Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 117: Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1378)

Description

Alternative title
Ran. Higden Polychronicon
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 165 + 2
Date created
[ca. 1300-1499]
Language
Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 53 lines
Height (mm)
325
Width (mm)
232
Collation
1(12)-13(12) 14 (nine): 2 ff. of paper written.
Writing
in a clear, rather pointed hand
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-167 + iii-iv
2 fo.
de papa
cabilem

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
  • Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1378). 1r-160r
    Author
    Ranulf Higden OSB
    Note
    (1r) Table to the Polychronicon. Handsome initial and partial border
    (7r) Note on the ages of the world
    Text
    Incipit
    (7v) Post preclaros
    (9r) Ex senatus consulto censuit Julius Cesar
    Note
    (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
    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
    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
    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
TJames
81
Stanley
Misc. 27
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 117

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