GB-LON-LPL-MS.3597 | The Digital Schoolbook

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MS 3597

Lambeth Palace Library

London

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89v-95r

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CalmView: "The suggestion of the Sale Catalogue (see no.l) that the text may be in autograph is unpersuasive. Comparison of the Coughton text with that printed by M. Forster, "Die Burghsche Cato-Paraphrase", Archiv, cxv (1905), 298-323, ibid. cxvi (1906), 25-40, shows some differences in stanza order: Forster's sts.3, 4, 5, appear in the order 5, 3, 4; Forster 18-21 in the order 20, 21, 18, 19; Forster 33-38 in the order 34, 38, 33, 35, 36, 37." | NE: The DIMEV claims this MS to be unlocated, but I confirm the current shelfmark through the Index of Middle English Prose and Erler; the DIMEV also only identifies the Parvus Cato, but not the Cato Major 1418, although this is doubtless because they rely on an early description carrying only the incipit; "The manuscript was to have been sold at Christie's on 20 December 1972 and it is described under Lot 205 of the Sale Catalogue for that day. However, the manuscript was withdrawn from the Sale and is now back at Coughton Court" (per Wilson Coughton Court); the prose items in the MS are dated 1450-1475, but Wilson Coughton Court dates the verse Cato to 1475-1500

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Benedict Burgh's trnaslation of the Parvus Cato and the Cato Major

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English (DC)

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Benedict Burgh's translation of the Parvos Cato and the Cato Major (per Calmview) | Stanzas 1-68 (line 4) and part of stanza 168 (2-7) of Benedict Burgh's translation of the Parvus Cato and the Cato Major (Index and Supplement 3955 and 854, but not noted in this MS.); st. 68/4 ends at the foot of f. 94vb, and the portion of st. 168 appears on f. 95a (per Wilson Coughton Court) | "Parvus Cato" (DIMEV no. 6321)

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C]Um anima aduerterem quam plurimos homines (per Wilson Coughton Court)

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Benedict Burgh

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1475-1500

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1475-1500

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"The only medieval indication of ownership is the name 'Elyzbeth', f. 95. Later names are 'Roger Staggs' [?], f. 6v, 'Sir Roger Staggs' [?], f. 95, 'Robt Gilberd', f. 95 and 'Sir Rob: Throckmorton Bar:', f. 2 (the Throckmorton baronetcy was created in 1642). It is not known when the manuscript came into the possession of the Throckmorton family. W. A. Pantin conjectured that 'Some of the manuscript books at Coughton [i.e., the Throckmorton family seat] may be of Olney provenance', going on to cite this manuscript in particular. About 1446 Sir Thomas Throckmorton (1415-72) had married Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Olney of Weston Underwood in Buckinghmashire. [... and] Dame Margaret could have acquired the manuscript after her marriage" (per Wilson Coughton Court)

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CalmView (http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=MSS%2f3597&pos=10) | Wilson Coughton Court, pp. 295-303 | Erler Women Reading, pp. 145-46 | Index of Middle English Prose, handlist 13, pp. 67-70, no. 3597 | DIMEV (http://www.dimev.net/Records.php?MSS=Coughton)

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