214, 216; E. H. R., xxv. 450.
[2] Now MS. lit 4, 16, at Cambridge University Library.
[3] On Shirwood's books see E. H. R., xxv. 449-53.
About this same time a certain Emmanuel of Constantinople
seems to have been employed in England as a
copyist. For Archbishop Neville he produced a Greek
manuscript containing some sermones judiciales of Demosthenes,
and letters of Aeschines, Plato, and Chion (1468).[1]
Dr. Montague James has shown that this manuscript of
Emmanuel is by the same hand as the manuscripts known
as the "Ferrar group," which comprises "a Plato and
Aristotle now at Durham, two psalters in Cambridge
libraries, a psalter and part of a Suidas at Oxford, and
the famous Leicester Codex of the Gospels."[2] Dr. James
believes the Plato and the Aristotle to have been transcribed
for Neville by Emmanuel. In 1472 the archbishop's household
was broken up, and the "greete klerkys and famous
doctors" of his entourage went to Cambridge. Among
them, it is conjectured, was Emmanuel, and so it came to
pass that three manuscripts in his writing have been at
Cambridge; two psalters, as we have said, are there now,
land in the beginning of the sixteenth century one of them,
with the Leicester Codex, was certainly in the hands of the
Grey Friars at Cambridge.
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