Cambridge, King's College, 13
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Shelfmark
Country:England
Settlement:Cambridge
Repository: King's College
Idno:13
AltName:
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Date and Language
Date:s. xiv
Language: English
Dialect:Scribal Dialect (Part II): Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 376 221, LP 7160 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 196).
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Part 1
Contents
Two fourteenth-century manuscripts bound together and containing William of Palerne and the South English Legendary (Guddat-Figge 1976, p. 84, Brown 1927, p. xix). The language of William of Palerne is very mixed and 'defies a precise localisation' although it is thought that the two manuscripts were bound together from an early date (Bunt 1985, p. 9).

Item: 1
Locus:f. 4r
Title:William of Palerne (IMEV 3281)
Incipit:'Şat it apertly was'.
Explicit:
Bibliography:Printed in Bunt 1985.
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Parchment
Extent:296 mm x 197 mm
Collation:Unable to collate. James states that the collation was 'a12 (1, 2, 3, 10 wanting), b12, c12, d10, e12, f10, g10, h8' (James 1895, p. 22).
Layout:Pricking visible. Ruled for 34-36 lines in reddish brown. Single columns. First letter of each line slightly detached.
Writing: Bunt notes that the hand is a 'bold textura of the later 14th century' (1985, p. 3).
Decoration: Two-line blue or blue and green initials with red penwork mark new sections of the poem.
Binding: Not contemporary. Rebound in 1969. Letter from binder on inside front cover dated 26.03.1969. Size: 300 x 250 mm. Cover of brown morocco with pastedown of marbled paper. Resewn on five double bands across the spine.
Foliation:ff. iii + 82. Modern flyleaves.
Additions:
Condition:
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Part 2
Contents

Item: 1
Locus:f. 1r
Title:South English Legendary: Feast of the Annunciation (IMEV 2989)
Incipit:'Seint marie dai in leinte among other daies gode'.
Explicit:
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Item: 2
Locus:f. 1r
Title:South English Legendary: Moveable Feasts/Septuagesima (IMEV 791)
Incipit:
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Item: 3
Locus:f. 1r-v
Title:South English Legendary: Lent (IMEV 1859)
Incipit:
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Item: 4
Locus:f. 3r-32r
Title:South English Legendary: The Southern Passion (IMEV 483)
Incipit:
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Bibliography:Cf. Morris 1878, pp. 956-965.

Item: 6
Locus:f. 22r-v
Title:South English Legendary: Resurrection (IMEV 1546)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:'Resurrectio Christi', the first part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 7
Locus:f. 24r
Title:South English Legendary: Sabbato in ebdomada Pasche (IMEV 2106)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 8
Locus:f. 25r
Title:South English Legendary: Appearance to the Maries (IMEV 2120)
Incipit:
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Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 9
Locus:f. 26r
Title:South English Legendary: Appearance on the road to Emmaus (IMEV 2647)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 10
Locus:f. 27r-v
Title:Southern Resurrection: Appearance to ten disciples (IMEV 273)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 11
Locus:f. 27v
Title:South English Legendary: Appearance to Thomas (IMEV 3664)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 12
Locus:f. 28r
Title:South English Legendary: Appearance by the Sea of Tybre (IMEV 578)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 13
Locus:f. 28v
Title:South English Legendary: Charge to Peter (IMEV 3766)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 14
Locus:f. 29r
Title:South English Legendary: Concerning Peter and John (IMEV 3767)
Incipit:
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Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 15
Locus:f. 29v
Title:South English Legendary: Choosing of Matthias (IMEV 409)
Incipit:
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Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 16
Locus:f. 29v
Title:South English Legendary: Appearance at Mt. Tabor (IMEV 719)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 17
Locus:f. 30v
Title:South English Legendary: Ascension (IMEV 126)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 18
Locus:f. 31r
Title:South English Legendary: Pentecost (IMEV 443)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Part of the Southern Passion.
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Item: 19
Locus:f. 32r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of Judas (IMEV 1809)
Incipit:
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Item: 20
Locus:f. 34r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of Pilate (IMEV 2755)
Incipit:
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Item: 21
Locus:f. 36v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St Mary of Egypt (IMEV 2990)
Incipit:
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Item: 22
Locus:f. 40v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Alphege (IMEV 2844)
Incipit:
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Item: 23
Locus:f. 43r
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. George (IMEV 2905)
Incipit:
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Item: 24
Locus:f. 44v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Dunstan (IMEV 2884)
Incipit:
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Item: 25
Locus:f. 47v
Title:South English Legendary: Life of St. Augustine of Canterbury (IMEV 2854)
Incipit:
Explicit:Defective
Note:Last four lines of text missing.
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Parchment
Extent:290 x 200 mm
Collation: 1-68. No catchwords.
Layout:Pricking: visible in all quires and regularly spaced throughout the quire; two small rounded marks, 5 mm apart, not always visible, but noticeable on the right edge of some folios. Writing space of 230 x 150 mm. Single columns with 41-44 lines. Ruling in dry point and pencil.
Writing: One scribe writing in a small Anglicana script with some Textura features. Characteristics: script written between the lines of the ruling, with the first letter of each line written in the frame created by the two vertical ruling lines. Tall ascenders especially at the beginning of the first line. Double compartment a; dotted y; regular use of ş and ? both in initial and final position. Body height: 3mm.
Decoration: Lombardic capital in blue (over two lines) with penwork decoration in red, to indicate the beginning of each section. No other decoration apart from some ink work decoration in the ascender of the top line.
Binding: See above.
Foliation:ff. 48
Additions:
Condition:At least one quire has been lost at the end.
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History
Origin:
Provenance:Various names in Part 1 and some of these are in Part 2 also: (f.10v), (ff. 10v, 23v), (13r, 18v, top margin), (f. 23v), , (f. 25 on the right margin) and (?), and a few others which are difficult to read; John Pryns, Margret Coren and Nicholas Williams are also found in Part 1, and Thomas Carwardyn (f. 48v), who has written his name upside down on the last page, is probably connected with James Carwardin, whose name appears on the last page of part 1.
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Orietta DaRold and Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, November 2005.
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Bibliography
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