Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 194: Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, De conuersione Sancti Pauli. Scala mundi. Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum. Peter of Ickham OSB, Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum etc
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 194: Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, De conuersione Sancti Pauli. Scala mundi. Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum. Peter of Ickham OSB, Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum etc
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 194: Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, De conuersione Sancti Pauli. Scala mundi. Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum. Peter of Ickham OSB, Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum etc
Alternate Title:
P. Blesensis, etc. Scala Mundi. Chronicon Martini Poloni. Chronicon P. de Ickham, etc.
De creatione primi hominis (ch. 35 of pseudo-Augustine, De spiritu et anima)
Meditatio breuissima
Scala mundi
Chronica pontificum et imperatorum
Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum
Triginta duo gradus scalae
Description:
CCCC MS 194 is a miscellany of texts of various periods 'diuersis temporibus et a diuersis scriptoribus exaratus' but mostly copied in the mid-fifteenth century. It contains a copy of Peter of Blois (d. 1212), De conuersione beati Pauli, an extract from the pseudo-Augustinian De spiritu et anima (De creatione primi hominis), the profusely illustrated anonymous Scala mundi chronicle, Martin of Troppau OP (d. 1278), Chronica pontificum et imperatorum and Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum of Peter of Ickham OSB (d. 1295). The Scala mundi contains a well-known early image of Stonehenge, and the historical nature of much of the material in this manuscript surely explains Parker's interest in it. A shelf mark reveals that this manuscript was once in the library of the Hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate, London, though how it came to be in Parker's collection is unknown.