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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 301

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  • MS 301
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Date
  • 1300 - 1325
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle French
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 301: Annals of St Augustine's, Canterbury. Canterbury Documents, etc
    • Annals of St Augustine's, Canterbury (to 1316) || Annales ecclesiae Augustini Cantuariensis
    • Walter of Henley, Hosebandrie. Husbandry || Advice from a father to his son on the management and improvement of his estate || Hosebondrie of Walter of Henley, and the anonymous Husbandry
    • The usage and customs of the community of Kent || Les usages et les coustumes les queus la comunaute de Kent clayment aver en gavelikende et en gens gavelikendyes
    • Veterinary recipes for horses || De equis medicandis
    • The monasteries of England and their founders || De monasteriis in Anglia et eorum fundatoribus
    • Customary and excerpt from the privileges of the monastery of St Augustine's, Canterbury || Custumale et excerpta ex privilegiis monasterii Sancti Augustini
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 301 contains a number of texts relating to St Augustine's, Canterbury, copied in the early fourteenth century. Among the texts included in the volume are two chronicles; one describing events from the arrival of Brutus in England to the accession of Henry III derived firstly from Bede, and from English twelfth-century writers such as Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), William of Malmesbury OSB (c. 1080-1143), Henry of Huntingdon (1084-1155) and Roger of Howden (d. c. 1201). The other chronicle is based on a foreign source and covers the period from the Incarnation to 1316. In addition, this manuscript contains an early fourteenth-century Anglo-Norman copy of the Hosebandrie of Walter of Henley (d. c. 1290/1300), a treatise on estate management and accounting, and a number of veterinary recipes, also in Anglo-Norman. The book was donated to St Augustine's by Stephen de Hackyngton (fl. 1332). Matthew Parker no doubt valued it for the light it shed on the history of Canterbury, a recurring theme in his collection.


    Contents :


    1r-68v - Annals of St Augustine's, Canterbury (to 1316) || Annales ecclesiae Augustini Cantuariensis

    Note: Desinunt in anno 1316

    Note: (1r) Chronicle

    rubric: (1r) Ante incarnacionem domini mo cco venit Brutus in Angliam et regnauit xxiiiior annis cuius tempore judicauit Heli filios israel

    incipit: (1r) Fluxit ab Enea primum Romana propago, etc.

    rubric: (1r) Eneas cum Ascaneo filio suo fugiens excidium

    Note: Added (xiv): Habet Britannia in longitudinem dccc milia et in latitudinem cc. Et quicunque (?) usui mortalium congruit indeficienti fertilitate ministrat

    Note: Ends p. 44 in 1200

    rubric: (20v) Ipseque Rex ffrancorum Regem Johannem de prodicione appellauit

    rubric: (20v) Quere de gestis Henrici filii Johannis in xio xiio xiiio et quartodecimo foliis

    Note: (i.e. pp. 65 sqq.)

    Note: (20v) List of Kingdoms, Counties and Bishoprics in England

    Note: Another hand begins here

    rubric: (21r) Incipit cronice paucorum scilicet ab incarnatione domini nostri Ihesu Christi

    incipit: (21r) Orosius ad beatum Augustinum scribens

    explicit: (21r) ab origine mundi usque ad Christum fluxerunt anni quinque milia centum nonaginta nouem

    Note: The form is annalistic: at first in double columns down to 1038: one line for a year: from 1039 to 1186 a line to a year, single columns

    Note: (29v) Insertion on Archbishop Baldwin

    Note: (30r) 1187-1226, a line to a year

    Note: (31r) Then longer entries

    Note: (32v) 1235-1253, a line to a year. Then longer entries

    Note: There are various changes of hand after p. 113 (1304): on 136 (1315, Statute de venditionibus) is a xvith cent. reference: Vide in libro qui inscribitur Diuersi tractatus monasterii Sancti Augustini Dorobernie. This is a book mentioned in Parker's own list but marked therein as missing by John Parker: it is now Lambeth MS. 1213

    Note: The text goes to 1316 ending with Edward II's letter to Pope Clement on the election of an Abbot of St Augustine's (Devenysshe), ending p. 140

    explicit: (68v) Calesium. die septembris

    Note: In another hand: the letter of the Barons on the same in French, ending imperfectly. The end is supplied in a xvith cent. hand on two out of four small leaves of paper inserted here

    Note: A notice of this Chronicle is in Hardy III 361


    69r-75v - Walter of Henley, Hosebandrie. Husbandry || Advice from a father to his son on the management and improvement of his estate || Hosebondrie of Walter of Henley, and the anonymous Husbandry

    Note: in French

    Note: This treatise contains a succinct account of the mode of husbandry and rural economy of the times: it appears to have been written in the reign of Edward III

    rubric: (69r) De Gaynag' terrarum

    incipit: (69r) Le pere dist a sun fiz. beau fiz viuet sagement

    explicit: (75r) viii Rousches dun galon de mel

    Note: This is almost certainly the copy used by William Lambarde in his note-book of 1571, now Brit. Mus. Add. 20709, under the title Du gaignage des terres. See the edition by Dr W. Cunningham and E. Lamond (Royal Historical Society 1890), pp. xxxiii, xxxviii. Corrected by Dr Cunningham in Transactions Royal Historical Society IX 1895, p. 215

    Note: (75v) On weights and measures, in Latin. Prices of bread, and of colours

    incipit: (75v) Digitus pars minima mensurarum


    77v-79r - The usage and customs of the community of Kent || Les usages et les coustumes les queus la comunaute de Kent clayment aver en gavelikende et en gens gavelikendyes

    rubric: (77v) De legibus Kancie

    incipit: (77v) Ces sunt les usages e les costumes les queus la comunaute de kent clayment auer ... dunt il est dit en Kentoys þe vader to þe boghe and þe sone to þe loghe

    explicit: (78v) ke furent deuant le conqueste e en le conqueste e totes houres dekes en ca

    rubric: (79r) De feod' fidelitatem faciend'

    Note: Forms of oaths

    incipit: (79r) Cancia est prouincia in anglia iuxta oceanum

    explicit: (79r) alia habet commoda vite mortalium necessaria que recitari per singula longum esset


    79r-81r - Veterinary recipes for horses || De equis medicandis

    Note: Gallice

    incipit: (79r) Ceo est la marechausie de chiuals. Peleyn deit cure treys aunz oue sa mere

    explicit: (79v) de vin blanc a beure chaud kant il auerad ankes erre

    rubric: (81r) Contra pugturam serpentis

    incipit: (81r) Accipe aquam benedictam

    explicit: (81r) bibat illam aquam qui portauit rumores et sic recedat


    81r-86v - The monasteries of England and their founders || De monasteriis in Anglia et eorum fundatoribus

    incipit: (81r) In Pago Cantuar. edificauit Edelbertus monasteria Sancti Augustini

    Note: The last is a note on Etheldreda: Velata erat apud eli cum sorore sua

    Note: In another hand: a table in six columns, Reges, Anni, Archiepiscopi, Anni, Abbates, Anni

    Note: From Ethelbert to Edward II in the original hand. Archbishops to Johannes frater minor (Peckham) and Robertus. Abbots to Radulphus (Bourn). Continued by various hands to Edward IV, King, Thomas Bowseyr, Archbishop, William Sellyng, Abbot

    rubric: (84r) De morte imperatoris

    incipit: (84r) Stante obsessione contra Lucam usque ad terminum .xxx. dierum

    explicit: (84v) et Regem Cicilie fredericum suum constituens vicarium domino reddidit spiritum

    Note: pp. 173-176 blank


    87v-108v - Customary and excerpt from the privileges of the monastery of St Augustine's, Canterbury || Custumale et excerpta ex privilegiis monasterii Sancti Augustini

    rubric: (87v) Custumare

    Note: List of dues from manors: Minster etc.

    Note: Distribucio cere (Candlemas). Distribucio argenti in festo Sancti Augustini

    Note: Longitudo stragule

    Note: (88v) List of priuilegia

    Note: (89v) Knights' fees

    Note: Temporalia of the Archbishop, Abbot, Prior etc.

    Note: (90v) Custumare: of bread etc.: a slip inserted giving particulars about bread

    Note: Dues of various officers

    rubric: (96v) Mensurata terra maneriorum Sancti Augustini

    rubric: (97v) De sompniis

    Note: double columns, alphabetical: crossed out

    incipit: (97v) Arma tractare mutacionem significat

    explicit: (98v) Zonam cingere valitudinem

    rubric: (99r) De confirmacione cartarum. et visu franci pleggii

    incipit: (99r) Edwardus deo gratias ... Inspeximus cartam

    explicit: (101r) apud douor. xxii die maii anno regni nostri vito

    rubric: (101v) Visus franci pleggii

    incipit: (101v) Primes wus nus dirrez

    explicit: (101v) par le serment qe wus auet fet

    Note: Notes in various hands, xiv and xv

    Note: (102r) Forma treugarum inter Regem Anglie et Robertum de Brus (1323)

    Note: Unfinished

    Note: (102r) Privileges claimed by the Abbot of St Augustine's

    Note: (102r) Interpretacio verborum. Saka. Idem est quod placitum etc.

    Note: The Latin ends with Forstalles. Then in French: Sokne cest asauer sute de vos hommes ... Ferdfaire cest seruice daler en host

    Note: (102v) Notes of cent. xvi

    Note: In 1529. Oct. 31. A robbery of plate

    Note: In 1531. 3 Id. Apr. (and other dates). Removal of precious metals from shrines of Saints Augustine, Jambert, Mildred etc. and other spoliations

    Note: In 1535 further spoliation

    Note: On p. 212: suuerderi καὶ φιλῶν

    Note: pp. 213-215 blank

    Note: (105v) Accounts De Bosc. superius apud Tenterdenne 24 Edwardi III and other similar accounts

    Note: (106v) Paragraph per viam eleccionis capituli cum expediat via mixta scrutinii et compromissi

    Note: Compromisarii traxerunt se ad angulum australem capituli quorum duo, viz. fratres Thomas Ikham et Henricus Tilmanstone etc.

    Note: (106v) List of monks and their votes (which are for William Thorne, Thomas Ikham, Michael Pecham: the last was eventually elected Abbot)

    Note: (107v) Extractus de quadam tabula in ecclesia conuentuali Colcestre, giving dates of foundation of Glastonbury, Westminster (A.D. 169), St Augustine's, St Alban's

    Note: (107v) Application from Richard Cokman, custos in St Nicholas Church at Dover, to Francis, Cardinal of the Four Crowned, for an indulgence for an altar of the Virgin and St John of Bridlington

    Note: The Cardinal seems to be Francesco Uguccione, Archbishop of Bordeaux, d. 1412

    Note: (108r) Epitaph of Archbishop Chicheley, Pauper eram natus etc.

    Note: Receipt for gout, in French (xiv)

    Note: Note of date of canonization of St Thomas of Hereford (1320, 14 kal. Mai)

    Note: (108r) Epitaph of Peter Comestor (xvi)

    Note: p. 222 covered with paper

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