Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 259

Source

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Library

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Shelfmark

• MS 259

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Date

• 1300 - 1349

Language

• Latin

Title

• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 259: Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (to 1338)
• Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (to 1338) || Polycratica temporum Rogeri Cestriensis || Ranulf HigdenPolychronicon

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Ranulf Higden (1280?-1364)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Ranulf Higden OSB

  Other form

  • Ranulf Higden
  • Higden, Ranulf, -1364
  • Higden, Ranulf, d 1364
  • Higden, Ranulf, -1364. Polychronicon. Selections. English (Middle English).
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Description

• Summary: CCCC MS 259 is one of several copies of the Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364), a monk of St Werburga's Abbey, Chester, owned by Parker, and reflecting the latter's interest in British history. The version of this chronicle contained in this manuscript ends in 1338 and was copied not long after the last events it describes in the mid-fourteenth century. The Polychronicon was the most widely read chronicle in late medieval England, and exists in many manuscripts, other copies being CCCC MSS 21, 117, 164, and in English translation in CCCC MS 354 . It has on the front flyleaf a note by the historian John Bale (1495-1563), attributing the text to 'Roger of Chester', a figure sometimes supposed to have written the Polychronicon until Higden's identity was confirmed in the nineteenth century. The provenance of the manuscript is unknown.

  
  

  Contents :

  
  

  1r-200r - Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (to 1338) || Polycratica temporum Rogeri Cestriensis || Ranulf HigdenPolychronicon

  Note: Text

  incipit: (1r) Intrabo in agros priscorum subsequens metentes

  Note: There are rather copious marginal notes of cent. xvi

  Note: Several hands have been employed: the last begins on f. 190r

  Note: Historia desinit in anno 1338

  Note: Liber VII ends in 1338

  explicit: (200r) Conferentes se ad portum de Hamptone ubi duas naues statim postea conbusserunt

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