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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 367

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  • MS 367
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  • 1400 - 1499 - 1300 - 1399 - 1000 - 1099 - 1000 - 1099
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  • Latin
  • Old English
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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 367: Miscellaneous Compilation including Old English Material and Historical and Philosophical Works
    • Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (epitome and continuation to 1429) || Epitome chronicae Cicestrensis, sed extractum e Polychronico, usque ad annum Christi 1429
    • Thomas Harsfield, Gesta regum ad Henricum VI || Breviarium historiae Angliae ad annum quartum Henrici IV. viz. 1402 || Breuiarium
    • Ælfric OSB, De temporibus anni (incomplete) || De die, mense, de XII signis, &c. (Saxonice)
    • Fragments of Old English homilies || Homeliae quaedam Saxonica, imperfectae || Fragments of Homilies
    • Robert Kilwardby OP, De natura relationis || Logica quaedam
    • Apocalypsis Goliae || Versus quidam || Apocalypsis Goliae
    • Vita breuior Sancti Kenelmi (incomplete) || Historia (imperfecta) Kenelmi principis Merciorum || Life of St Kenelm
    • Old English Visio Leofrici || Homelia Saxonica sive passionale
    • see more
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 367 consists of five small volumes bound together, probably because Parker wished to protect a number of small items by placing them between covers. The first contains two chronicles, copied in the fifteenth century, an epitome of the Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364), and a chronicle attributed to Thomas Harpsfield. The second consists of a number of fragments of Old English material, copied in the second half of the eleventh or the early twelfth century, and probably to be associated with Worcester: they contain the De temporibus anni by Ælfric of Eynsham OSB (d. 1010), and some homiletic fragments, now out of order. The third volume is a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century copy of Robert Kilwardby OP (d. 1279), De natura relationis. The fourth is a thirteenth-century copy of the Apocalypsis Goliae, a satirical Latin poem sometimes associated with Walter Map (c. 1140-1210), but best considered anonymous. The fifth contains an eleventh-century copy of the Vita breuior of St Kenelm, with a short booklist which has been associated with Worcester, and an Old English account of a vision had by Earl Leofric.


    Contents :


    1r-29v - Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (epitome and continuation to 1429) || Epitome chronicae Cicestrensis, sed extractum e Polychronico, usque ad annum Christi 1429

    incipit: (1r) Ieronimus ad eugenium in epistola 43a dicit quod decime leguntur primum date ab abraham

    Note: Dates are marked in the margin

    Note: Ends with the coronation of Henry VI at St Denis

    explicit: (29v) videlicet nono die mensis decembris ano etatis sue 10o


    30r-53r - Thomas Harsfield, Gesta regum ad Henricum VI || Breviarium historiae Angliae ad annum quartum Henrici IV. viz. 1402 || Breuiarium

    Note: Another hand

    Note: begins with 19 lines

    incipit: (30r) IAlbion est terra constans in finibus orbisQuam dedit albina grecorum filia regis...

    Note: (30r) IISuccedunt Reges ab eodem pace fruentesUsque dies nostres ut pandunt scripta legentesNomina scriptorum (tu) [iam] suscipe care RoberteEx libris quorum labor hic monstratur aperteGalifridus gesta Britonum scripsit sapienterAnglorum facta conscripsit Beda patenterWillelmus quondam monachus MalmisberiensisTryuet Martinushenricus huntidonensisPetrus pictauis dat cistrensis monachusque

    incipit: (30r) Et quia confrater carissime non solum audiendo sacre scripture verbis aurem sedulus auditor accomodatur (!) tenetur

    Note: (See P. de Yckham)

    Note: Ends with verses (14) on the Battle of Shrewsbury

    Note: (52v) de isto bello quidam versificator sic infert versus

    Note: (52v) In magdalene saturni vespere pleneHenrico IIIIto sunt hec anno sibi iiijto... Nomina cunctorum nescio monstrare virorumNescio plus quorum Christus miseretur eorum

    explicit: (53r) Tempore huius regis Owynus quidam Wallensis erigens se in principem Wallie toto vite sue tempore cum Wallensibus rebellauit

    rubric: (53r) Explicit

    Note: (53r) Lower part of leaf cut off. f. 53v blank


    54r-55v - Ælfric OSB, De temporibus anni (incomplete) || De die, mense, de XII signis, &c. (Saxonice)

    incipit: (54r) Þone forman dæg þyssere ƿorulde ƿe magon afindan þurh þes lenctenlices emnihtes dæg. Forþan ðe se emnihtes dæg is se feorða dæg þyssere ƿorulde gesceapennysse

    Note: Treats de luna, de ebdomada, de anno solis, de xii signis, de anno, de diuersis mensibus, de luna, communis annus, embolismus, IIIIor tempora

    Note: On f. 2v the writing is crowded towards the end. Ends

    explicit: (55v) Eft on langiendum dagum he ofer geð þone suðran sunsted · 7 forþi he byð norþur geseƿen þonne seo sunne on ƿintra · sƿa þeah ne gæð heora

    Note: It continues on ff. 7r-10r

    incipit: (60r) naðor ænne pricon ofer þam þe him geset is. ne dagas ne synd nu naþor lengran ne scyrtran þonne hi æt fruman ƿæron. en Egyptaland ne cymð næfre nan ƿinter

    Note: Ends f. 10r (on hail, snow, thunder, etc.)

    explicit: (63r) se bið hlud for þære lyfte bradnysse. frecen ful for þæs fyres sceotugum. beo þeos gesetnyss þus her ge endod

    Note: f. 10v blank

    Note: This is Ælfric's extract from Beda de temporibus. Cockayne, Leechdoms III 238


    56r-82v - Fragments of Old English homilies || Homeliae quaedam Saxonica, imperfectae || Fragments of Homilies

    Note: a.

    Note: A good hand of cent. xii, 30 lines to a page

    Note: (56r) Homily on the Assumption

    Note: ff. 6r-6v should precede ff. 3r-3v (Thorpe II 436)

    incipit: (59r) be þisse heofenlican cƿene upstige

    Note: f. 6v ends

    Note: (59v) þæt heo un asecgendlice mid criste up

    Note: (56r) ahafen on ecnysse rixige

    Note: Ends f. 5r. f. 23r has the beginning

    Note: b.

    rubric: (58r) viii kalends Septembris. Passio Sancti Bartholomei apostoli

    incipit: (58v) Ƿyrd ƿryteras secgað þæt þre leod scipas

    Note: (Thorpe II 454)

    Note: One page only

    explicit: (58v) oþer deofol ƿæs geƿurðod þæs

    Note: (Thorpe II 454)

    Note: Continued after break on f. 24r

    Note: On the margin of f. 30r is a copy of a document (xiii)

    Note: (56r) Omnibus ... Walt. de La Fort (?) ... Noueritis me dedisse ... Philipp. filio meo quatuor croppos ... in camp de Henton ... ao v. v. H. Liiio ... Test. Joh. Jokyn. Le FraunkeJoh. Wace ...Wace ...Le fraunke ...

    Note: c.

    rubric: (64r) Sexta Idus Septembris. Nativitas Sancte Marie Virginis

    incipit: (64r) Men þa leofestan ƿeorðiat ƿe nu on andƿeardnysse þa gebyr tide

    Note: (Wanley, p. 17, Bodl. NEF. 4. 12)

    Note: Ends imperfectly

    explicit: (69v) He þa ioseph aros of þam slæpe. sƿy þe ge

    Note: Assmann, A.-S. Homilien etc. p. 117

    Note: d.

    Note: In a less good hand, 27 lines to a page

    Note: (70r) On the Lord's Prayer, continued on f. 29r

    incipit: (70r) ure rice gif ƿe hit geearnian ƿyllan

    Note: (Thorpe I 264)

    Note: 17v ends

    Note: (70v) Ðæt fifte gebed is. Et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus (29r) debitoribus nostris

    Note: ends

    explicit: (82v) Sƿa he oftor on þære fandunge

    Note: e.

    Note: f. 18r follows f. 27v. Homily on Dedication of St Michael's Church. Thorpe II 502 (fragments)

    Note: f.

    Note: f. 19r follows f. 28r. Homily on St Matthew. Thorpe II 468

    Note: g.

    Note: f. 20r-20v, the end of a Homily and beginning of another

    rubric: (73r) Feria Secunda

    incipit: (73r) Hit is sƿyðe ged(a)fenlic

    Note: Thorpe I 282. f. 26r continues this

    Note: h.

    Note: f. 21r-21v single leaf

    incipit: (74r) fram þroƿunge to æriste. fra deðe to life

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (74v) þa þa heo ƿearð a þys troð on cristes þroƿunge fram middæge oð non. stanas on

    Note: (Morris, Legends of the Holy Rood, p. 167)

    Note: i.

    incipit: (75r) gafol oððe tol. æt heora gesiblingum oððe æt fræmdum. Petrus cƿæð æt fræmdum. Se hælend cƿæð, etc.

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (75v) him for godes lufan big ƿiste fore sceaƿað. Ðon hæfð he sƿa miccle

    Note: (On Matt. xvii 24, the fish and tribute-money)

    Note: Apparently not found elsewhere: not known to Professor Napier

    Note: k.

    Note: (76r) see a. Homily on the Assumption

    Note: l.

    Note: (77r) see b. On St Bartholomew

    Note: m.

    Note: (78r) I append a copy of the fragment m.

    Note: (78r) fram gode · to þe cumen · ; Ic ƿes þine ƿlite · 7 þineƿynsumnesse · 7 þine spæc 7 þin haƿung · 7 þine gehyrnys · 7 þine glednesse; Ic ƿæs þin geþanc · 7þine fægernes · 7 þine lufu · 7 þin gestæþþignes7 þin ge treoƿnes · gif þu ænige treoƿa hæfdest; 7 icƿæs þin gamon · 7 þin gladung · 7 þin hleahtor · 7 þinemyrhþ. Eall þæt þu ƿære. eall ic ƿæs þis on þe 7siþ þan ic ana ƿæs of þe · eall þe lofode · þæt ic nusæde; 7 naht þu ƿære butan me · 7 þu me mid enigumgode ne ge þohtest. ne þinne drihten. þe me þesealde. Ladlice eardunge hæfde ic on þe · æghƿætþæs þe þu hogedest mid þinum flæsce æghƿæt meƿæs þæs earfodlic · on to ge þroƿianne Eall þæt þulufodest. eall þæt ic hatode nære ƿit næfre gletane tid on anum ƿillan. For þan þe þu hyrƿdestgodes bebodu · 7 his haligra lare; Eala eala hreoƿlice · 7 dreorlice. stent þonne þæt deade flesc asmórodne mæg þonne nan andƿyrde syllan. þam his gaste.7 sƿæst sƿiþe ladlicum sƿate · 7 him feallað of. | unfægere dropan · 7 bret on menige fealdumhiƿe. Hƿilum he bið sƿiðe ladlicum men gelice · þonneƿannaþ he 7 doxað · oþre hƿile he bið blac · 7 æm /heoƿe · 7 hƿilum coll sƿeart · 7 gelic þam seo saƿul. heoƿað on yfelan bleon sƿa same · sƿa se lichama ·7 bið gyt ƿyrsan heoƿes; 7 standað butu · sƿiþeforhte · 7 afærede · 7 bifiende on bidat domes; Ðonne clypað se deofol to þam déman · 7 cƿiþ to himþes ƿes min agen · fram hire geogoðe oð hireylde · heo hyrdon me georne 7 ælce dæg icheo lærde unriht to donne · 7 hi me simblelustlice hyrdon. And þonne þin lareoƿ com to hym 7hym ƿolde hyra saƿla hælo · tetan · þonne ƿæs icf. 25vsimle ær æt heom · 7 æft leng · 7 sƿette heom heora / unriht · la hƿi ne mot ic habban · þæt ic ær me sylfbegeat mid minum lyðrum ƿrencum · oft ic gedyde ·þæt he geƿorhte þussende synna ƿið ðe · 7 nanege betan nolde · Ðonne cƿæð þæs reðan ciningesstef · gang þu saƿel in þæt forlorene hus. þa gitæt somne syngodon. git eac æt somne sƿelton; Donne cƿið æft se dema to þam saƿlum. Disceditea me maledicti in ignem eternum qui preparatusest (a) diabolo. Geƿitaþ ge aƿirgydan on þæt ecefyr · þæt gegearƿode min fæder deofle 7 hisenglum. Ðonne hæfð se deofol geƿorht bogan7 stræla. 7 se boga biþ geƿoht of ofer mettum ·7 þa strela beoð sƿa manigra cynna sƿa sƿa mannes synna beoð. Sum stræl biþ geƿorht ofniþe sum of æfeste. sum of eþ belige · sumof hat heortnæsse · sum of stale · sum ofdrucennesse · sum of dyrnum geligere · sumof æƿ bryce · sum of sib legere sum of dƿolcræfte · sum of lyblacc · sum of gitsunge · sumof gifernesse · sum of reaflac · sum of scincræftesum of mord cƿale · sum of strudunge. Andsƿa manega stræla hæfd se deofol sƿa nis nanman þæt hy ealle atellan magon. And ælce dægþæs deofoles ƿilla bið þæt his strelena nan ·ne sy unafæstnod · gif he findan mæg hƿærhe hy on afæstnian mæge. 7 on hælle þadeofla scotigað mid þam strælum · 7 sƿa sa hehæfð ælce dæg his bogan to us gebendne7 ƿile us scotian mid þam strælum · þe ic ær / nemde; Ðonne is us micel þearf leofan menþæt ƿe habban þa scyldas þær ongean · þe /

    Note: n.

    Note: f. 26r follows 20v: see g.

    Note: o.

    Note: f. 27r-27v precedes 18r (on St Matthew and St Michael): see e., f.

    Note: p.

    Note: (81r) Exaltation of the Cross (fragments). Morris, Legends of the Holy Rood, E. E. T. S., pp. 105, 107. Also on 28v the beginning of the Homily on St Matthew. p. thus precedes f. 18r

    Note: q.

    Note: (82r) On the Lord's Prayer: see d.


    83r-94v - Robert Kilwardby OP, De natura relationis || Logica quaedam

    rubric: (83r) Que sit res predicamenti relationis per se

    incipit: (83r) De predicamento relationis querunt aliqui que sit res huius generis

    Note: Ends imperfectly in chapter 31


    95r-97v - Apocalypsis Goliae || Versus quidam || Apocalypsis Goliae

    Note: (Wright, Poems of W. Mapes, p. 1)

    incipit: (95r) A tauro torrida lampade cinthii

    Note: Ending

    explicit: (97v) Dux meus manibus me capit insitis

    Note: (l. 410)


    98r-101v - Vita breuior Sancti Kenelmi (incomplete) || Historia (imperfecta) Kenelmi principis Merciorum || Life of St Kenelm

    Note: (98r) beginning imperfectly in c. ii

    incipit: (98r) forma. perfusus diuina dilectione et gratia deo et hominibus amabilis erat aetatula

    Note: (101r) The original hand ends in c. viii: diuinorum miracula beneficiorum commendant. A hand of cent. xii continues and, writing very close, ends on the same page. It begins: martirem suum quem et ab humana noticia abscidere nitebatur: and ends: occubuerit. ad laudem et gloriam dei patris omnipotentis qui uiuit et regnat per omnia secula seculorum. Amen

    Note: (101r) Under this is a scribble of a maze in pencil

    Note: The same Life (abridged in Acta Sanctorum July IV 380, and in Horstmann, Nova Legenda Angliae II 110) is in MS. Douce 368 and Bodley 285

    Note: (101v) On the verso a line and a half in a small hand giving a list of books. .i. Ðeo englissce passionale · 7 .ii. ·ii· englissce dialogas · 7 .iii. oddan boc · 7 .iiii. þe englisca martirlogium · / 7 .vi. · ii · englisce · salteras 7 · ii · pastorales · englisce · 7 þe englisca regol. / 7 barontus. (Printed in my Sources of Archbishop Parker's Collection and in Floyer and Hamilton's Catalogue of the MSS. at Worcester Cathedral, p. 166, note 3.) Barontus is the Vision of Barontus of Pistoia Acta Sanctorum Mart. 24


    101v-105v - Old English Visio Leofrici || Homelia Saxonica sive passionale

    Note: In a hand similar to that of the booklist in item 7 but larger

    Note: (101v) Title in faint pencil

    rubric: (101v) Uisio Leofrici

    incipit: (101v) Her gesutelað ða gesihðe ðe Leofric eorl gesæh. him þuhte to soðan on healf slapendon lichaman na eallinga sƿylce on sƿefne ac gyt geƿisslicor þæt he sceolde nede ofer ane sƿiðe smale bricge · 7 seo ƿær sƿiþe lang

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (103v) hit þa gesƿac þæra bletsunga þæt ƿæs neh þam þes godspel ƿæs gerædd. Feoƿertyne nihton ær his forð siðe he foresæde þonne dæg þe he sceolde cuman to cofantreo to his langan hame þær he on restet · 7 hit à eode eall sƿa he sæde. Requiescat in pace

    Note: This document, which had remained unnoticed, has been printed by Professor Napier in the Philological Journal, 1908

    Note: A note (xiii)

    incipit: (103v) Vesperus est grandis interpolatio nubium inter nos et solem

    Note: (104r) In a hand like that of no. 8 with neumes. Sequence for Epiphany

    incipit: (104r) Letabundus exultet fidelis chorus alleluiaRegem regum intacte profudit thorus res miranda

    explicit: (104v) Sanctus namque spiritus ipsa nobis prebuit bene mentis naribus odoranda

    Note: Smaller hand

    Note: (104v) Ad ultimum laus est uincta. Psalat chorus alia. Amen dicant omnia

    Note: Another hand, xii

    incipit: (105r) Hubertus (l. Herbertus) Abbas Westmon. 7 Edwius prior eiusdem loci. uenerabili priori Wigornie / Warino et domino Vhtredo cantori ceterisque fratribus ecclesie eiusdem. salutem in christo et perpet(uam) / pacem. Sciatis istum fratrem nostrum et monachum Benedictum ad nos uenisse et causa(s) / recessurus (!) sui de Maluernia sicut nobis uidetur rationabiliter ostendisse

    Note: Asks that he be well treated till the writer's coming

    Note: (105r) dixit nobis quoddam opus scilicet missale apud uos / incepisse et antequam ad Maluerniam rediret sua uoluntate perficeret

    Note: The monk in question has left Malvern and gone to Westminster

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (105r) laudando creatorem qui ouem suam reduxit ad gregem. Vale

    Note: Herbertus was Abbot of Westminster from 1121 till shortly before 1140. Warinus prior of Worcester cir. 1130-40

    Note: Charm (xii?)

    incipit: (105r) + In nomine p. et f. et s. sci amen + Ire + arex + Christe + rauex + filiax + / arafax + N. Medicina contra febres

    Note: On f. 52v in a neat small hand, beginning and margin cut: Constitutions affecting monks, etc.

    Note: The last begins

    incipit: (105v) Monachis et canonicis regularibus tam uestimenta quam coopertoria interdicimus colorata

    incipit: (105v) Viri religiosi quibus non est cura animarum commissa nullos ad penitentiam recipere audeant

    incipit: (105v) Decimas uel in canonicas sanctiones ecclesiis ad quas pertinent precipimus cum integritate persolui

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