Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 21
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- MS 021
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- 1375 - 1399
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 021: Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1377)
- Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1377) || Ranulphi HigdenPolychronicon
- Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (Chronology to 1377)
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- Ranulf Higden (1280?-1364)
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- Ranulf Higden OSB
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- Ranulf Higden
- Higden, Ranulf, -1364
- Higden, Ranulf, d 1364
- Higden, Ranulf, -1364. Polychronicon. Selections. English (Middle English).
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Summary: CCCC MS 21 contains a high quality copy of Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden (d. 1364) with a continuation to 1377, and was copied shortly after that date. A note in a fifteenth-century hand records that the manuscript was given by 'Henry Somer' to the Hospital of St John the Evangelist in Cambridge. It is sometimes assumed that this is the same man who is described as a Fellow of King's Hall in the early fifteenth century. However, a case can be made for the donor to have been another Henry Somer, a senior royal official who rose to be Chancellor of the Exchequer (1410-39) before his death in 1450, and who expressed a desire to be buried at St John's Hospital. The book passed into the possession of the newly founded St John's College in 1511, since another scribble records the name of 'Shorton', presumably Robert Shorton, the first Master of St John's but later Parker's predecessor as Dean of Stoke by Clare College (1529-35). A sixteenth-century note adds that Somer was involved in a dispute with Corpus Christi over tithes due in Grantchester. It is to be wondered how this 'Inimicus Collegio Corporis Christi Cantabrigiae' might view the acquisition of one of his books by the college.
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10r-174r - Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1377) || Ranulphi HigdenPolychronicon
incipit: (10r) Post preclaros
Note: At 332 (anno 1342) carceris et capitis interdixit, is the note (in the text) Usque huc scripsit R.
Note: Text continues
Note: (167v) Hoc idem anno non. Junii natus est regi E. IIIo Edmundus etc.
Note: Liber VII ends in 1377
explicit: (174r) Et quod grauius longam continuacionem postea habuerunt
rubric: (174r) Explicit liber septimus qui est ultimus historie policronice
174r-178v - Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (Chronology to 1377)
Note: In a different hand probably of cent. xiv late
rubric: (174r) Hic incipit Cronica bona et compendiosa de regibus anglie tantum a Noe usque ad hunc diem
incipit: (174r) Noe fuerunt tres filii
Note: Ends with the accession of Richard II
explicit: (178v) in regnum successit anglorum anno etatis sue undecimo
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