Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 264: Norwich Documents. Roger of Wendover OSB, Flores historiarum. Bede the Venerable, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 264: Norwich Documents. Roger of Wendover OSB, Flores historiarum. Bede the Venerable, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Alternate Title:
Norwich Documents. Roger de Wendover. Bedae Historia, etc.
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 11 + 180 + 2
Dimensions:
265 Height (mm) and 160 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1399]
Provenance:
From Norwich Priory. On f. 1r at top is: liber fratris Symonis Bozoun: followed by an erasure apparently beginning: monachi.
Table of contents:
  • Agreement between the Bishop of Norwich and the people of King's Lynn
  • Charter of King John to the church of the Holy Trinity, Norwich
  • Royal writ to seize Norwich priory and hold an assize of utrum into the election of a new prior
  • Inquisition on assize utrum for the election of a new prior at Norwich priory, with the return of the jury
  • Gloss of King John on an agreement between the secular clergy and the preaching orders
  • Bull of Pope Paschal II to the monks of the cathedral church of Norwich and to Bishop Herbert
  • Indulgences granted for pilgrimages to certain churches in Rome
  • Flores historiarum
  • Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Description:
CCCC MS 264 contains two major texts; an incomplete version of the Flores historiarum of Roger of Wendover (d. 1236), beginning with events of Richard I's reign and continuing until 1234, and a copy of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. In addition, the early part of the manuscript contains a number of documents relating to Norwich, such as charters and records of agreements with local laymen. This manuscript, copied in the early to mid-fourteenth century, was once in the possession of Simon Bozoun, Prior of Norwich cathedral priory (1344-52), and an inscription to that effect survives in the manuscript. It was presumably from Norwich that Parker acquired this manuscript.
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