Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 285: Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici V regis Angliae. Aldhelm, De laudibus uirginitatis

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Summary: CCCC MS 285 contains the holograph copy of the Vita Henrici V regis Angliae of Tito Livio Frulovisi (d. after 1456), a biography of the Lancastrian king that, it has recently been argued, was a reworking of the pseudo-Elmham's Vita et Gesta Henrici Quinti. Written while Frulovisi was in England in the later 1430s, perhaps 1436-8, the manuscript was once in the possession of Henry VI, though how it came to be in Parker's possession is not known. It was presumably Parker who bound this fifteenth-century humanist text together, somewhat incongruously, with a tenth- or early eleventh-century copy of De laudibus uirginitatis (De virginitate) by Aldhelm (d. 709) to which have been added glosses in a hand identified with a Worcester Cathedral scribe.
Contents: Vita Henrici V regis Angliae -- De laudibus uirginitatis

Description

Alternative title	T. Livius Foroliviensis. Aldhelmus
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 3 + 71 + 57 + 1
Date created	[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language	Latin; English, Old (ca. 450-1100); Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material	Vellum
Layout	29 and 27 lines to a page
Height (mm)	259
Width (mm)	173
Collation	Volume I: a(4) (wants 1) 1(8)-8(8) 9(6) 10 (one). 3 + 71. Volume II: A(6) B(8) C(8) (+ slip) D(8)-G(8) H (two), 1 flyleaf. 57 + 1.
Writing	in Italian-like minuscule
Foliation	ff. i-ii + 1-132 + iii-iv
Additions	On f. 1r covered with paper are some scribbles. On f. 1v in red: Hoc tuus exiguo te munere donat amator / Nemo carens magnis tradere magna potest. ff. 2r-3v blank.
2 fo.	Spes erat, Piscibus

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ks836tp2078/MS_285.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pp266tn9101/285.pdf
Contains	Title Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici V regis Angliae. 4r-74v Author Tito Livio Frulovisi Rubric (4r) Inuictissimi Anglorum franciaeque Regis henrici quinti ad eius filium christianissi(m)um Regem he(n)ricum sextum uita per T. liuium de frulouisiis ferrarie(n)sem edita feliciter incipit Incipit (4r) Cum a primis annis de parente meo Note An exceedingly fine initial of the arms of England and France quarterly, with a splendid excrescence of ornament mostly on burnished gold, with sharply cusped edges, containing grotesques and conventional foliage: cropped at top by the binder Ends Explicit (73r) regnum tuum franciae bene regundum et gubernandum legauit. τῶ θω̄ δόξα Note ff. 73v-74v blank The text of this life was edited by Hearne in 1716 Title Aldhelm, De laudibus uirginitatis. 75r-131v Author Aldhelm Note An erasure at top of f. 75r Titles in red capitals Rubric (75r) Incipit liber Aldhelmi Episcopi de virginitate seu laude sanctorum Note (P. L. LXXXIX 237) Incipit (75r) Metrica tirones nunc promant carmina castos Note The slip (f. 92r) supplies 6 lines omitted on f. 91v Ends Explicit (122v) Plumabant pariter macta uirtute coronam Rubric (122v) Explicit libellus Aldhelmi Episcopi de laude sanctorum patrum atque uirginum (122v) Eiusdem de octo uitiis principalibus Note (P. L. LXXXIX 281) Incipit (122v) Digestis igitur sanctorum laudibus almis Note Ends Explicit (131v) Adduci merear Christo regnante per ethram Rubric (131v) Explicit ΛΙΒΗΡ Aldhelmi Archiepiscopi de viii vitiis principalibus Note On f. 132r an erasure A scribble cut off at top: - Anglie primati et apostolice sedis ... in spiritualibus generali et officiali ... patri debitas cum honore Also the name humfry A drawing of an ornament (or notarial mark) below Such Anglo-Saxon glosses as occur in this MS. are given by Professor Napier, Old English Glosses, Oxford (p. xiii)
TJames	193
Stanley	N. 31
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/pw573ct5642
Location	MS 285
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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