Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 258: Andrew Horn, Speculum justiciariorum. Breton
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 258 is one of two manuscripts in the Parker Collection that was once bound in a single volume, the other being the material now contained in CCCC MS 70. Both manuscripts were the property of Andrew Horn (d. 1328), fishmonger and Chamberlain of London and were bequeathed by him to the Guild Hall in London, from where Parker acquired them. CCCC MS 258 now contains fourteenth-century copies of the anonymous law tracts Speculum justiciarorum and Breton. The Speculum is a unique survival in this manuscript and was much criticised by F. W. Maitland as, at best, a joke in poor taste, though recent attempts have been made to rehabilitate the text as an expression of late thirteenth-century anxiety about the direction of legal reform under Edward I, or possibly as a didactic text.
- Contents
- Speculum justiciarorum -- Breton
Description
Alternative title | Andr. Horn Speculum Justiciariorum. Breton |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 1 + 52 + 131 |
Date created | [ca. 1300 - 1399] |
Language | French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600); Latin |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | 48 and 35 lines to a page, two volumes |
Height (mm) | 275 |
Width (mm) | 190 |
Collation | 1 flyleaf, a(12)-d(12) e(4) || 1(12)-11(12) (wants 2). |
Writing | in two charter hands |
Foliation | ff. i-iii + 1-183 + iv-v |
Additions | The flyleaf (f. iiir) is of cent. xii: on the recto in single lines: De puella mortua fide constricta que coniurato sibi clerico postmortem ap(paruit). Quoniam mi karissime Radulfe de anime utilitate crebro mecum colloqui et ex multis que nesciebam me quondam ... / consueueras. rem uere gestam quam (about two-third of the line erased) relatio ... / didici etc. In line 5: Clericus inquit sibi bene notus (erasure of three words; the 3rd is herefordie) ad se nuper aduenien etc., The verso (f. iiiv) is headed X and is in two columns, the first rather cut. ... herodes explorare uoluit... miracula uidere concupiuit (evidently on John Baptist, he was a burning and a shining light etc.). Ends: quatinus et lector tanto feruentior ad legendi studium redeat quanto ex lectionis quoque incisione respirat. Expl. lib. decimus. |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xiv |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | vac. |
Stanley | O. 19 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/nr221yg5131 |
Location | MS 258 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
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