Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 366: Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae

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Abstract/Contents

Summary: This is a thirteenth-century manuscript containing the letters of Peter of Blois (d. 1212). Cohn identified CCCC MS 366 as one of the 'B' group manuscripts of Peter's letters. The manuscript is from the Benedictine priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Martin, at Dover, Kent, where it was included in a catalogue in 1389.
Contents: Epistolae

Description

Alternative title	P. Blesensis Epistolae cxv
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 2 + 133
Date created	[ca. 1200 - 1299]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	28 and 32 lines to a page
Height (mm)	226
Width (mm)	152
Collation	a(2) 1(8)-16(8) 17(6) (wants 6).
Writing	in several good hands
Foliation	ff. i -viii + (1-2 missing) 3-75 (76-77 missing) + 78-135 (136 missing) + 137-140 + ix-xvi
Provenance	From Dover Priory: at bottom of f. 2r is: : : III : Epistole petri bles ... quia uniuersus iuda ... 143 ... 2. Ancient Libraries, p. 419, no. 133.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xiii (cir. 1250?)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yj128qx8298/MS_366.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wz488ty1735/366.pdf
Contains	Title Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae. 3r-140v James P. BlesensisEpistolae cxv. 3r-140v Author Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath Note (3r) Table in a somewhat charter-like hand of cent. xiii Headed in red Rubric (3r) Hec sunt nomina Epistolarum. Hi sunt tituli Note Begins Incipit (3r) Rogatus a vobis Note (3r) i. Prefatio Epistolarum Magri Petri Blesensis Incipit (3r) Audiui et conturbatus Note (3r) ii. Quod modeste dolendum de mortuis Incipit (3r) Fletu singu(l)tuoso Note (3r) iii. Quod nobilis Ignobilem non contempnat Ends Incipit (4v) Sal infatuatum Note (4v) cxiiii. De inpetuosa et indiscreta prelati sententia Incipit (4v) Eam speramus Note (4v) cxv. Quod honesti consanguinei diligendi et promouendi The same hand writes many marginalia in the body of the book Text Rubric (5r) Epistole Magistri Petri blesensis Bathon. archidiaconi Incipit (5r) Henrico dei gratia illustrissimo anglorum regi etc. (5r) Rogatus a uobis Note Ends Explicit (140v) gratiam uendicat et fauorem Note Verses in another hand (xiv), rather faint a. Incipit (140v) Pene quibusque bonis fecundis rex reg ...Karole viue precor et plebis h .. tuere (?)Plebem custodi sed linguas quas nimis odiUrendas iure iurantum turpiter ure... Note 18 lines, the last Explicit (140v) In ducis exitium vicium dux hocc cito mundet Note b. Incipit (140v) Ut sompnum fugias ac ocia que nimis odiPetri sepe legas librum blesensis egidi Note c. Incipit (140v) Francorum regi soldanus mandat ut ipsiMittat lombardos tres potibus et dape largosNec trutannos tres normannos tresque scientesEt domitos britones tot et anglos non cupientesSoldano regis respondet epistola quod visvel tu virEt petis inuenies cum de mare femina fies
TJames	312
Stanley	3. 14
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/vy908wk5791
Location	MS 366
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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