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• Résumé : CCCC MS 285 contains the holograph copy of the Vita Henrici V regis Angliae of Tito Livio Frulovisi (d. after 1456), a biography of the Lancastrian king that, it has recently been argued, was a reworking of the pseudo-Elmham's Vita et Gesta Henrici Quinti. Written while Frulovisi was in England in the later 1430s, perhaps 1436-8, the manuscript was once in the possession of Henry VI, though how it came to be in Parker's possession is not known. It was presumably Parker who bound this fifteenth-century humanist text together, somewhat incongruously, with a tenth- or early eleventh-century copy of De laudibus uirginitatis (De virginitate) by Aldhelm (d. 709) to which have been added glosses in a hand identified with a Worcester Cathedral scribe.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais, grec

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Tito Livio Frulovisi - author

  4r-74v - Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici V regis Angliae

  rubric : (4r) Inuictissimi Anglorum franciaeque Regis henrici quinti ad eius filium christianissi(m)um Regem he(n)ricum sextum uita per T. liuium de frulouisiis ferrarie(n)sem edita feliciter incipit

  incipit : (4r) Cum a primis annis de parente meo

  Note : An exceedingly fine initial of the arms of England and France quarterly, with a splendid excrescence of ornament mostly on burnished gold, with sharply cusped edges, containing grotesques and conventional foliage: cropped at top by the binder

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (73r) regnum tuum franciae bene regundum et gubernandum legauit. τῶ θω̄ δόξα

  Note : ff. 73v-74v blank

  Note : The text of this life was edited by Hearne in 1716

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Aldhelm - author

  75r-131v - Aldhelm, De laudibus uirginitatis

  Note : An erasure at top of f. 75r

  Note : Titles in red capitals

  rubric : (75r) Incipit liber Aldhelmi Episcopi de virginitate seu laude sanctorum

  Note : (P. L. LXXXIX 237)

  incipit : (75r) Metrica tirones nunc promant carmina castos

  Note : The slip (f. 92r) supplies 6 lines omitted on f. 91v

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (122v) Plumabant pariter macta uirtute coronam

  rubric : (122v) Explicit libellus Aldhelmi Episcopi de laude sanctorum patrum atque uirginum

  rubric : (122v) Eiusdem de octo uitiis principalibus

  Note : (P. L. LXXXIX 281)

  incipit : (122v) Digestis igitur sanctorum laudibus almis

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (131v) Adduci merear Christo regnante per ethram

  rubric : (131v) Explicit ΛΙΒΗΡ Aldhelmi Archiepiscopi de viii vitiis principalibus

  Note : On f. 132r an erasure

  Note : A scribble cut off at top: - Anglie primati et apostolice sedis ... in spiritualibus generali et officiali ... patri debitas cum honore

  Note : Also the name humfry

  Note : A drawing of an ornament (or notarial mark) below

  Note : Such Anglo-Saxon glosses as occur in this MS. are given by Professor Napier, Old English Glosses, Oxford (p. xiii)