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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 138

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  • MS 138
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Date
  • 1300 - 1399
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  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 138: Chronicles, Various
    • Epitome of the history of Britain from the birth of Christ to the year 1255 || Alexandri Essebiensis epitome historiae Britanniae a Christo nato ad annum 1255
    • Roger of Howden, Chronica (excerpts 1066-1201) || Excerptiones de chronicis Rogeri Hoveden ab anno 1066 ab annum 1201
    • Letters between masters of the University of Paris and Popes John XXII and Benedict XII concerning the status of the soul after death, A. D. 1333 || Epistolae inter Parisienses doctores ad mandatum Philippi regis Francorum, et Ioannem XXII, et Benedictum XII. papas de statu animarum post mortem A. D. 1333
    • Charter of Richard I concerning the renunciation of the homage of the King of Scotland || Carta Ricardi I. de renuntiatione homagii regis Scotiae
    • Chronological and historical notes on the period 1329 to 1347 || Breves notae chronologicae et historicae ab anno 1329 ad annum 1347
    • Genealogical diagram indicating Edward III's claim to the French throne || Stemma genealogicum Sancti Ludovici regis Franciae ad ostendendum jus Edwardi III. in regnum Franciae
    • William of Jumièges OSB, Gesta Normannorum ducum (excerpts) || Excerptiones de historia Wilhelmi Gemiticensis de gestis ducum Normannorum
    • Liber Vasilographus (excerpts); Prophecies || Liber extractus de libro qui dicitur Vanlographo i. e. imperialis scriptura, quam Sibilla Erithea Babilonica condidit ad petitionem Graecorum, ipsa Priami regis Trojae filia; quem Vedoxa peritissimus pater in Graecum transtulit de Caldeo; tandem de errario Emanuelis imperatoris Graecorum editum Eugenius regni Siciliae admiratus de Graeco transtulit
    • Iohannes de Rupescissa OFM (attrib.), Prophecies || Nonnulla alia ejusdem farinae ex Ioanne de Rupescissa
    • Philip of Clairvaux OCist, Vita Sanctae Elizabethae de Spalbec || Narratio quaedam de virgine in territorio Leodiensi, quae miracula multa fecit, scripta per Philippum de Claraeval
    • History of the bishops of Lindisfarne and Durham from Aidan to Richard de Bury || Brevis historia episcoporum Lindisfarnensium et Dunelmensium ab Aidano ad Ricardum de Bury
    • Thomas Stubbs OP (attrib.), Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis || Successio episcoporum Eboracensium
    • Bull of Pope Clement V, 'Regnans in caelis', 12 August 1308 || Processus contra templarios
    • History of England from the coming of the Saxons to the reign of Henry II || Brevis historia Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum II.
    • Letters between Pope Innocent VI and Edward, prince of Wales concerning peace, A.D. 1355 || Epistolae inter Innocentium papam VI. et Edwardum principem Walliae de pace A. D. 1355
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 138 is a portmanteau manuscript, dating to the last quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains a wide variety of broadly historical material including extracts from Bede, the chronicles of Matthew Paris OSB (c. 1200-59) and William of Jumièges OSB (d. 1087?), papal letters, a genealogy of the kings of France and a list of the archbishops of York. Perhaps originally from Norwich Cathedral Priory, MS 138 may have been one of several manuscripts now in the Parker collection that was once in the possession of William Carye of Cheapside (d. 1573) and it certainly passed through the hands of Robert Recorde (d. 1588), the mathematician and fellow of All Souls, Oxford, who copied extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle into the margins of the early part of this manuscript.


    Contents :


    1r-63v - Epitome of the history of Britain from the birth of Christ to the year 1255 || Alexandri Essebiensis epitome historiae Britanniae a Christo nato ad annum 1255

    Note: Ad initium hujus historiae desunt fol. 10

    Note: Ten leaves are missing. Parker's paging begins with 21

    Note: Text begins

    rubric: (1r) Anno gracie 75

    incipit: (1r) Rex pictorum rodricus de sithia ueniens in aquilonalem britannie partem

    Note: Ends in 1257

    explicit: (63v) Ricardus frater regis henrici ... solenniter aquis grani coronatur

    Note: Apparently an abridgment of Matt. Paris ... There does not seem to be anything in the piece that gives authority for assigning it to Alexander of Esseby.Hardy III 145


    64r-70r - Roger of Howden, Chronica (excerpts 1066-1201) || Excerptiones de chronicis Rogeri Hoveden ab anno 1066 ab annum 1201

    Note: Begins

    rubric: (64r) 1077. haraldus

    incipit: (64r) Rex norwegie haraldus cum plus quam 500 nauibus

    Note: Ends with a letter of Christ recited by Abbot Eustace (of Fleix) in 1201

    explicit: (70r) ut fere deuorabunt. Et cetera nonnulla de eodem scripto retulit palam Abbas ille

    rubric: (70r) Explicit excerpciones de cronicis Rogeri de houedene

    Note: Mentioned by Stubbs, Hoveden I lxxxiv, Hardy III 15


    70r-71v - Letters between masters of the University of Paris and Popes John XXII and Benedict XII concerning the status of the soul after death, A. D. 1333 || Epistolae inter Parisienses doctores ad mandatum Philippi regis Francorum, et Ioannem XXII, et Benedictum XII. papas de statu animarum post mortem A. D. 1333

    Note: Added later by the original scribe

    Note: a.

    Note: (70r) Johanni ... Petrus patriarcha Ierosol. etc.

    Note: b.

    Note: (70v) Johannes. Ne super hiis que de animabus

    Note: c.

    Note: (71r) Benedictus. Benedictus deus in donis suis


    71v-71v - Charter of Richard I concerning the renunciation of the homage of the King of Scotland || Carta Ricardi I. de renuntiatione homagii regis Scotiae

    Note: Added later by the original scribe

    Note: Mutilated by loss of leaf


    72r-72r - Chronological and historical notes on the period 1329 to 1347 || Breves notae chronologicae et historicae ab anno 1329 ad annum 1347

    Note: In another hand, begins imperfectly

    incipit: (72r) aduentus domini. edwardus secundus apud glouerniam sepelitur

    Note: Ends 1347

    explicit: (72r) Thomas dagword circa nativitatem Johanni baptiste carolum de bloys in bello cepit


    72v-72v - Genealogical diagram indicating Edward III's claim to the French throne || Stemma genealogicum Sancti Ludovici regis Franciae ad ostendendum jus Edwardi III. in regnum Franciae

    Note: In the original hand

    Note: 73r-74v blank


    75r-80r - William of Jumièges OSB, Gesta Normannorum ducum (excerpts) || Excerptiones de historia Wilhelmi Gemiticensis de gestis ducum Normannorum

    incipit: (75r) lapheth enim noe filius genuit filium quem magog nominauit

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (80r) hos per normannica compita dispergeret uiolancia dire captiuitatis

    Note: Follows in a little later hand

    incipit: (80r) Fuit enim apud damascum metropolim sirie quedam matrona (S. Mary of Sardenay)

    Note: Unfinished, 80v blank

    Note: Mentioned by Hardy II 18


    81r-84v - Liber Vasilographus (excerpts); Prophecies || Liber extractus de libro qui dicitur Vanlographo i. e. imperialis scriptura, quam Sibilla Erithea Babilonica condidit ad petitionem Graecorum, ipsa Priami regis Trojae filia; quem Vedoxa peritissimus pater in Graecum transtulit de Caldeo; tandem de errario Emanuelis imperatoris Graecorum editum Eugenius regni Siciliae admiratus de Graeco transtulit

    Note: a.

    incipit: (81r) Exquiritis me o illustrissima turba danaum

    Note: (Alexandre, Oracula Sibyllina II 291)

    Note: With some interlinear glosses

    explicit: (82v) hos autem in sorte demonum uoret auernus

    rubric: (82v) Explicit liber sibille erithee babilonice

    Note: Another copy with the same title in University Library Mm.1.16

    Note: Vanlographus is Vasilographus. Vedoxa peritissimus pater is corrupt for Doxapater: on Nilus Doxapatrius see Rendel Harris, The Ferrar Group

    Note: b.

    Note: Another prophecy

    incipit: (82v) Deinde leopardus ex illis procreabitur qui regnum bestie inuadendo

    explicit: (83r) ante sepulcrum domini gladium uibrabit

    Note: c.

    Note: In a larger hand

    incipit: (83r) Prophetia cuiusdam spiritus phitonici in Cambria

    incipit: (83r) Catulus leenicus in lupum rapidum conuertetur

    explicit: (83r) promerebitur fauorem altissimi et ad superos conuolabit

    Note: (Note in lower margin. A.d. 1365 redibit tota grecia ad obedienciam romanorum et tunc audietur noua de predicacione antichristi. hoc reperitur secundum loachim in maiori (?) libro de concordanciis)

    rubric: (83r) Versus normanniae uaticinales

    Note: (13)

    incipit: (83r) Anglia transmittet leopardum. lilia galli

    explicit: (83r) Imperium mundi sibi quo dabit huic heremita

    Note: Versus Alani uiri sancti et religiosi de eodem 6o

    Note: Illius imperium gens barbara senciet. illumRoma uolet tanto principe digna regiConferet hic rome plus laudis quam sibi romaPlus dabit hic orbi quam dabit orbis ei

    Note: Versus Gilde de sexto hibernie

    Note: Ter tria lustra tenet cum semi tempore sextiEns uagus in primo perdet. sed fine resumetMulta rapit medio. uolitans sub fine secundiOrbem submittet. reli(quo)s clerumque reducetAd statum primum. tunc renouat loca sanctaHuic terrena spuens sanctus sub ethere scandet.

    Note: (83r) Prediction of planetary conjunctions and their consequences for October 1365, June 1357


    84r-84r - Iohannes de Rupescissa OFM (attrib.), Prophecies || Nonnulla alia ejusdem farinae ex Ioanne de Rupescissa

    rubric: (84r) Verba fratri Johannis de Rupe(s)cissa ord. min. de futuris euentibus etc. abreuiata de libro qui intitulatur ostensor futurorum

    Note: Referring to the years 1350 and following


    85r-88v - Philip of Clairvaux OCist, Vita Sanctae Elizabethae de Spalbec || Narratio quaedam de virgine in territorio Leodiensi, quae miracula multa fecit, scripta per Philippum de Claraeval

    rubric: (85r) De Sancta Elisabetha virgine

    Note: (85r) A xvith century note: angelus malus transfigurat se in angelum lucis

    incipit: (85r) Quoniam ut legitur in ecclesiastico 43. gloria domini plenum est opus eius

    Note: (By Philip of Clairvaux. BHL. 2484)

    explicit: (85r) non possumus non loqui

    incipit: (85r) Porro in territorio leodicensi

    Note: (Abbey of Herkenrode)

    explicit: (88v) occupacionum necessitas necessario claudit stilum

    Note: (88v) Another copy of no. 6: but rougher


    89r-97cr - History of the bishops of Lindisfarne and Durham from Aidan to Richard de Bury || Brevis historia episcoporum Lindisfarnensium et Dunelmensium ab Aidano ad Ricardum de Bury

    incipit: (89r) Anno dominice incarnatione 635 aduentus anglorum in britanniam

    Note: From Aidan to the election of Robert de Graystanes, 1333

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (97v) unde omnes Ricardo de Bury obedienciam iurauerunt

    Note: Four small leaves of paper are here inserted (ff. 97ar-97dv), of cent. xvi, containing an account of Richard de Bury

    incipit: (97ar) Richardus de Bury fuit sufficienter literatus in regendo familiam distinctus

    explicit: (97ar) ad australem angulum dunelm ecclesie tumulatus

    incipit: (97ar) Hec in tabula. Que iam sequuntur narrauit Willelmus de Chambr. Richardus de Bury natus fuit in quadam villula

    explicit: (97cr) monachos dunelmensis ecclesie semper habuit in maximo honore

    Note: ff. 97cv-97dv blank


    98r-99v - Thomas Stubbs OP (attrib.), Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis || Successio episcoporum Eboracensium

    incipit: (98r) Tempore quo gens northanhimbrorum cum suo rege edwino

    Note: Goes down to Thurstinus 1140

    explicit: (99v) in fine uite sue decreuit

    Note: A fuller text in Raine, Historians of the Church of York (Rolls) II 513


    99v-100ar - Bull of Pope Clement V, 'Regnans in caelis', 12 August 1308 || Processus contra templarios

    incipit: (99v) Clemens episcopus etc. Regnans in celis

    Note: It is a copy of the Bull, ending (lower margin cut)

    explicit: (100v) gemendi materia fletum non (?)

    Note: Here is inserted a small leaf of vellum with entries in three hands of cent. xiii

    Note: (a)

    incipit: (100ar) Concessimus Domino Priori et Conuentui Cantuarie plenariam societatem ecclesie nostre etc.

    explicit: (100ar) Et sciendum quod occasione huius societatis et concessionis archiepiscopi cantuariensis in ecclesia norwici uel episcopi norwicensis in ecclesia cantuarie iurisdictionem nullam uel potestatem sibi poterunt uendicare plusquam prius habuisse dinoscuntur

    Note: (b)

    incipit: (100ar) Concessimus singulis monachis S. Benedicti de Hulmo iii missas etc.

    Note: (c)

    incipit: (100ar) Concessimus abbati et conuentui de Bello plenariam societatem domus nostre etc.

    Note: The end of (a) points to Norwich as the source of this leaf, and I have no reason for thinking that the leaf has not been in the volume for a long period. The verso is blank


    101r-105r - History of England from the coming of the Saxons to the reign of Henry II || Brevis historia Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum II.

    Note: (a)

    Note: (101r) Descent from Adam to Woden: and descents of the kings of the Heptarchy from Woden

    Note: (b)

    incipit: (101r) Britannia insula a quodam romano nomine bruto dicta

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (105r) Cui successit henricus filius galfridi comitis andegauensis et matilde imperatricis filie regis henrici. qui duxit in uxorem alienoram reginam francie filiam ducis aquitanie

    Note: A column and a bit blank


    105v-106v - Letters between Pope Innocent VI and Edward, prince of Wales concerning peace, A.D. 1355 || Epistolae inter Innocentium papam VI. et Edwardum principem Walliae de pace A. D. 1355

    Note: In a larger hand

    Note: (a)

    Note: (105v) Innocencius ... edwardo ... principi Wallie

    Note: Avignon5 Nonas Octobris 3rd year of pontificate

    Note: (b)

    Note: To the same. Avignon 14 kalendas Novembris 4th year

    Note: (c)

    Note: Edward to Innocent

    incipit: (106r) Humili recommendacione prehabita seipsum paratissimum cum omni reuerencia filiali

    explicit: (106v) per tempora longiora. Dat. etc. Deuotissimus filius uester Edwardus princeps Wallie

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