Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 043: William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta pontificum Anglorum. Adam of Eynsham OSB, Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 043: William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta pontificum Anglorum. Adam of Eynsham OSB, Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham
Alternate Title:
William of Malmesbury. Gesta Pontificum
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 1 + 64 + 56 + 24
Dimensions:
340 Height (mm) and 210 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1399]
Provenance:
Possibly from Norwich, see below: it may have been the property of Bale. and The contents show an interest in East Anglian matters. The look of the book, style of script and ornament incline me to suggest Norwich as its home. There is a xvth cent. note on the same page of payments. The MS. is mentioned as no. 17 in the Rolls edition. Parker and his secretaries have made many marginal notes.
Table of contents:
  • Gesta pontificum Anglorum, books 1-4
  • Gesta pontificum Anglorum, book 5
  • Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham
  • Gesta regum Anglorum, book 1 (excerpts)
Description:
CCCC MS 43 contains a copy of William of Malmesbury OSB (c. 1080-1143), Gesta pontificum Anglorum, together with a complete version of Adam of Eynsham OSB (d. after 1233) Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham. The greater part of the text is in a late fourteenth-century hand, but the fifth book of the Gesta pontificum, together with extracts from William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum, have been added in sixteenth-century hands. Parker and his secretaries have added a number of aides mémoires to the margins of the text, revealing their interest in the history of the English episcopacy. Some fourteenth-century notes at the end of the manuscript, together with the script and ornament, led M. R. James to believe that the manuscript had an East Anglian provenance, possibly from Norwich, but its exact provenance remains unknown.
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