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Alternative title

Chronicle Roll

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

on eleven skins

Date created

[ca. 1475-1499]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Height (mm)

241

Width (mm)

unmeasured

Writing

many additions in later hand

Foliation

Not foliated (roll)

Additions

Endorsed: Genealogia ab Adamo ad Henricum quartum Angliae Regem. Donum Tho. Whincop S.T.B. Hujus Coll. Soc. A.D. 1682/3.

Note that in Historical MSS. Reports I 65, there is a notice of a paper roll given by Th. Whincop in 1690, and written by Andrew Middleton, Bencher of the Middle Temple, in 1527, going from the Creation to 1066 A.D.: now among the College Muniments. This is wrongly described in Stanley's Catalogue as Misc. 23.

Summary

CCCC MS 116 is the third genealogical roll now in the Parker Library collection; the others are MSS 98 and 98A. Originally written c. 1469-1470, the membrane side contains a genealogy of the English kings from Adam to Edward IV (d. 1483), though with a number of later additions. The dorse contains a list of popes from St Peter to Benedict XII (1334-42) and of emperors from Tiberius to Frederick II (d. 1250). More profusely illustrated with tinted drawings of persons in the genealogy than the other two rolls in the collection, it was, however, not part of Parker's bequest to the college but was given by Dr Thomas Whincop (fellow 1670-1682, d. 1713) in 1682-1683.

Contents

Genealogical Roll (Creation to temp. Edward IV)

M.R. James Date

xv late

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zd338rx1736/MS_116.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nf236jz3327/116.pdf

Contains

• Genealogical Roll (Creation to temp. Edward IV). -

  Note

  On the front

  Incipit

  Anglia insularum maxima in occidentali occeano sita per longum extenditur

  Explicit

  deinde Willelmus conquestor dux normanorum

  Incipit

  Cum homo conueniat cum mundo in eius contentis et nonnullis tamen condicionis sue prerogatiuis a mundo discrepat

  Note

  Medallions
  The Fall: human-headed serpent: angel with sword on L.
  The ark (ship). Noe and seven other heads of people
  Brutus, large: seated king with scimitar
  Nativity. The Child nude, rayed, blessing, in C. Above Him three heads look in at a window. Divine Hand on R. Censers swinging R. and L. Virgin kneels on L. Joseph (large head), ox and ass on R.
  Lucius: seated king
  Constantine: Emperor, half-length
  ffrealaf: bust crowned
  Egbrutus: half-length king with sword
  Edwardus justus
  Edwardus Confessor: two sceptres, one with dove
  Willelmus conquestor: sword and orb
  Busts of other kings down to Edward IV
  The text has many additions in later hand: at the end are hardly any notes of events
  On the back, in another hand

  Rubric

  Pontifices Romani

  Incipit

  Petrus. Post passionem Christi anno sequente beatus petrus apostolus filius Johannis de prouincia galilee vico betreida (sic) tenuit cathedram etc.

  Note

  Between Leo V and Benedict III, under the year 861, 5.5 lines (on Pope Joan) are erased
  Ends with Benedict XII (1334-42)

  Explicit

  Hic iam presidet in ecclesia monachus de ordine Cisterciensi

  Note

  On the next skin begin

  Rubric

  Imperatores Romanorum

  Incipit

  Tiberius. Anno xiiiio ab incarnatione domini regnauit tiberius

  Note

  Ends (after Frederick II)

  Explicit

  Rex eciam Nauarre qui infirmus de affrica processerat in sicilia ueniens est defunctus

TJames

vac.

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 116

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