Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 066: Imago mundi. Pliny. Historia Anglorum. Miscellaneous Theological Texts

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 066: Imago mundi. Pliny. Historia Anglorum. Miscellaneous Theological Texts
Alternate Title:
Imago Mundi. Chronica. Itinera in Terram Sanctam etc.
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 58 + 4 + 238
Dimensions:
298 Height (mm) and 203 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1100 - 1199]; [ca. 1300 - 1399]
Provenance:
Vol. I is from Sawley or Salley Abbey. On p. 2 at top in red is: Liber Sancte Marie de Salleia. The latter half of it, bound up together with the latter half of the Bury St Edmund's MS. which forms Vol. II of the present book (now MS 66A), was given by Parker to the University Library, and is now MS. Ff. 1. 27 there. James provides a full listing of the contents for two manuscripts, one from Sawley and one from Bury St. Edmund's, each of which had been split in half and rebound - the first half of the Sawley with the first half of the Bury, second half of Sawley with second half of Bury - into MS 66 and ULC Ff. 1. 27 respectively. James' CCC 66 has since been separated again (rebound in 1954 by John Gray) so that James' Volume I (the Sawley portion) is now MS 66 and James' Volume II (the Bury portion) is now MS 66A.
Table of contents:
  • Imago mundi
  • Extracts from Pliny the Elder and Solinus
  • Historia Anglorum
  • De statu ecclesiae (prologue)
  • Letter of Theobald of Étampes to Robert Bloet, Bishop of Lincoln
  • De sex alis cherubim
  • De tribus in poenitentiae considerandis
Description:
MS 66, as described by M. R. James, included half of a manuscript belonging to the Cistercian abbey of Sawley (Yorks.) and half of a manuscript belonging to the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds. The other two halves of the Bury and Sawley manuscripts are bound together as Cambridge, UL MS Ff. 1. 27. However, MS 66 has since been separated into MS 66 (Sawley MS) and MS 66A (Bury MS). The volume now known as MS 66 contains copies of the Imago mundi of Honorius Augustodunensis (fl. first half of twelfth century); Extracts from Pliny the Elder and Solinus; the Historia Anglorum; De statu ecclesiae by Gilbert of Limerick (d. 1145); Theobald of Étampes's Letter to Robert Bloet, Bishop of Lincoln; De sex alis cherubim and De tribus in penitentia considerandis both by Clement of Llanthony OSA (d. after 1169), and a treatise on confession. The Imago mundi and De sex alis cherubim contain four large framed coloured drawings and a map of the world.
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