Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 181: William of Jumièges OSB, Gesta Normannorum ducum. Robert de Torigni OSB, Chronica. Iohannes de Plano Carpini, Historia Mongolorum. Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 181: William of Jumièges OSB, Gesta Normannorum ducum. Robert de Torigni OSB, Chronica. Iohannes de Plano Carpini, Historia Mongolorum. Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales
- Alternate Title:
- William of Jumièges etc. Itinera Odorici, W. de Rubruc, etc.
- Language:
- Latin and French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
- Extent:
- ff. 200 + 2
- Dimensions:
- 291 Height (mm) and 182 Width (mm)
- Approximate Date:
- [ca. 1300 - 1349]
- Provenance:
- At the bottom of i is the mark: In. 3. J. This is the mark of the Abbey of St Mary at York. In C. C. C. Oxford MS. 224 is one very similar, together with the name of the monastery. Others are at Dublin1 and Dublin2 and in Lord Herries' Library at Everingham: cf. MS 309 in this collection.
- Table of contents:
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- Gesta Normannorum ducum, with a continuation 1070-1135 by Robert de Torigni OSB
- Historia breuis Angliae a morte Gulielmi I. ad annum 1239
- Vita Caroli regis Francorum et imperatoris Romanorum
- Historia Franciae ab Antenore ad annum 1137
- La pes et lordenance fete entre excellenz princes Loys roi de France et Henri roi d'Engleterre
- Bulla Gregorii papae contra Simonem et Guidonem de Monteforti occisores cum eorum excusationibus et condemnatione
- Bulla Ioannis papae data A. D. 1326, pro pace concilianda inter reges Franciae et Angliae
- Historia mongolorum quos nos tartaros appellamus
- Itinerarium ad partes orientales
- Description:
- CCCC MS 181, copied in the early fourteenth century, contains the Gesta Normannorum ducum compiled by William of Jumièges OSB (d. 1087?), Orderic Vitalis OSB (1075-c.1143) and Robert de Torigni OSB (d. 1186), Torigni's distinct Chronicon for the years 1137 onwards, continued by a later author to 1259, as well as a number of shorter texts of continental, particularly Norman and French, history. This codex also contains two well-known pieces of medieval travel literature about the far east, Willelmus de Rubruk OFM (fl. 1248-57) Itinerarium ad partes orientales and Iohannes de Plano Carpini (c. 1182-c. 1252) Historia mongolorum quos nos tartaros appellamus. A shelf mark indicates that this volume is one of two in Parker's collection that can be shown to have once been in the library of the Benedictine Abbey of St Mary's, York (the other being CCCC MS 309). How this manuscript came into Parker's possession is not known.