Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 282: Robert de Gretham, The Mirror

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Summary
The Mirror, contained in CCCC MS 282, is a collection of sermons, of which this manuscript is a copy of the late fourteenth century, produced in Middlesex. It contains sixty sermons on the Sunday gospel readings in a Middle English prose version of Robert de Gretham's Anglo-Norman verse Miroir (Evangiles des domnees), written in the middle of the thirteenth century. Robert was possibly an Augustinian canon.
Contents
The Mirror

Description

Alternative title The Mirror
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 1 + 139
Date created [ca. 1375 - 1399]
Language English, Middle (1100-1500); Latin
Material Vellum
Layout double columns of 44 lines
Height (mm) 260
Width (mm) 190
Collation 1 flyleaf, a(8) (wants 1, 8) b(8)-s(8) (wants 6-8).
Writing clearly written
Foliation ff. i-ii + pp.1-146 + 146a-b + 147-278 + ff. iii-iv

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xiv late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qh719tb6371/MS_282.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pd570mj1309/282.pdf
Contains
Title
Robert de Gretham, The Mirror. 3-278
James
The Mirror. 3-278
Author
Robert de Gretham
Note
The Mirror. A collection of Sermons
(3) Begins imperfectly in the prologue
(3) prolonge endeþ. nou lokeþ in þe mirour
The next paragraph
Incipit
(3) Holi writ haþ a liknesse to tre þat bereþ noote oþer appel
Note
Ends
Explicit
(9) for to amenden hem. as ȝe schulle se in þes mirour. He ȝeue ȝou grace, etc. wiþ him þat is on in trinite. Amen
Rubric
(9) Þe firste Sunday of þe aduent of our lord
Incipit
(9) Cum appropinquasset, etc. Ihesus come ner a citee þat is cleped Jerosol
Note
After Dominica 25, we have
Rubric
(221) Of our lady in þe aduent
(243) In makyng mynde of apostoles
(252) In þe comune of on martir
(260) In comune of mani martirs
(270) In þe comune of on confessour
Note
(In the Pepys MS. (2498) this comes in its proper place)
Rubric
(274) Þe pistel of þe Sundai of quinquagesima
Note
Ending
Explicit
(278) We mote come to him and wone wiþ him wiþ oute onde. Amen
Note
At the bottom of p. 278 in small letters (xv-xvi) D. n.
TJames 159
Stanley R. 6
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/ss747gz8832
Location MS 282
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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