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Content
Ff.1.6
University Library
Cambridge
Travelling companions:
United Kingdom
Location:
Language:
181r-185v
DSB Title:
NE: the Findern Manuscript; the collation of this MS is apparently (see Harris Origins and Make-up) both complex and disputed, which may explain the discrepancy in foliation between that used in Catalogue of Manuscripts CUL and that favored by Harris or the DIMEV; I have chosen to follow the latter foliation; note also that Catalogue of MSS CUL does not list the Cato among the contents
MS Title:
CAT Title:
DSB Author:
Disticha Catonis, translated into English by Benedict Burgh
MS Author:
English (DC)
CAT Author:
Incipit:
"Cato Major" (DIMEV no. 1418)
Explicit:
Chaunge not thi ffreende that thou knowest of oolde / ffor eny newe in trust that thou shalt find… (per DIMEV no. 1418)
History
…[ ]at partayneth to thy techinge / [ ]er neuer [ ] for thy levyng (per DIMEV no. 1418)
Benedict Burgh
CAT Date:
XV
DSB Date:
MS Date:
Origin:
Scribe:
1401-1500
Provenance:
Additional Information
Digital reproductions:
To quickly summarize Harris Origins and Make-up, the MS is traditionally held, since Rossell Hope Robbins in 1954, to have been "compiled for the family of Findern of Findern in south Derbyshire" [sic?], but Harris herself prefers to emphasize the equally large or greater roles in the manuscript's origins played by the Derbyshire families of Cotton, Shirley, and Frauncis.
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Transcription:
Bibliography:
Catalogue of Manuscripts CUL, v. 2, pp. 286-90, no. 1139 | DIMEV (http://www.dimev.net/Records.php?MSS=CULFf16) | Harris Origins and Make-up
Notes:
The Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library Ff.1.6), edited by Richard Beadle and A.E.B. Owen (London: Scolar Press, 1977).
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NE: the Findern Manuscript; the collation of this MS is apparently (see Harris Origins and Make-up) both complex and disputed, which may explain the discrepancy in foliation between that used in Catalogue of Manuscripts CUL and that favored by Harris or the DIMEV; I have chosen to follow the latter foliation; note also that Catalogue of MSS CUL does not list the Cato among the contents
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