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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 6

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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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  • MS 006
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Date
  • 1400 - 1499
Language
  • Latin
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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 006: John of Tynemouth, Historia aurea, Part II
  • John of Tynemouth, Historia aurea, Part II
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 6, dating from c. 1420-40, contains the second part of John of Tynemouth's Historia Aurea from the rule of Diocletian to the reign of Edward III, together with an anonymous continuation for the years 1343-77. CCCC MS 6 was one of several manuscripts (others include CCCC MSS 5 and 7, BL MS Lansdowne 375 and Cambridge UL MS Ee.4.20) owned and, in some cases, commissioned by William Wintershill (d. c. 1435) the almoner of the Benedictine Abbey of St Albans in Hertfordshire. An erased inscription in this manuscript is probably a copy of the material in CCCC MS 5 that relates how Wintershill donated the two volumes to the Abbey at his death.


    Contents :


    1r-299r - John of Tynemouth, Historia aurea, Part II

    rubric: (1r) Incipit Liber 12 Cronicarum Johannis. De Sancto Mauricio cum sociis suis c. i

    incipit: (1r) Dioclicianus incepit regnare

    Note: (45r) c. 124

    rubric: (45r) De Sancto petro alexandrino

    Note: (46r) Liber XIII. c. i

    rubric: (46r) De S. katerina virgine

    Note: c. 58

    rubric: (70r) De S. florencio

    Note: (70v) At the end in a xvith cent. hand

    Note: (70v) Hic Inc. 2us Tomus ut ibi scribitur Johannis Anglici

    Note: (70v) Liber XIV. c. i

    rubric: (70v) De gestis illius temporis

    incipit: (70v) Romanorum igitur tricesimus quintus regnauit constantinus

    Note: (113v) c. (124). Death of Theodosius

    Note: Rubrics and numbers of chapters gradually cease to be added

    Note: Much of this book is from Vitae Patrum

    Note: (71v) Most of cc. 4-22 are wanting after f. 72v

    Note: (113v) Liber XV. c. i. Arcadius and Honorius

    Note: (145r) Prophecy of Merlin in verse

    incipit: (145r) Cumque peragratis sub multis regibus annis

    Note: (192v) Five leaves are gone after f. 199v

    Note: (256r) There is a clever unfinished pencil sketch of a Mongol or Tartar on the margin

    Note: No beginning of a fresh book is marked after f. 120v. The narrative is continued to f. 303v, the year being 1343

    Note: It breaks off in the literae Edwardi delegatis pape et vicecomitibus suis (Hearne, Hemingford II 371) with the words

    explicit: (292v) Nos ad instantiam (catchword) requisicionem

    Note: (293r) a leaf added by Parker's scribes, and on it they have written the end of the chapter and continue

    rubric: (293r) Scripsit quoque rex vicecomitibus pro eodem sub hac forma

    Note: The text of this is given. Then follow heads of chapters, no text being given

    Note: (293r) Qualiter papa scripsit regi Edwardo quod nuntios ut condictum fuerat non misit ad Curiam

    Note: (293r) Qualiter rex Angliae asserit treugas per Philippum de Valesio a parte violatas, et ipsum monet de observatione illarum

    Note: (293r) Litera Philippi regis francie missa reg. Scotorum ante transitum regis Angliae in Normanniam

    Note: (293r) Litera regis fran. missa reg. Scotie statim post aduentum regis Angliae in Normanniam

    Note: (293r) Litera missa Edwardo reg. Ang. ante bellum de Cressi per Philippum

    Note: (293r) Responsio Edwardi

    Note: (293r) De victoria regis Edwardi habita apud Cressy

    Note: (293r) De bello fact. apud Dunelm

    Note: (293r) De victoria contra Gallicos Thome de Dagworth diuinitus collata

    Note: (293r) Qualiter papa post victoriam regi Ang. scripsit

    Note: (293r) De captione Caroli de Blois et qualiter deuictus est

    Note: (293r) Hec omnia clare scribuntur in libro Mri Price ( = Bodl. 240) et sequuntur multa de Johannis Anglici de vitis sanctorum ut habetur in martirologio suo et in sanctilogio suo et aliis libris

    Note: (293v) blank

    Note: Then follows a quire in one of the hands of the earlier part of the MS. containing a chronicle from 1343 to 1377 which is said (by Horstmann) to be the source both of the Chron. Angliae ed. E. M. Thompson and of Tho. Walsingham from 1343. It begins

    incipit: (294r) 18(th year of Ed. III). Sub eodem tempore missi sunt ex parte Regis Angl. procuratores ad curiam romanam. Dominus Henricus de lancastria etc.

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (299r) que famam eius indicibiliter minuerunt

    Note: (299r) In the lower margin in pencil is

    Note: (299r) In spacio sequenti scribatur de prole et naturali progenie dicti regis / Item cathololgus virorum forcium etc. prelatorum et deuotorum virorum vidlt domino principe etc. De rege scottorum (??) de cant. archiep. et / de armachano etc. De Ric. heremita priore ... de beligtan (? berlington) etc./ Item de ffundaco mon. cisterciens. apud turrim (??) london. et minorissarumffratrum predicatorum apud langeley. sororum eiusdem ordinis apud darteford sutheg' (?)

    Note: (299r) In the remaining line the 4th word seems to be Westminstre

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