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Alternative title

Joh. Tynemouth. Historia Aurea II

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 299 + 4

Date created

[ca. 1400-1499]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

double columns of 65-66 lines

Height (mm)

515

Width (mm)

360

Collation

1(8)-5(8) 6(6) (wants 6) | 7(8)-10(8) (wants 3-8) 11(8)-16(8) 17(6) 18(8) 19(8) 20(6) 21(8)-26(8) (wants 6-8) 27(8) (wants 1, 2) 28(8) 29(8) 30(6) 31(8)-39(8) [40(1)] 41(6).

Writing

in the same hand or hands as MS 5

Foliation

ff. a-c + i-ii + 1-299 + iii-iv + d-f

Provenance

At top of f. 1r in red Hic est liber S. Albani de libraria conuentus. A long inscription in large letters, no doubt referring to Wyntreshull and very probably a duplicate of that in MS 5, has been erased from the R. margin of f. 1r.

Additions

Fine initials and partial borders to the several books.

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

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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

• 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

  (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

  (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

  (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

  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

  (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

TJames

347

Stanley

Under B. 2

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 006

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