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R.7.11

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Shelfmark R.7.11
Manuscript Title

Gerald of Wales, Symbolum electorum
Alternative Title

Giraldus Cambrensis Symbolum Electorum.
James Number 749
Century 13th
Physical Description

Double columns of 35 lines. Well written.
Provenance

Given by Whitgift.

On the fly-leaf is the class mark. ff . 37 . distincio simbolorum and in a later hand a list of the first 35 Bishops of Hereford. The mark is that of the Library of the Franciscans of Hereford, of which many remains exist in the Cathedral library there.
Second Folio curante mihi
Religious House Hereford, Franciscan Convent
Donor Whitgift, John (1530/31?–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity
Size (cm) 21.5 x 15
Folio 96 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

one fly-leaf, 18 28 3, an anomalous quire consisting of 24 leaves, 48 58 68 (+ 1 between 4 and 5) 78 (wants 8 blank) 88 98 108 (+1*: wants 8 blank) | one fly-leaf. [see diagram in printed James catalogue vol. II p. 226]
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Contents

The text is printed by J. S. Brewer in the first volume of the Rolls edition of Giraldus Cambrensis. This MS. is the only complete copy of the text known to exist.

1. Prima distinctio.
f.1 Prefacio in simbolum electorum
Requisitus a sociis
-statui maturior.
Tituli in epistolas (xxvii).
i. Abbati Cisterciensi.
Reue. patri et dom. Abb. Cisterciensi Giraldus.
xxvii. Capitulis et clericis suis.
Scitis quia dedimus
-fuerit et deuota.
Expl. distinctio prima (f.36a).
ff.36b, 37a are blank.

2. f.37b Inc. distinctio secunda
Tituli in Cosmographiam et metra sequencia (xv).
i. De mundi creacione et contentis eiusdem.
Instaurare solent solatia sera dolorem.
xx. Duelli descriptio (2 lines) (f.43b).
Expl. libri pars secunda.

3. Inc. tertia.
Tituli in titulos sicut in fine Topographie.
f.43b Orationes et descriptiones. Sicut in vaticinali hystoria reperiuntur (xxviii)
i. f.44 De Victoriis Anglorum Regis Henrici secundi
Gens igitur Hybernica.
The inserted leaf in quire 6 relates to signs concerning
S. Thomas's death.
There are xxx. chapters in this part, xxix. being Descriptio euentuum nostri temporis, xxx. Descriptio belue multiformis.
Ends f.70b: et abiectio plebis. Expl. libri pars tertia.

4. Inc. quarta.
f.70b Tituli in prefationes per opera uaria dispersas (xxvi)
i. f.72 Topographie prefatio prima
Consideranti michi.
xxvi. Pref. in sacramentalem instruccionem.
Ends f.95b: distribuimus.
Expl. Simbolum electorum.
The last fly-leaf has in a late xvth cent. hand
De Giraldo archidiac. Meneuensi.
Vir quidam magnus in Anglia dixit et asseruit laborem magri Geraldi multis de causis commendabilem esse
-nullo prorsus articulo ecclesie sue pro posse defecit.

Printed [not fully] in part by Brewer in the Rolls edition of Giraldus, I. 397. He takes it to be the work of Giraldus himself.
The only other copy is one of cent. xvi, in Harl. 359.

Bibliography

Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964)

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