Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 425: Gerald of Wales, Vita Sancti Remigii episcopi, Vita Sancti Hugonis. Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae

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Summary: CCCC MS 425 consists of two once-separate volumes. The first contains the unique surviving copies of two hagiographical works by Gerald of Wales (1146-1226), his lives of St Remigius and St Hugh. It has been suggested that the manuscript could be an autograph, and on these grounds has been located to Lincoln between 1209 and 1223. The second volume is a c. 1450 copy of letters of Peter of Blois (d. 1212). The two were probably combined by Matthew Parker. He added a table of contents and the initials "TW" to the start of the first volume, perhaps suggesting that he acquired it from one of the Twynes or from Thomas Wootton.
Contents: Vita Sancti Remigii episcopi -- Vita Sancti Hugonis -- Epistolae

Description

Alternative title	Giraldus Cambrensis. P. Blesensis
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 79 + 114
Date created	[ca. 1200 - 1225]; [ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	two volumes
Height (mm)	195
Width (mm)	130
Collation	1(8) (wants 1) 2(8) 3(8) (+ slip) 4(8)-6(8) (+ slip) 7(8)-10(8) \|\| a(12) b(10) c(12) d(10) e(12)-k(12) (wants 10-12).
Writing	The hand is a good clear pointed one of cent. xiii early, and the aspect resembles that of no. 400
Foliation	ff. i-ii + 1 (2 missing) + 3-24 + 24a + 25-46 + 46a + 47-192 + iii
Provenance	On 1 an inscription, perhaps of cent. xiv, partly in Lombardic capitals, and beginning with a monogram of the letters: A. W. E. T. D. L. Libellus de divercis miraculis. G. de Barri dictus archidiaconus sancti Dauid.
Additions	2-8 blank, except for a Parkerian list of contents on 8., At top of 9 in red chalk: TW (Twyne or T. Wotton).

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xiii early and xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zh980tx9335/MS_425.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cv798xz1065/425.pdf
Contains	Title Gerald of Wales, Vita Sancti Remigii episcopi. 6r-45v Nasmith Gulielmus de Barri dictus Cambrensis de vitis sancti Remigii et episcoporum Lincolniensium illi succedentium et aliorum sex Angliae episcoporum sui temporis. 6r-45v James Vita Sancti Remigii. 6r-45v Author Gerald of Wales Note hoc ordine Vita sancti Remigii, p. 20. Roberti Bloet, p.37. Alexandri, p.38. Roberti de Chimel, p.39. Gaufredi Electi, p. 40. Walteri Constantiensis, p.41. Hugonis Burgundiensis, p. 42. Vitae episcoporum Angliae tergeminorum, viz. Thomae Cantuar. et Henrici Winton. p. 45. Bartholomei Exoniensis et Rogeri Wigor. p. 62. Baldwini Cisterciensis postea Cantuar. et Hugonis Cartusiensis postea Lincoln. p. 73 Printed by Dimock in Vol. VII of the Rolls ed. of Giraldus. He says of the MS. of all the early manuscripts of Giraldus's different works which I have had to study, this C.C.C. 425 seems to me to have the best claim to be looked upon, if not as his own autograph copy, yet as written and revised and added to under his own eye. At any rate it was, in all likelihood, written before Giraldus' death: it certainly gives us a most correct text: and the text, probably, of Giraldus's last revision. (Introd., p. ix.) It is the only manuscript of these Lives extant Rubric (6r) Prefatio donum declarans et gratiam comparans Note (6r) Gold initial with half-length of a mitred archbishop (Stephen Langton) on blue ground Incipit (6r) Reuerendo patri ac domino Stephano dei gratia Cantuariensi archiepiscopo Note (p. 1 Rolls) (9r) Capitula (p. 9 Rolls) Rubric (9v) Incipit proemium Incipit (9v) Vitas uirorum Note (p. 11 Rolls) (11v) Text (p. 14 Rolls) (11v) Initial has half-length of Remigius in blue with crozier 47 is an added slip, cf. p. 44 of print On 54 the hand that wrote the title on p. 1 adds a title in capitals Rubric (27v) De Thoma Cantuarenci Note (31v) (Dimock, p. 57 ) Rubric (31v) De Bartholomeo Exoniensi et Rogero Wigorniensi Note (31v) An initial with half-lengths of the two (37r) Similarly, (Dimock, p. 67) Rubric (37r) de Baldewino Cisterciensi et Hugone Cartusiensi Note (37r) An initial with two half-length figures Explicit (44v) sub hoc conpendio terminetur Rubric (44v) Explicit Note 89, 90 blank Title Gerald of Wales, Vita Sancti Hugonis. 46r-80v Nasmith Vita S. Hugonis Lincoln. 46r-80v James Vita Sancti Hugonis. 46r-80v Author Gerald of Wales Note Edited by Dimock in Vol. VII of the Rolls ed. of Giraldus. This is the only manuscript Rubric (46r) Incipiunt capitula in vitam Sancti Hugonis Note Dimock, p. 83 93, 94 are an added slip with capitula of the Third Distinction of the work: 93 being blank Rubric (47r) Incipit proemium in uitam Sancti Hugonis Lincolniensis Incipit (47r) Quanto rarius Note (Dimock, p. 87) (48r) Text. Initial with half-length of Hugh blessing (60v) Distinctio II (68v) Distinctio III Ends Explicit (79r) regnat et imperat in secula seculorum. Amen Rubric (79r) Explicit Note 160-162 blank Title Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Epistolae. 81r-191r Nasmith Petri Blessensis epistolae LXXVIII. 81r-191r Author Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath Rubric (81r) Epistole Petri Blesensis Note (P. L. CCVII) Rubric (81r) Scribitur regi ad cuius mandatum presentis operis epistolas dispersas collegerat et est hoc quasi prohemium operis Incipit (81r) Henrico dei gratia illustrissimo Rubric (82r) Consolacio ad regem de obitu filii junioris regis Note There are 78 Epistles. The last Rubric (189v) Congratulatur istis de reparacione ecclesie blesensis et hortatur eos Incipit (190r) Dilectis dominis ... R. decano ... Gratias ago gratie largitori Note Ends unfinished Explicit (191r) Ille qui infirma Note (191r) The verso of this leaf and recto of the next are blank and pasted together (192r) A blank leaf follows On the margin of f. 110v (190v) martinus clamidem cum paupere dimidiauit
TJames	191
Stanley	N. 29
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/ws512bd6784
Location	MS 425
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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