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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 281

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  • MS 281
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Date
  • 1100 - 1199
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 281: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae. Annals (Incarnation-1339) etc. Thomas de la More (attrib.), Vita et mors Edwardi II regis (excerpt). Gesta Francorum
    • Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae || Galfredi Monumetensis historia Brittanniae
    • Chronicon S. Andreae in Antona Sempentrionalis || Annales a nativitate Christi ad annum 1339
    • Thomas de la More (attrib.), Vita et mors Edwardi II regis (excerpt) || Excerpta ex Thoma de la More de morte Edwardi II
    • Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum || Expeditio contra Turcos circa annum 1094
    • see more
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 281 is a manuscript of diverse texts made up of three distinct volumes copied between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. The material contained within the codex is wide-ranging but broadly historical in nature. It includes a copy of Historia regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), an anonymous Annal from the birth of Christ to the mid-fourteenth century, an extract from the Latin version of the account of the death of Edward II attributed to Thomas de la More (fl. mid-fourteenth century) and historical documents relating to King Edward I's relations with Scotland. The manuscript has sometimes been described as having once been in the possession of the Benedictine abbey of St Modwenna in Burton-on-Trent, but Nasmith concluded, on the basis of the text of the Annals, that they were written at the Cluniac house of St Andrew's, Northampton.


    Contents :


    1r-79v - Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae || Galfredi Monumetensis historia Brittanniae

    Note: Text

    rubric: (1r) Incipit prefatio in libro Brittonum

    incipit: (1r) Cum mecum multa et de multis

    explicit: (1r) Opusculo igitur meo Rodberte dux claudiocestrie etc. ... interno congratulatur affectu

    rubric: (1r) Explicit prefatio

    rubric: (1r) Incipit liber

    incipit: (1r) Brittannia insularum optima

    Note: The first quires have 29 and 36 lines to a page respectively

    Note: (19v) Liber II (numbered later)

    Note: (26r) Liber III

    explicit: (29r) existimantes numen esse in illo

    Note: (29r) (Liber 4)

    incipit: (29r) Nondum autem ad hunc locum

    explicit: (29r) ei cum huiusmodi litteris direxi

    Note: f. 29v blank

    Note: These first quires have been written to supply another copy which wanted them

    Note: (30r) This copy now begins: Coegit me alexander lincoliensis

    Note: A good hand, 29 lines to a page: a second scribe begins near the end of line 7 on f. 30r

    Note: (35r) Prophecies end

    explicit: (35r) inter sydera conficient

    incipit: (35r) Cum igitur hec et alia

    Note: Initial in colour

    Note: (35r) Liber V, marked (xvi) on this page: Nec mora

    Note: Liber VI at f. 40r and f. 41r, Eodem tempore pascentius, and Apparente itaque

    Note: (45v) Liber VII, Defuncto igitur

    Note: (67r) Liber VIII

    Note: (70r) Liber IX

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (77r) transferre curaui

    Note: Poem

    incipit: (77v) Venimus ad naues conscendere me prohibebatInperiosa satis causa, timere mori

    incipit: (78r) Emenso pelago cum demum gallus ad anglosApplicui placuit applicuisse mihi

    Note: Ending

    explicit: (78r) Ingenii precium facies promittere letaAc monstrare potest officiosa manus

    incipit: (78v) Anglia terra ferax et fertilis angulus orbis

    explicit: (79r) Terminat hora diem terminat auctor opus

    Note: In a hand of cent. xvi

    Note: a.

    rubric: (79r) Epitaphium Lewelini magni

    Note: Hic iacet anglorum tortor tutor wenedorum,Princeps Wallorum Lewelinus regula morumGemma coeuorum flos regum pretentorum,Forma futurorum dux lux laus lex populorum

    Note: b.

    rubric: (79r) De Sancto Patricio

    Note: Hic iacent in duno tumulo tumulantur in uno,Brigidapatricius atque columba pius

    Note: f. 79v blank except for sixteenth-century scribbles


    80r-127r - Chronicon S. Andreae in Antona Sempentrionalis || Annales a nativitate Christi ad annum 1339

    Note: Ad imum primae paginae Iste liber est de communitate Burtoniae, qui eum alienaverit anathema sit, Amen.

    Note: Ex hac inscriptione codici quidem coaeva, folio vero non inscripta sed eidem agglutinata, hi annales a Parkero Jamesio et Stanley nominati sunt annales de Burton; recte tamen observavit Cl. Stanley eos ab impressis prorsus esse diversos. Codicem diligenter evolventi occurrerunt multa quae mihi fidem fecerunt eos a quodam monacho cenobii S. Andreae apud Northampton conscriptos esse. Primo enim notatur successio abbatum Cluniacensium, cujus ordinis fuit hoc cenobium: secundo, nulla fit mentio monasterii de Burton, sed fundatio domus S. Andreae per Simonem comitem de Northampton occurrit ad annum 1083, tertio, ad annum 1237 sunt haec verba In hoc monasterio beati Andreae quoddam mirabile contigit. Usque ad annum 1206 eadem manu scribuntur, postea diversis; anno 1249 inseritur edictum Gallica lingua scriptum Edwardi I. quando Scotiam intravit, et genealogia eorum qui jus suum asseruerunt in illud regnum

    Note: In annalistic form. Years from Annus domini I: a line to each, every 10th year in red. Few entries at first

    Note: On a slip of vellum pasted on to f. 1r, Iste liber est de communitate burtonie qui eum alienauerit anathema sit. amen (xv late)

    Note: The page is headed in red and green capitals: Anni ab incarnatione Domini

    Note: There are a few late additions, e.g. at 141 a.d.: hic baptizati sunt nouem ex doctoribus et scolaribus cantebrigie

    Note: 532 of Agapitus: hic instituit doctores sacre theologie

    Note: Great interest is shown in the Cluniac order and its saints

    Note: At 1083 is a later note: Hoc anno Simon comes Northamton edificauit domum Sancti Andree

    Note: 1101 added: Item inuencio Sancte Milburge apud wenlok

    Note: The hand (probably two hands) preserves uniformity to the end of f. 19v (1140), an obviously different one begins at f. 20r leaving irregular spaces for the years. It continues to f. 24v (1206) and goes on writing the numbers of the years perhaps as far as 1218. But the entries are in different and smaller hands. There are many of these. They continue to f. 34v (1294)

    Note: (114r) Then intervenes a document of Edward I asserting his claim to Scotland

    Note: The hand of 1294 resumes on f. 38r with 1295 and goes on to 1303

    Note: On f. 39v a hand of much more current type begins and goes on to f. 46v (1330): a second hand of the same type continues to f. 48r (1339)

    explicit: (127r) et mense marcio regressus est rex in angliam

    Note: Some of the additions relating to Cambridge are quoted by Caius De Antiq. Acad., p. 73


    127v-128r - Thomas de la More (attrib.), Vita et mors Edwardi II regis (excerpt) || Excerpta ex Thoma de la More de morte Edwardi II

    Note: In a Parkerian hand

    rubric: (127v) Thomas de la Moore in libro suo de morte et vita Edwardi secundi

    incipit: (127v) Mittuntur littere increpatorie custodibus (Castri de Barkley)

    explicit: (128r) minis terribilibus in fugam coactiuis affligere non cessauit

    Note: ff. 49v-54v ruled but blank


    134r-155v - Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum || Expeditio contra Turcos circa annum 1094

    Note: Extat inter gesta Dei per Francos sub hoc titulo Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum

    incipit: (134r) Cum iam appropinquasset ille terminus

    Note: The hand of the last 5.5 leaves is different

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (155v) Hoc bellum actum est ii idus augusti largiente domini nostri Ihesu Christi cui est honor et gloria nunc et semper et per infinita seculorum secula dicat omnis spiritus. Amen

    Note: In Bongars, Gesta Dei per Francos, p. 1 (Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum)

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