Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 427

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  • 1400 - 1499
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  • Latin
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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 427: Peter of Ickham OSB, Richard of Cirencester OSB, Martin of Troppau OP etc
    • Tables of certain chronicles and on the burial places of the saints || Tabulae quaedam chronologicae et de locis sanctorum
    • Peter of Ickham OSB, Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum || Epitome chronicorum Angliae ad annum 1429 [per Petrum de Yckham]
    • Chronicle (possibly based on Richard of Cirencester OSB,, Speculum historiale de gestis regum Angliae) || Abbreviatio Ricardi Cicestrii monachi Westmonast. vel Anglo-saxonum chronicon. Desinit in anno 1265
    • Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum || Martini Poloni chronicon de pontificibus Romanis, ad annum 1278 cum additamentis ad annum 1316
    • Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica imperatorum || Ejusdem chronicon de imperatoribus Romanis
    • Guido de Columnis, Historia destructionis Troiae || De excidio urbis Trojanae
    • Bede the Venerable, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (extracts) || Abstractum de historia Anglorum secundum Bedam
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Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Petrus de Ykham (12..-1295)
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    • Author
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    • Peter of Ickham OSB
    Other form
    • Peter of Icham
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  • Preferred form
    • Richard de Cirencester (1330?-1401?)
    Role
    • Author
    Original form
    • Richard of Cirencester OSB,
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    • Martin de Troppau (12..?-1279?)
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    • Author
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    • Martin of Troppau OP
    Other form
    • MARTIN de Pologne
    • MARTINUS DE TROPPAU
    • Martinus Oppaviensis
    • Martin de Troppau (12..?-1279?)
    • Martinus Oppaviensis (12..?-1279?)
    • Martinus
    • Author: Martinus, Oppaviensis
    • Martinus Polonus
    • Martinus, Polonus, ?-1279
    • Martinus, Polonus, -1279
    • Martinus Polonus, -1279
    • Martinus <Oppaviensis> (12XX-1278)
    • Martin de Troppau (12..-1279) > Chroniqueur
    • Martin de Troppau (12..?-1279?), dominicain, pénitencier pontifical, archevêque de Gnesen (1278), chroniqueur
    • Martinus Polonus, O.P., (s. XIII)
    • Martin von Troppau
    • Martinus, Polonus, ?-1279, O.P.
    • Martinus Oppaviensis - gest. 1278 - auteur
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    • Guido delle Colonne (1210?-1287?)
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    • Author
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    • Guido de Columnis
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    • Guido delle Colonne (1210?-1287?)
    • Guido de Columna
    • Guidonis de Columna
    • Guido delle Colonne
    • Gui Colonna
    • Author: Guido, de Columnis
    • Translator: Guido, de Columnis
    • Guido de Colonna
    • Guido de Columna, 13th century
    • Guido <de Columnis> (1210-1290)
    • Guido de Columpnis
    • Colonne, Guido delle, (active 13th century)
    • Guido de Columna (ca. 1210-ca. 1287)
    • Colonne, Guido delle
    • Guido <de Columnis>
    • Columna, Guido de, <fl. >12--
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    • Bède le Vénérable (saint, 0673?-0735)
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    • Bede the Venerable
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    • Bède le Vénérable (saint ; 0673?-0735)
    • Beda Venerabilis
    • Beda Venerabilis (saint ; 0673?-0735)
    • BEDA VENERABILIS
    • BEDA
    • Beda
    • BEDA VENERABILIS (s.)
    • Bède
    • S. Beda venerabilis
    • Venerabilis Bedae
    • Bède le Vénérable (0673?-0735)
    • Beda Venerabilis (ps.)
    • S. Beda Venerabilis
    • Venerabilis BEDE
    • Bede
    • Bedae
    • Bedae venerabilis
    • Bède le Vénérable saint 0673?-0735
    • Beda, el Venerable, sant, 673-735
    • Beda el Venerable, Santo
    • Beda Venerabilis 672-735
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Author: Beda, Venerabilis
    • Commentator: Beda, Venerabilis
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Bede the Venerable, c 673-735, Saint
    • Bede the Venerable (attrib.)
    • Bede (673/4–735)
    • The Venerable Bede
    • Beda Venerabilis, 673-735
    • Beda<Venerabilis>
    • Bède le Vénérable
    • Beda <Venerabilis> (672-735)
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint 673-735
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
    • Bède le Vénérable, saint (0673?-0735)
    • Beda <Venerabilis>
    • Beda, O Venerável, 673-736
    • Beda, O Venerável, 673-736 > , co-autor
    • Beda Venerabilis - 673 - 735 - auteur
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Description
  • Summary: CCCC MS 427 is a collection of chronicles in a series of fifteenth-century hands. Its contents include the Chronica pontificum et imperatorum of Martin of Troppau OP (d. 1278), Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum of Peter of Ickham OSB (d. 1295) with a continuation to 1427, an abridgement of the Historia destructionis Troiae, written in 1287 by Guido de Columnis (not to be confused with his namesake Guido delle Colonne - d. c. 1280), an abstract of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and another chronicle which may be based on the Speculum historiale of Richard of Cirencester OSB (d. 1401). This material typifies Parker's interest in manuscripts of English and wider history which he employed to ensure the sound historical foundations of his ideas for the future of the reformed church in England.


    Contents :


    2-4 - Tables of certain chronicles and on the burial places of the saints || Tabulae quaedam chronologicae et de locis sanctorum

    Note: On pp. 2, 3 in a small current hand a list of dates

    incipit: (2) Anno ab orbe condito usque ad urbem rome conditam IIII ml ccc xlvij

    Note: ending with 1415

    explicit: (3) Eodem anno fuit bellum de ajincorth

    Note: On p. 4 in the same hand

    rubric: (4) Sanctorum Loci

    incipit: (4) In primis sacrum corpus uirginis marie in valle josaphat fuit sepultum Sancti Johannis euuangeliste corpus in epheso fuit tumulatum sed postea ubi deuenerint eorum corpora satis nobis tradit ecclesia. Aput sebasten .i. samaria Julianus apostata S. Johannis baptiste igne cremauit ossa, etc. Notices Rome, Canterbury, Marseilles, les Stes Maries, St Maximin, etc.

    explicit: (4) Katerina iacet in monte syna manu leuata angelica

    incipit: (4) Reges Christiani. Imperator romanorum. Rex Almannie, etc.

    explicit: (4) Rex boemie, Rex armenie, Rex cipre

    incipit: (4) Cantabrigia a Cantabro regis hispanie filio et gwenebrigia eius sponsa

    explicit: (4) philosophos conuocans ab athenis uniuersitatem cantabrigie fundauit


    5-62 - Peter of Ickham OSB, Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum || Epitome chronicorum Angliae ad annum 1429 [per Petrum de Yckham]

    Note: In a better hand, 31 lines to a page

    Note: Headed

    rubric: (5) Cronica grece latine temporum series cronos grece tempus latine dicitur

    Note: Begins with verses

    Note: (5) Albion est terra constans in finibus orbis...Petrus putamie (pictauie) dat cistrensis monachusque.( )t quia non solum audiendis sacre scripture verbis aurem

    Note: Ends p. 62 with the Parliament at Westminster

    explicit: (62) per milites parliamenti et comitatus regni Anglie duas integras xvd., etc.

    Note: See nos. 194, 339. Hardy III 271

    Note: (62) Note from Bale on Richardus Cicestrius follows


    63-112 - Chronicle (possibly based on Richard of Cirencester OSB,, Speculum historiale de gestis regum Angliae) || Abbreviatio Ricardi Cicestrii monachi Westmonast. vel Anglo-saxonum chronicon. Desinit in anno 1265

    Note: In the hand of pp. 2-4

    Note: Title (xvi early?)

    rubric: (63) Abbreuiatio ricardi cicestrii monachi Westmon. (erasure) speculum historiale

    rubric: (63) De prodicione Vortigerni et quomodo se fecit regem

    incipit: (63) Defunctis Constantino patre constantis aurelii ambrosii et uter pendragon et sancto gwotellmo per prodicionem Vortegerni consulis

    Note: pp. 71-74 have lists of kings

    explicit: (112) anno sequenti mortuus est iste henricus Edwardo existente in terra sancta (1272)

    Note: Hardy III 161 says If this has any connexion with Richard of Cirencester, it is probably only a slight abridgment.


    113-140 - Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum || Martini Poloni chronicon de pontificibus Romanis, ad annum 1278 cum additamentis ad annum 1316

    Note: (113) Chronicon Martini

    rubric: (113) Pontifices

    incipit: (113) Post passionem domini anno sequenti beatus petrus apostolus filius iohannis

    Note: Ends p. 138 after John XXI (hic multum fouit clericos)

    rubric: (138) Explicit cronica fratris martini ordinis predicatorum

    Note: Text continues with Nicholaus IIII and ends p. 139 with John XXII

    explicit: (139) in illis partibus saracenis pro defencione fidei christianitatis instituit

    Note: (140) blank


    141-176 - Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica imperatorum || Ejusdem chronicon de imperatoribus Romanis

    rubric: (141) Imperatores

    Note: (beginning imperfectly: see below)

    incipit: (141) Nero imperator imperauit annis xiii mens. vij

    Note: The text is disordered. It runs to Otto III

    Note: Then at p. 161

    incipit: (161) Non arbitror infructuosum seriem temporum huic operi inserere

    Note: From Adam to A. U. C. 426, death of Alexander the Great

    explicit: (168) Hic breuitatis causa multa bella romanorum pertranseo

    rubric: (169) Imperatores romani

    incipit: (169) Anno ab urbe condita dco lixo Julio cesare et marco consulibus

    Note: After p. 170 the text of 141-160 should follow

    Note: (171) On Churches and Indulgences of Rome

    incipit: (171) Notandum quod in urbe romana sunt cccc et lxvij ecclesie parochiales gratia et sanctitate

    explicit: (176) In hospitali sanctus spiritus vij anni et tot xle et vija pars


    177-222 - Guido de Columnis, Historia destructionis Troiae || De excidio urbis Trojanae

    rubric: (177) Excidium urbis troiane

    Note: (Guido de Colonna abridged)

    incipit: (177) Licet cotidie vetera rec[ed]entibus obruant

    explicit: (216) thelagonio in suo recessu muneribus et diuiciis ampliando

    rubric: (216) Explicit obsidio troie. Finis belli troiani

    Note: pp. 217-222 blank


    223-281 - Bede the Venerable, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (extracts) || Abstractum de historia Anglorum secundum Bedam

    Note: An abstract of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica

    rubric: (223) Capitulum primum de historia anglorum secundum bedam abstractum

    explicit: (281) cui successit aldulphus

    rubric: (281) Explicit quoddam abstractum super bedam de gestis anglorum per G. R.

    Note: (282) List of chapters

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