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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 287

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  • MS 287
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  • 1500 - 1599
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  • Latin
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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 287: John Flete OSB, De fundatione ecclesiae Westmonasterii. Chronicon episcoporum Eliensium
    • Breve excerptum ex historia Iohannis Marii Belgici de schismatibus || Breve excerptum ex historia I. Marii Belgi de schismatibus de Helena matre Constantini magni
    • Letter of Michael Renniger to Matthew Parker, 25 October || Epistola Michaelis Renigeri ad Mattheum Cantuariensem cum prefatione de autoritate argumento et summa libri sequentis
    • John Flete OSB, De fundatione ecclesiae Westmonasterii || Liber breviter compilatus de fundatione et erectione ecclesiae Westmonasteriensis, prout in chronicis et scriptis authenticis invenitur, autore Iohanne Flete
    • Chronicon episcoporum Eliensium ab Harvaeo primo episcopo ad mortem Philippi Morgan episcopi XXIII, anno 1434 || Historia episcoporum Eliensium ab Harvaeo primo episcopo ad mortem Philippi Morgan episcopi XXIII, anno 1434
    • List of Bishops of Ely || Catalogus episcoporum Eliensium ab Harvaeo ad Ricardum Cox
    • Nigel Witeker OSB, Contra curiales et officiales clericos siue De eruditione praelatorum (prose version) || Epistola Nigelli [Wireker] monachi Cantuariensis ad Gulielmum de Longocampo episcopum Eliensem de abusu rerum ecclesiasticarum
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 287 contains a miscellaneous sixteenth-century collection of chronicles and tracts concerned with Westminster and Ely. The first part consists of a copy of De fundatione ecclesiae Westmonasterii by John Flete OSB (c.1398-1466), an important history of Westminster Abbey. Then follows a history of the bishops of Ely up to 1434 with a list of their names. At the end is the Contra curiales et officiales clericos siue De eruditione praelatorum attributed to Nigel Witeker OSB (d. after 1206).


    Contents :


    ir-iv - Breve excerptum ex historia Iohannis Marii Belgici de schismatibus || Breve excerptum ex historia I. Marii Belgi de schismatibus de Helena matre Constantini magni

    rubric: (1r) Ex historia J. Marii Belgi de schismatibus p. 416

    incipit: (ir) Cum Cleol rex Britanniae

    Note: (The reason why the Kings of England wear the Imperial crown)


    iir-iiv - Letter of Michael Renniger to Matthew Parker, 25 October || Epistola Michaelis Renigeri ad Mattheum Cantuariensem cum prefatione de autoritate argumento et summa libri sequentis

    Note: (iir) Letter of Michael Renniger (Reniger) to Parker, dated Lambeth, 25 October. He says of the book: Erat in arca quadam libraria longe a me dissita inter alios domini Hugonis Latimer libros retrusus. (See Robinson, p. 32.) Renniger or Rhanger died in 1609

    Note: Preface, of the same date: signed in full. Both these are copied out more clearly on ff. iiir-ivv: the signature here is only M. R.

    Note: The above are on a vellum leaf which has been folded into four


    1r-60v - John Flete OSB, De fundatione ecclesiae Westmonasterii || Liber breviter compilatus de fundatione et erectione ecclesiae Westmonasteriensis, prout in chronicis et scriptis authenticis invenitur, autore Iohanne Flete

    Note: Continet historiam monasterii et abbatum qui ibidem praefuerunt a prima fundatione ad annum 1386. XIXo Juni Anno 1572. Hic liber transcriptus ex veteri quodam libro scripto de fundatione ecclesiae Westmonasteriensis, qui liber jam remanet in custodia D. Goodman decani ejusdem ecclesiae

    rubric: (1r) Incipit prohemium libri breuiter compilati, etc.

    incipit: (1r) Quoniam utile est et honestum

    Note: On f. 1v is a reference in the text to 'Cronica que liber Regius appellatur': a footnote says: Cronica Regia ideo dicitur quia Rex Richardus secundus eam scribi fecit a monacho quodam cenobii Sancti Edmundi de Burye. See MS 251

    Note: Text ends

    explicit: (59v) per tria quarteria anni et duas septimanas et amplius

    Note: f. 60r-60v blank

    Note: The manuscript of Flete's History from which this is copied is still at Westminster in the Library of the Dean and Chapter

    Note: See the edition by Dr J. Armitage Robinson, Dean of Westminster (1909)


    61r-101r - Chronicon episcoporum Eliensium ab Harvaeo primo episcopo ad mortem Philippi Morgan episcopi XXIII, anno 1434 || Historia episcoporum Eliensium ab Harvaeo primo episcopo ad mortem Philippi Morgan episcopi XXIII, anno 1434

    Note: Another hand begins

    rubric: (61r) Herueus I Episcopus

    incipit: (61r) Post mortem Richardi abbatis mittitur a rege henrico

    Note: Ends on Philip Morgan

    explicit: (101r) Sedit annis ix Sept. xxvj dies quatuor


    101v-101v - List of Bishops of Ely || Catalogus episcoporum Eliensium ab Harvaeo ad Ricardum Cox

    Note: (101v) A list of Bishops with duration of their pontificates from Herveus to Richard Coxe


    102r-131v - Nigel Witeker OSB, Contra curiales et officiales clericos siue De eruditione praelatorum (prose version) || Epistola Nigelli [Wireker] monachi Cantuariensis ad Gulielmum de Longocampo episcopum Eliensem de abusu rerum ecclesiasticarum

    incipit: (102r) Reuerendo patri et domino Willelmum, etc. frater Nigellus

    Note: ff. 179-202 are paper

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (131v) ex negligentia securi

    Note: Versificator quidam Cantuariensis qui scripsit carmine Archiepiscopos Cantuarienses sic desinit in Richardo. Richardus. Inde gradu functus est pre consortibus unctus Presul Richardus vir mitis et ad mala tardus etc. Sic miserando tamen ut quod dedit auferat. Amen. Hic uir timuit ne Nigellus Wireker monachus succederet ad Archiepiscopatum Cant. post Richardum. Baleus de eo scribit, p. 245

    Note: See Wright's Satirical Poets of the twelfth century, Rolls Series I 153

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