Cambridge, Trinity College, 1285
| England |
| Cambridge |
| Trinity College |
| 1285 |
| O.5.4 |
| s. xv |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect (ff. 1-7): Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 382 310, LP 516 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 237). |
A fifteenth-century, mainly Latin, manuscript with only one English text, a grammatical treatise, and some macaronic texts (Mooney 1995, p. 116).
Item: 1| f. 2r-3v |
| Paradigms of verbs |
| 'Partes oracionis quot sunt octo'. |
| 'I loue thu louest he loueth amo amas amat'. |
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Item: 2| ff. 5r-7v |
| Accidence/Liber Accidencium (IPMEP 308.B) and (IPMEP 350) |
| 'In how many maners schalt thou bygynne to make latyn'. |
| 'in i parte ex vi intransicionis et cetera'. |
| Grammatical treatise. Mooney notes that the text is divided into two, a) ff. 4, 6v-7v; b) ff. 4v, 6v |
Thomson 1984, pp. 32-43, 178-85. Mooney 1995, p. 115.
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Item: 3| ff. 9r-13r |
| Notule excerpte de libro magni doctrinalis |
| 'Hic notat autor de quibus in presenti opere est dicturus'. |
| 'ita concludit librum suum'. |
| 'Doctrinale dei uirtute inuante peregi. Pluraque signaui que non debes imitari'. |
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Item: 4| f. 13r |
| Verses on quantities |
| 'Que non ponuntur hic omnia corripiuntur'. |
| 'utilis tractatus de primis sillabis'. |
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Item: 5| f. 14r |
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| 'Incipit alius tractatus de primis sillabis'. |
| 'utilis tractatus de breuibus et longis primarum sillabarum'. |
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Item: 6| f. 15v |
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| 'De literis dictum est sufficienter infra in tractatu de regulis versificandi'.
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| 'nec mea post maria potis est perstringere iura'. |
| 'Quot et quibus modis prime medie et ultime sillabe in uersibus cognoscuntur'. |
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Item: 7| f. 16r |
| Bursa latini |
| 'Equus caballus pullus dextrarius equa'. |
| 'Villicus et proceres natiuus et est generosus'. |
| 'Explicit bursa latini'. |
| Synonyms in verse. |
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Item: 8| f. 17r |
| Catonis Disticha |
| 'Cum animaduerterem'. |
| 'Hec breuitas sensus fecit coniungere binos'. |
| The heading 'Robertus Grostest' has been added by a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. |
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Item: 9| f. 18v |
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| 'Os facies mentum dens guttur lingua palatum'. |
| 'virgula cauda pilus cor tucetum tenor exta'. |
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Item: 10| f. 19r |
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| 'Stans puer ad mensam domini bona dogmata ducas'. |
| 'priuetur mensa qui spernit hec documenta'. |
| 'Grostest' has been added at the top. |
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Item: 11| f. 19r |
| Cartula nostra tibi portat dilecte salutes |
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Item: 12| f. 20v |
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| 'Peniteas cito peccator cum sit miserator'. |
| 'et cure grauitas et consuetudo ruine'. |
| 'IOHAN. GARLANDIUS' |
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Item: 13| f. 21r |
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| 'Est nichil utilius humane credo saluti'. |
| 'finis et illorum caput est deus ipse deorum'. |
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Item: 14| f. 22v |
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| 'A phebo phebe lumen capit a sapiente'.
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| 'inseruit stolidis qui sibi uita fuit'.
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Item: 15| f. 26r |
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| 'Ad mare ne uidear latices deferre'. |
| 'ex utero dicti germani sunt uterini'.
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Item: 16| f. 29r |
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| 'Augustus ti to cesar uel mensis habeto'. |
| 'zelus suppoto zelus et inuidia'. |
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Item: 17| f. 32r |
| Theoduli Ecloga |
| 'Ethiopum terras iam feruida torruit estas'. |
| 'desine quod restat ne desperacio ledat'. |
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Item: 18| f. 33v |
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| 'Deus nichil fecerat frustra dum creauit'. |
| 'sed deus omnipotens nos sibis seruire'. |
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Item: 19| f. 36r |
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| 'Incipit secunda pars doctrinalis in qua tractat de pedibus uersuum'. |
| 'plurali numero similes sunt quos ego cerno'. |
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Item: 20| ff. 59r-78v |
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| 'Licet in presenti opusculo omnium sillabarum naturam declarare proponimus'. |
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| F. 79r contains an omitted passage. F. 79v is blank. |
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Item: 21| ff. 80r-94v |
| Prologue |
| 'Diuiditur iste liber in 2as partes principales in quarum prima de regulis agitur gramaticalibus'. |
| 'istis prolempsis que negacio consocientur'. |
| F. 95 is blank |
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Item: 22| ff. 96r-275r |
| Dictionary |
| 'Alma interpretatur uirgo abscondita uel absconcio uirginitatis sicut dicitur in interpretationibus'. |
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| Part 2 of item 21. |
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Item: 23| ff. 275v-280v |
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| 'Hic incipit algorismus integrorum'. |
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| F. 281r is blank. |
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Item: 24| f. 281v |
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| 'Licet modo in fine temporum'. |
| 'explicit massa compoti'. |
| 'Massa compoti'. |
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Item: 25| ff. 285r-287r |
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| 'Compotus iste diuiditur in .6. partes'. |
| 'sed isti duo ultimi uersus docent quot dies habet quilibet mensis'. |
| 'Compotus manualis'. |
| F. 287rb blank. |
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Item: 26| ff. 287v-289r |
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| 'De composicione quadrantis et eius operacione geometrie due sunt partes theorica et practica'. |
| 'Si autem haueris aliam mensuram paruam'. |
| A table follows. |
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Item: 27| f. 289v |
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| 'De composicione chilindri et eius operacione inuestigantibus chilindri composicionem'. |
| Ends with a table. |
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Item: 28| f. 290r |
| De sphaera |
| 'Tractatum de spera in quatuor capitulis distinguimus'. |
| 'mundi machina dissoluetur. Explicit tractatus de spera'. |
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Item: 29.1| f. 290r |
| Notes |
| 'a. saturnus 7o celo iupiter i ffeton 6o celo'. |
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Item: 29.2| f. 290r |
| Notes |
| 'Pictagora testante didicimus a terra usque ad lunam 206 milia stadiorum'.
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Item: 29.3| f. 290r |
| Notes |
| 'Totus autem terre ambitus'.
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Item: 29.4| f. 290r |
| Notes |
| 'Sanctus augustinus dicit de itinere solis'. |
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Item: 29.5| f. 290r |
| Notes |
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| A note of measures of length.
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Item: 30| f. 293v |
| Circular planetary diagram |
| 'Thys ys the sterre saturnus that gooth abowte in 30 ?ere hyt ys an euel planet he is coold and drye'. |
| '...thys ys the sterre luna that gooth abowte in 30 dayes he ys bytwene to'. |
| Mooney describes this diagram as a 'circular base for a volvelle, with circles for each of the spheres'. English text on the planets, following the Ptolemaic model, appears within the circles in a clockwise direction (Mooney 1995, p. 116).
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 420 x 270 mm |
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2 flyleaves + 18, 28 (one cancelled)-108 (wants 8), next quire missing, 11-378 + 2 flyleaves, one used as pastedown.
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| Pricking of round holes. Writing space of 320 x 200 mm. Single columns with 56 lines. Frame ruled in drypoint. |
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One scribe writing in black ink in a court hand. Characteristics: long s in initial position; looped ascender on d; long s in medial position; 2-shaped r in medial position; B-shaped w; 8-shaped g; B-shaped s; a like backward B; small neat hand. Body height: 1.5-2mm.
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| Pretty borders of English work on ff. 1r and 96r. F. 1r - bar and band border, vine in burgundy with gold bar next to it. Curling acanthus-type leaves around band in blue, orange and green. Left border curls and ends in cluster of leaves which give way to a spray of black feathering terminating in oval lobes tinted green (very faded) with pairs of leaves in burgundy/orange and blue with white dots along middle, pairs of gold balls with black pen squiggles, terminates in a gold ball. Top margin carries same black feathering but kidney-shaped leaves with white dots along middle, coloured in blue, green and brown/orange, and pairs of gold trefoil leaves. Initial P which gives rise to this border is in blue and burgundy with an infill of blue and burgundy/pink acanthus leaves decorated with white dots on a gold ground. Motifs along left margin include a trumpet flower in blue. The border on f. 96r is by the same artist and is in better condition.
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Medieval binding of white leather/parchment over boards. Evidence of two clasps.
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| The modern foliation is incorrect but has been adopted by James, the same applies here. |
| F. 294v - copies of documents in a late hand. The following as per James, p. 302:
1. Writ of Henry (III.) reciting a privilege given by Innocent IV. at the Council of Lyons to the cappellae regiae. 4I Hen. III.
2. Agreement between Richard Bp of Coventry and Lichfield, and the Deans and Canons of S. Mary Shrewsbury, Stafford, Penkreth, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton and Brogenorth as to their immunity, as Chapels Royal, from episcopal jurisdiction. 6 Kal. Jun. 1281.
3. Prima institucio vicarij de my?elskyrke super Wyram Eborac. dioc. 296. Stephanus le Scrope Archidiae. de Richmond...Dno Johanni de Dalleley presbitero...York, 27 Jan. 1411.
4. Attestation of the copy of John Maretcalff notary.
5. Composicio inter magistrum siue custodem Collegii b. Marie Magd. de Batelfild lich. dioc. et vicarium Eccl. S. Michaelis super Wyram in Archidiaconatu Richmond Ebor. dioc. Roger Yve de leton is the Warden. The parish church of My?elkyrke super Wiram with the Chapel of Plompton had been granted to the College by Henry IV. Given at Batelfyld, 24 Feb. 1411.
6. Ranulph Husey of Adbrighton Husey gives to the College of St. Mary Salop £4 yearly for 100 years. Given at Adbrighton Husey, 4 March 1173.
Flyleaves - two fifteenth-century notes on Prouidencia etc.
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| Good |
| The manuscript was probably owned by the college of St. Mary Magdalen, Battlefield, near Shrewsbury (see above) (James 1902, p. 302). |
| F. 15v - 'Thomas Phillipps of Darlaston in the parish of Stone owneth this Booke November the 17, 1662'. F. 79v: ' anno dom. 1674', also on f. 294. James suggests that the manuscript belonged to the College of Battlefield 'three miles from Shrewsbury, which was founded by Henry IV. in 1410 to commemorate the battle of Shrewsbury (1403)'. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, May 2004.
- James, M. R. 1902. The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity Cambridge: A Descriptive Catalogue, 3 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3, pp. 301-308.
- Mooney, L. R. 1995. The Index of Middle English prose: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Handlist XI , Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, pp. 115-116.
- Thomson, D. 1977. ‘A Study of the Middle English Treatises on Grammar’, University of Oxford, D.Phil thesis.
- Thomson, D., ed, 1984. An Edition of the Middle English grammatical texts, Garland Medieval Texts, 8, London: Garland.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
