Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 298: Laurence Wade OSB, Life of Becket. Canterbury Documents

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 298: Laurence Wade OSB, Life of Becket. Canterbury Documents
Alternate Title:
Laur. Wade. Life of Becket. Canterbury documents
Language:
Latin, English, French, and English, Middle (1100-1500)
Extent:
ff. 56 + 71 + 21 + 4 + 26 + 79
Dimensions:
262 Height (mm) and 195 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1500 - 1525]
Table of contents:
  • Life of Becket
  • List of donations to Christ Church, Canterbury
  • List of English kings and the location of their tombs from Ethelbert king of Kent to Henry VII
  • List of archbishops of Canterbury from St Augustine to William Warham
  • List of the priors of Christ Church, Canterbury from the Norman conquest to Thomas Goldwell (1066-1539)
  • The death and funeral of Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, archbishop of Canterbury (1486)
  • Description of the pageants in the city of London upon the arrival of the emperor Charles V and Henry VIII
  • List of names of monks of Christ Church, Canterbury 1207-1527
  • Excerpt from a papal bull against the taking of benevolencies
  • On the founding of the Abbey at Beverley
  • Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis
  • Excerpts from an ancient register of the bishop of Rochester on the church of Rochester
  • Letter of Edward I to the pope on the legitimacy of his rule of Scotland
  • Letter of king Cnut to the English, 1027. Brief chronicle of English affairs from the death of Cnut to the death of Hardicnut
  • On the early statutes of the church of Worcester and of the possessions given to it by kings and vassals
  • Brief annals of English affairs 1530-1540
  • Excerpt from the history of Jervaulx abbey at the time of King Edgar concerning the true cross at Winchester
  • Letter from Pope Alexander II to William the Conqueror, late 1071, and excerpts from the Passionale Sancti Ignatii
  • Canons of the primatial council at Winchester, 1076
  • Profession of Thomas archbishop of York and list of all other bishops who made professions to the archbishop of Canterbury
  • Canons of the synod of bishops Patricius and Isernius. (The first synod of St Patrick
  • Synod of London under Anselm (1102), decree against clerical marriage
  • Letter of Pope Paschal II to Anselm (epistola 43)
  • On translating the Bible into English
  • Quaestiones quodlibetales (extract, I. q. 13)
Description:
CCCC MS 298 consists of four separate books bound together. The first contains a unique sixteenth-century copy of the Life of St Thomas Becket in Middle English verse written in 1497 by Laurence Wade OSB.The second part contains a collection of documents relating to the history and landholdings of Canterbury and the archbishops and dates to the early sixteenth century. The third part consists of an early fifteenth-century copy of the Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis of Thomas Stubbs OP (d. 1381), with an anonymous continuation and two collection of documents. The chronicle is a history of the church of York covering the period 1147-1373. The fourth part contains a variety of letters, canons and excerpts from longer texts written in a Parkerian hand of the sixteenth century.
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