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A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans: Thomas Walsingham and his Circle c. 1350-1440

Title:

A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans: Thomas Walsingham and his Circle c. 1350-1440

Author:

Clark, J. G.

Series:

Oxford Historical Monographs

Location:

Oxford

Notes:

• CCCC MS 5 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 5 contains at ff. 17r, 19v and 30r a number of instances of medieval marginalia noting John of Tynemouth’s account of the ancient world in the Historia aurea, p. 155 Brief mention of the fact that William Wintershull, almoner of the abbey of St Albans, Hertfordshire, owned a number of manuscripts including CCCC MS 5, CCCC MS 6, CCCC MS 7, BL Landsdowne MS 375 and Cambridge UL MS Ee.4.20, p. 88 n. 33 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 5 and CCCC MS 6 shows evidence of having been carefully read and annotated in the medieval period, pp. 156-7
• CCCC MS 6 Brief mention of the fact that William Wintershull, almoner of the abbey of St Albans, Hertfordshire, owned a number of manuscripts including CCCC MS 6, CCCC MS 5, CCCC MS 7, BL Lansdowne MS 375 and Cambridge UL MS Ee.4.20, p. 88 n. 33 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 6 and CCCC MS 5 shows evidence of having been carefully read and annotated in the medieval period, pp. 156-7
• CCCC MS 7 Brief mention of the fact that William Wintershull, almoner of the abbey of St Albans, Hertfordshire, owned a number of manuscripts including CCCC MS 7, CCCC MS 6, CCCC MS 5, BL Landsdowne MS 375 and Cambridge UL MS Ee.4.20, pp. 88 n. 33, 130 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 7 bears at f. 95v an inscription that reveals that grand books belonging to the monastery at St Albans were kept at the high altar (fuit scriptus in fine chori monachorum sancti Albani), p. 85 n. 19 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 7 contains in the margin of f. 121r a quatrain of verse commemorating abbot John Moor marked SS which may link it to the Oxford classicist and poet Simon Southerey who was much admired by Thomas Walsingham, p. 218 The text of the Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, Continuata as found in CCCC MS 7 is used to illustrate the history of the abbey of St Albans, Hertfordshire in the later middle ages, pp. 66, 74, 77, 85 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 7 provides evidence of the reading habits and opinions of the later medieval monks of St Albans, f. 1r an exhortation from William Wintershull (studeat tantum lector flores mellifluos et coloribus amoricatos), ff. 3r and 47r verses on the 1381 revolt and Bushey, Bagot and Green, f. 120r a complaint that Henry IV relaxat omnes leges Anglie, f. 3r a prayer for the defeat of Owen Glyndwyr, pp. 157-8, 259-61 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 7 contains at ff. 92r-101v a unique continuation of the Gesta abbatum that takes the text down to c. 1420 and which may have been compiled after Thomas Walsingham’s death, pp. 5, 169
• CCCC MS 77 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 77 (William Durandus the Elder, Speculum Iudiciale) and BL Royal 13.C.xiv (both from St Albans abbey, Hertfordshire) both contain flyleaves from a lost fourteenth ’Medidation on the Passion’ that was also probably written at St Albans, p. 136 Brief mention of the fact that the copy of William Durandus the Elder’s Speculum Iudiciale in CCCC MS 77 contains at ff. 23r and 319v marks made by late medieval readers underlining significant passages, p. 154
• CCCC MS 195 Brief mention of the fact that the marginal notations made to Thomas Walsingham’s Chronica maiora in CCCC MS 195 (pp. 265-308) show that the reader was knowledgeable of the proceedings of the councils of Pisa and Constance, p. 246
• CCCC MS 240 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 240 contains the unique manuscript of the Ypodigma Neustriae attributed to Thomas Walsingham, doubting Walsingham’s authorship and suggesting that, if Walsingham had an early hand in its writing, it was completed by a much less gifted student, pp. 168, 266
• CCCC MS 358 Brief mention of the fact that CCCC MS 358 contains at ff. 20v-21v a satirical letter concerning Prince John of the most sordid suburb of Stokwell Street that is perhaps a reference to Gloucester College, Oxford and may be modelled on the prose and rhetorical style of Hugh Legat, p. 228-30

Reference Type:

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