Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 301: Annals of St Augustine's, Canterbury. Canterbury Documents, etc

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 301: Annals of St Augustine's, Canterbury. Canterbury Documents, etc
Alternate Title:
Annales S. Augustini Cantuar. Canterbury documents, etc.
Language:
Latin and French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Extent:
ff. 1 + 113
Dimensions:
255 Height (mm) and 154 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1325]
Provenance:
From St Augustine's, Canterbury. At bottom of f. 1r is a slip pasted on: Liber ffratris Stephani de Hakynton de librario Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis. It is not in the Catalogue.
Table of contents:
  • Annals of St Augustine's, Canterbury (to 1316)
  • HosebandrieHusbandry
  • The usage and customs of the community of Kent
  • Veterinary recipes for horses
  • The monasteries of England and their founders
  • Customary and excerpt from the privileges of the monastery of St Augustine's, Canterbury
Description:
CCCC MS 301 contains a number of texts relating to St Augustine's, Canterbury, copied in the early fourteenth century. Among the texts included in the volume are two chronicles; one describing events from the arrival of Brutus in England to the accession of Henry III derived firstly from Bede, and from English twelfth-century writers such as Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), William of Malmesbury OSB (c. 1080-1143), Henry of Huntingdon (1084-1155) and Roger of Howden (d. c. 1201). The other chronicle is based on a foreign source and covers the period from the Incarnation to 1316. In addition, this manuscript contains an early fourteenth-century Anglo-Norman copy of the Hosebandrie of Walter of Henley (d. c. 1290/1300), a treatise on estate management and accounting, and a number of veterinary recipes, also in Anglo-Norman. The book was donated to St Augustine's by Stephen de Hackyngton (fl. 1332). Matthew Parker no doubt valued it for the light it shed on the history of Canterbury, a recurring theme in his collection.
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