii late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dm597gd7777/MS_45.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vg588gt9600/45.pdf
Contains	Title Bernard Gui OP, Flores chronicorum, De origine prima gentis Francorum. 1r-32v Author Bernard Gui OP Note (Bernardus Guido) Rubric (1r) De origine prima gentis francorum et eorum processu Incipit (1r) Franci origine fuere troiani Note Ends (on Philip VII) Explicit (29v) qui eum precesserat ad regnum dei Note ff. 30r-32v blank See Delisle, Notice sur les MSS. de Bernard Gui (Notices et Extraits xxvii 1879) § 94 Title Bernard Gui OP, Flores chronicorum, Genealogia regum Francorum. 33r-48v James Eiusdem Genealogia Regum Francorum. 33r-48v Author Bernard Gui OP Rubric (33r) De origine prima Francorum Incipit (33r) Franci ex sua prima origine fuere troiani Note (Dated May 1331) On f. 33v the genealogical tree begins. At the top is an arcade surmounted by turrets (blue, yellow, green, brown) and under the two middle arches are figures of Turchotus and Franco admirably drawn and painted The tree is continued between the columns of text, and illustrated with medallions of kings and innumerable busts of queens, princes and saints on blue and brown-red grounds Ends 48r (Philip VII) Explicit (48r) viii die intrantis mensis aprilis incohato iam anno dominice incarnationis mo ccco xxxo Note The fifth and last edition. Delisle § 103 48v blank Title Bernard Gui OP, Flores chronicorum, De genealogia comitum Tolosanorum. 49r-50v Author Bernard Gui OP Note [Eiusdem] Rubric (49r) Comites Tholosani Incipit (49r) Legitur in gestis et cronicis francorum Explicit (50v) illustris regis francie deuolutum Note Delisle § 117 Title Bernard Gui OP, Flores chronicorum, Imperatores Romani. 51r-60v Author Bernard Gui OP Note [Eiusdem] Rubric (51r) Imperatores Romani Incipit (51r) Quoniam sanctorum martirum et confessorum Explicit (60v) et rediit in theotoniam Note Delisle § 82, 83 Title Bernard Gui OP, De temporibus conciliorum. 61r-67v Author Bernard Gui OP Note [Idem] Rubric (61r) de tempore Celebrationis Consiliorum (61r) Incipit tractatus breuis de temporibus et annis generalium et particularium consiliorum Incipit (61r) De sacrosanctis synodis seu conciliis Note Ends (1315) Explicit (67v) que usque tunc steterant in suspenso Note Second edition. Delisle § 153 Title Bernard Gui OP, De ordinatione officii missae. 68r-71v Author Bernard Gui OP Note [Idem] Rubric (68r) de ordinatione officii misse facta a domino Ihesu Christo et sanctis suis apostolis ac demum per summos romanos pontifices successiue Incipit (68r) Ihesus christus primus et summus pontifex Explicit (69v) in remissionem peccatorum Rubric (69v) Casus qui contingere possunt in celebrando missam Incipit (69v) Inter cetera uero que scire oportet Explicit (71v) de rasura tabule dictum est supra Rubric (71v) Explicit Note Delisle § 213 Title Bernard Gui OP, Nomina discipulorum Christi. 72r-79v Author Bernard Gui OP Note [Eiusdem] Rubric (72r) Nomina apostolorum Incipit (72r) Nomina duodecim apostolorum Explicit (73r) cum barnaba assumpto tito Rubric (73r) Nomina discipulorum Incipit (73r) Designauit dominus et alios Note (79r) Ending with Mass for the lxx disciples, and a short list of them Delisle § 148 Title Libellus breuis et utilis de articulis fidei et sacramentis ecclesiae. 80r-84v Rubric (80r) Libellus breuis et utilis de articulis fidei et sacramentis ecclesie et preceptis decalogi cum quibusdam aliis annexis in fine pro rectoribus et curatis ecclesiarum nostre lodouensis dyocesis ad erudiendum plebes sibi commissas Incipit (80r) Quoniam ut ait apostolus hebreos xio sine fide etc. Explicit (84v) alcius duximus conscribendum Note Delisle § 211 On another Cambridge MS. of Bernard Gui (Trinity College R.4.23) see my Catalogue in loco (84v) A long erased inscription follows, beginning: Iste liber. It is too carefully erased to be successfully revived There is also on f. 84v a Parkerian note on the next volume Title pseudo-Map, Prose Lancelot (incomplete). 85r-262r Author pseudo-Map Note Prose Romance of Lancelot ascribed to Walter Map, incomplete Incipit (85r) En la marche de gaule et de la petite bretaigne auoit ancienement ii rois Note Ends Explicit (262r) et coment il fu deliures de la karole ou il estoit mis Note Initials in red and green, plain. The text is the work of two scribes at least
TJames	18
Stanley	B. 6
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/jj548nk9202
Location	MS 045
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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