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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 276

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  • MS 276
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Date
  • 1000 - 1099
Language
  • Latin
  • Greek
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 276: Histories of the Romans and Normans
    • Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana (an augmentation of Flavius Eutropius, Breuiarium ab urbe condita) || Historia Romana ab urbe condita ad Justinianum imperatorem libri xvi
    • Spurious charter of Pope Leo VIII || Carta Leonis papae VIII. in qua confirmat Ottoni I. imperatori jus tam eligendi quam ordinandi pontificem Romanum et alios episcopos
    • Dudo of Saint-Quentin, De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum || Dudonis historia Normannorum
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 276 is a witness to the cultural influences at work at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, in the first generations after the Norman Conquest. It contains two separate volumes which have been together since the twelfth century: the first was written in the late eleventh century and contains the Historia Romana, a version of Eutropius' Breuiarium ab urbe condita by Paul the Deacon (c. 720/30-99); the second was written circa 1100 and contains the De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum (Historia Normannorum) of Dudo of Saint-Quentin (c. 960-1026). Both were made at St Augustine's. The first volume contains the work of two co-operating scribes, one writing an angular Norman hand, the other the round exaggerated Anglo-Caroline typical of St Augustine's at this date. Mont-St-Michel influence has been detected in the initials. The manuscript was owned by a certain William Carye before Parker acquired it.


    Contents :


    1r-52v - Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana (an augmentation of Flavius Eutropius, Breuiarium ab urbe condita) || Historia Romana ab urbe condita ad Justinianum imperatorem libri xvi

    Note: Decem priores libri sunt Eutropii cum additamentis Pauli diaconi, sex posteriores incerti autoris

    Note: f. 1r blank

    Note: f. 1v has title in four lines, purple initial, text in capitals, green and purple in alternate lines

    rubric: (1v) Incipit / liber / primus / Historiae / Romanorum

    incipit: (2r) Primus in italia ut quibusdam placet

    Note: (2r) (purple and green capitals)

    Note: (35v) Liber X ends

    explicit: (35v) ad maiorem scribendi diligentiam reseruamus

    rubric: (35v) Explicit liber decimus. hucusque historiam eutropius composuit cui tamen aliqua paulus diaconus addidit

    rubric: (35v) Incipit liber undecimus

    incipit: (36r) Anno ab urbe condita millesimo centesimo octauo decimoUalentinianus tricesimus octauus e pannonia

    Note: (51r) Liber XVI ends

    explicit: (51r) Quia uero restant adhuc que iustiniani augusti felicitate dicantur in sequenti deo presule libello promenda sunt

    rubric: (51r) Explicit liber XVI

    rubric: (51r) Imperatores Rome vel Constantinopoli regnantes

    incipit: (51r) Augustus regnauit annos quinquaginta vi

    explicit: (52v) IustinusConstantinopoli ... morbo periit

    Note: A later hand adds

    Note: (52v) Iustinianus nepos Justini ex sorore

    Note: Cf. MS 129. 1


    53r-54v - Spurious charter of Pope Leo VIII || Carta Leonis papae VIII. in qua confirmat Ottoni I. imperatori jus tam eligendi quam ordinandi pontificem Romanum et alios episcopos

    incipit: (53r) Conuenit apostolico moderamine pollentibus

    Note: (Jaffe 3704)

    explicit: (53v) eternam cum omnibus sanctis habere mereatur in saeculorum saecula. Amen

    Note: f. 54r-54v blank


    55r-134v - Dudo of Saint-Quentin, De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum || Dudonis historia Normannorum

    Note: De libraria sancti Augustini Cantuariensi

    rubric: (55r) Epistola panagirica atque apologitica ratione transcursa

    incipit: (55r) Inclito et pie venerando ... Adalberoni ... Dude ... Gloriosissimi nominis tui diuulgamen

    explicit: (57r) senatorem celestis aule

    rubric: (57r) Allocutio ad librum. monocolo monostropho ducursa

    Note: (57r) (In Greek letters, transliterated above)

    incipit: (57r) Themate pertenui quoniam digestus haberis

    rubric: (58r) Versus ad comitem rodulfum

    rubric: (58v) Item ad Rodbertum archiepiscopum

    rubric: (59v) Oratio

    Note: Text

    incipit: (59v) Totius nanque molis orbe descripto

    Note: The Greek words are written with some knowledge

    Note: Ends unfinished

    explicit: (134v) uulgus concrepabat pro uocibus ululantium

    Note: (Duchesne, p. 157D)

    Note: (135r) The flyleaves are blank

    Note: See Hardy I 616

    Note: Ed. Duchesne, 1619. Historiae Normannorum Scriptores Antiqui

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