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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 117

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  • MS 117
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Date
  • 1300 - 1499
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle French
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 117: Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1378)
    • Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1378)
    • Les noms des comtes barouns et baronettis pris et tuez par le counte de Northumberland || Les noms des comtes barouns et baronettis pris et tuez par le counte de Northumberland le counte de Dunbar et Mons. Henri Perci le jour du exaltacion du seint Croys a la battaille du Humbyldon-hyll lan du roy Henri IIII. puisse le conquest Dengleterre III
    • Letter from Gerald of York to Anselm of Canterbury OSB || Epistola Gerardi Eboracensis ad Anselmum Cantuariensem
    • Letter from Anselm of Canterbury OSB to Gerald of York || Responsio Anselmi
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 117 contains a decorated version of the text of the Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364) copied in the last quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains a small number of marginal drawings. The text of the Polychronicon is littered with Parker's characteristic red chalk noting items of interest such as a mention of Oxford University and church affairs. In addition, the manuscript contains two items of the correspondence of Anselm of Canterbury copied from CCCC MS 135 and an account of the Primatial Council at Winchester of 1 April 1076 copied from Bodleian MS Junius 121, all in a sixteenth-century hand, and with an accompanying note as to the source of the texts. It is possible that these items, written on paper and added to the parchment endleaves, were copied for Parker.


    Contents :


    1r-160r - Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1378)

    Note: (1r) Table to the Polychronicon. Handsome initial and partial border

    Note: (7r) Note on the ages of the world

    Note: Text

    incipit: (7v) Post preclaros

    incipit: (9r) Ex senatus consulto censuit Julius Cesar

    Note: (Rolls Edition I 46)

    Note: (9r) Fine initial and partial border. The ornament throughout suggests cent. xiv late. Most of the books have some of it at the beginning

    Note: (32v) Liber II

    Note: (48v) Liber III

    Note: (72v) Liber IV (no initial)

    Note: (90v) Liber V

    Note: (112v) Liber VI

    Note: (129v) Liber VII

    Note: Ends (1378)

    explicit: (160r) Et quod dolendum est in manu continuacionem post ea habuerunt

    Note: (cf. Hog's edition)

    rubric: (160r) Qui scripsit librum sit benedictus in euum Dignus est operarius mercede sua

    Note: (160r) Then, erased: Cronica quam composuit M. J. Carrik (?) mendaciorum summus compilator


    160r-160r - Les noms des comtes barouns et baronettis pris et tuez par le counte de Northumberland || Les noms des comtes barouns et baronettis pris et tuez par le counte de Northumberland le counte de Dunbar et Mons. Henri Perci le jour du exaltacion du seint Croys a la battaille du Humbyldon-hyll lan du roy Henri IIII. puisse le conquest Dengleterre III

    Note: In another hand

    incipit: (160r) Ceux sount lez noms des Countes etc.

    Note: At bottom a longer erased note of 11 lines

    Note: 160v-165v blank


    166r-166v - Letter from Gerald of York to Anselm of Canterbury OSB || Epistola Gerardi Eboracensis ad Anselmum Cantuariensem

    Note: in chartis seculo xvi

    Note: The Bury MS. from which nos. 2, 3 are copied is MS 135 in this collection


    166v-166v - Letter from Anselm of Canterbury OSB to Gerald of York || Responsio Anselmi

    Note: in chartis seculo xvi

    Note: Ex libro MS. quondam monasterii S. Edmundi regis et martyris

    Note: The Bury MS. from which nos. 2, 3 are copied is MS 135 in this collection

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