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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 100

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  • MS 100
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  • 1500 - 1599
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  • Latin
  • English
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 100: Transcripts (16th century). Simeon of Durham OSB. Geoffrey of Coldingham OSB. Tito Livio Frulovisi. Walter of Guisborough OSA. Asser
    • Simeon of Durham OSB, Libellus de exordio et procursu Dunelmensis ecclesiae. Anonymous, Continuatio Prima. Geoffrey of Coldingham OSB, De statu ecclesiae Dunelmensis || Chronicon monasterii Dunelmensis [sive historia Simeonis Dunelmensis cum continuationibus anonimi et Gaufridi de Coldingham]
    • Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici V regis Angliae || Invictissimi Anglorum Franciaeque regis Henrici quinti ad ejus filium christianissimum regem Henricum sextum vita per Titum Livium de Frulovissiis Ferrariensem
    • On translating the Bible into English || A determination of a doctor of divinity against them that say, it is not lawful to have holy writte and other bookes in English
    • Walter of Guisborough OSA, Chronicle (extract covering the reign of Edward II) || G. [Gualterus Hemingford, canonicus] de Gysburne de rege Edwardo II
    • Genealogical tables from the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris || Tabellae ante historiam Matthei Parisiensis
    • Asser (attrib.), Annales Britanniae || Annales Britanniae authore I. Asser cum paralipomenis alterius scriptoris
    • Matthew Parker, Notes on Alfred the Great taken from various chronicles || Notae chronologicae de Ælfredo manu Matthei Parker
    • Asser, De rebus gestis Ælfredi regis || Ælfredi res gestae, autore Asser
    • Life of St Alban of Mainz || De Sancto Albano || The Life of St Alban of Mainz
    • Speech of Sir Nicholas Carew at his execution on Tower Hill, March 3, 1538 || Speech of sir Nicholas Carew at his execution on Tower-hill, March 3, 1538; communicated to archbishop Parker by sir Robert Chester
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 100 contains sixteenth-century transcripts, predominantly of medieval texts. Of particular interest is the transcript of Asser's De rebus gestis Ælfredi regis which was transcribed from London, BL MS Cotton Otho A. XII, a manuscript which was destroyed by a fire in Sir Robert Cotton's library in 1731. Asser (d. 909), was the bishop of Sherborne and several works ascribed to him survive. His account of King Alfred is of particular importance as one of the main historical sources for Alfred's reign. MS 100 also contains a copy of a Middle English tract, 'On translating the Bible into English', which was published in 1530 and frequently thereafter. More scholarly attention has been paid to the copy of this tract in CCCC MS 298, item 25.


    Contents :


    1-126 - Simeon of Durham OSB, Libellus de exordio et procursu Dunelmensis ecclesiae. Anonymous, Continuatio Prima. Geoffrey of Coldingham OSB, De statu ecclesiae Dunelmensis || Chronicon monasterii Dunelmensis [sive historia Simeonis Dunelmensis cum continuationibus anonimi et Gaufridi de Coldingham]

    Note: desunt x. capitula ad finem

    Note: Copied from MS 139

    Note: pp. 123-126 blank


    127-226 - Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici V regis Angliae || Invictissimi Anglorum Franciaeque regis Henrici quinti ad ejus filium christianissimum regem Henricum sextum vita per Titum Livium de Frulovissiis Ferrariensem

    Note: Copied from MS 285. 1


    227-236 - On translating the Bible into English || A determination of a doctor of divinity against them that say, it is not lawful to have holy writte and other bookes in English

    Note: From a Worcester MS. Note on p. 229: Hec extracta sunt ex quodam lacero fragmento bibliothece Wigorniensis

    incipit: (227) Against theim that say that holy writt shoulde not be drawen into Englishe

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (233) ryght speakinge and ryght pronouncinge and ryght wrytinge

    Note: pp. 234-236 blank

    Note: Cf. Trinity College B. 1. 26, Ussher, Historia Dogmatica sub anno 1410, and MS 298. 52 (actually item 25)


    237-250 - Walter of Guisborough OSA, Chronicle (extract covering the reign of Edward II) || G. [Gualterus Hemingford, canonicus] de Gysburne de rege Edwardo II

    Note: Continet historiam Angliae a morte Edwardi I. ad annum salutis 1312; et omnino concordat cum libro quarto ejusdem autoris de gestis regum Angliae

    Note: From MS 250

    incipit: (237) Mortuo strenuissimo Rege Edwardo

    explicit: (247) terra siluit et quievit

    Note: See Hardy, Materials III 257, 306


    251-260 - Genealogical tables from the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris || Tabellae ante historiam Matthei Parisiensis

    Note: Copy of genealogical tables from MS 26, continued to Henry V

    incipit: (251) Considerans prolixitatem cronicorum anglie


    261-323 - Asser (attrib.), Annales Britanniae || Annales Britanniae authore I. Asser cum paralipomenis alterius scriptoris

    Note: Hic liber transcriptus e quodam vetustissimo codice notato in margine manu Iohannis Leilandi

    Note: From the manuscript now at Trinity College R. 7. 28

    Note: Hardy I 557

    Note: pp. 320-323 blank


    324-324b - Matthew Parker, Notes on Alfred the Great taken from various chronicles || Notae chronologicae de Ælfredo manu Matthei Parker

    Note: Short extracts from Chronica regia (et est liber scriptus in cenobio Sancti Edmundi, see on MS 251), Ranulphus, Johannes Parisiensis (see MS 60), Petrus de Yckham

    Note: A slip follows with notes from Asser


    324c-364 - Asser, De rebus gestis Ælfredi regis || Ælfredi res gestae, autore Asser

    Note: Hunc librum apographum esse MS. Cottoniani, nos docet Cl. Wise in prefatione ad editionem suam

    Note: From the lost Cotton MS. Otho A XII

    Note: See W. H. Stevenson's edition, 1904, p. li. Its symbol there is Co. It is said by Mr Stevenson to be the most valuable of the transcripts, having been made from the Cotton MS. before Parker interpolated the text

    Note: pp. 363-364 blank (ruled)


    365-372 - Life of St Alban of Mainz || De Sancto Albano || The Life of St Alban of Mainz

    Note: Fabulosa haec historia in quinque paginis enarrat vitam nescio cujus Albani, qui ex incesto thalamo procreatus, et in Hungariam deportatus ibique expositus, regi defertur, et ab eodem in filium adoptatur. Deinde inscienter propriam matrem in uxorem ducit; re autem comperta, deliciis mundi renuens, reliquam vitam anachoretice agit

    Note: On 3 leaves of smaller size. Cent. xv, 44 lines to a page

    incipit: (365) Erat olim in partibus aquilonis homo quidam potens et nobilis

    explicit: (369) cum eo a nostris facinoribus ablui et super niuem dealbari. Amen Amen Amen

    rubric: (369) Explicit vita Sancti Albani martiris

    Note: Cf. Hardy I 32, BHL. 201

    Note: pp. 370-372 blank


    373-374 - Speech of Sir Nicholas Carew at his execution on Tower Hill, March 3, 1538 || Speech of sir Nicholas Carew at his execution on Tower-hill, March 3, 1538; communicated to archbishop Parker by sir Robert Chester

    Note: One leaf

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