Cambridge, Trinity College, 655
| England |
| Cambridge |
| Trinity College |
| 655 |
| R.4.26/468 |
| s. xiv |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 382 212, LP 7070 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 196). |
A fourteenth-century copy of Robert of Gloucester's
Chronicle along with a prophecy in Latin and a French
Brut.
Item: 1| ff. 1r-2v |
| Prophecy |
| 'Ex inde primo in quartum, de quarto in tercium de tercio in secundum'. |
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| 'Prophecia merlini siluestris anglorum edwardo regi sancti nominis huius tercio reuelata fuit per spiritum sanctum sub testimonio duorum sanctorum'. |
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Item: 2| ff. 2v-159r |
| Chronicle (IMEV 727) |
| 'Engelonde is swițe goud ich wene hit is lond best'. |
| 'I wan țe seignorize nere hi no so prout'. |
Printed in Wright 1887.
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Item: 3| ff. 159v-163r |
| Brut |
| 'Deuant la natiuite nostre seignur mil et deus cens ans brutus le fiz Silin vint en engleterre'. |
| 'Apres li fuit edward sun giz rey e corone a westmoster et conquist tote la seignorize de wales'. |
| A short Chronicle from Brutus. |
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 210 x 150 mm |
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iv + 1-310; 412; 510; 612; 7-810; 9-108; 11-1412; 15-168 + ii.
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| Pricking not visible. Writing space of 175 x 100 mm ruled for single columns with 34 lines. Frame ruled in drypoint but not visible for lines. |
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One scribe writing in black ink in an Anglicana Formata hand. Characteristics: B-shaped w; forked ascender on h and b; dotted y; long s in medial, short ascenders and descenders; thorn; 8-shaped g; yogh; 2-shaped r. Body height: 2mm.
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| Each item started by a two/three-line gold initial on a quartered rose and blue ground with white filigree infill with a spray growing from ascenders and descenders of black lines and carrying a pair of gold balls topped by black squiggles. Other folios carry the same style of initial e.g. ff. 1v, 34v.
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Not medieval. Size: 220 x 155 mm. Cover of dark brown leather with five raised bands across the spine (double thongs).
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| ff. iv + 166. |
| None |
| Good |
| Unknown |
| Unknown |
| Given by : 'Ex dono ornatisimi viri Thomae Nevile Decani Cantuariensis, & Collegij Trinitatis Praefecti'. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, June 2004.
- Hudson, A. 1966. ‘Tradition and Innovation in Some Middle English Manuscripts’, The Review of English Studies, 17, 359-372, p. 360, n. 2.
- Hudson, A. 1969. ‘Robert of Gloucester and the Antiquaries, 1550-1800’, Notes and Queries, 214, 322-333, p. 323.
- James, M. R. 1901. The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity Cambridge: A Descriptive Catalogue, 3 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2, pp. 154-155.
- Wright, W. A., ed. 1887. Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicle, 2 vols., Rolls Series, 86, London: HMSO.
- 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.
