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Alternative title

Chronica. Miscellanea

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 1 + 99 + 1

Date created

[ca. 1200-1399]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

several volumes

Height (mm)

195

Width (mm)

149

Collation

1 flyleaf, 1(8)-3(8) (wants 5-8) || 4(6) 5(8) 6(6) 7(6) 8(8) (wants 6-8) || gap || 9(8) (wants 1, 2) || 10(8) | 11(6) | 12(10) 13(14) || 14 (four) | 2 flyleaves.

Writing

in something of a charter hand

Foliation

ff. i + 1-99 + ii-iii

Provenance

The book may be from Much Wenlock: see later.

Additions

The flyleaves are from a service-book of cent. xi in a fine round hand, the text carefully erased.

On f. 1v in red chalk the name: hare.

On the flyleaves (xv-xvi): a. Ten Commandments in verse. Disce deum colere, etc. b. Pallida luna pluit rubea ventum alba serenat nolo caueat monachos miles. tremo miles. nescio doctus sec. Rolandum brugge monachum. c. De Buildwas Abbas die S. Michaelis de tumba fuit a visitatoribus suis depositus a. d. m. ccccc. xx. ao r. r. Henrici 12. Earlier writing has been obliterated from this flyleaf.

Summary

CCCC MS 433 is a manuscript containing a miscellany of texts copied in a number of hands between the thirteenth and the late fifteenth centuries. Among the notable or characteristic items in this volume are two Cluniac chronicles, one with much interest in affairs in the Welsh marches. The volume also contains the tract De miseria humanae conditionis by Pope Innocent III (1160/6-1219 - pope 1198-1216), the fable De Mauro bubulco, a version of the Miracula Sanctae Milburgae, as well as a treatise on the sacraments and a number of sermons. The Cluniac material has led to some speculation that this manuscript may be linked to the Cluniac house of St Milburga at Much Wenlock, Shropshire, though this has been disputed.

Contents

Constitutions of the Cluniac Order -- Chronicle 1066-1294 -- Tract on the seven sacraments -- De Mauro bubulco -- Sermon (Quid exiuistis in deserto) -- Miracles of St Milburga -- Sermon (Angelus Domini ascendit de Galgala) -- Liber exceptionum, part 2, book 1, ch. 1-4 -- De miseria humanae conditionis -- Sermons for Rogations, Ascension, Whitsunday, John Baptist, Assumption

M.R. James Date

xiii and xiv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jn990yv0162/MS_433.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:bv407ty9207/433.pdf

Contains

• Pope Nicholas II (?), Constitutions of the Cluniac Order. 1r-7v

  Nasmith

  Constitutiones datae a Nicolao papa ordini Cluniacensi. 1r-7v

  Author

  Pope Nicholas II (?)

  Incipit

  (1r) Nicholaus episcopus seruus, etc. Abbati Clun. eiusque coabbatibus...Regis pacifici pacis opera diligentis

  Explicit

  (7v) intendere valeamus. Dat. rate secundo Idus Sept. pontif. nostri anno secundo

  Note

  (7v) blank

• Chronicle 1066-1294. 8r-20v

  Nasmith

  Chronicon a conquestu ad annum 1294. 8r-20v

  Note

  In a similar but not the same hand

  Incipit

  (8r) Notandum quod ab orbe condito usque aduentum Bretonum in anglia sunt anni d cccc et xv

  Explicit

  (8r) ergo ab origine mundi usque aduentum normannorum in anglia sunt anni vj cc lxv et est summa totalis

  Incipit

  (8r) Anno ab incarnacione domini mo lxvj aduentus normannorum, etc.

  Note

  In lower margin: a very slightly later hand
  (8r) Mo lxi (?) Incepit locus sancte Marie de carit. Stephani
  Various added entries concerning Cluniacs and Reading Abbey
  (8v) 1088. Ob. dominus Girardus primus prior de car'
  (8v) 1089. Monachi Bermund' venerunt in angl.
  (9r) 1110 (original). fundata est Abbacia de Hagemon
  (9r) 1121. petrus prior cluniacensis et vii fratres cum eo rogatu regis H. venerunt apud Rading
  (9r) 1123. Hugo prior de sancto pancratio Rad' abb. efficitur. petrus prior clun. redit
  (9v) 1144 (original). puer willelmus crucifixus est a Judeis apud Nortwicum
  (10v) 1172 (original). Foundation of Wigmore
  (11r) 1180(original). Transl. of S. Frideswide
  (13v) 1234 (original). Conuentus de Hagemon vestierunt nigra capa
  The succession of Bps of Hereford is specially noted and also Welsh affairs
  (16r) 1276 original. Conbustio eccl. S. Cedde Salop cum medietate ville
  (17r) 1284. benedictus est Gilbertus de Campedene in Abbatem de Hagemon
  (17r) 1285. Added: Johannes tunc prior de Wenlak factus est prior de Lewes cui successit pater henr. de bono villario tunc prior de Bermundeseye et intrauit domum suam de Wenl. honorifice vigil. S. Nicholai
  The entries for 1293-4 are much longer than the rest and are in one or two different hands
  Ends

  Explicit

  (20r) hoc eciam anno recessit rex Scocie a fidelitate et homagio domini Regis Anglie Regi ffrancie confederatus

  Note

  Hardy III 243, 246 resembles the Chronicle of Wigmore (P. 291)
  There seems to be a primary connexion with Haughmond (Augustinian): the Cluniac additions would suit Wenlock. Both these are in Shropshire

• Tract on the seven sacraments. 21r-53v

  Nasmith

  Tractatus de septem sacramentis. 21r-53v

  Incipit

  (21r) Sacramenta ecclesie quot sunt. Septem. que. Baptisma, etc.

  Explicit

  (48r) et eorum immitatione proficiat de die in diem et ad uitam eternam perueniat. Amen

  Note

  (48r) Examination of a penitent

  Incipit

  (48r) Frater si peccasti in superbia extollens te corde

  Explicit

  (51r) admoneat preterea ut uitet omnes occasiones peccandi. coreas. ludos. aleas. et huiusmodi

  Note

  ff. 51v-53v blank

• De Mauro bubulco. 54r-57r

  Nasmith

  De Mauro bubulco fabula. 54r-57r

  Rubric

  (54r) De mauro bubulco

  Incipit

  (54r) Fertur fuisse quidam rex nobilis potens et diues qui habuit principes multos. comites. barones. milites. et clientes

  Note

  Story of bull with golden horns, and the full confession of Maurus to the king, followed by moralization, ending

  Explicit

  (57r) per quem celi ardentes soluentur et elementa

  Note

  Printed by T. Wright, Latin Stories, Percy Society, vol. VIII, no. 1
  (57v) blank

• Sermon (Quid exiuistis in deserto). 58r-62v

  Nasmith

  Sermo in Quid exivistis in deserto. 58r-62v

  Incipit

  (58r) Quid existis in deserto uidere. Gregorus ait super Ezechielem

  Explicit

  (62v) sequitur effectus gloriosus. prestante domino nostro Ihesu Christo qui cum patre, etc.

• Miracles of St Milburga. 62v-68v

  Nasmith

  Miracula sanctae Milburgae. 62v-68v

  Rubric

  (62v) Summa cum veneratione salutem dicit plurimam tuus litterarius tirunculus et novitius

  Incipit

  (62v) Habet in manibus tua iam reuerenda paternitas nostro marte quidem conscripta milburge sanctissime signorum sanctitatisque quedam insignia

  Explicit

  (62v) Valeat tua reuerenda paternitas ultra cornices viuax

  Rubric

  (62v) Incipit Sancti Milburge miracula
  (62v) De infante quodam vasculo demerso

  Incipit

  (62v) Quam multos clarissimos suis temporibus

  Rubric

  (64r) De filio cuiusdam milburge fonte submerso
  (65v) De monacho ecclesie cacumine lapso

  Explicit

  (67r) defendat nos ab eterna morte. Amen

  Note

  At bottom of f. 67r and at top of f. 67v
  (67r) per rolandum brug and Hec Rolandus brugge
  On f. 67v the conclusion

  Explicit

  (67v) Hec tibi pater venerande, etc.Benedictus es domine qui adiuvisti me, etc.Apertis ut ferunt musarum Ianuis-paucissimis ut potero rem ipsam expediam

  Note

  (67v) This last paragraph is the beginning of a new series of miracles or the like, not written
  f. 68r-68v blank
  The compilation is probably by Roland Brugge. St Milburga was buried at Wenlock
  Referred to in Hardy I 275

• Sermon (Angelus Domini ascendit de Galgala). 69r-71v

  Nasmith

  Sermo in Angelus Domini ascendit de Galgala. 69r-71v

  Note

  (69r) At top, in red (xvi): Dan Rolande Brugge

  Incipit

  (69r) Angelus domini ascendit de galgala Judic. 2. Cum ista sacra sollempnitas dominice ascensionis

  Explicit

  (71v) continuacio eternitatis ad quam, etc.

• Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, Liber exceptionum, part 2, book 1, ch. 1-4. 72r-73v

  Nasmith

  72r-73v

  Author

  Richard of Saint-Victor OSA

  Note

  (72r) Beginning of Allegoriae Petri Comestoris

  Incipit

  (72r) In precedentibus premissa descriptione originis

  Note

  (P. L. CLXXV 631 [633])
  (73v) Ends unfinished

• Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis), De miseria humanae conditionis. 73v-91r

  Nasmith

  Tractatus domini papae Innocentii III. de contemptu mundi. 73v-91r

  Author

  Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis)

  Rubric

  (73v) Incipit tractatus domini pape Innocencii tercii de contemptu mundi

  Incipit

  (73v) Domino patri ... petro dei gratia portuensi episcopo lotharius, etc.
  (73v) Quare de uulua

  Note

  (P. L. CCXVII 701)

  Explicit

  (91r) ardens in secula seculorum. Amen

• Sermons for Rogations, Ascension, Whitsunday, John Baptist, Assumption. 96r-99v

  James

  Fragment of a collection of Sermons. 96r-99v

  Note

  Those which remain are for Rogations, Ascension, Whitsunday, John Baptist, Assumption
  On f. 99r are two sermons or parts of sermons in another hand
  (99r) 1. Vado ad eum qui me misit, etc.
  (99r) 2. De omnibus sanctis. Legimus in historiis sanctorum patrum fratres mei quad sanctus bonefacius qui quartus fuit a beato gregorio

TJames

79

Stanley

G. 10

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 433

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