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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 43

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  • MS 043
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Date
  • 1300 - 1399
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 043: William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta pontificum Anglorum. Adam of Eynsham OSB, Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham
    • William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta pontificum Anglorum, books 1-4 || Will. Malmesbury. Gesta Pontificum
    • William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta pontificum Anglorum, book 5
    • Adam of Eynsham OSB, Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham
    • William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta regum Anglorum, book 1 (excerpts)
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 43 contains a copy of William of Malmesbury OSB (c. 1080-1143), Gesta pontificum Anglorum, together with a complete version of Adam of Eynsham OSB (d. after 1233) Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham. The greater part of the text is in a late fourteenth-century hand, but the fifth book of the Gesta pontificum, together with extracts from William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum, have been added in sixteenth-century hands. Parker and his secretaries have added a number of aides mémoires to the margins of the text, revealing their interest in the history of the English episcopacy. Some fourteenth-century notes at the end of the manuscript, together with the script and ornament, led M. R. James to believe that the manuscript had an East Anglian provenance, possibly from Norwich, but its exact provenance remains unknown.


    Contents :


    1r-68v - William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta pontificum Anglorum, books 1-4 || Will. Malmesbury. Gesta Pontificum

    rubric: (1r) Incipit liber W. Malmesburiensis monachi de summis pontificibus liber primus

    incipit: (1r) Prima sedes episcoporum

    Note: (27r) Liber II

    Note: (41v) Liber III

    Note: (54v) Liber IV

    Note: The old hand ends in IV 186 (p. 326 Rolls Ed.)

    explicit: (63v) herbarum uiridantibus

    Note: f. 64r is a supply of cent. xvi on vellum


    69r-119av - William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta pontificum Anglorum, book 5

    Note: Then follows the fifth book supplied on paper (28 lines to a page) by one of Parker's secretaries, ending 89

    Note: 8 blank leaves follow

    Note: (119av) On the verso of the last is a note in Latin on the fabulosity of the next article


    120r-141v - Adam of Eynsham OSB, Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham

    Note: (120r) Vision of the monk of Eynesham

    rubric: (120r) Incipit tractatus de uisione monachi Eneshamie. anno domini 1196

    Note: (This rubric is later than the text, and the last three words are of cent. xvi)

    Note: The text is in a hand of the same character (possibly in the same hand) as no. 1

    incipit: (120r) Quoniam notissimum habetur quod diem terris sole post tenebras

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (141v) uirtus et magnificencia regnumque et imperium in secula seculorum. Amen

    Note: It is the full text by Adam of Eynesham. See Ward, Catalogue of Romances II 493


    142r-142v - William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta regum Anglorum, book 1 (excerpts)

    Note: (142r) On the following page in a hand of cent. xvi in double columns is an abridged extract from the Gesta Regum beginning

    incipit: (142r) et profecto conceptum opus pietas explesset

    Note: (145, p. 46 Rolls Ed.)

    Note: Ending

    explicit: (142v) post beatum Aldelmum et Bedam doctissimus

    Note: (Rolls Ed. p. 69)

    Note: At the top of this page in a hand of cent. xiv like that of the text is a note

    Note: (142v) Episcopi Estanglorum notantur fo. xxmo ixo sec. W. Malmsberi et de factis Herberti episcopi et de sedibus apud helmam et Theford. Eliense monasterium post (?primo) constituit S. Etheldrida postea S. Athelwoldus Ep. monachos induxit folio 63

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