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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 343

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  • MS 343
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Date
  • 1300 - 1399
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle French
  • Middle English
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 343: Ralph Niger, Chronicum (Creation-1199, continued to 1224 by Ralph of Coggeshall OCist, Chronicon Anglicanum). De expugnatione Terrae Sanctae libellus. De ducibus Normannie
    • Ralph Niger, Chronicum (Creation-1199, continued to 1224 by Ralph of Coggeshall OCist, Chronicon Anglicanum) || Radulphi Nigri chronicon de vita et actis imperatorum et regum Angliae et Franciae
    • Ralph of Coggeshall OCist, Chronicon terrae sanctae et de captis a Saladino Hierosolymis || Chronicon de terra sancta, seu de captione Hierusalem
    • De ducibus Normannie
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 343 contains fourteenth-century copies of historical material of the kind that interested Parker. In this instance the texts include Ralph Niger (d. c. 1210), to whose Chronicum, covering the period from the Creation to 1199, has been added extracts from the Chronicon Anglicanum by Ralph of Coggeshall OCist (d. after 1224), and a copy of Coggeshall's Chronicon terrae sanctae et de captis a Saladino Hierosolymis. In addition, the manuscript contains a handful of other texts of a varied nature, including verses on weights and measures, a guide to playing chess, a gospel parody (Sequencia leti euuangelii secundum lucrum) and a short history of the dukes of Normandy from William I to John. The flyleaves of the volume are made up of two leaves of a late fifteenth-century abstract version of the Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364). Nothing is known of the provenance of this manuscript.


    Contents :


    1v-72r - Ralph Niger, Chronicum (Creation-1199, continued to 1224 by Ralph of Coggeshall OCist, Chronicon Anglicanum) || Radulphi Nigri chronicon de vita et actis imperatorum et regum Angliae et Franciae

    rubric: (1v) Incipit prefatio magistri Radulfi Nigri

    incipit: (1v) Etsi succensere sibi neminem conueniat

    explicit: (1v) superflua eius effusione se proluat

    rubric: (1v) Explicit prefatio de prima particula huius cronice

    incipit: (1v) Ab adam usque ad diluuium sunt anni duo milia ccti xliiti secundum lxxti interpretes

    Note: On f. 23r after the birth of Prince Henry (1155) is a digression on Justinian

    Note: On f. 24r begin short annalistic notes 1065-1202. The entries lengthen to 1224

    Note: A note by Bale (?) on f. 28r: finiunt additiones Cisterciensis monachi de Cogeshal (i.e. Ralph of Coggeshall)

    Note: On f. 28v we go back to 1066 and proceed again to 1224. Ending (of Falco)

    explicit: (71v) Elegit uti terram relinqueret et trans mare

    Note: Rad. Coggeshall, Rolls Series, p. 208

    rubric: (71v) Explicit liber de uita et actibus im(per)atorum anglie et francie

    Note: The chronicle of Radulfus Niger was edited by Anstruther for the Caxton Society. On it see Hardy II 281, 287, 415, 496, and III 56 etc. This MS. does not seem to be mentioned by him

    Note: (72r) Verses on chess (28): Hic fit formosa sine sanguine pungna iocosa...Omnis homo matum clamat matum sibi matum

    Note: (72r) Then on weights: Li dener deit peiser xx greinz etc.

    Note: Then a parody of a gospel

    rubric: (72r) Sequencia leti euuangelii secundum luc(r)um

    incipit: (72r) In illo tempore. Erat quidam phariseus lucius uoragine princeps potatorum. Et congregatis discipulis suis interrogauit eum unus dicens, Magister dic quid faciam et vitam iocundam possidebo

    Note: Ending

    explicit: (72r) quod timet impius eueniet et. letabitur iustus. et merces eius cum eo et opus illius coram ipso est

    rubric: (72r) Credo in bacum patrem omnipotor


    72v-83r - Ralph of Coggeshall OCist, Chronicon terrae sanctae et de captis a Saladino Hierosolymis || Chronicon de terra sancta, seu de captione Hierusalem

    rubric: (72v) (Cronica de terra sancta)

    rubric: (72v) Quantis pressuris et calamitatibus oppressa sit et contrita orientalis ecclesia

    Note: After a letter of Saladin to Frederic (f. 82r) ending

    explicit: (83r) suscitatoris progeniei myramkaem

    Note: printed in Rad. of Coggeshall, Rolls, p. 209


    83r-83v - De ducibus Normannie

    rubric: (83r) De ducibus normannie et regibus anglie

    incipit: (83r) Primus normannie dux qui Robertus in baptismo dictus

    explicit: (83v) quo defuncto Iohannes frater eius comes de mortoiy successit ei in regnum anglie qui regnauit xvii annis et v mensibus

    rubric: (83v) Explicit expliceat scriptor ludere eat

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