Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 60
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- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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- MS 060
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- Date
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- 1375 - 1399
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- Latin
- Middle French
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 060: John of Saint-Victor OSA, Memoriale historiarum
- John of Saint-Victor OSA, Memoriale historiarum
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- Jean de Saint-Victor (13..-1351?)
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- Author
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- John of Saint-Victor OSA
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- Jean de Saint-Victor (13..-1351?)
- Johannes de Sancto Victore
- Jean de Saint-VictorJoannes de Sancto Victore (13..-1351?)
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- Description
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Summary: CCCC MS 60 contains a copy of the Memoriale historiarum, a chronicle with particular emphasis on France, attributed to John of Paris (d. 1306) (or sometimes John of Saint-Victor), who is also called Jean Boyvin in the description of a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century copy of the same text now in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris (MS 516). The Corpus manuscript is copied in a late fourteenth-century hand and is accompanied by a genealogy tracing the descent of Edward III from the French royal family, presumably part of the English propaganda campaign of the Hundred Years' War. Parker gave a version of the Memoriale to Cambridge University Library (now CUL MS Ii. 2. 18) and a copy was reportedly in the library of Sir Walter Cope (c. 1553-1614), gentleman usher to Parker's colleague in government, William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
Contents :
1r-289r - John of Saint-Victor OSA, Memoriale historiarum
incipit: (1r) In exordio rerum et initio creaturarum opifex omnium deus
Note: The gaps are at William I (1 leaf) and the end of Edward I (a quire)
Note: Ends in 1322
explicit: (289r) propter hoc fecit ei dictus comes multas iniurias et penurias perpeti sine causa
Note: On the verso of the last leaf is a note
Note: (289v) Liber iste vocatur collectorium hystoriarum quia in eo collecta sunt utiliora et notabiliora excerpta primo de ystoriis sacre scripture etc.
Note: (not important)
Note: followed by
Note: Tabula progenierum francie
Note: showing the descent of Edward from Philippe le conqueraunt
Note: With explanatory text in French below
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