Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 218: Henry, Duke of Lancaster, Le livre des seintes medicines
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- Still in its original binding, CCCC MS 218, dating to the period c. 1354-75, contains the Le livre des seintes medicines of Henry of Grosmont (c. 1310-61), first duke of Lancaster. This is one of three extant copies, the other two being in Stonyhurst College 24, and Aberystwyth, NLW Peniarth 388.2. It is a devotional text containing an allegory in which the sickness of the body is parallelled with the sickness of the soul. Christ, as the doctor, heals the five senses from infection by the seven deadly sins. The book is of particular importance to the College because Henry of Lancaster played an important role in its foundation in the middle years of the fourteenth century and is commemorated as one of its great benefactors.
- Contents
- Le livre des seintes medicines -- Monitiones to his son Philip
Description
| Alternative title | Henry of Lancaster, Liure des Seintes Medicines |
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| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 70 + 2 |
| Date created | [ca. 1375 - 1399] |
| Language | French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600); Latin |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | 41 lines to a page |
| Height (mm) | 260 |
| Width (mm) | 165 |
| Collation | a(2) i(8)-vii(8) viii(12) ix(2). |
| Writing | very clearly written |
| Foliation | Unfoliated at present |
| Research | Another copy of art. 1 is at Stonyhurst College (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1st Report , p. 145). The author was probably the second Henry of Lancaster, who died in 1361. It should be noted that he was looked upon in early times as the Founder of the College: he is so described, for instance, in the earliest Inventory of the College plate (about 1376). See also Lamb's ed. of Masters's History, pp. 22, 23. |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xiv late |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| TJames | vac. |
| Stanley | Lib. ab Al. 15 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xz042hy3921 |
| Location | MS 218 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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