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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 438

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  • MS 438
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  • 1200 - 1499
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle French
  • Middle English
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 438: Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Gesta regum etc
    • List of kings of England from the conquest to Henry IV || Catalogus regum Angliae a conquestu ad Henricum IV
    • Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Mappa mundi || Gervasii Dorobernensis mappa mundi
    • Macer (attrib.), De uiribus herbarum || Liber Macri de viribus herbarum
    • Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Gesta regum || Chronica Gervasii a Bruto ad regem Ioannem, cum continuatione ad annum 1316
    • Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Actus pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae || Gervasii actus pontificum Cantuarie a S. Augustino ad Hubertum
    • Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Successio pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae || Successio eorundem ab Augustino ad Ioannem Stafford
    • The clerical tenth of 1402 extracted from royal accounts by Thomas Chillenden || Decima omnium bonorum temporalium et spiritualium ecclesiae Christi Cantuarie extracta de rotulis domini regis A. D. 1402, per Thomam Chillendene priorem
    • Alexander VI, Bull granting Thomas Bourgchier archbishop of Canterbury license to canonize Anselm of Canterbury || Copia bullae Alexandri papae concessa sancto Thomae Cantuariensi archiepiscopo de canonizatione sancti Anselmi ejusdem ecclesiae archiepiscopi
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 438 contains two quite distinct types of text. In the first category is a thirteenth-century copy of the medical treatise De uiribus herbarum attributed variously to Odo of Meung (fl. last third of eleventh century), once considered to be by the Roman poet Aemilius Macer. The rest of the manuscript is taken up with material relating to the history of England and of Canterbury in particular. Thus one finds in this codex thirteenth-century copies of the Gesta regum and Actus pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae of Gervase of Canterbury OSB (d. 1210), a fifteenth-century transcript of clerical taxation records and a copy of the bull of 1170 authorising the canonization of Anselm of Canterbury. The contents and other notes strongly support a provenance at the Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity, Christ Church, Canterbury.


    Contents :


    5v-8v - List of kings of England from the conquest to Henry IV || Catalogus regum Angliae a conquestu ad Henricum IV

    Note: 3-7 blank

    Note: Single lines. Cent. xiv-xv. Stubbs, l. c.

    rubric: (5v) Catalogus Regum Anglie a conquestu

    incipit: (5v) Willelmus conquestor dux normann. applicuit in anglia cum exercitu suo

    Note: (7v) The last entry (of Henry IV) is in another hand

    explicit: (7v) prope feretrum S. thome martiris gloriosi

    Note: 13, 14 blank


    9r-18v - Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Mappa mundi || Gervasii Dorobernensis mappa mundi

    Note: Double columns. Cent. xiii. Second half

    rubric: (9r) Proemium in mappam mundi

    incipit: (9r) Anglicane insule situs et temperies

    Note: Stubbs II, p. 414

    Note: (18v) Ending with valuation of Scottish bishoprics in another hand


    19r-56v - Macer (attrib.), De uiribus herbarum || Liber Macri de viribus herbarum

    Note: Single lines

    rubric: (19r) Incipit liber macri de uiribus herbarum de arthemesea

    Note: (19r) (In gallico hermoyse. in Angl. Mugwed: margin)

    incipit: (19r) Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine uires

    Note: A few names in French and English in the margins

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (54v) sic apta solucio fiet

    Note: (54v) Note from Papias on coriandrum

    Note: 107-110 blank


    57r-209v - Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Gesta regum || Chronica Gervasii a Bruto ad regem Ioannem, cum continuatione ad annum 1316

    Note: Double columns

    rubric: (57r) Incipiunt excepciones breuissime de numero et gestis regum britannie

    incipit: (57r) Cum multa mecum animo reuoluerem

    Note: The 'Gesta Regum.' Stubbs, p. 4

    Note: Hand changes at 295: at 375 single lines and change of hand: 393-394 an inserted leaf with account of resignation of Celestine V: in a good hand (Stubbs II 308)

    Note: Various hands appear on 400-408. (Stubbs II 318-324)

    Note: 408-416 are mostly in the hand of 8 sqq.

    Note: (205v) Chronograms. Stubbs, p. 324 note

    rubric: (206r) Bellum de peyters

    Note: Stubbs, p. l

    Note: Miscellaneous notes. Stubbs, pp. lii-liii

    Note: (208v) Account of Council of Cloveshoo

    incipit: (208v) Anno domini dccmo xlij Cutbertus archiepiscopus dorobernie

    explicit: (209v) hiis legibus constitutis subscripsi


    210r-251r - Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Actus pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae || Gervasii actus pontificum Cantuarie a S. Augustino ad Hubertum

    Note: Double columns. Cent. xiii: hand of pp. 111 sqq.

    rubric: (210r) Incipit prologus in actus pontificum Cantuarie ecclesie

    incipit: (210r) Quia nomina regum britannie

    Note: Stubbs II 325-411

    Note: 509 is in the hand of 8 etc.: text ends

    explicit: (251r) hanc Rex Iohannes ecclesie subtraxit

    Note: The same hand of cent. xv continues


    251v-257r - Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Successio pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae || Successio eorundem ab Augustino ad Ioannem Stafford

    rubric: (251v) Quantum archiepiscopi Cantuarie in archiepiscopatu vixerunt

    Note: (251v) beginning with Augustine. (Stubbs, p. liii)

    Note: (255v) no. 59, Henry Chicchele is in another hand: ends with the name only of no. 60 John Stafford

    Note: 519 has the set-off of some writing, but is blank. 520, 521 blank


    257v-260r - The clerical tenth of 1402 extracted from royal accounts by Thomas Chillenden || Decima omnium bonorum temporalium et spiritualium ecclesiae Christi Cantuarie extracta de rotulis domini regis A. D. 1402, per Thomam Chillendene priorem

    rubric: (257v) Decima omnium bonorum temporalium et spiritualium ecclesie Christi Cantuarie extracta de rotulis domini Regis a. d. mo cccco ijo per Thomam Chillyndene priorem

    Note: 525-527 blank


    260v-262v - Alexander VI, Bull granting Thomas Bourgchier archbishop of Canterbury license to canonize Anselm of Canterbury || Copia bullae Alexandri papae concessa sancto Thomae Cantuariensi archiepiscopo de canonizatione sancti Anselmi ejusdem ecclesiae archiepiscopi

    rubric: (260v) Copia bulle Alexandri pape concessa Sancto Thome Cantuariensi archiepiscopo de canonizacione Sancti Anselmi eiusdem ecclesie Archiepiscopi

    Note: In another hand

    Note: 529 blank

    Note: Extract (xv)

    incipit: (261v) Videtur itaque mihi claustralis vita

    Note: Stubbs, p. liii

    Note: (262r) Notes. Stubbs, p. liii, liv

    Note: 532 covered with paper

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