Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 467: John Grandisson, Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis

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Summary: CCCC MS 467 is a fifteenth-century copy of the Life of St Thomas Becket by John Grandisson (d. 1369), also found in CCCC MSS 275 and 464. It has some decorated initials. The manuscript has an inscription saying that it was given to Robert Hare (d. 1611) by John Swift, auditor (d. 1570). It had presumably passed into the hands of Matthew Parker before 1575. Hare was a recusant - he gave the famous manuscript by Thomas Elmham OSB (d. c. 1427) to Trinity Hall (MS 1) in Cambridge on condition that it was returned to St Augustine's Canterbury if it was ever rebuilt - and his antiquarian links with scholars such as Parker, Arthur Agarde, John Stow, etc, shed an interesting light on the friendly scholarly relations which could exist between Protestants and Roman Catholics at this time.
Contents: Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis

Alternative title	Ioh. de Grandison. Vita S. Thomae
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 2 + 126
Date created	[ca. 1400 - 1425]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	12 lines to a page
Height (mm)	164
Width (mm)	113
Collation	a(2), 1(8)-11(8) 12(12) (11, 12 canc.) 13(8)-15(8) 16(4).
Writing	in a good upright hand, with handsome, rather rough, English decoration
Foliation	ff. a + i-ii + 1-126 + b
Provenance	On f. iv: Liber Roberti Hare ex dono Iohannis Swyfte auditoris. f. iir-iiv blank.
2 fo.	qualiter ab, testa

M.R. James Date	xv early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:xd425ss5488/MS_467.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pt265qb4088/467.pdf
Contains	Title John Grandisson, Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis. 1r-125r Author John Grandisson Rubric (1r) Prologus vite beati Thome martiris a Johanne de Grandissono Exoniense collecte Note Handsome initial in colour on gold and border of gold and colour Incipit (1r) Archimartiris necnon archipresulis Explicit (1v) eiusdem martiris gloriosi Note (1v) Capitula Rubric (5v) Expliciunt compendia capitulorum prime partis. Incipit capitulum I Incipit (5v) Benedictionibus diuine dulcedinis preuentus Note (53r) Pars II (59v) Text, Initial (91r) Pars III (95r) Text, Initial (111r) Pars IV (114r) Text, Initial Ends Explicit (125r) festumque eius solenniter celebrandum ad laudem et gloriam domini nostri Ihesu Christi qui, etc. in secula seculorum. Amen. laus deo Note See also MS 464
TJames	vac.
Stanley	G. 14
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/vf901ky7081
Location	MS 467
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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