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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 37

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  • MS 037
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Date
  • 1300 - 1325
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle French
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 037: Astronomical Tracts. Statutes etc
    • Campanus of Novara, Theorica planetarum || Theorica Campani
    • Notes on Astronomical Conjunctions, 1306-1315
    • Calendar of Exchequer Term Days
    • Walter of Elveden, Kalendarium cum tribus cyclis decennoualibus
    • Alexander de Villa Dei, Massa compoti
    • Alexander de Villa Dei, Algorismus
    • Astronomical Tables
    • De complexione signorum
    • Zodiac predictions
    • pseudo-Hippocrates, Astrologia medicorum
    • Gazetteer of England (Castles, abbeys, priories)
    • Gazetteer of England (Suffolk)
    • Gazetteer of England (Hertfordshire)
    • Gazetteer of England (Berkshire)
    • Statutes, Writs
    • Proceedings of the London Eyre, 1321 (Itinerary, proclamation, returns, pleas)
    • Proceedings of the London Eyre, 1321 (Quo warranto)
    • Proceedings of the London Eyre, 1321 (Ordinances of the City of London)
    • Proceedings of the London Eyre, 1321 (Writ, pleas)
    • List of values of English wool (per sack, by county)
    • A petition against extortion from Lincoln, Derby, Leicester, etc.
    • Writ 'non molestando'
    • Lex marisci
    • Names of the Sheriffs of Scotland
    • Ordinance for the King's household
    • Terms of the surrender of Berwick
    • Prophecy of the conquest of Ireland
    • Material relating to Ireland (fees, services, exchequer)
    • La copie dune lettre que vient de la onqe de la desconfiture que Mons. Roberd Dartois fist sur Fraunczois
    • La fforme del Trewe prise entre Sire Edward Roy dengleterre et Sire Philippe Roy de France (1343)
    • Verses in Latin and French
    • Treatise on weights and measures
    • Treatise on the method of measuring land
    • Cest le arrai et lassemble des gentz Descoce que vindrent a la bataille de Berewik. Cest assauoir
    • see more
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 37 is an interesting portmanteau manuscript of texts copied by various hands in the first half of the fourteenth century. The overwhelming sense of the these texts is of a collection put together by or for a secular figure with connections to London and Westminster. They include a gazetteer of England, astrological and medical tracts, statutes and calendars of the term days of the Exchequer and illustrated guides to the movement of the moon and tides. The London connection is further evinced by the presence in the manuscript of unique accounts of some of the cases that came before the eyre of 1321 that examined the liberties of the City. It may have been the property of the Londoner John Reynham and passed from him, via a relative, to the Cistercian abbey at Boxley, Kent.


    Contents :


    2r-22v - Campanus of Novara, Theorica planetarum || Theorica Campani

    incipit: (2r) Primus philosophie magister ipsius negocium in tria

    Note: (2v) On 1v is sewn a volvel, on the back of which is part of a document, possibly a statute. The words occur ut adirent secum in Vascon. ad debelland. hostes, more of the same is on the back of a volvel on f. 6v

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (22v) de mercurio supra docuimus deo gratias amen

    rubric: (22v) explicit


    22v-25v - Notes on Astronomical Conjunctions, 1306-1315

    Note: Another hand

    rubric: (22v) Incipit coniunctiones quedam calculate

    incipit: (22v) Nota quod anno 1306 inperfectio 21 die aprilis fuit

    Note: The years for which observations are made go up to 1315

    Note: On f. 24r is the beginning of a table of squares and cubes of numbers

    Note: f. 24v blank

    Note: On f. 25r - 25v two rough diagrams, the first headed

    rubric: (25r) liber planetarum et quot circulos habent et qualiter mouentur et de quantitate eorum


    26r-26v - Calendar of Exchequer Term Days

    rubric: (26r) Kalendarium de Scaccario

    incipit: (26r) Quia Anglicana mos est quod quilibet computans incipiet titulum compoti sui in crastino S. Michaelis

    Note: (26v) List of principal feasts for the year 26v


    27r-45v - Walter of Elveden, Kalendarium cum tribus cyclis decennoualibus

    rubric: (27r) Kalendarium Eluedene

    Note: (by Walter Elveden of Gonville Hall. See Venn, Biogr. Hist. 12)

    Note: This is in ordinary Kalendar form: entries in red and black

    Note: After the festival column follow others giving Hore diei. Hore noctis

    rubric: (27r) Occupacio diei artificialis

    Note: This last is subdivided into Miliaria. Stadia. Passus. Pedes. Pollices. Grana

    Note: (As a fact the last three of these columns are filled with noughts throughout.) Each month has a statement of the average length of the day and the average length of the day's journey

    Note: The Kalendar is English but not very characteristic: Etheldreda, Mildred, Osith occur, but not Edith. Wulstan on Jan. 19 and June 7. Erkenwald on Ap. 30

    Note: In smaller hand

    Note: On ff. 33r, 34r are tables of the Moon and of the Sunday letter

    Note: ff. 34v, 35r blank

    Note: On f. 35v rules for multiplication

    incipit: (35v) Sunt autem vi Regule multiplicacionis etc.

    Note: On f. 36r the large hand resumes: On multiplication

    incipit: (36r) Numerus est multitudo ex unitate composita

    Note: (37r) Table of Numbers

    Note: (37v) A second Kalendar

    Note: In the same hand as the former, marking the Locus Solis and also Ciclus 1, 2, 3

    Note: The entries are as in the former, but David and Edith are in their proper places

    Note: (43v) Tables of eclipses of Sun and Moon (1330 - 1386)

    rubric: (44v) Lux est canon exponensis istud kalendarium

    Note: (45r) Diagrams of eclipses of Sun and Moon (in red and blue)


    46r-48r - Alexander de Villa Dei, Massa compoti

    rubric: (46r) Liber compoti

    incipit: (46r) Aureus in iano numerus clauesque nouantur

    Note: Ending

    explicit: (48r) Mobilis ibo ciphos ate liber habeto coenas

    rubric: (48r) Explicit Compotus


    48r-49v - Alexander de Villa Dei, Algorismus

    rubric: (48r) Hic Incipit Algorismus

    Note: (Alexandri de Villa Dei)

    incipit: (48r) Hic algorismus ars presens dicitur in qua

    explicit: (49v) Si par per medium sibi multiplicata propinqua

    rubric: (49v) Explicit Algorismus

    Note: Halliwell (Rara Mathematica) etc.


    50r-50v - Astronomical Tables

    rubric: (50r) Tabule Astronomice


    51r-51v - De complexione signorum

    rubric: (51r) De complexione signorum

    incipit: (51r) Aries est signum mobile calidum siccum etc.

    Note: Ending (Pisces)

    explicit: (51v) Puer natus graciosus erit

    rubric: (51v) Dum Jupiter In Aquario Regnat multum gaudet


    52r-61r - Zodiac predictions

    rubric: (52r) Tractatur de fatis in gallico

    incipit: (52r) Si ascun homme saunz doute veut sauoir la verite des choses qe a luy pount auenir. Soulom sa destine

    Note: The text goes through the signs, ending with Pisces

    explicit: (61r) Ele viuera v. aunz ou xvij. ou L. aunz

    rubric: (61r) Et sic finitur per bona temporalia ut non amittamus eterna per Christum dominum nostrum. Amen


    61r-65v - pseudo-Hippocrates, Astrologia medicorum

    rubric: (61r) Tractatus ypocratis pro infirmitatibus per astronomiam cognoscendis

    incipit: (61r) Dicit ypocras qui fuit medicus et magister optimus quod nullus debet committere se in manus illius qui non est medicus perfectus

    Note: Also goes through the signs, ending in Pisces

    explicit: (65r) et si fortuna eam aspexerit uiuet si non morietur

    Note: 65v is blank, and here ends vol. II which has an original foliation running from i to xxxv (26r - 65r) but wanting some leaves after xx (ff. 46r - 49r do not belong to it)


    66r-72v - Gazetteer of England (Castles, abbeys, priories)

    Note: Headed

    rubric: (66r) Anglia

    Note: List of counties follows

    Note: Then

    rubric: (66r) En cest liure sont escriptt touz les nouns des castelx dengleterre. et ensement Abbeez. et Prioreez en chescun countee

    Note: Begins with Kent, ends with Stafford

    Note: After 69r and 71r are two small slips (f. 69ar and f. 71ar)

    Note: After Stafford (72r) are Archbishoprics and Bishoprics of England and Wales

    Note: (72r) Sum of Castles and Bishoprics. Then Cumberland (blank) and Westmorland

    Note: On f. 72v note in Latin of reigns from William I to Edward II (19 years 7 months). This is in different ink


    73r-74r - Gazetteer of England (Suffolk)

    rubric: (73r) Nomina Hundredorum Villarum et hamelettorum tocius Com. Suffolk

    Note: Begins with Hertesmere (Hartismere) and ends with Lacford


    74v-74v - Gazetteer of England (Hertfordshire)

    Note: In different ink

    rubric: (74v) Nomina Hundredorum Villarum Hamelettorum tocius com. Hertford

    Note: Begins with Oddeseles and ends with Libertas S. Albani


    74v-75r - Gazetteer of England (Berkshire)

    Note: (74v) List of Hundreds in Berkshire


    75v-77v - Statutes, Writs

    rubric: (75v) Statuta de districtionibus

    Note: (French)

    Note: Latin note follows

    incipit: (75v) Dominus Rex habebit tantum x milites etc.

    rubric: (75v) Statuta de Scaccario

    Note: (French)

    Note: (76r) Rex Thesaurariis et Baronibus suis de Scaccario s. Ut indempnitate nostre. (Anno septimo)

    Note: (76v) A nostre seigneur le Roi et a son conseil monstre Thomas deuerwyke clerk pur profist le Roi

    Note: (77r) Le Roi veut que touz maners des Baillifs etc. ... soient responaunt a leschekier

    Note: Change of hand


    78r-82v - Proceedings of the London Eyre, 1321 (Itinerary, proclamation, returns, pleas)

    Note: (78r) Breve de itinere justiciariorum apud Turrim London (14 Edward II) followed by Proclamation

    Note: (78v) Retorn of Brief, Names of freeholders

    Note: (79v) Placita


    82v-84r - Proceedings of the London Eyre, 1321 (Quo warranto)

    Note: (82v) Breve regis Edwardi de quo warranto ad vicecomitem London (reciting the customs)

    Note: (83v) Other briefs, de priorissa de Haliwell etc.


    84v-85v - Proceedings of the London Eyre, 1321 (Ordinances of the City of London)

    rubric: (84v) Ordinaciones ciuitatis London

    Note: (French)

    incipit: (84v) En primes que la poes dieux et la poes nostre seigneur le Roy


    85v-86r - Proceedings of the London Eyre, 1321 (Writ, pleas)

    Note: (85v) Breve regis de oppressionibus dampnis et grauaminibus (1318). Placita follow


    86v-86v - List of values of English wool (per sack, by county)

    Note: (86v) Value de Leyne dengleterre

    Note: List of counties

    Note: (86v) Londres: le sak pur vj marcKent: le sak pur vj marcSurrey: le sak pur vj marcSussex: le sak pur vj marc

    Note: The highest is Hereford (xii marc.) the lowest (Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, Durham) five marks


    87r-87r - A petition against extortion from Lincoln, Derby, Leicester, etc.

    Note: (87r) A petition against extortion from Lincoln, Derby, Leicester, etc. (French)


    87r-87r - Writ 'non molestando'

    Note: (87r) A Brief of Edward Ponderatori suo in villa de S. Boihulfo(?) (10 Edward II)


    87v-87v - Lex marisci

    incipit: (87v) Elegantur primo per totam


    88r-88r - Names of the Sheriffs of Scotland

    Note: Change of hand

    rubric: (88r) Nomina Vicecomitum Scocie

    Note: With sum of each Vicecomitatus

    Note: (88r) Some values of produce. Stirkes I anni prec. xxd etc.


    88v-90r - Ordinance for the King's household

    incipit: (88v) Pur ceo que nostre seigneur le Roi voet estre asserte etc.


    90v-90v - Terms of the surrender of Berwick

    rubric: (90v) Les condicions sur le rendre de la ville de Berewyk (1333)


    91v-91v - Prophecy of the conquest of Ireland

    incipit: (91v) Scribitur in libris annalibus Hibernie secundum quod Mag. Walterus de Istelep Thesaurarius Hibern. eos inuestigans anno domini mo cccmo xvijo incipiente de prophetia super statu terre hibern. comper(i)t in hiis verbis. Cum enim quatuor hibernici prophetas habeant Molingum Bractannum Patricium et Colmekillum

    Note: (prophecy of Conquest of Ireland)

    explicit: (91v) continue semper optinebunt


    91v-95v - Material relating to Ireland (fees, services, exchequer)

    Note: (91v) Number of cantreds, villae etc. in Ireland

    incipit: (92r) Seruicia domini Regis per totam Hiberniam (1317)

    Note: Ending with

    Note: (94v) Ordinatio facta de Statuta Scaccarij Dublin

    Note: f. 95r (a slip, verso blank)


    96r-96v - La copie dune lettre que vient de la onqe de la desconfiture que Mons. Roberd Dartois fist sur Fraunczois

    rubric: (96v) La copie dune lettre que vient de la onqe de la desconfiture que Mons. Roberd Dartois fist sur Fraunczois

    Note: Another hand

    Note: f. 96v a slip, recto blank

    incipit: (96v) En droit des noueles de cestes parties voilletz sauoir que nostre seigneur le Roy ... est deuaunt la ville de Tournoye


    97r-98r - La fforme del Trewe prise entre Sire Edward Roy dengleterre et Sire Philippe Roy de France (1343)

    rubric: (97r) La fforme del Trewe prise entre Sire Edward Roy dengleterre et Sire Philippe Roy de France

    Note: (1343)


    98r-98r - Verses in Latin and French

    Note: Verses in two columns. The first column miscellaneous

    incipit: (98r) Qui scit adulari gratis debet famulari etc.

    Note: Ending with some lines on the age of the Virgin (63 years)

    Note: The second column a dialogue between Monacha and Clericus

    rubric: (98r) Monacha

    incipit: (98r) Me tibi teque mihi genus etas et decor equantCur non ergo sumus sic in amore pares

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (98r) Est grauius sponsam te uiolare dei

    Note: See Hauréau in Notices et Extraits XXIX 2. 249. Also Hagen, Carmina medii aevi, p. 206


    98v-99r - Treatise on weights and measures

    rubric: (98v) De pondere et mensuris rerum diuersarum

    incipit: (98v) Solidus argenti constat ex xii denariis etc.


    99r-99v - Treatise on the method of measuring land

    rubric: (99r) Incipit modus mensurandi terram

    incipit: (99v) Primo sciendum est quod quelibet acra terre


    100r-100r - Cest le arrai et lassemble des gentz Descoce que vindrent a la bataille de Berewik. Cest assauoir

    Note: Another hand

    incipit: (100r) Cest le arrai et lassemble des gentz Descoce que vindrent a la bataille de Berewik. Cest assauoir ... auant garde le coumt de Morrene

    Note: 100vwas pasted over with paper (repaired since James' time)

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