Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 313: Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio. Historia actuum apostolorum. Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 313 contains a collection of historical texts copied in a late tweflth- or early thirteenth-century hand. The two major works in the manuscript are the Epitoma de Tito Livio of Lucius Annaeus Florus (fl. c. 140), an account of Roman history, and the Opuscula of Ralph de Diceto (d. 1199/1200), a work of history from the Incarnation to his own day comprised of extracts from his own and other authors' works. Although such material appealed to Parker, there is very little clues as to how this manuscript came into Parker's possession apart from the name 'Byny' written in Parker's characteristic red chalk on one of the flyleaves.
- Contents
- Epitoma de Tito Livio (prologue) -- Epitoma de Tito Livio -- Opuscula
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xii-xiii
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pn864xh3409/MS_313.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mx145wk5012/313.pdf
- Contains
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- Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio (prologue). 1r-1r
- Author
- Lucius Annaeus Florus
- Rubric
- (1r) Incipiunt capitula libri primi
- Note
- (xxx)
- Rubric
- (1r) Incipit prologus
- Incipit
- (1r) (A)nno xiiie olimpiadis lucius anneus melas frater senece
- Explicit
- (1r) nec laudatius hoc anneo aliquid componere potuit
- Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio. 1r-34v
- Author
- Lucius Annaeus Florus
- Rubric
- (1r) Annei Flori epitoma de tito liuio. Incipit liber I historiarum Romanarum
- Incipit
- (1r) Populus romanus a rege Romulo
- Note
-
(10r) Liber II
(21r) Liber III
In III 20 is a gap after p. 64 of the MS. which ends - Explicit
- (32v) funera imperatoriis celebrauit
- Note
- Text continues with IV 12
- Incipit
- (33r) uincere tanti non putasset
- Note
- ending
- Explicit
- (34v) ipso nomine et titulo consecraretur
- Note
- (IV 12 fin.)
- Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula. 35r-108v
- Author
- Ralph de Diceto
- Note
- A copy of the Opuscula of Radulfus de Diceto, printed in Vol. II of the Rolls edition. The best MS. is that at Ripley in Yorkshire belonging to the Ingilby family. References are here given to the Rolls edition
- Incipit
- (35r) Hii fuerunt christi discipuli qui dum omnes unum sunt singuli tamen eorum propriis certisque locis
- Note
- (The Twelve with Paul and Barnabas, Matthias instead of Judas)
- Incipit
- (35r) Anna et emeria fuerunt sorores. De emeria nata est elyzabeth
- Explicit
- (35v) summa omnium annorum etatis beate marie quando obiit fuit lxiii anni
- Note
-
(35v) A scribbled diagram of the genealogy (xv-xvi)
Historia actuum apostolorum - Rubric
- (35v) Petrus pictauensis super actus apostolorum
- Incipit
- (35v) Non te moueat si quando legatur conuersio
- Rubric
-
(36r) De tribus uiris anne
(36r) Item de anna et filiis eius
(36r) Beda de compoto manuali - Incipit
- (36r) De numero dicturi necessarium diximus
- Explicit
- (36v) eandem suppinam femori superpones
- Rubric
- (36v) De regibus Anglie quot annis regnauerunt et nominibus eorum
- Incipit
- (37r) Kinethilsus rex regnauit xxix annis
- Explicit
- (37r) Haroldus filius Godewini regnauit xl ebd.
- Rubric
- (37r) De regibus anglie qui de Normannis uenerunt
- Incipit
- (37r) Willelmus bastard
- Explicit
- (37v) Johannes rex anglie regnauit. Henricus rex filius Iohannis regis (erased)
- Note
- Most of 3v blank, and col. 1 of 4r
- Rubric
- (38r) De duplici potestate
- Note
- Rolls II, p. 180
- Incipit
- (38r) Apostolus ait. Omnis anima potestatibus subdita sit
- Explicit
- (38v) per orbem terrarum predicabilem effecerunt
- Rubric
- (38v) De prelatis ecclesiarum incipiunt capitula
- Incipit
- (38v) De summis pontificibus
- Explicit
- (38v) De fundatoribus ecclesiarum tempore britonum tempore anglorum tempore danorum
- Note
- The account of the Popes is preceded by sections De cesaribus
- Incipit
- (39r) Ab Apostolo petro decursis successoribus
- Rubric
- (40r) Prologus
- Incipit
- (40r) Annum ab eo die quo petrus rome primo cathedram
- Note
-
(Stubbs, p. 184)
(40v) List of Popes with regnal years. Ends with Innocent III. A later hand adds Honorius etc. to Clement IV - Explicit
- (43v) Hic contulit episcopatum Nicholai de Eli
- Note
- (43v) Alia manu, erasure.
- Explicit
- (43v) Hic contulit episcopatum Johanni de Nontosye (or Pont-)
- Note
-
(44r) Further notes on Popes and Schismatic Popes ( Stubbs, p. 192)
Ending - Explicit
- (45v) Guido de crema jo et hannes sunt anathema. Non puto peccaui nec falso gramaticaui. Scismatici praui si nomen scismaticaui
- Note
-
( Stubbs, p. 195 note: cf. MS 59. 7)
(45v) Note in red on English dioceses ( Stubbs, p. 195) - Incipit
- (45v) Augustinus anglorum temporibus a gregorio papa directus
- Explicit
- (45v) superfusus tibi signanter ostendet
- Note
-
(45v) Archbishops of Canterbury to Hubertus Sarisberiensis Episcopus (f. 46v) ( Stubbs, p. 196)
(46v) Bishops of London to Willelmus II
(47r) Bishops of Winchester to Godefridus and Petrus. Later hands continue to Thomas Langton
(47r) Bishops of Salisbury to Herebertus. Ricardus and Robertus added
(47v) Bishops of Worcester to Malgerus. Walter, Silvester, William added
(48r) Bishops of Lincoln to Hugo (II)
(48r) Bishops of Ely to Eustace
(48v) Bishops of Bath to Jocelin
(49r) Bishops of Chester to Galfridus
(49r) Bishops of Norwich to John (II)
(49v) Bishops of Chichester to Simon
(50r) Bishops of Exeter to Henry. Simon added
(50v) Bishops of Hereford to Egidius
(50v) Bishops of York apparently to Galfridus
(51r) Interrupted by a repetition of the Worcester Bishops to Malgerus
(51v) Bishops of Durham to Philippus
(52r) Bishops of Ely again to Eustace - Rubric
- (52r) Regibus francorum et Anglorum in campo dimicantibus cui uictoria cesserit audiens in sequentibus
- Note
- ( Stubbs, p. 277)
- Incipit
- (52r) Annus ab incarnatione domini mus cus xixus tunc temporis effluebat
- Explicit
- (52v) gesta sunt hec prope uillam que uocatur estrepeni
- Note
-
(52v) Note on Palls of Archbishops ( Stubbs, p. 208)
(53r) Popes and Archbishops (to Innocent III) ( Stubbs, p. 208)
(54r) Bishops of Rochester to Gilibertus ( Stubbs, p. 210)
(54v) Founders of Churches ( Stubbs, p. 210) - Incipit
- (54v) Ecclesia Sancte Trinitatis apud Cantuariam
- Explicit
- (55v) Ecclesia Sancti petri Gloecestrie ab alredo Wigorniensi episcopo fundata est
- Note
-
(55v) Imperatores Romani ( Stubbs, p. 213)
(57r) Kings of France to Philip III. Assyria (f. 58v), Media (f. 59r), Persia (f. 59r), Goths (f. 59v) - Rubric
- (60r) Incipiunt annales de gestis britonum de gestis saxonum de gestis danorum. de gestis normannorum, prologus
- Incipit
- (60v) Ad expediendas regni necessitates
- Note
- ( Stubbs, p. 222 note)
- Incipit
- (60v) Brutus genere troianus
- Note
- ( Stubbs, p. 222)
- Explicit
- (66v) preponatur in serie
- Note
-
(66v) Lists of Kings ( Stubbs, p. 233)
The account of John ( Stubbs, p. 239 note) is finished in another hand and later hands add notices of Henry III and Edward I - Incipit
- (71v) Nequid nobis desit
- Note
- ( Stubbs, p. 240)
- Rubric
- (72r) Ab enumeratione regnorum
- Note
- ( Stubbs, p. 241): in red
- Rubric
- (72v) Comites andegauorum
- Note
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( Stubbs, p. 267)
These articles precede the Roman annals as in Faust. A. 9 - Rubric
- (74r) De synodis
- Note
- ( Stubbs, p. 270)
- Rubric
- (75r) Decursis per ordinem
- Note
- ( Stubbs, p. 275)
- Rubric
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(76r) Epitaphium Roberti Wiscardi
(76r) Incipit abreuiatio de gestis normannorum - Note
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( Stubbs, p. 241)
to Stubbs, p. 267 (Primus in Apulia) and adds on 58v a section - Rubric
- (92v) de karolo simplice
- Note
- ( Stubbs, p. 278)
- Rubric
- (93r) De uiris illustribus
- Note
- (Stubbs I, p. 20)
- Incipit
- (93r) Pompeius a tempore Nini
- Rubric
- (94v) Nomina regionum xi
- Note
- (Stubbs I 6)
- Incipit
- (96v) Iohanni prime sedis ecclesie lugdunensis
- Note
-
(Stubbs I 5)
(96v) Iohannes - Radulfo de diceto - Incipit
- (97r) Intra decem et septem prouincias galliarum
- Rubric
- (97r) Iulius cesar de narratione temporum
- Note
- (Stubbs I 24)
- Incipit
- (97r) Gallia est omnis diuisa
- Explicit
- (97v) sole laxantur
- Rubric
- (97v) Prologus Iosephi
- Note
- (Stubbs I 25)
- Incipit
- (97v) Fili sapientia thesaurus est
- Note
- (Stubbs I 31. Hugo de S. Victore)
- Rubric
- (98r) Beda de situ britannie
- Note
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(Stubbs I 30)
(98v) Ending with note on the Roman roads (Stubbs I 15 note) - Explicit
- (98v) Primus ab oriente in occidentem et uocatur hychenild ... et uocatur fussa tenditque per lincolniam
- Rubric
- (98v) Commendatio britannie
- Note
- (Stubbs I 10)
- Rubric
- (98v) De mirabilibus britannie
- Note
- (Stubbs I 11)
- Incipit
- (98v) Uentus egreditur
- Note
- Arrangement differs from print: ends with the note on Rollright (Stubbs I 11 note)
- Incipit
- (101r) Annus ab incarnatione domini mus cus quinquag. quartus effluebat quando Henricus galfridi plantagenest
- Explicit
- (101r) cuius pater noe
- Rubric
- (101r) De situ hybernie
- Note
- (Stubbs I 10)
- Rubric
- (101v) M. C. lxxxv
- Incipit
- (101v) Cum simon comes filius simonis comitis de norhamton
- Explicit
- (102r) gotus ostrogotus withsigotus
- Rubric
- (102r) Prophetia Merlini
- Incipit
- (102r) Sedente uortigenio
- Explicit
- (107r) similiter tradidisset
- Rubric
- (107r) Prophetia Merlini Siluestris
- Incipit
- (107r) Arbor fertilis
- Rubric
- (107r) Item prophetia Merlini Siluestris
- Incipit
- (107r) Sicut rubeum draconem
- Rubric
- (107v) Alia prophetia eiusdem
- Incipit
- (107v) Mortuo leone iusticie
- Note
-
On the lower margin of 73v, cut, in an early hand, is
(107v) del sal into ƿuille and rache yƿurþeoþer sal into hyre and gedi yƿuþe þridde sal in engle al uor ƿurþe - Explicit
- (108r) pacificato regno occidet
- Rubric
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(108r) De uariis filiorum Israel afflictionibus
(108r) De ierusalem afflictionibus et subuersionibus - Explicit
- (108v) Anno macometi prophete magni D. lxxviii
- Note
- (108v) Added: Anno millenocenteno quominus unoIerusalem franci capiunt uirtute potenti.Anno mo co lxxxvii subacta fuit ierusalem a saladino
- Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio (prologue). 1r-1r
- TJames
- 205
- Stanley
- N. 41
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/kj101dc0788
- MS 313
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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