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O.3.12

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Shelfmark O.3.12
Manuscript Title

Gavin Douglas, Eneados
Alternative Title

Gawain Douglas's Aeneid
James Number 1184
Century 12th16th
Physical Description

35 lines to a page. In an ugly hand.
Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. H. 3. No. 317. On the leaf before the text is (xvi): Johannes Danyelston Rector a Dysert.
Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 30.5 x 22
Folio 330 ff.
Binding Original binding of stamped leather over boards: remains of clasps
Material Paper
Language English
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.3.12/manifest.json
Online Since 17/05/2016

Contents

In the binding at each end is a leaf of a service-book: both the MSS. used are of cent. xii, late.

Title in the original hand.
Heyr begynnys the prolong of Virgyll prynce of Latyn poetis hys twelf bukis of Eneados compilit and translatit furth of latyn in our Scottis langage by ane Right nobill and wirschipfull clerk Master Gawyn Dowglas provest of Sanct Gylys kyrk in Edinburgh and person of Lyntoun in Louthiane. quhilk eftyr was bischop of Dunkeld.
f.1 Inc. prologus in virgilii Eneados
Lawd honour praysingis thankis Infynyte.
Text of book XIII. (from the Latin of Maphaeus Vegius) ends on f.328b.
On f.329 is a rendering of the Epitaph of Virgil (Mantua me genuit, etc.) signed Qd G. Douglas.

Bibliography

Griffiths, J., 'Exhortations to the Reader: The Glossing of Douglas's Eneados in Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.3.12', English Manuscript Studies, Vol 15 (London, 2009), pp. 185-97

Hellinga, L., and J. B. Trapp, ed., The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3, 1400-1557 (Cambridge, 1999)

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