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Harley MS 4657

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London

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87r-97r

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NE: this appears to be the sole extant MS of this translation of the DC; for an edition of the text, see Tony Hunt, ed., Le Livre de Catun, Anglo-Norman Text Society Plain Texts Series 11 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1994).

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Disticha Catonis, accompanied by a French translation

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Latin (DC and corrections) | French (DC)

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Catonis moralia et disticha: Latine & Gallice (per Harleian Catalogue) | an anonymous Anglo-Norman translation of the Disticha Catonis in 1076 lines [...] A fifteenth-century hand has made some corrections to the Latin text (per Hunt Une Petite Sume)

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Hic finit Cato dans castigamina nato,/ostendens quare mundum non debet amare./Ici finist le liver de Catun/ki aprent sun fiz sen et resun (per Hunt Une Petite Sume)

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XIV (1/4)

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1301-1325

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"from a note on f. 1r [...] it is apparent that it was owned in the seventeenth century by the Sir Thomas Tempest who was the 4th Baronet of Stella in County Durham. The northern origins of the MS may be confirmed by a list of donations [...] written in a fifteenth-century hand on f. 104r and which includes the names of Mascam (Masham), Gisbourn (Gisburn), Poklyngton (Pocklington) and Hesaw (Hessay), all in Yorkshire." (per Hunt Une Petite Sume)

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Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, vol. 3, p. 186, no. 4657 | Hunt Une Petite Sume, pp. 65-73 | Ausgaben und Abhandlungen 47, p. 108 (https://ia902706.us.archive.org/30/items/ausgabenundabha25stengoog/ausgabenundabha25stengoog.pdf)

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