Janus: Vies des Pères (fragments)

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MS Add.4176	Notes and extracts on the history of Queens' College, Cambridge
MS Add.4177	Vies des Pères (fragments)
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MS Add.4179	A Breviate of the Spanish Government in Flanders from the Beginning to this present
MS Add.4180	Adair Welcker: Choctaw Mascot Iago
MS Add.4181	Geoffrey Keating: History of Ireland
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Vies des Pères (fragments)

Title	Vies des Pères (fragments)
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.4177
Covering Dates	1250 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	2 leaves
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

The upper part of two unnumbered leaves containing part of Demi-ami, no. 39 of the Vies des Pères.

Written in a xiii cent. French text hand. Capitals alternately in red and blue, with filling and flourishing in the other colour. Bound as flyleaves in In Psalmos Aliquot Davidicos Philippi Melanchthonis Enarrationes Doctissimae (Haganoae, 1528), Adams M?1070 and other works by the same author; the binding is of plain brown calf, possibly contemporary.

Bought from Bull and Auvache, April 1899.

Access and Use

In French

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Vies des Pères (fragments), MS Add.4177

Further information

(as listed, for example, on p. 240 of E. Schwan, 'La Vie

des Anciens Pères', Romania xiii (1884), 23363).The text is printed with a discussion by P.

Meyer, 'Fragments de Manuscrit français', Romania xxxv (1906), 2267 (3846).

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