MS 405

Summary

Described Thomas James 70; Stanley G. 4; Nasmith 405; James, Corpus 405; Vising, p. 95 (no. 255); Bieler, no. 66, p. 48; Bouly de Lesdain, pp. 65–66; K.V. Sinclair, ‘Anglo-Norman at Waterford: The Mute Testimony of MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 405’ in Medieval French Textual Studies in Memory of T.B.W. Reid, ed. Ian Short, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications 1 (London, 1984), pp. 222–234; K.V. Sinclair, The Hospitallers’ Riwle (Miracula et Regula Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerosolimitani), Anglo-Norman Text Society 42 (London, 1984), pp. xxii–xxvi and plate facing title page (of f. 127 (p. 255)); Wilkins 405; Laing, pp. 24–25; Dean & Boulton, 18, 254, 330, 379, 385, 553, 599, 636, 714, 740 (a, b, c, d), 883. Plates of ff. 136–154 (pp. 274–309) in Alain Beltjens, Un commentaire Anglo-Normand d’une partie importante de la règle et de quelques fragments de réglementations diverses de l’Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem, Société de l’Histoire et du Patrimoine de l’Ordre de Malte, Bulletin 18 (Paris, 2006), pp. 146–120 (alternate pages).

[C 3]

Collection of mainly Anglo-Norman texts. Contents, authorship and provenance discussed Sinclair, Waterford, pp. 219–238. Discussion of MS also in Sinclair, Hospitallers’ Riwle, an edition of Raymond du Puy's Regula and the preceding Miracles (ff. 127–154^v (pp. 255–310)) which also prints the ‘Confirmatio super Regula Raymundi de Puy’ (title not in MS) on ff. 125–127 (pp. 251–255). Tony Hunt notes (in ‘Vernacular Literature and its Readership’, CHBB 2, p. 375) that this is one of several Waterford books which bring together booklets from different periods which originate elsewehere, and texts with local connections.

MS in several parts from s. xiii and xiv in. As noted by James, evidently from the Order of Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem in Kilbarry, Co. Waterford. MS given to the College by Matthew Parker.