Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College Library, 455 (393)

Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College 455(393) is a copy of the first version of the Collectio Tripartita (to Trip. B 28.10, where it ends incomplete at the end of a quire); it is manuscript G in the Brett/Nowak edition. Written in two columns. A text full of idiosyncratic readings, not easily related to any other. It is in an Anglo-Norman, and probably English, hand of s.xii med. (1120 x 1160 sugg. Dr Tessa Webber, July 2007), with good and unusual coloured initials. It shows few signs of use, but a second and slightly later hand made some marginal additions in Part B. Early on, some rubrics are in marginal panels, which occupy some of the main writing space. Afterwards they are in the text. The binding is of c. 1914. Formerly belonged to John Banister, who acquired it from his uncle, Joshua Lambert, in 1608. It passed later to William Moore, who gave a collection of 150 manuscripts from various sources to the College in 1659 (Prof. C.N.L. Brooke, pers. comm. to Martin Brett, identifying the book as Bernard, CMA no. 1117, which a concordance in the College copy makes the present 455/393. See too Szuromi (2010) 116-9, 151-4.

Links

• Brett/Nowak edition of Tripartita: http://ivo-of-chartres.github.io/tripartita.html

Literature

Kéry, Collections p. 244