Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 400: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Verses, etc. Verses from Canterbury Cathedral Windows

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Summary: MS 400 is formed from four manuscripts, the first three of which contain tracts by Gerald of Wales (11461226). They contain an early thirteenth-century second edition of his Topographia Hiberniae with additions from the third edition; a highly flawed sixteenth-century copy of the Descriptio Kambriae; and early thirteenth-century copies of Retractationes, Catalogus brevior librorum suorum, De iure et statu Meneuensis ecclesiae, and Verses. The latter two texts in particular are good versions. The final pages of the manuscript contain a late thirteenth-century copy of the verses from the windows in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral which M. R. James identified as the source for the copy on a roll held by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.
Contents: Topographia Hiberniae -- Descriptio KambriaeRetractationesCatalogus breuior librorum suorum -- De iure et statu Meneuensis ecclesiaeVerses -- Verses from the windows in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral

Description

Alternative title	Giraldus Cambrensis
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 5 + 47 + 42 + 61 + 4, Four leaves
Date created	[ca. 1100 - 1299]; [ca. 1500 - 1599]; [ca. 1300 - 1399]
Language	Latin
Material	Paper, Vellum and paper, Vellum
Layout	three main volumes
Height (mm)	223
Width (mm)	149
Collation	1 vellum and 4 paper leaves, 1(6) 2(8)-4(8) (+ 3*) 5(8) 6(8) \| a(8)-e(8) f(2) \| A(8) B(2) C(8)-H(8) I (three + slip) \|\| K (four).
Writing	Text in a fine hand
Foliation	ff. a + i-vii + 1-153 + b
Provenance	The last quire at least is from Christ Church, Canterbury.
Additions	f. ir pasted over. It is a fragment of a late roll with list of names and payments., f. iir in Parkerian hand:[rubric] De successione episcoporum et gestis eorum viz. Bernardi et David secundi. [incipit] Cum circa dignitatem pallii ecclesie cath. meneuensis postulandam in curia Romana diu laborasset Bernardus [explicit] eo autem de seculo sublata conuenerunt omnes ecclesie clerici ut tractarent de electione fauenda. [rubric] Ex libro quodam veteri in quo continentur aliqua scripta giraldi cambrensis et nunc in custodia mri price de wallia.Printed from British Library, Cotton Domitian I by Brewer, Giraldus Cambrensis, Rolls III 431., ff. iiiv-vv blank.
2 fo.	lem a puncto

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xii-xiii, xvi and xiv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vz988md2603/MS_400.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fb125qy2132/400.pdf
Contains	Title Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae. vir-45v Author Gerald of Wales Note On f. 1r is a late note erased (viv) blank (viir) verses (xvi) copied, in fine 3i libri. On f. 2v a map (in brown and green) of the British Isles. Aquilo is on L., Britain, Ireland and the Orkneys are shown, without any real attempt to give the outline: and no places are markedAn exactly similar map is in Arundel MS. 14 (Brit. Mus.). See Dimock, Girald. Camb. V, p. xviii It is MS. C in Dimock's edition (Girald. Camb., p. xiv) and ranks as a MS. of the Second Edition, but has many marginal additions and some inserted leaves which 'if considered an integral part of the manuscript' would make it rank as a MS. of the Third Edition The modern foliation omits what I have called ff. 1r-2v. I use it here Rubric (1r) Introitus in recitationem Incipit (1r) Consideranti Note (1r) Good initial, gold, with external blue and internal pink ground (2v) Capitula Text Incipit (5r) Placuit excellentie Note (5r) Large initial. Pink ground within, Giraldus on L. tonsured, in purplish habit offers gold book to Henry II in pale pink and yellow, seated on R. with crown and sceptre. Small medallions in stalk of initial represent a fish, a bird and two beasts (17v) Distinctio II Centaur on blue ground in initial f. 24r-24v is added (31v) Distinctio III Shipful of men and women in the initial Explicit (45r) a tanta maiestate fuerit iniunctum Rubric (45r) Explicit (45r) Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci Note (red and blue) On f. 45v in another hand is the letter Guillelmo (?) Hereford. Episcopo (Dimock, p. 203) beginning Incipit (45v) Lectis certa prodest Explicit (45v) elegantior inuenitur Title Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Kambriae, Retractationes, Catalogus breuior librorum suorum. 46r-87v James Giraldi Descriptio Cambriae. 46r-87v Author Gerald of Wales Note "imperfect and valueless" (Dimock, p. xiv note) Explicit (84r) pro hoc terrarum angulo respondebit Note (Dimock VI 227) The lacunae are described by Dimock VI, p. xxv Rubric (84v) Tractatum retractionum et cathologum librorum diligentia Giraldi compositorum in calce libelli de Cambrie descriptione digne duximus adiciendum Incipit (84v) Quoniam itaque cunctorum habere notitiam Rubric (86r) Sequitur de cathalogo et numero Librorum a giraldo compositorum Incipit (86r) Occurrit hic igitur in primis tempore tenerior cronographia nostra (87v) In historia anglorum libro quinto de Calixto papa scribitur (78r) Vir quidam magnus in anglia dixit et assensit laborem mri giraldi multis ex causis commendabilem esse Explicit (79r) et in nullo prorsus articulo ecclesie sue pro posse defecit Rubric (79r) Ex quodam vetusto libro Jo. Price post descriptionem Cambrie Note (79v) blank Note: Volume II was reordered after James, hence the discrepancy between James and CCC foliation Title Gerald of Wales, De iure et statu Meneuensis ecclesiae; Verses. 88r-149v James De Jure et Statu Menevensis Ecclesiae. 88r-149v Author Gerald of Wales Note There is no old title Incipit (88r) Reuerendo patri et domino S[tephano] dei gracia Cantuariensis archiepiscopi Note Brewer, Gir.Camb. III 101 This copy was not known to Brewer. It is noticed by Dimock V, xiv note, as being valuable. Like Vitellius E. 5 it contains only Distinctions I, II and VII of the work Rubric (96v) Breuis subsequencium explanacio Note (red and blue) Brewer, Gir. Camb., III 117 Most of p. 20 is blank The hand changes 21 (quire C) to a rather finer one, which continues to p. 113 Rubric (98r) Incipit dialogus duorum etc. Note Brewer, p. 119 Some rubrics etc. are still in the hand of the quires A, B (109r) Distinctio II (121v) ending (121v) Distinctio III The first few words are given and then follows the note given from Vitell. E. 5 in Brewer, p. 186 (121v) Distinctio VII Most of 113 is in the hand of quire A, ending Explicit (145r) et indulgere curauit Rubric (145r) Explicit Note (145v) blank The following leaves are partly in the hand of quire A, partly in other hands. They contain poems, printed from Vitellius E. 5 by Brewer, Gir. Camb. I, 374 sqq. Rubric (146r) Epigramma metricum nuper editum ex uersu uirgiliano tanquam themate carmen incipiens Note (This title imperfect in Brewer) p. 374 Incipit (146r) Nocte pluit tota (146r) Prodiit ex L. P. Note Brewer, p. 374 Incipit (146r) Pax datur hinc Note Brewer, p. 375 Incipit (146r) Vrbs igitur cesset Note Brewer, p. 375 etc. Explicit (146v) flectere regna suum Rubric (146v) Explicit Note Brewer, p. 377 The gaps in Brewer can be supplied from this copy Rubric (146v) Epigramma Philippicum Note Brewer, p. 377 Explicit (146v) nosse sciat Note Paragraph in prose Incipit (146v) Utinam autem emulus hic noster illud iniure scriptum interdum aduerteret Explicit (146v) aut honor et dignitas auferatur Rubric (146v) Explicit (148r) Carmen tanquam epithalamicum Note Brewer, p. 378 (147v) The end supplied on a slip Rubric (148r) Carmen quasi comedicum Note Brewer, p. 380 Incipit (148r) Cum non sis albus albinus qua rationeDiceris. antifrasis nomina multa facit etc. Note (148r) Sentence from Ambrose on rebukes of friends. Brewer, p. 369 Rubric (148v) Carmen epitaphicum Incipit (148v) Clauditur hoc tumulo Note Brewer, p. 381 Rubric (148v) Pro quodam crebris infortuniis grauiter afflicto Incipit (148v) Semper adest homini Note Brewer, p. 354 Incipit (148v) Kambriagiraldum Note Brewer, p. 381 Incipit (148v) Incurrit culpam Note Brewer, p. 381 Incipit (148v) Id recolas lapidem Note Brewer, p. 382 Rubric (148v) Carmen magistri symonis de fraxino etc. Note Brewer, p. 382 Incipit (148v) Fons sine fine fluens Rubric (149r) Breuis magistri Giraldi responsio Incipit (149r) Florida fructifera Note Brewer, p. 384 Title Verses from the windows in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral. 150r-153r Note A copy of the verses in the windows of Canterbury Cathedral. It was not known to me when I published the text from the Roll in possession of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury (C. A. S., Verses formerly inscribed on the Twelve Windows, etc. 1901) Incipit (150r) Prima fenestra moyses cum rubo Explicit (153r) Approbat extractus latebris sit (fit) papa coactus Note The text is essentially the same, preserving exactly the same order, as that of the Roll: but one or two mistakes of the latter may be corrected from this. There are indications that the Roll must have been copied from this text The principal improvements of the text which I have noted may be given here p. 13 Fenestra prima, last line: Read (150r) Operuit celos gloria eius et laudis eius plena est terra Fenestra secunda, line 5: (150r) Qui sequitur me non ambulat in tenebris p. 18 Fenestra VI, line 9: (152r) Hii sunt qui credunt temptanti sicque recedunt line 18: (152r) Iob. Daniel. Noe. semen cecidit in terram bonam p. 19 3rd line from bottom: (152r) Hic iri factum etc. p. 21 lines 1-3: (152v) Dominus crucifigitur. Hic stater extractus precium datur in cruce factus Ludibrium turbe deus est eiectus ab urbe p. 24 line 13: (151v) tegit ecce mariam
TJames	99
Stanley	I. 9
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/qm817bv7839
Location	MS 400
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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