Manuscript 13 (MS13) – Grostête De Homine Errato and others by Robert Grosseteste and others
This manuscript is a collection of miscellaneous texts, including a collection for the use of preachers. The manuscript includes Grostest de homine errato, corrupto, restaurato (on the erring, corruption and restored man), Gulielmi de Montibus similitudinarium (Prologue to the similes of Master William of the Mountains), and Petri Blesensis’s Breviloquium (Peter of Blois’s Breviloquium).
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A quarto manuscript from the late thirteenth century, written in Latin on 113 leaves. Includes an inscription of the Cistercian Abbey of Combe, Warwickshire. Some texts contained in this volume have ascriptions to authors that likely were not involved, which has misled historians in the past.
The manuscript is bound in seventeenth century calf. It has been rebacked and has a brass chain staple.
More information can be found in A Catalogue of the Ancient Manuscripts Belonging to the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn by Alfred Horwood, published 1869.
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