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Royal MS 13 A IV

Record Id:

040-002106816

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

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Royal MS 13 A IV

Title:

Miscellany of theological, grammatical and historical texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-8v: Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Summa de coloribus rhetoricis, beginning 'Ars semper eadem quod autem ex arte' (imperfect);

ff. 9r-22r: The Metrical Life of Saint Hugh of Lincoln;

ff. 22v-23v: Poem on Troy, beginning 'Pergama flere volo fato Danaum data solo';

ff. 24r-24v: Extract from the end of a disputation in elegiac verse between a clerk and a soldier, in which the clerk defends himself, beginning 'Dicit quod feriat gladiis';

ff. 25r-75v: Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, beginning 'Architrenius quidam cum ad annos virilis roboris' (imperfect, lacking the end of Book 8 and Book 9);

ff. 76r-81v: Simon Chèvre d’Or, L’Ilias (short version), beginning 'Diviciis ortu specie virtute triumphis';

ff. 81v-84r: Serlo of Wilton, Versus de differenciis, beginning 'Dactile quid latitas exi qui publita vitas' with glosses in Anglo-Norman;

ff. 84r-85r: Latin proverbs, beginning (in Anglo-Norman) 'Ke oil ne veit quor ne desire / Cor non affectat quod non oculus nota spectat', with further Anglo-Norman proverbs added in the margin; miscellaneous additions at the end in 13th- and 14th-century hands (f. 85r);

ff. 86r-89r: Sermon in Latin, imperfect at the beginning;

ff. 90r-100r: Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis, imperfect at the beginning; miscellaneous additions at the end in 13th- and 14th-century hands (f. 100r);

f. 100v: Recipe fragment in Latin;

ff. 101r-102v: Walter of Bibbesworth, Le Tretiz, beginning '[F]emme qe aproche son temps' (imperfect).

Decoration:

Initials in red, green or blue, some with penwork decoration in red or green. Puzzle initials in red and green (ff. 9, 76). Line-fillers in red (ff. 2-4). Marginalia and some rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-002106816

Is part of:

Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts

Royal MS 13 A IV : Miscellany of theological, grammatical and historical texts

Hierarchy:

032-002105724[1036]/040-002106816

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View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

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Languages:

Anglo-Norman
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1324

Date Range:

13th century to 14th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 190 x 115 mm.

Foliation: ff. 102 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Script: Gothic (ff. 1-100) and Gothic cursive (ff. 101-102).

Binding: BM/BL In-house. Rebound in 1970.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

'Rogerus de Noramtn': early 14th-century inscription (f. 100v).

'Johannes Burgo': 14th-century inscription (f. 100v).

'Richard Jehonys', 'Robert', 'John Parker' (perhaps of Cambridge, b. 1548, d. 1619), 'Henry Mard', 'Wyllamy Darby': 15th- or 16th-century inscription (f. 100v).

The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): probably entered the Royal library during the reign of Henry VIII (Carley (ed.), The Libraries of King Henry VIII (2000), p. xxxvi, n. 48). In the catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), II, no. 8616 (p. 247)).

Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

Publications:

[Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 2 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), II, no. 8616 (p. 247).

H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I, p. 27.

George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, pp. 75-76.

Jan Oberg, Serlo de Wilton: Poemes Latins, Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 14 (Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell, 1965), pp. 27, 170-72 [ff. 81v-84r].

Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, ed. by Paul Gerhard Schmidt (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1974), pp. 109, 125 [edition of the text, ff. 25r-75v].

G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 120, no. 169.

The Metrical Life of Saint Hugh of Lincoln, ed. by Charles Garton (Lincoln: Honywood Press, 1986), pp. 8-81, 89 [edition and translation of the text, ff. 9r-22r].

Walter de Bibbesworth, Le Tretiz, ed. by William Rothwell (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1990), p. 2, pp. 3-6 [edition of the text, ff. 101r-102v].

Tony Hunt, Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-century England: Texts (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1991) pp. 125-35 [edition of the text, ff. 81v-84r, with notes on the glosses in this manuscript].

Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, ed. by Winthrop Wetherbee, Cambridge Medieval Classics, 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) [edition and translation of the text, ff. 25r-75v].

Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999) nos 260, 285.

The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), p. xxxvi, n. 48.

Sebastien Peyrard, 'L'Ilias de Simon Chevre d'Or, Edition critique et commentaire' (unpublished doctoral thesis, École des Chartes, 2007), Chapter 3 [ff. 76r-81v].

Exhibitions:

Lincolnshire's Greatest, The Collection, Lincoln, 19 June 2015 - 13 September 2015

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

Life of St Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln. Exhibited: Lincolnshire's Greatest, The Collection, Lincoln, 19 June 2015 - 13 September 2015

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections (1921), II, p. 75-76:

'LATIN POEMS, theological tracts, &c., and French verse, viz.:

1. Prose tract on rhetorical figures, with examples in verse-composition, having a good deal in common with a more elaborate treatise in Cotton MS. Cleop. B. vi, f. 33. Beg. 'Ars semper eadem, quod autem ex arte est non semper idem'. Imperfect. Breaks off in a long alphabetical list of words in which the figure 'translatio' takes place, 'ridet domus argento'. f. 1.

2. 'Vita sancti Hugonis episcopi Lincolniensis': anonymous poem in 1072 hexameters. Printed, from this MS. and another at Oxford, by J. F. Dimock, Metrical Life of S. Hugh, Lincoln, 1860. Beg. 'Arma uirumque cano quo iudice nec caro cara'; ends 'Sit laus et uirtus et honor per secula cuncta'. f. 9.

3. Two poems, or more probably two excerpts from the same poem, on the fall of Troy (cf. 12 D. III, a later copy, in which they are differently arranged, and Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 27). The metre in both pieces is a leonine elegiac with the rhyme carried through the couplet. The arrangement here is:-(a) Forty-five couplets beg. 'Pergama fiere uolo fato Danaum data solo', and ending Femina letalis, femina plena malis' (cf. Cotton MS. Cleop. A. VIII, f. 56, where the heading is 'Versus magistri Hildeberti' [Bishop of Le Mans 1097, Archbishop of Tours 1125-1134] and Add. MS. 35295, f. 3). See also Hauréau, Mélanges Poétiques d'Hildebert, 1882, p. 207. f. 22 b;-(b) Eleven and a half couplets beg. 'Vidbus arte minis Danaum data Troia ruinis'. Imperfect, breaking off 'Sic facies Helene fuit exitus urbis amene'. For continuations, in more or fewer verses, see 12 D. III, art. 6 (b), Cotton MS. Cleop. A. viii, f. 57 b, Add. MS. 35295, f. 4 b, &c. The lines are printed as ll. 153-175 of a poem attributed to Hildebert in Leyser, Hist. Poet. Med. Aevi, p. 404. f. 23 b.

4. Disputation in elegiac verse between a clerk and a soldier, apparently with a lady as judge. Imperfect, containing only the last twenty couplets, in which the clerk defends himself. Beg. 'Dicit quod feriat gladiis, ego renibus, inde'; ends 'equior est clarus clerus an equus eques'. f. 24.

Inserted at the end (f. 24b) is a couplet 'De Abel et Cain', beg. 'Sacrum pingue dabo, non macrum sacrificabo'.

5. 'Architrenius magistri Iohannis de Hauuilla ad Walterum de Constanciis Rotomagensem archiepiscopum' (1184-1207): the hexameter poem in nine books, entitled Archithrenius, by Jean de Hauteville (or Anneville?), printed by Badius Ascensius (Paris, 1517) and Tho. Wright (Satirical Poets of the XII Cent., Rolls Ser., 1872, i, p. xxv). Preceded by a prose prologue and table of capitula. Imperfect, breaking off in lib. viii, cap. II. For other copies see 15 C. V, Cotton MS. Vesp. B. xxiii, and Harley MS. 4066. Preface beg. 'Architrenius quidam cum ad annos'; text, 'Velificatur Athos, dubio mare ponte ligatur'. f. 25.

6. 'Incipit lib . . . . magistri Simonis de excidio Troi . . . . . . dos uel aurea capra': unrhymed elegiac poem in two books (lib. i of the fall of Troy in 84 couplets, lib. ii an epitome of the Aeneid in 137 couplets) by Simon Chèvre-d'Or, a canon of S. Victor at Paris in the middle of the 12th cent. Lib. i is substantially identical with lines 1-150 of the poem which Leyser prints as Hildebert's (op. cit. p. 398), see above, art. 3. See Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 27. Lib. i beg. 'Diuiciis, ortu, specie, uirtute, triumphis'; lib. ii, 'Ignibus Eneas cedens non hostibus urbem'. Colophon, 'Explicit liber ii et notandum quod nulli duo uersus repperiuntur absque aliquo colore rethorico vel aliqua scemate'. f. 76.

7. 'Hic uertendo uices quod longatur breue dices verbum cum sit idem non est sensus tamen idem': verses (193 leonine hexameters) on words of like spelling but different quantity, by Serlo, probably the Dover monk and poet (fl. 1160). A copy in Add. MS. 23892 (f. 55) is without the prefatory lines. Many additional lines are given in the margin, chiefly in a hand of the 15th cent. Preface beg. 'Dactile quid latitas ? exi. quid publica uitas?'; text, 'Unam semper amo cuius non soluar ab hamo'. f. 81 b.

8. Proverbs in Latin in verse (85 leonine hexameters), with French equivalents in the margin. Beg. 'Cor non affectat que non oculus nota spectat. Ke oil ne veit quor nedesire'. f. 84.

Added at the end (f. 85) in other hands are a few verses, grammaticai or proverbial, and a poem (14 elegiac couplets) on the characteristics of animals, beg. 'Ossibus extruitur elefans dorsoque camelus'.

9. Sermon (imperf. at beg.) on angels. Begins in the story of Balaam and ends 'Vnde Gregorius, sic flat opus in publico quatinus intencio maneat in occuito, &c.' f. 86.

10. Innocent III, De contemptu mundi. Imperfect, beginning in lib. ii, cap. iii (Migne, Patr. Lat. ccxvii. 717 D), 'O principes infideles'. The same transpositions and omissions, as compared with Migne's text, as in 7 D. xvii, art. 5. Ends 'sulphur et ignis ardens in secula seculorum'. f. 90.

At the end are scribbled:-(a) Note of three days not good for bleeding (cf. Arund. MS. 346, f. 20 b), beg. 'Tres sunt dies infra annum' . f. 100;-(b) Three lines on beer and one on vinegar Beg. 'Seruiciarn plerique notant nil spiscius illa'. f. 100;-(c) Verses, including 'Omnibus omnia non mea somnia dicere possum', and other scribbling in a hand of circ. 1300, ending 'libri istius possidet dominiumkogerus de Noramtun'. f. 100 b.

11. Walter de Biblesworth, French verses with English glosses, designed as a student's vocabulary; see Paul Meyer, Recueil d'anciens textes (partie française), nos. 36, 37 (a critical edition of ll. 1-86), and 'Notice du MS. 8336 Phillipps' in Romania, xiv, p. 497. The English glosses, which vary somewhat in the MSS., were printed from Arundel MS. 220, Sloane MS. 809, and a MS. at Cambridge by Tho. Wright in Mayer ' s Library of National Antiquities, i. Imperfect, containing 1l. 1-122, without the preface. Beg. 'Femne qe aproche son temps'. In an early 14th cent. hand. f. 101. Vellum; ff. 102. 8 in.x 4¹/₂ in. XIII cent. (except art. 11). Sec. fol. 'pronat sic ergo'. initials (artt. 2-8) in red and green, rarely blue. Belonged to Roger of Northampton (see above, f. 100 b). On the same folio in later hands are the names Johannes Burgo (14th-15th), Richard Jehonys, Robert, John Parker, Henry Mard, and Wylliam Darby (15th cent.). Old Royal press-mark of a seal (a ship); not in cat. of 1666; CMA. 8616.'