Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 393

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MS 393

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Date

1100 - 1199

Language

Latin

Title

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 393: Historia Eliensis
Vita et miracula beatae Æthelthrythae || Vita et miracula beatae Etheldrithae
Gregory of Ely OSB, Vita et miracula Sanctae Etheldredae metrice || Vita et gesta ejusdem per Gregorium Eliensem monachum versifice composita
Description of the Isle of Ely || Descriptio situs Eliensis insulae et de quibusdam ejusdem insulae proprietatibus
Vita Sanctae Wihtburgae virginis || Vita Beatae Withburgae sororis Beatae Ætheldrithae
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in festiuitate Sanctae Sexburgae || In festivitate Sancte Sexburge
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in natale Sanctae Eormenhilde || In natale Sancte Eormenilde
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sanctae Werburgae || Vita Sancte Werburge virginis
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Agent

Preferred form
- Gregorius Eliensis monachus (10..-11..)
Role
- Author
Original form
- Gregory of Ely OSB
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Preferred form
- Goscelin (1035?-1107?)
Role
- Author
Original form
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin
Other form
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, c 1035-c 1107
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Description

Summary: CCCC MS 393 contains the Historia Eliensis, an account of the history of the Benedictine cathedral priory of Ely written c. 1130 at Ely, with press marks and inscriptions revealing that it remained there throughout the medieval period. The manuscript contains a number of important hagiographical texts relating to the lives and miracles of saints associated with the priory, including the unique copy of the Vita et miracula Sanctae Etheldredae metrice by Gregory of Ely OSB (d. after 1116), and another important text describing the posthumous miracles of St Etheldreda.

Contents :

1r-33v - Vita et miracula beatae Æthelthrythae || Vita et miracula beatae Etheldrithae

Note: (1r) Large and fine initial in colour, with yellow-brown ground

incipit: (1r) Anno ab incarnatione dominica DC xvi qui est annus uigesimus primus ex quo augustinus

explicit: (2v) in magna gloria solet celebrari die nonarum iuliarum

incipit: (3r) Beata et gloriosa uirgo Aetheldritha utriusque titulo nobilitatis insignita

Note: (not in BHL)

Note: (3r) Fine initial with blue ground

explicit: (33v) referens cunctis audire uolentibus omnia que ei contigerunt

33v-58v - Gregory of Ely OSB, Vita et miracula Sanctae Etheldredae metrice || Vita et gesta ejusdem per Gregorium Eliensem monachum versifice composita

rubric: (33v) Incipit prologus in libellum de uita et gestis Beate ÆÐELÐREÐE uirginis quem uersifice composuit Gregorius Eliensis monachus

incipit: (34r) Qui iouis ardores rapti ganimedis amores

Note: (34r) Handsome blue initial

explicit: (34r) Ut rosa pulchra rubens ut lilia florida candens

rubric: (34v) Explicit prologus

rubric: (34v) Incipit liber primus de uita et obitu Beate Æðeldriðe Uirginis et anglorum regine

incipit: (34v) Celum sideribus decoratur. lumine. phebus Autunnus pomis. uer floribus. uua racemis

explicit: (39v) Effectumque rei sic ELGE dicimus ely

rubric: (39v) Explicit Vita Sancte Æðeldriðe Virginis

rubric: (42r) Incipit prologus in librum II de miraculis eiusdem

incipit: (42r) Scribere uirtutum uirgo sacra gesta tuarum

rubric: (42r) Capitula libri secundi

incipit: (42r) De statu anglie, etc.

Note: Text

incipit: (42v) Postquam deuicto mundo pariterque relicto

explicit: (50r) Que bis nupsisti dotem geminam meruisti

Note: Epilogue to liber II or Prologue to liber III

incipit: (50v) Virgo uirgineas utinam te uirgine dignas

explicit: (50v) Tertius expressit nostro que tempore gessit

Note: (50v) Capitula, unfinished

Note: Text

incipit: (51r) Anglorum populis diuersa sorte minutis

Note: Ends unfinished

explicit: (55r) Virginis ut meritum testantia nobile factum

Note: (Of the prisoner Brithstanus delivered)

Note: ff. 55v-58v blank

Note: Hardy I 280. BHL. 2639

39v-41v - Description of the Isle of Ely || Descriptio situs Eliensis insulae et de quibusdam ejusdem insulae proprietatibus

Note: (ut opinor ejusdem autoris)

rubric: (39v) Incipit Descriptio situs eliensis insule et de quibusdam insule proprietatibus

incipit: (40r) Iam locus atque loci tanto splendore decori

rubric: (41v) Epilogus primi libri

Note: ending

explicit: (41v) Fructum centenum cumulans tibi fenore plenum

59r-69r - Vita Sanctae Wihtburgae virginis || Vita Beatae Withburgae sororis Beatae Ætheldrithae

Note: In protocollo (f. iv), haec sunt Helye lanterna capella Mariae astque molendinum multum dans vinea vinum continet insontes quos vallant undique pontes hos ditant montes nec desunt flumina fontes

Note: (Wharton, Anglia Sacra I. 592)

Note: Later heading

rubric: (59r) De Sancta Wythburga sorore Sancte Ætheldrede virginis

rubric: (59r) Prohemium in vita Sancte Wihtburge virginis

incipit: (59r) Orientale orientalium anglorum sidus

Note: (59r) Good initial, Withburga nimbed, throned, holding flowering branch and crown. Drapery outlined with green and blue. Ground, blue

explicit: (59v) nec sensus sufficiat nec lingua nec manus

rubric: (59v) Vita eiusdem

incipit: (59v) Filia et aurora lucis etheree nata regaliter

explicit: (69r) diem quo incorrupto ostensa est corpore

Note: Hardy I 469. Mostly abridged from the text in Trinity O. 2. 1

69r-71v - Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in festiuitate Sanctae Sexburgae || In festivitate Sancte Sexburge

incipit: (69r) Regum proles et regum parens

explicit: (71v) testatur se posidere cum Christo regna celestia ipso prestante qui cum patre et spiritu sancto regnat in eterna secula

Note: Hardy I 361 mentions the same text as in Caligula A. 8, but does not mention this copy

71v-75r - Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in natale Sanctae Eormenhilde || In natale Sancte Eormenilde

incipit: (71v) De beata et deo digna Eormenilda eadem fere recensemus

Note: Ends

explicit: (75r) consortio perfruamur largiente ipso domino saluatore nostro qui omnium seculorum dominatur cum deo patre et spiritus Sancto. Amen

Note: Hardy I 368. Also in Caligula A. 8 and Trinity College O. 2. 1

75r-iir - Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sanctae Werburgae || Vita Sancte Werburge virginis

incipit: (75r) Filia regum et sponsa Christi decentissima

Note: Ends

explicit: (81v) annuat inquam ipse saluator qui cum patre et spiritus Sancto in omnia secula regnat et dominatur. Amen

Note: By Goscelin (?). Hardy I 421, who does not mention this copy. Also in Caligula A. 8, Acta Sanctorum 3 Feb. (I 386)

Note: (iir) On the flyleaf is a note (xiv?)

Note: (iir) Erconbertus et sexburga. Dux tonbertus. Sancta Etheldreda. Rex Egfrid. Sancta Withburga. Rex Wlferus. Sancta Ermenilda. Sanctus Petrus Sanctus Benedictus

Note: Perhaps this is a list of figures on a shrine or painting

Note: (iir) A rough pencil sketch of a church and a very faint inscription in old pencil

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