Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 390: Gerald of Wales, De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi Eboracensis

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Summary
CCCC MS 390 is the kind of manuscript that always interested Parker. It contains the late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century unique copy of De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi by Gerald of Wales (1146-1226). As such, it surely appealed to Parker's interest both in the oldest manuscripts and in those dealing with history in general, and ecclesiastical history in particular. The later medieval provenance of this manuscript is evinced by a fifteenth-century contents list written by 'Morganus canonicus de Kermerden', whose name and hand appear in a number of manuscripts known to have been in the library of the Augustinian priory of the Blessed Virgin and St John the Baptist at Lanthony secunda, Gloucestershire.
Contents
De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi Eboracensis

Description

Alternative title Gir. Cambrensis Vita Gaufridi
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 1 + 35
Date created [ca. 1175 - 1225]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout double columns of 26 lines
Height (mm) 226
Width (mm) 139
Collation 1 flyleaf, 1 (three) 2(8)-5(8) (or six with two smaller leaves added in the middle).
Writing in a clear good upright hand
Foliation f. i + pp. 1-38 + 38a + 39a + 39-70 + f. c
Research This is the only known MS. of the text, which was last printed by J. S. Brewer, Giraldus Cambrensis Rolls, Vol. IV, pp. 357-431.
Additions The flyleaf (f. ir) has Parkerian notes and a title of cent. xv: In hoc vol. continetur vita Gaufridi eboracensis archiepiscopi
2 fo. nes et rote

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xii late, xiii early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tv517js4813/MS_390.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wt362vc2815/390.pdf
Contains
Title
Gerald of Wales, De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi Eboracensis. 1-70
Author
Gerald of Wales
Rubric
(1) Introitus primus
Incipit
(1) Uarias rerum humanarum uices
Note
Good initials, gold on blue edged with green, salmon pink within, and silver
(3) Capitula. Two good initials of the same character
Rubric
(5) Introitus secundus
(7) Incipit liber de promotionibus
Note
in blue
(7) Initial of text, gold on blue, salmon pink within. Half-length of Geoffrey in mitre, green chasuble with pall, over blue, holding long cross and blessing. Edged with green
(29) Liber II, decorative initial as before: another on p. 30
A Parkerian copy of a marginal addition is added on a slip (p. 38a) opposite p. 38
pp. 61-64 are of smaller size
There are a good many marginal additions not uniformly noticed as such by Brewer, but incorporated into his text. They are in another, but not much later hand. The text ends
Explicit
(70) ad hoc perpetrandum tam horrendum
Note
Brewer, p. 426
The remainder is to be found in the Symbolum Electorum of Giraldus of which the only complete copy is at Trinity College (R. 7. 11). From this Brewer has printed it
TJames 65
Stanley G. 1
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/my768zw4807
Location MS 390
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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