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MS Ashmole 789
Bodleian Library
Oxford
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United Kingdom
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6r-19v
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NE: MS was originally 8 different MSS: ff. 1-5 (XV); ff. 6-21 (XV); ff. 22-42 (XV); ff. 43-119 (XIV); ff. 120-138 (XV); ff. 139-146 (XV); ff. 147-359 (XV); ff. 360-375 (XV)
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Disticha Catonis, accompanied by Old French translation of Jean Le Fèvre
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Latin (DC) | French (DC)
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Incipit:
Catonis disticha, Latine; cum versione Gallica cuique subjecta, et prologo (per Black Catalogue Ashmole) | Disticha Catonis (JONAS)
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Caton fu preux chevaler et sage homme, Maint bon conseil en la cite de Romme (per Black Catalogue Ashmole)
History
Miraris verbis nudis me scribere versus / Hec brevitas sensus fecit conjungere binos. / Caton finist qui fu sages et preux / Ses nobles vers acoupla deulx et deulx / Mais je feure qui nescay le fer batre / En ce dittie en ay fait de deulx quatre. (per Black Catalogue Ashmole)
Cato
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XV
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1401-1500
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"At the beginning are these original notes [...] 'Donatus est hic liber per reverendum in Christo patrem et dominum, dominum Carolum ['Carolus Boothe consecratus in episc: Hereford. 30 Nov. 1516 8. H. 8.' (W. Dugdale.) pag. 1] divina permissione Hereford' episcopum, officio Registrarij episcopi Hereforden' ea intencione et voto quod semper penes officium Registrarij, absque alienatione ejusdem remaneat, teste David Walker dicti reverendi patris Registrario. David Walker.'" (per Black Catalogue Ashmole)
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Black Catalogue Ashmole, cols. 409-16 | JONAS (http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/consulter/manuscrit/detail_manuscrit.php?projet=76404)
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NE: MS was originally 8 different MSS: ff. 1-5 (XV); ff. 6-21 (XV); ff. 22-42 (XV); ff. 43-119 (XIV); ff. 120-138 (XV); ff. 139-146 (XV); ff. 147-359 (XV); ff. 360-375 (XV)
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