Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 117: Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1378)
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 117 contains a decorated version of the text of the Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364) copied in the last quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains a small number of marginal drawings. The text of the Polychronicon is littered with Parker's characteristic red chalk noting items of interest such as a mention of Oxford University and church affairs. In addition, the manuscript contains two items of the correspondence of Anselm of Canterbury copied from CCCC MS 135 and an account of the Primatial Council at Winchester of 1 April 1076 copied from Bodleian MS Junius 121, all in a sixteenth-century hand, and with an accompanying note as to the source of the texts. It is possible that these items, written on paper and added to the parchment endleaves, were copied for Parker.
- Contents
- Polychronicon (continued to 1378) -- Les noms des comtes barouns et baronettis pris et tuez par le counte de Northumberland -- Letter from Gerald of York to Anselm of Canterbury OSB -- Letter from Anselm of Canterbury OSB to Gerald of York --
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiv-xv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wz852mw6626/MS_117.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tk783vs8539/117.pdf
- Contains
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- Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1378). 1r-160r
- Author
- Ranulf Higden OSB
- Note
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(1r) Table to the Polychronicon. Handsome initial and partial border
(7r) Note on the ages of the world
Text - Incipit
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(7v) Post preclaros
(9r) Ex senatus consulto censuit Julius Cesar - Note
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(Rolls Edition I 46)
(9r) Fine initial and partial border. The ornament throughout suggests cent. xiv late. Most of the books have some of it at the beginning
(32v) Liber II
(48v) Liber III
(72v) Liber IV (no initial)
(90v) Liber V
(112v) Liber VI
(129v) Liber VII
Ends (1378) - Explicit
- (160r) Et quod dolendum est in manu continuacionem post ea habuerunt
- Note
- (cf. Hog's edition)
- Rubric
- (160r) Qui scripsit librum sit benedictus in euum Dignus est operarius mercede sua
- Note
- (160r) Then, erased: Cronica quam composuit M. J. Carrik (?) mendaciorum summus compilator
- Les noms des comtes barouns et baronettis pris et tuez par le counte de Northumberland. 160r-160r
- Nasmith
- Les noms des comtes barouns et baronettis pris et tuez par le counte de Northumberland le counte de Dunbar et Mons. Henri Perci le jour du exaltacion du seint Croys a la battaille du Humbyldon-hyll lan du roy Henri IIII. puisse le conquest Dengleterre III. 160r-160r
- Note
- In another hand
- Incipit
- (160r) Ceux sount lez noms des Countes etc.
- Note
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At bottom a longer erased note of 11 lines
160v-165v blank
- Letter from Gerald of York to Anselm of Canterbury OSB. 166r-166v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Gerardi Eboracensis ad Anselmum Cantuariensem. 166r-166v
- Author
- Gerald of York
- Note
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in chartis seculo xvi
The Bury MS. from which nos. 2, 3 are copied is MS 135 in this collection
- Letter from Anselm of Canterbury OSB to Gerald of York. 166v-166v
- Nasmith
- Responsio Anselmi. 166v-166v
- Author
- Anselm of Canterbury OSB
- Note
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in chartis seculo xvi
Ex libro MS. quondam monasterii S. Edmundi regis et martyris
The Bury MS. from which nos. 2, 3 are copied is MS 135 in this collection
- Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1378). 1r-160r
- TJames
- 81
- Stanley
- Misc. 27
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/gr993gt8457
- MS 117
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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