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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 298

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  • 1500 - 1525
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  • English
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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 298: Laurence Wade OSB, Life of Becket. Canterbury Documents
    • Laurence Wade OSB, Life of Becket || The life of Thomas Beckett translated into English verse by Laurence Wade monk of Christ-church Canterbury 1497
    • List of donations to Christ Church, Canterbury || Donationes et acquisitiones maneriorum cum ecclesiis totius prioratus ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi concessae et confirmatae [ad annum 17 Ricardi II.]
    • List of English kings and the location of their tombs from Ethelbert king of Kent to Henry VII || Catalogus regum Anglorum et loca sepulturae eorundem ab Ethelberto rege Cantiae ad Henricum VII
    • List of archbishops of Canterbury from St Augustine to William Warham || De archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus quanto tempore in archiepiscopatu vixerunt et in quo gradu et dignitate prius erant (a Sancto Augustino ad Willelmum Warham et neoterica manu ad M. Parker)
    • List of the priors of Christ Church, Canterbury from the Norman conquest to Thomas Goldwell (1066-1539) || De prioribus ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi et nomina eorum ab adventu Normannorum nam antea decani vocabantur (ad Thomam Goldwell ultimum priorem)
    • The death and funeral of Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, archbishop of Canterbury (1486) || Obitus et exequiae Thomae Bouchier presbiteri cardinalis et Cantuariensis archiepiscopi
    • Description of the pageants in the city of London upon the arrival of the emperor Charles V and Henry VIII || The descrypcion of the pageantes made in the cyte of London at the recevyng of the most excellent pryncys Charlys the fyfte emperour and Henry the VIII. king off Englonde
    • List of names of monks of Christ Church, Canterbury 1207-1527 || Nomina monachorum ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi a tempore exilii eorundem A. D. I. 1207, idibus Julii A. R. regis Iohannis octavo [ad annum 1527]
    • Excerpt from a papal bull against the taking of benevolencies || Excerptum bullae papalis contra convivia quae nomine benevolentiae a prebendario intrante residentiam suam in ecclesia cathedrali exigebantur
    • On the founding of the Abbey at Beverley || De fundatione abbatiae Beverlacensis
    • Thomas Stubbs OP (attrib.), Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis || Cronica [Thomae Stobbes sive Stobrei dominicani] de successionibus et gestis Eboracensium archiepiscoporum
    • Excerpts from an ancient register of the bishop of Rochester on the church of Rochester || Excerpta e registro veteri episcopi Roffensis de ecclesia Roffensi
    • Letter of Edward I to the pope on the legitimacy of his rule of Scotland || Epistola Edwardi I. ad papam de jure suo in regnum Scotiae
    • Letter of king Cnut to the English, 1027. Brief chronicle of English affairs from the death of Cnut to the death of Hardicnut || Epistola Canuti regis Angliae scripta Romae, in qua testatur papam concessisse, ut archiepiscopi Angliae non amplius Romam ire cogerentur pallii causa:- cui subjungitur brevis narratio rerum Anglicanarum a morte Canuti ad mortem filii ejus Hardicnuti
    • On the early statutes of the church of Worcester and of the possessions given to it by kings and vassals || De pontificali sede quomodo primitus statuta sit Wigorniae, et de possessionibus quae a regibus subregulis et bonae recordationis viris datae sunt Wigornensi ecclesiae
    • Brief annals of English affairs 1530-1540 || Breve annales rerum memorabilium in Anglia, praesertim ab anno 1530 ad annum 1540
    • Excerpt from the history of Jervaulx abbey at the time of King Edgar concerning the true cross at Winchester || Excerpta ab historia libri monasterii Jorevallensis in vita regis Edgari, de cruce loquente apud Winton.
    • Letter from Pope Alexander II to William the Conqueror, late 1071, and excerpts from the Passionale Sancti Ignatii || Epistola Alexandri papae ad Wilhelmum conquisitorem
    • Canons of the primatial council at Winchester, 1076 || De synodo habita Winton. anno 1076, ubi matrimonia clericorum prohibebantur
    • Profession of Thomas archbishop of York and list of all other bishops who made professions to the archbishop of Canterbury || Professio Thomae Eboracensi archiepiscopi: et catalogus omnium episcoporum qui tales professiones fecerunt archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus
    • Canons of the synod of bishops Patricius and Isernius. (The first synod of St Patrick || Canones synodi episcoporum Patricii et Issernini
    • Synod of London under Anselm (1102), decree against clerical marriage || Synodus Londini sub Anselmo contra uxores presbiterorum
    • Letter of Pope Paschal II to Anselm (epistola 43) || Paschalis papa ad Anselmum
    • On translating the Bible into English || A determination of a doctor of divinity against them that say it is not lawful to have holy writte and other bookes in Englishe
    • Nicholas Trevet OP, Quaestiones quodlibetales (extract, I. q. 13) || Questio determinata per Magistrum Nicolaum dictum Trivet de ordine predicatorum, quod omnia sunt admittenda quae tradit ecclesia circa passionem Christi
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 298 consists of four separate books bound together. The first contains a unique sixteenth-century copy of the Life of St Thomas Becket in Middle English verse written in 1497 by Laurence Wade OSB.The second part contains a collection of documents relating to the history and landholdings of Canterbury and the archbishops and dates to the early sixteenth century. The third part consists of an early fifteenth-century copy of the Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis of Thomas Stubbs OP (d. 1381), with an anonymous continuation and two collection of documents. The chronicle is a history of the church of York covering the period 1147-1373. The fourth part contains a variety of letters, canons and excerpts from longer texts written in a Parkerian hand of the sixteenth century.


    Contents :


    1r-56v - Laurence Wade OSB, Life of Becket || The life of Thomas Beckett translated into English verse by Laurence Wade monk of Christ-church Canterbury 1497

    Note: (2r) Beginning O ye virtuous soverayns spiritual and temporal And all ye devoute people both more and lesse That thys now shall here hartely I praye yow all To support my imperfection of lowly gentylnesse For the lyeff here I purpose with your pacience to reherse Off seynt Thomas the blissed laureat martir dere That dyed for the churchys ryght onely in Cristys werre.

    Note: On f. 1r Thomas Cantuariensis (Cranmer's autograph)

    Note: Eight verses in red: Herbertum Bosue (i.e. Bosham) virtute virum renitentem...Quem cum rore rigent celibe corda pia

    Note: (1v) Note of the author that his sources are the Thomus of Herbert de Bosham, and the Life by John Grandison

    Note: Prologue

    incipit: (2r) O ye vertuous souerayns spirituall and temporall

    rubric: (2r) Incipit vita cum actibus gloriosi martiris Thome Cantuariensi archiepiscopi translata a Laurentio Wade claustrali commonacho ecclesie Christi Cantuariensi

    rubric: (2v) De mirabili ortu Sancti Thome secundum Johannem Exoniensem

    incipit: (2v) The custome off all holy chirch is laudable and ffamous

    Note: 7-line stanzas

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (56v) Recommend hym wnto this blissed saynt that hath shewyd ws her his story. ffinis

    Note: Hardy II 363 prints the prologue, beginning and end. The whole is printed by C. Horstmann in Kölbing's Englische Studien III (1880), pp. 409-469


    88r-100r - List of donations to Christ Church, Canterbury || Donationes et acquisitiones maneriorum cum ecclesiis totius prioratus ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi concessae et confirmatae [ad annum 17 Ricardi II.]

    rubric: (88r) Donaciones et adquisitiones maneriorum etc.

    rubric: (88r) Palatium Sancti Ethelberti

    Note: The last is

    rubric: (96r) Hospicium de le Crown in Cant.

    Note: Ending

    explicit: (96r) Anno regni (Regi Ricardi II) xviio

    rubric: (96v) Ecclesie appropriate ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi

    rubric: (98r) Decima omnium bonorum temporalium et spiritualium ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi extracta de rotulis d. Regis a. d. mo cccco ijo

    Note: (99v) London churches in the patronage of the Convent

    Note: (99v) London advowsons of the Archbishop


    100v-106v - List of English kings and the location of their tombs from Ethelbert king of Kent to Henry VII || Catalogus regum Anglorum et loca sepulturae eorundem ab Ethelberto rege Cantiae ad Henricum VII

    rubric: (100v) De regibus Anglorum, a. d. 562

    incipit: (100v) In primis de regibus Cantie regnauit Ethelbertus

    Note: At p. 92 an insertion de coronacione regum anglie secundum registrum Henrici prioris

    Note: Bull of Alexander (III) to Archbishop Richard

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (106r) Anno domini (blank) Henricus septimus (blank)

    Note: p. 98 blank


    107r-113v - List of archbishops of Canterbury from St Augustine to William Warham || De archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus quanto tempore in archiepiscopatu vixerunt et in quo gradu et dignitate prius erant (a Sancto Augustino ad Willelmum Warham et neoterica manu ad M. Parker)

    rubric: (107r) De archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus etc.

    incipit: (107r) Sanctus Augustinus primus archiepiscopus Cantuariensis sedit annis xvj

    Note: Ended originally with Warham

    explicit: (113r) sub fenestra in capella quam ipse fundauerat

    Note: Continued in a Parkerian hand: ends with Parker

    explicit: (113v) Sedit annis (blank)


    114r-120v - List of the priors of Christ Church, Canterbury from the Norman conquest to Thomas Goldwell (1066-1539) || De prioribus ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi et nomina eorum ab adventu Normannorum nam antea decani vocabantur (ad Thomam Goldwell ultimum priorem)

    rubric: (114r) De prioribus ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi etc.

    incipit: (114r) Henricus primus prior ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi contemporaneus Lanfranco

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (119r) Thomas Goldwell prior doctor theologie vixit in prioratu annis (blank)

    Note: 124-126 blank


    121r-123r - The death and funeral of Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, archbishop of Canterbury (1486) || Obitus et exequiae Thomae Bouchier presbiteri cardinalis et Cantuariensis archiepiscopi

    rubric: (121r) Obitus domini Thomae Boughier etc.

    incipit: (121r) Memorandum quod a. d. mo cccco lxxxvjo

    explicit: (123r) et dominus Thomas Goldston sacrae theologiae bachalarius verbum dei seminauit


    123v-128v - Description of the pageants in the city of London upon the arrival of the emperor Charles V and Henry VIII || The descrypcion of the pageantes made in the cyte of London at the recevyng of the most excellent pryncys Charlys the fyfte emperour and Henry the VIII. king off Englonde

    rubric: (123v) The descrypcioun of the pageantes etc.

    incipit: (123v) Fyrst my lorde mayer and the aldyrmen

    explicit: (128v) and organs with most swetyst musyke thatt cowed be devysede


    129r-150r - List of names of monks of Christ Church, Canterbury 1207-1527 || Nomina monachorum ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi a tempore exilii eorundem A. D. I. 1207, idibus Julii A. R. regis Iohannis octavo [ad annum 1527]

    Note: altera manu addit. ut videtur a Matthaeo Parkero

    rubric: (129r) Nomina monachorum etc.

    incipit: (129r) Prior. Johannes Sydyngborne

    Note: Ends (a. d. 1527)

    explicit: (145v) Thomas Farley

    Note: Edited from this and Thomas Cawston's MS. at Canterbury by W. G. Searle, Christ Church Canterbury, C. A. S. 1902, p. 173

    Note: Four blank leaves follow

    Note: ff. 146r - 150r blank


    150v-151v - Excerpt from a papal bull against the taking of benevolencies || Excerptum bullae papalis contra convivia quae nomine benevolentiae a prebendario intrante residentiam suam in ecclesia cathedrali exigebantur

    Note: Dicitur talia convivia per quadraginta dies continuari, et expensas eorundem ad c libras sterl. communiter ascendere

    Note: In Parkerian hand

    rubric: (150v) De benevolentia quam vocant prebendarii

    Note: See MS. Gonville & Caius 449, f. 126


    151v-153v - On the founding of the Abbey at Beverley || De fundatione abbatiae Beverlacensis

    Note: in membranis seculo xiv scriptis

    rubric: (151v) De abbatia Beverlaci

    incipit: (151v) A. d. dclxxiiiio mense Septembri xiio die consecratus est Sanctus Iohannes

    Note: (152r) A. d. mill. lxiiiio Aldredus Eboracensis Archiepiscopus statuit prefatos septem canonicos Beuerlaci, etc.

    Note: See MS. Gonville & Caius 449, f. 127

    Note: (153v) Index to the following tract

    Note: 192 blank


    154r-180r - Thomas Stubbs OP (attrib.), Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis || Cronica [Thomae Stobbes sive Stobrei dominicani] de successionibus et gestis Eboracensium archiepiscoporum


    180v-192v - Excerpts from an ancient register of the bishop of Rochester on the church of Rochester || Excerpta e registro veteri episcopi Roffensis de ecclesia Roffensi

    Note: (180v) Extracts about Canterbury and Rochester

    rubric: (181r) Exscripta e registro veteri Episcopi Roffensis foll. ijo

    incipit: (181r) Successit tunc Gilbertus

    Note: References to folia are given

    Note: 24-26 blank


    193r-199r - Letter of Edward I to the pope on the legitimacy of his rule of Scotland || Epistola Edwardi I. ad papam de jure suo in regnum Scotiae

    Note: (193r) Heading and colophon in French

    Note: 36-39 blank


    199v-203r - Letter of king Cnut to the English, 1027. Brief chronicle of English affairs from the death of Cnut to the death of Hardicnut || Epistola Canuti regis Angliae scripta Romae, in qua testatur papam concessisse, ut archiepiscopi Angliae non amplius Romam ire cogerentur pallii causa:- cui subjungitur brevis narratio rerum Anglicanarum a morte Canuti ad mortem filii ejus Hardicnuti

    Note: (199v) Begins abruptly: huius etiam instantia. The opening words are supplied on the last page of the volume (f. 257v)

    Note: f. 203r blank


    203v-206v - On the early statutes of the church of Worcester and of the possessions given to it by kings and vassals || De pontificali sede quomodo primitus statuta sit Wigorniae, et de possessionibus quae a regibus subregulis et bonae recordationis viris datae sunt Wigornensi ecclesiae

    incipit: (203v) Egregio Merciorum regi Wifario ... germanus suus generosus rex Sanctus Athelredus in regnum successit

    explicit: (206r) Herebertum Herefordensem Episcopum baculo pastorali privavit

    Note: Haec descripta e libro quodam veteri ecclesiae Wigorniensis vocato opusculum Bedae de diversis episcopatibus

    rubric: (206r) Hec descripta e Libro quodam veteri etc., as Nasmith

    Note: f. 206v blank


    207r-232r - Brief annals of English affairs 1530-1540 || Breve annales rerum memorabilium in Anglia, praesertim ab anno 1530 ad annum 1540

    incipit: (207r) A. d. mill. quingent. trices. septimo Invictissimus Rex henricus octauus misit literas suas Abbati et Conuentui Sancti augustini de comutacione terr.

    incipit: (207r) Anno regni tricesimo regi Henrici Octavimonasterium Augustini prefatum extra muros Ciuitatis Cantuariensis in festo domini Petri ad vincula dissolutum est et monachi expulsi doctore Leython. Anthonio sentleger et Joh. Moile commissar'

    Note: The latest events noted are in 1540. Chronological order is not kept. The last entry is 1537: surrender of Abingdon Abbey and Boxley Priory, with the rood

    Note: ff. 33v-53r blank


    232v-233r - Excerpt from the history of Jervaulx abbey at the time of King Edgar concerning the true cross at Winchester || Excerpta ab historia libri monasterii Jorevallensis in vita regis Edgari, de cruce loquente apud Winton.

    Note: (232v) One page

    Note: f. 233r blank


    233v-234r - Letter from Pope Alexander II to William the Conqueror, late 1071, and excerpts from the Passionale Sancti Ignatii || Epistola Alexandri papae ad Wilhelmum conquisitorem

    Note: e quodam vetusto libro ecclesiae Cantuariensis vocato passionale Sancti Ignacii jam in manibus Magistri Bower

    rubric: (233v) Ex quodam vetusto libro quondam ecclesiae Cantuariensis iam in manibus magistri Bower (Thomas Bowyer?)

    Note: (233v) Liber vocatur passionale Sancti Ignatii

    Note: The book appears to have been lost: but the flyleaf is in Trinity College MS. O.2.51


    234v-234v - Canons of the primatial council at Winchester, 1076 || De synodo habita Winton. anno 1076, ubi matrimonia clericorum prohibebantur

    Note: ex vetusto libro e bibliotheca Wigorniense

    rubric: (234v) Ex vetusto libro e Bibliotheca Wigorniensis ecclesiae et in duobus libris habetur

    Note: ?MS 190. 26


    235r-236r - Profession of Thomas archbishop of York and list of all other bishops who made professions to the archbishop of Canterbury || Professio Thomae Eboracensi archiepiscopi: et catalogus omnium episcoporum qui tales professiones fecerunt archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus

    rubric: (235r) Petitio clericorum Eboraci

    Note: (235r) Ex libro veteri ecclesiae Cantuariensis


    236v-238r - Canons of the synod of bishops Patricius and Isernius. (The first synod of St Patrick || Canones synodi episcoporum Patricii et Issernini

    rubric: (236v) Ex libro quodam vetusto ecclesiae Wigorniensis

    Note: = MS 279

    Note: (List of professions (article 21) is continued on 58r)

    Note: ff. 237v-238r blank


    238v-239v - Synod of London under Anselm (1102), decree against clerical marriage || Synodus Londini sub Anselmo contra uxores presbiterorum

    rubric: (238v) E libro vetusto ecclesiae Cantuariensis

    incipit: (238v) Hec sunt statuta de archidiaconibus

    explicit: (238r) et concubine cum rebus suis velut adultere

    Note: f. 61v blank


    240r-241v - Letter of Pope Paschal II to Anselm (epistola 43) || Paschalis papa ad Anselmum

    Note: (240r) Hec epistola habetur inter Epistolae Anselmi centur. 2 Epistola 43

    Note: From MS 135(?)

    Note: ff. 62v, 63r-63v blank


    242r-252r - On translating the Bible into English || A determination of a doctor of divinity against them that say it is not lawful to have holy writte and other bookes in Englishe

    rubric: (242r) This is a determinacion etc.

    incipit: (242r) Agaynst theym that say that holy wrytt shulde not be drawen into Englishe

    explicit: (243r) and other landes also haue the Bible in their mother tong, as Italy

    Note: (bottom of f. 65r)

    Note: At top of f. 65v a space and hec ... ta sunt ex quodam lacero fragmento Bibliothecae Wigorniensis

    Note: Text continues: hathe in latin for þat is her moder tonge and by many yeres haue hade

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (245v) is not ells but þe habite of right speakinge and right pronouncinge and right writinge

    Note: See Ussher's Historia Dogmatica, s. v. 1410, and MS 100. 3

    Note: ff. 68r-74r blank


    252v-257v - Nicholas Trevet OP, Quaestiones quodlibetales (extract, I. q. 13) || Questio determinata per Magistrum Nicolaum dictum Trivet de ordine predicatorum, quod omnia sunt admittenda quae tradit ecclesia circa passionem Christi

    incipit: (252v) Questio utrum omnia sint admittenda que tradit ecclesia circa passionem christi

    Note: Deals with the date principally: ends

    explicit: (253v) Quinta decima 8 kalendas apriles indic(t)ione

    Note: ff. 254r-257r, 258r-258v blank

    Note: On f. 79v notes in a good hand on Alfred

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