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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 267

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  • MS 267
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  • 1000 - 1099
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  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 267: Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica. Peter Damian OSB, De nouissimis et Antichristo. John Thwing of Bridlington OSA, Versus prophetiales
    • Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica
    • Peter Damian OSB, De nouissimis et Antichristo (pseudo-Jerome, De XV signis)
    • John Thwing of Bridlington OSA, Versus prophetiales || Prophecy of John Bridlington
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 267 is a late eleventh- or early twelfth-century copy of the Chronica of Frechulf of Lisieux (fl. 823-53); it contains only the first part, from Adam to the Incarnation. It is one of the manuscripts produced at St Augustine's Abbey Canterbury after the Conquest in an almost exaggeratedly English style of script. The same scribe is found in other St Augustine's books, and this manuscript is identifiable in the medieval catalogue of the abbey's library. A short text by Peter Damian (1007-72) was added not long after the manuscript was written. A near-contemporary copy of a neumed hymn to St Mellitus, the third archbishop of Canterbury, is now at the front of the book, but because it is codicologically separable it may not always have been part of this manuscript. In the fifteenth century a short prophetic poem by John Thwing of Bridlington OSA (d. 1379) was added at the back of the volume. The chronicle section contains fine illuminated initials.


    Contents :


    1v-119v - Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica

    Note: (1r) Some notes (xiii-xiv) of chapters in the various books of the History

    Note: (1v) The main hand begins

    Note: Prologue

    Note: (1v) Initial in purple to prologue

    incipit: (1v) Domino preceptori desiderantissimo Elisacharo Frethulfus

    Note: (collated by Hampe: Neues Archiv, XXII 669)

    explicit: (2r) hec decerpsimus

    incipit: (2r) (T)e duce Christe uia facilis est ire per omnes

    Note: (P. L. CVI 919)

    explicit: (2r) Non ignota canens ueterum sed dicta priorum

    Note: (2r) Capitula

    Note: Text

    incipit: (3v) Cum aliquam temporum seriem

    Note: (3v) In green and purple capitals: initial in red, purple and green

    Note: Marginalia, some of cent. xv. One on f. 4r quotes Rabi moyses

    Note: (18r) Liber II. Capitula

    Note: (19v) Text. Purple initial

    Note: (36r) Liber III. Capitula

    Note: (37r) Text. Purple initial

    Note: (50v) Liber IV. Capitula

    Note: (51v) Text. Purple and blue initial

    Note: (69v) Liber V. Capitula

    Note: (70r) Text. Purple and green initial

    Note: (84v) Liber VI. Capitula

    Note: (85v) Text. Purple initial

    Note: (100r) Liber VII. Capitula (incomplete)

    Note: (100r) Text. Green initial

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (119v) ad lucem uenimus ueram qua respersi in domini Christi aduentu librorum finem fecimus ut omnes sciant in me SUNT


    119v-120r - Peter Damian OSB, De nouissimis et Antichristo (pseudo-Jerome, De XV signis)

    Note: (119v) In a hand like that of Christchurch

    rubric: (119v) Ieronimus in annalibus hebreorum de xv signis ante diem iudicii

    incipit: (119v) Signum primi diei. Maria omnia in altitudinem

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (120r) xv. Finis id est ipsa dies iudicii

    Note: Often printed, e.g. P. L. XCIV 555Actually P. L. CXXXXV 840


    120r-120v - John Thwing of Bridlington OSA, Versus prophetiales || Prophecy of John Bridlington

    Note: (120r) In a scrawly hand of cent. xv

    incipit: (120r) ffebribus infectus requies fuerat mihi lectus

    explicit: (120v) Sanguine scotorum spoliatorum sociorum

    Note: (cap. iv, fin.)

    Note: (Wright, Political Poems, Rolls Series I pp. 128-141)

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