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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 370

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  • MS 370
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  • 1300 - 1399
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  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 370: Historia Alexandri Magni (Gesta Alexandri magni). Epistolae Alexandri. Gesta Edwardi III
    • Historia Alexandri Magni (Gesta Alexandri magni) || Historia Alexandri magni regis Macedonum, ortus vita et obitus || Gesta Alexandri
    • Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de situ Indiae (Gesta Alexandri magni) || Epistola Alexandri regis magni Macedonum, quam ab India magistro suo Aristoteli misit
    • Epistolae inter Alexandrum magnum et Dindium regum || Epistolae inter Alexandrum magnum et Dindimum regem
    • Gesta Alexandri magni (Historia de Preliis) || Gesta Alexandri magni imperatoris et regis Macedoniae
    • William Bateman, Injunctiones || Injunctiones datae priori et capitulo ecclesiae Norwicensis per Willelmum [Bateman] episcopum Norwicensem in visitatione sua
    • Thomas Walsingham OSB, Chronica maiora (extracts: De calumnia et injuriis ... in monasterio sancti Edmundi) || De calumnia et injuriis per eundem episcopum in monasterio S. Edmundi illatis, et per merita S. Edmundi finitis, una cum gravaminibus ejusdem monasterii, ex historia aurea
    • Itinerarium cuiusdam anglici terram sanctam, 1344 || Itinerarium cujusdam Anglici terram sanctam et alia loca sancta visitantis, anno 1344
    • Gesta Edwardi III || Acta bellicosa Edwardi III. regis Angliae et Edwardi principis Walliae ejus filii in mari et regno Franciae
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 370 is another of those manuscripts that may have been intended as light reading matter for a monastic community, containing as it does the perennial favourites of material concerning Alexander the Great in both the version of Julius Valerius (3rd/4th century) and the Historia de Preliis, alongside the fictional exchange of letters between Alexander and various figures in the ancient world. In addition, this codex contains an account of the Black Prince's campaign during the siege of Rouen that has been much used by historians of the Hundred Years' War. The presence of Bishop William Bateman's (d. 1355) Injunctions that resulted from his visitation to the Benedictine Cathedral Priory of Holy Trinity, Norwich in 1347 has led some to conclude that this manuscript was once in the library of that institution, though it lacks a press mark or any other evidence to that effect.


    Contents :


    1r-25v - Historia Alexandri Magni (Gesta Alexandri magni) || Historia Alexandri magni regis Macedonum, ortus vita et obitus || Gesta Alexandri

    rubric: (1r) Incipit historia Alexandri magni regis Macedonum. ortus uita et obitus

    incipit: (1r) Egyptii sapientes fati genere diuino primi feruntur

    explicit: (25v) ueneno superatus atque extinctus occubuit

    rubric: (25v) Explicit ortus uita et obitus Alexandri regis magni macedonum

    Note: Abridgement of Julius Valerius (ed. Zacher, Iulii Valerii Epitome, 1867): see H.L.D. Ward, British Museum Catalogue of Romances I 106


    25v-38v - Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de situ Indiae (Gesta Alexandri magni) || Epistola Alexandri regis magni Macedonum, quam ab India magistro suo Aristoteli misit

    rubric: (25v) Incipit epistola Alexandri regis magni macedonum quam ab india magistro suo aristotili misit

    incipit: (25v) Semper memor tui

    explicit: (38v) optime aristotelis ponderaris

    rubric: (38v) Finit epistola Alexandri regis magis macedonum missa ab india ad arist. preceptorum suum

    Note: Ed. Andr. Paulini, Giessen, 1706. Cockayne (Narratiunculae, 1861); A. Hilka, Breslau-program 1909, etc. Catalogue of Romances I 108


    38v-47v - Epistolae inter Alexandrum magnum et Dindium regum || Epistolae inter Alexandrum magnum et Dindimum regem

    Note: (Alexander Dindimo)

    incipit: (38v) Sepius ad aures

    Note: The following letters are

    incipit: (39r) Desiderantem te alexander

    incipit: (44v) Si hec ita sunt

    incipit: (45r) Nos inquit dindimus

    incipit: (45v) Tunc ideo beatum te

    explicit: (47v) inuidie quodam meliora prestantur

    Note: Ed. Bysshe, Palladius de Gentibus Indiae et Bragmanibus, 1668. Cat. of Romances I 108


    48r-80r - Gesta Alexandri magni (Historia de Preliis) || Gesta Alexandri magni imperatoris et regis Macedoniae

    rubric: (48r) Hic incipit gesta Alexandri magni Imperatoris et Regis Macedonie

    incipit: (48r) Sapientissimi egipcii scientes mensuram terre

    Note: Ending

    explicit: (80r) Mense marcio fabricauit xii ciuitates que adhuc inhabitantur

    rubric: (80r) Expliciunt gesta Alexandri magni quondam regis Macedonie qui totam mundi machinam suo imperio subiugauit

    Note: This is the Historia de Preliis. Cf. Cat. of Romances I 120

    Note: A riddle

    incipit: (80r) Fili si uixisses quantum uixisti et iterum tantum et dimidium tanti dimidij centum compleuisses annos

    incipit: (80r) Vixisset iuuenis annis bis terque uigenis

    explicit: (80r) A summa luna primi coibente profundo


    80v-85r - William Bateman, Injunctiones || Injunctiones datae priori et capitulo ecclesiae Norwicensis per Willelmum [Bateman] episcopum Norwicensem in visitatione sua

    incipit: (80v) Willelmus permissione diuina Norwic. ep. ... Priori et capitulo ecclesie nostre Norwic. ... Ex debito pastoralis officii

    explicit: (85r) modo simili custodiri. dat. in palacio nostro Norwicensi die v mensis maij. anno domini mill. cccmo quadragesimo septimo. Et consecracionis nostre iiij In cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum duximus apponendum

    explicit: (85r) Hee sunt iniuncciones d. Will. de Norwico. Norwic. Ep.

    Note: The end is on f. 83r

    Note: Immediately before this are inserted two leaves of paper containing

    Note: Hic interseruntur duo folia chartacea seculo xvi scripta quibus continetur


    83r-84v - Thomas Walsingham OSB, Chronica maiora (extracts: De calumnia et injuriis ... in monasterio sancti Edmundi) || De calumnia et injuriis per eundem episcopum in monasterio S. Edmundi illatis, et per merita S. Edmundi finitis, una cum gravaminibus ejusdem monasterii, ex historia aurea

    rubric: (83r) De calumnia et iniuriis per Willelmus Bateman ... in monasterio S. Edmundi illatus et per merita S. Edmundi finitis

    incipit: (83r) Ex libro 22 histor. auree Johannis anglici cap. 49

    rubric: (84r) Grauamina monasterij

    rubric: (84v) Ex Thomas Walsingham in maiori hist.


    85v-97v - Itinerarium cuiusdam anglici terram sanctam, 1344 || Itinerarium cujusdam Anglici terram sanctam et alia loca sancta visitantis, anno 1344

    Note: In the former hand: no title

    incipit: (85v) Arripiens quondam iter et pergere sum profectus ad sanctum sepulcrum. quia quanto hominis ingenium curiosius tanto uult perspicacius rimari que super terram et mare perspexi precordialiter impressi

    Note: The lower part of f. 94r is cut off

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (95v) Et sic reposita est nobis corona iusticie quam reddet nobis in illa die iustus iudex

    rubric: (95v) Explicit Itinerarium cuiusdam anglici terram sanctam et alia loca sancta uisitantis

    Note: ff. 95r - 96v blank

    Note: The travellers (three Englishmen) left Avignon on 3 October 1344 and reached home late in 1345

    Note: The description of Cyprus is interesting. I do not find that the narrative has been printed.


    98r-105v - Gesta Edwardi III || Acta bellicosa Edwardi III. regis Angliae et Edwardi principis Walliae ejus filii in mari et regno Franciae

    rubric: (98r) Hec sunt acta bellicosa illustrissimorum principum dominorum Edwardi d. g. regis ... et Edwardi eiusdem regis primogeniti ... a penultimo die mensis Junij anno domini mill. cccmo quadragesimo sexto ... et deinceps

    incipit: (98r) Felix anglie regis Edwardi progressus ad littora procerum armatorum et plebis exercitum

    Note: After f. 100 is a lacuna of 4 leaves (probably) where the events of July 29 - Aug. 10 (part), 1346, were narrated.

    Note: Ends f. 103v (20 Aug. 1346)

    explicit: (104v) Sagittariorum domesticorum et familiaris comitiua. quidam premissa faciebat licet sibi caucius alii ipmus

    Note: f. 104r is blank

    Note: On f. 104v is the same text as on f. 102v beginning

    incipit: (105v) Rex anglorum illo die

    Note: and ending at a rather earlier point than f. 102v

    explicit: (105v) poiastes ensi auoir

    Note: It was used by Joshua Barnes in his Life of Edward III, 1688, Bk II, chap. 2, and was printed in full by J. Moisant, S. J., Le Prince Noir en Aquitaine, etc., 1894, p. 157; also by Prof. Prentout of Caen.

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