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Royal MS 12 F VIII
- Record Id:
- 040-002106787
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x00032f
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- Royal MS 12 F VIII
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JOHN OF SALISBURY, Liber Policraticus: a work written in the same year as the Metalogica (1159, cf. 12 D. I), but earlier, and like it addressed to Thomas Becket as Chancellor. In eight books. No rubrics, but at f. ii b a 13th cent. title, 'Incipit liber policraticus Iohannis Saresberiensis postea Carnotensis episcopi ad sanctum Thomam Cantuariensem archiepiscopum'. Printed, Opera, ed. Giles, 1848, iii, iv, and Io. Saresb. Policraticus, ed. Webb, 1909 (for this MS. see i, p. xvi). For other copies cf. 13 D. IV, 13 E. V, and Add. MSS. 21999, 26849. Verse prologue, elsewhere entitled Entheticus, beg. 'Si mihi credideris linguam cohibebis et aule'. Followed by a table of capitula and prose prologue 'Iocundissimus tum in multis'. Text beg. 'Inter omnia que iuris solent obesse principibus'.
On the fly-leaves are theological commonplaces of various dates, including:-(a) Metrical decalogue in a 13th cent. hand. Beg. 'Cunctipotens unus non est alius deus ullus'. f. 114b;-(b) A prayer and three couplets of satirical Latin verse in the hand of [Thomas] Wybarn, which occurs in many other Rochester MSS. ff. 114 b, 115 ;-(c) Rough draft of a poetical epistle (5 x 7 lines, rhymes ababbcc) of a lover to his mistress in a 16th cent. hand, beg. 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose'. f. 114.
Vellum; ff. iii + 115. 111/2 in. x 71/2 in. Circ. 1200. Gatherings of 8 1eaves (i4), numbered, with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'Quicquid agant' or 'quibus magis'. Initials in colours, with zoomorphic ornament In the margins are a few pen and ink drawings representing (1) Lais. f. 62;-(2) A scribe. f. 73 b;-(3) A thief on the gallows. f. 95;-(4) The widow of Ephesus. f. 95. Belonged (f. 1) to Rochester Priory, 'Liber de claustro Roffensi per Ierardum monachum'. It occurs in an early contemporary addition to the 1202 catalogue (5 B. XII, f. 3, Rye, no. 239) among 'libri prioris Rodberti de Waletune', i.e. books at Felixstowe, co. Suff., a cell of Rochester. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 697' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 32) ; also Royal press-mark of a seal (a ship); not in cat. of 1666; CMA. 8656.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
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- 032-002105724
040-002106787 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 12 F VIII : JOHN OF SALISBURY, Liber Policraticus: a work written in the same year as the Metalogica (1159, cf. 12 D. I), but earlier,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1007]/040-002106787
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
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- File
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- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1195
- End Date:
- 1205
- Date Range:
- c 1200
- Era:
- CE
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