Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 006: John of Tynemouth, Historia aurea, Part II
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 6, dating from c. 1420-40, contains the second part of John of Tynemouth's Historia Aurea from the rule of Diocletian to the reign of Edward III, together with an anonymous continuation for the years 1343-77. CCCC MS 6 was one of several manuscripts (others include CCCC MSS 5 and 7, BL MS Lansdowne 375 and Cambridge UL MS Ee.4.20) owned and, in some cases, commissioned by William Wintershill (d. c. 1435) the almoner of the Benedictine Abbey of St Albans in Hertfordshire. An erased inscription in this manuscript is probably a copy of the material in CCCC MS 5 that relates how Wintershill donated the two volumes to the Abbey at his death.
- Contents
- Historia aurea, Part II
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:bm588tp7790/MS_6.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hg116jm7287/6.pdf
- Contains
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- John of Tynemouth, Historia aurea, Part II. 1r-299r
- Author
- John of Tynemouth
- Rubric
- (1r) Incipit Liber 12 Cronicarum Johannis. De Sancto Mauricio cum sociis suis c. i
- Incipit
- (1r) Dioclicianus incepit regnare
- Note
- (45r) c. 124
- Rubric
- (45r) De Sancto petro alexandrino
- Note
- (46r) Liber XIII. c. i
- Rubric
- (46r) De S. katerina virgine
- Note
- c. 58
- Rubric
- (70r) De S. florencio
- Note
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(70v) At the end in a xvith cent. hand
(70v) Hic Inc. 2us Tomus ut ibi scribitur Johannis Anglici
(70v) Liber XIV. c. i - Rubric
- (70v) De gestis illius temporis
- Incipit
- (70v) Romanorum igitur tricesimus quintus regnauit constantinus
- Note
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(113v) c. (124). Death of Theodosius
Rubrics and numbers of chapters gradually cease to be added
Much of this book is from Vitae Patrum
(71v) Most of cc. 4-22 are wanting after f. 72v
(113v) Liber XV. c. i. Arcadius and Honorius
(145r) Prophecy of Merlin in verse - Incipit
- (145r) Cumque peragratis sub multis regibus annis
- Note
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(192v) Five leaves are gone after f. 199v
(256r) There is a clever unfinished pencil sketch of a Mongol or Tartar on the margin
No beginning of a fresh book is marked after f. 120v. The narrative is continued to f. 303v, the year being 1343
It breaks off in the literae Edwardi delegatis pape et vicecomitibus suis (Hearne, Hemingford II 371) with the words - Explicit
- (292v) Nos ad instantiam (catchword) requisicionem
- Note
- (293r) a leaf added by Parker's scribes, and on it they have written the end of the chapter and continue
- Rubric
- (293r) Scripsit quoque rex vicecomitibus pro eodem sub hac forma
- Note
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The text of this is given. Then follow heads of chapters, no text being given
(293r) Qualiter papa scripsit regi Edwardo quod nuntios ut condictum fuerat non misit ad Curiam
(293r) Qualiter rex Angliae asserit treugas per Philippum de Valesio a parte violatas, et ipsum monet de observatione illarum
(293r) Litera Philippi regis francie missa reg. Scotorum ante transitum regis Angliae in Normanniam
(293r) Litera regis fran. missa reg. Scotie statim post aduentum regis Angliae in Normanniam
(293r) Litera missa Edwardo reg. Ang. ante bellum de Cressi per Philippum
(293r) Responsio Edwardi
(293r) De victoria regis Edwardi habita apud Cressy
(293r) De bello fact. apud Dunelm
(293r) De victoria contra Gallicos Thome de Dagworth diuinitus collata
(293r) Qualiter papa post victoriam regi Ang. scripsit
(293r) De captione Caroli de Blois et qualiter deuictus est
(293r) Hec omnia clare scribuntur in libro Mri Price ( = Bodl. 240) et sequuntur multa de Johannis Anglici de vitis sanctorum ut habetur in martirologio suo et in sanctilogio suo et aliis libris
(293v) blank
Then follows a quire in one of the hands of the earlier part of the MS. containing a chronicle from 1343 to 1377 which is said (by Horstmann) to be the source both of the Chron. Angliae ed. E. M. Thompson and of Tho. Walsingham from 1343. It begins - Incipit
- (294r) 18(th year of Ed. III). Sub eodem tempore missi sunt ex parte Regis Angl. procuratores ad curiam romanam. Dominus Henricus de lancastria etc.
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (299r) que famam eius indicibiliter minuerunt
- Note
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(299r) In the lower margin in pencil is
(299r) In spacio sequenti scribatur de prole et naturali progenie dicti regis / Item cathololgus virorum forcium etc. prelatorum et deuotorum virorum vidlt domino principe etc. De rege scottorum (??) de cant. archiep. et / de armachano etc. De Ric. heremita priore ... de beligtan (? berlington) etc./ Item de ffundaco mon. cisterciens. apud turrim (??) london. et minorissarumffratrum predicatorum apud langeley. sororum eiusdem ordinis apud darteford sutheg' (?)
(299r) In the remaining line the 4th word seems to be Westminstre
- John of Tynemouth, Historia aurea, Part II. 1r-299r
- TJames
- 347
- Stanley
- Under B. 2
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
- Location
- MS 006
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