Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 383: Anglo-Saxon Laws

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Summary: CCCC MS 383 is a late eleventh- or early twelfth-century manuscript, possibly from St Paul's Cathedral in London. It contains a very early version of the Anglo-Saxon law codes as they were gathered together to form part of the textual tradition known as the Quadripartitus. Parker was no doubt fascinated by the presence of Anglo-Saxon material in this volume, which contains a number of texts unique to it, such as the Gerefa. The manuscript was, at some stage, in the hands of Robert Talbot, prebendary of Norwich (d. 1558) and contains notes in his hand as well as that of Parker's secretary, John Joscelyn (1529-1603). It has been much studied throughout its history; the sixteenth-century antiquarians' notes accompany glosses dating from the thirteenth century .
Contents: Laws of the Anglo-Saxons

Alternative title	Leges Anglo-Saxonicae
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 9 + 62
Date created	[ca. 1125 - 1130]
Language	English, Old (ca. 450-1100); French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600); Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	26 lines to a page
Height (mm)	190
Width (mm)	119
Collation	a(10) (wants 10: cent. xvi) \| 1(6) 2(8) (6 canc.) 3(8) \| 4(10) (8-10 canc.: cent. xvi) \| 5(8)-8(8): 2 cancels in 7 and 8.
Writing	in good clear hands
Foliation	ff. i-iv + 1-72 + v-viii
Research	Liebermann (Gesetze, p. xix) describes this MS. as B. According to him it was written about 1125-1130 and belonged to St Paul's of London.

M.R. James Date	xii (1125-30)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mx467ps4448/MS_383.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gy846wn6562/383.pdf
Contains	Title Laws of the Anglo-Saxons. 2r-69v Note (69r) In another hand of cent. xii: Matrosenstellung aus Landgütern der Kirche London um 1000. Ed. by Liebermann, Archiv für neuere Sprache CIV 23S 1458a. It begins Incipit (69r) (S)cipmen. Of ticc .IIII. Of tillingaham .II. Explicit (69v) Of hæþlege .7 of Codanham .I. Note Follows a note on genealogy of West Saxons Cameron B18.1 Incipit (69v) (Ƿ)a ƿæs agangen fram cristes acennednesse cccc 7 xciiii ƿintra þa cerdic 7 cynric his sunu coman up æt cerdices oran mid fif scipun 7 se cerdic ƿes elesing. elesa geƿising, etc. Explicit (69v) þa feng æscƿine to rice þes cyn gæð to cerdice 7 he heold .II. gear. þa feng centƿine Note (70r) Four blank vellum flyleaves
TJames	339
Stanley	19. 2
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/mv340ty8592
Location	MS 383
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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