Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 355: John Colet, Epistolae beati Pauli ad Romanos expositio, Geneseos expositio ad Radulphum
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- The commentaries on the Epistle to the Romans and on Genesis contained in CCCC MS 355 are by John Colet (1467-1519), one of the early humanists in England, who had been to Italy and was influenced by early Renaissance scholarship. The commentary on Romans originated as a lecture in Oxford given in the late 1490s, and was expanded and revised, as in this manuscript copy, addressed to a young man named Edmund. It heralds a departure from the still prevalent scholastic mode of exegesis. It is written in humanist script by Peter Meghen (1466/7-1540), a Brabantine scribe who worked extensively for the English early sixteenth-century humanists. The manuscript was probably made in the first or second decades of the sixteenth century. John Colet seems first to have employed Meghen in 1505, although he continued to work in England into the 1520s. Blank spaces indicate the intention to include miniatures and ornamental intials, but regrettably this work was never carried out.
- Contents
- Epistolae beati Pauli ad Romanos expositio -- Geneseos expositio ad Radulphum
Description
| Alternative title | John Colet in Romanos et in Genesim |
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| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 112 |
| Date created | [ca. 1500 - 1525] |
| Language | Latin |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | 22 lines to a page |
| Height (mm) | 285 |
| Width (mm) | 185 |
| Collation | a(8)-m(8) | n(8) o(8). |
| Writing | in a very fine Roman hand |
| Foliation | ff. i-iv + pp. 1-228 + ff. v-viii |
| Provenance | Written doubtless by Peter Meghen the scribe of many of Colet's works. The last two quires in another hand, 20 lines to a page. This book much resembles Emmanuel College MS. 245, which contains Colet on I Corinthians. |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xvi early |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| TJames | 308 |
| Stanley | 2. 5 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/nn660hx8862 |
| Location | MS 355 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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