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Royal MS 15 A. xxxi
British Library
London
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United Kingdom
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13r-20v
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NE: MS is originally four different manuscripts, bound together in s. XVII, before 1666: ff. 1-8 (England or France, XIV); ff. 9-73 (England or France, XIII); ff. 74-120 (England, 1290-1325); ff. 121-144 (England, 1251-1300)
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Disticha Catonis, accompanied by marginal and interlinear gloss
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Latin (DC and glosses)
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Incipit:
Catonis disticha [...] with preface and prose aphorisms. Interlinear and marginal gloss (per SOCAM)
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Cum animaduerterem , id est cum animo considerarem (per SOCAM)
History
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XIII
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1201-1300
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England or France
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"Part 2 [ff. 9-73] and Part 4, ff. 121-140: John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator [...]; passed to Henry, prince of Wales. Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library. All parts: The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 2v and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), nos 8432, 8468, 8532). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library." (per CIM)
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SOCAM (http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002107040) | CIM (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7524&CollID=16&NStart=150131)
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NE: MS is originally four different manuscripts, bound together in s. XVII, before 1666: ff. 1-8 (England or France, XIV); ff. 9-73 (England or France, XIII); ff. 74-120 (England, 1290-1325); ff. 121-144 (England, 1251-1300)