Country:
City:
Library:
Shelfmark:
Arch. F. a. 1.
Former shelfmark:
Content
MS Eng. poet. a. 1
Bodleian Library
Oxford
Travelling companions:
United Kingdom
Location:
Language:
309v-314r
DSB Title:
NE: the "Vernon Manuscript"
MS Title:
CAT Title:
DSB Author:
Her bi ginneþ luytel Caton (f. 309va); Here endet petyt catoun (f. 310rb) (per DIMEV no. 425)
Disticha Catonis, accompanied by the Anglo-Norman translation of Everard of Kirkham and a Middle English verse translation
MS Author:
French (DC) | Latin (DC) | English (DC)
CAT Author:
Incipit:
Disticha Catonis (per Summary Catalogue Bodleian) | "Luytel Caton" (DIMEV no. 425)
Explicit:
Almihti god in Trinite / Leeue vs wel to spede / Send vs of his holy grace / And help vs at vr nede… (per DIMEV no. 425)
History
…Þif þou beo a strong mon / And riche of worldes good / Dispyse þou no luytel mon / Ne hate hym in þy mod [followed by Latin and French ending ‘Suffreȝ amiste / Quaunt purchase le as’] (per DIMEV no. 425)
Cato | Everard of Kirkham
CAT Date:
after 1382
DSB Date:
MS Date:
Origin:
Scribe:
1382-1400
Provenance:
Additional Information
England
Digital reproductions:
"Presented [to the Bodleian] by col. Edward Vernon, of North Aston, Stafford, probably about 1677" (per Summary Catalogue)
Physical reproductions:
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/medieval/eng/images/a0013077.jpg | http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/view/all/what/MS.+Eng.+poet.+a.+1
Transcription:
Bibliography:
Summary Catalogue Bodleian, v. 2 part 2, pp. 789-92, nos. 3938-42 | Bodleian Electronic Catalogue (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/medieval/eng/eng-poet.html) | DIMEV (http://www.dimev.net/Records.php?MSS=BodEngPoeta1)
Notes:
The Vernon Manuscript: A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987)
N/A
NE: the "Vernon Manuscript"
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