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Alternative title

Annales S. Augustini Cantuar. Canterbury documents, etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 1 + 113

Date created

[ca. 1300-1325]

Language

Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)

Material

Vellum

Layout

mostly about 44 lines to a page

Height (mm)

255

Width (mm)

154

Collation

1 flyleaf, 1(8) 2(12)-5(12) 6(8) 7(4) | 8(4) (paper) | 9(10) 10(14) (5 canc.: + slip) 11(18).

Writing

in charter hand

Foliation

ff. a-b + i + 1-68 + 68a-d (68av-68br uncut and unphotographed) + 69-90 + 90a + 91-98 + 98a + 99-108 + ii + c-d

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.

2 fo.

autem que maior

Summary

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.

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

M.R. James Date

xiv early

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wm461ts2282/MS_301.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:xd826sp8695/301.pdf

Contains

• Annals of St Augustine's, Canterbury (to 1316). 1r-68v

  Nasmith

  Annales ecclesiae Augustini Cantuariensis. 1r-68v

  Note

  Desinunt in anno 1316
  (1r) Chronicle

  Rubric

  (1r) Ante incarnacionem domini mo cco venit Brutus in Angliam et regnauit xxiiiior annis cuius tempore judicauit Heli filios israel

  Incipit

  (1r) Fluxit ab Enea primum Romana propago, etc.

  Rubric

  (1r) Eneas cum Ascaneo filio suo fugiens excidium

  Note

  Added (xiv): Habet Britannia in longitudinem dccc milia et in latitudinem cc. Et quicunque (?) usui mortalium congruit indeficienti fertilitate ministrat
  Ends p. 44 in 1200

  Rubric

  (20v) Ipseque Rex ffrancorum Regem Johannem de prodicione appellauit
  (20v) Quere de gestis Henrici filii Johannis in xio xiio xiiio et quartodecimo foliis

  Note

  (i.e. pp. 65 sqq.)
  (20v) List of Kingdoms, Counties and Bishoprics in England
  Another hand begins here

  Rubric

  (21r) Incipit cronice paucorum scilicet ab incarnatione domini nostri Ihesu Christi

  Incipit

  (21r) Orosius ad beatum Augustinum scribens

  Explicit

  (21r) ab origine mundi usque ad Christum fluxerunt anni quinque milia centum nonaginta nouem

  Note

  The form is annalistic: at first in double columns down to 1038: one line for a year: from 1039 to 1186 a line to a year, single columns
  (29v) Insertion on Archbishop Baldwin
  (30r) 1187-1226, a line to a year
  (31r) Then longer entries
  (32v) 1235-1253, a line to a year. Then longer entries
  There are various changes of hand after p. 113 (1304): on 136 (1315, Statute de venditionibus) is a xvith cent. reference: Vide in libro qui inscribitur Diuersi tractatus monasterii Sancti Augustini Dorobernie. This is a book mentioned in Parker's own list but marked therein as missing by John Parker: it is now Lambeth MS. 1213
  The text goes to 1316 ending with Edward II's letter to Pope Clement on the election of an Abbot of St Augustine's (Devenysshe), ending p. 140

  Explicit

  (68v) Calesium. die septembris

  Note

  In another hand: the letter of the Barons on the same in French, ending imperfectly. The end is supplied in a xvith cent. hand on two out of four small leaves of paper inserted here
  A notice of this Chronicle is in Hardy III 361

• Walter of Henley, Hosebandrie. Husbandry. 69r-75v

  Nasmith

  Advice from a father to his son on the management and improvement of his estate. 69r-75v

  James

  Hosebondrie of Walter of Henley, and the anonymous Husbandry. 69r-75v

  Author

  Walter of Henley

  Note

  in French
  This treatise contains a succinct account of the mode of husbandry and rural economy of the times: it appears to have been written in the reign of Edward III

  Rubric

  (69r) De Gaynag' terrarum

  Incipit

  (69r) Le pere dist a sun fiz. beau fiz viuet sagement

  Explicit

  (75r) viii Rousches dun galon de mel

  Note

  This is almost certainly the copy used by William Lambarde in his note-book of 1571, now Brit. Mus. Add. 20709, under the title Du gaignage des terres. See the edition by Dr W. Cunningham and E. Lamond (Royal Historical Society 1890), pp. xxxiii, xxxviii. Corrected by Dr Cunningham in Transactions Royal Historical Society IX 1895, p. 215
  (75v) On weights and measures, in Latin. Prices of bread, and of colours

  Incipit

  (75v) Digitus pars minima mensurarum

• The usage and customs of the community of Kent. 77v-79r

  Nasmith

  Les usages et les coustumes les queus la comunaute de Kent clayment aver en gavelikende et en gens gavelikendyes. 77v-79r

  Rubric

  (77v) De legibus Kancie

  Incipit

  (77v) Ces sunt les usages e les costumes les queus la comunaute de kent clayment auer ... dunt il est dit en Kentoys þe vader to þe boghe and þe sone to þe loghe

  Explicit

  (78v) ke furent deuant le conqueste e en le conqueste e totes houres dekes en ca

  Rubric

  (79r) De feod' fidelitatem faciend'

  Note

  Forms of oaths

  Incipit

  (79r) Cancia est prouincia in anglia iuxta oceanum

  Explicit

  (79r) alia habet commoda vite mortalium necessaria que recitari per singula longum esset

• Veterinary recipes for horses. 79r-81r

  Nasmith

  De equis medicandis. 79r-81r

  Note

  Gallice

  Incipit

  (79r) Ceo est la marechausie de chiuals. Peleyn deit cure treys aunz oue sa mere

  Explicit

  (79v) de vin blanc a beure chaud kant il auerad ankes erre

  Rubric

  (81r) Contra pugturam serpentis

  Incipit

  (81r) Accipe aquam benedictam

  Explicit

  (81r) bibat illam aquam qui portauit rumores et sic recedat

• The monasteries of England and their founders. 81r-86v

  Nasmith

  De monasteriis in Anglia et eorum fundatoribus. 81r-86v

  Incipit

  (81r) In Pago Cantuar. edificauit Edelbertus monasteria Sancti Augustini

  Note

  The last is a note on Etheldreda: Velata erat apud eli cum sorore sua
  In another hand: a table in six columns, Reges, Anni, Archiepiscopi, Anni, Abbates, Anni
  From Ethelbert to Edward II in the original hand. Archbishops to Johannes frater minor (Peckham) and Robertus. Abbots to Radulphus (Bourn). Continued by various hands to Edward IV, King, Thomas Bowseyr, Archbishop, William Sellyng, Abbot

  Rubric

  (84r) De morte imperatoris

  Incipit

  (84r) Stante obsessione contra Lucam usque ad terminum .xxx. dierum

  Explicit

  (84v) et Regem Cicilie fredericum suum constituens vicarium domino reddidit spiritum

  Note

  pp. 173-176 blank

• Customary and excerpt from the privileges of the monastery of St Augustine's, Canterbury. 87v-108v

  Nasmith

  Custumale et excerpta ex privilegiis monasterii Sancti Augustini. 87v-108v

  Rubric

  (87v) Custumare

  Note

  List of dues from manors: Minster etc.
  Distribucio cere (Candlemas). Distribucio argenti in festo Sancti Augustini
  Longitudo stragule
  (88v) List of priuilegia
  (89v) Knights' fees
  Temporalia of the Archbishop, Abbot, Prior etc.
  (90v) Custumare: of bread etc.: a slip inserted giving particulars about bread
  Dues of various officers

  Rubric

  (96v) Mensurata terra maneriorum Sancti Augustini
  (97v) De sompniis

  Note

  double columns, alphabetical: crossed out

  Incipit

  (97v) Arma tractare mutacionem significat

  Explicit

  (98v) Zonam cingere valitudinem

  Rubric

  (99r) De confirmacione cartarum. et visu franci pleggii

  Incipit

  (99r) Edwardus deo gratias ... Inspeximus cartam

  Explicit

  (101r) apud douor. xxii die maii anno regni nostri vito

  Rubric

  (101v) Visus franci pleggii

  Incipit

  (101v) Primes wus nus dirrez

  Explicit

  (101v) par le serment qe wus auet fet

  Note

  Notes in various hands, xiv and xv
  (102r) Forma treugarum inter Regem Anglie et Robertum de Brus (1323)
  Unfinished
  (102r) Privileges claimed by the Abbot of St Augustine's
  (102r) Interpretacio verborum. Saka. Idem est quod placitum etc.
  The Latin ends with Forstalles. Then in French: Sokne cest asauer sute de vos hommes ... Ferdfaire cest seruice daler en host
  (102v) Notes of cent. xvi
  In 1529. Oct. 31. A robbery of plate
  In 1531. 3 Id. Apr. (and other dates). Removal of precious metals from shrines of Saints Augustine, Jambert, Mildred etc. and other spoliations
  In 1535 further spoliation
  On p. 212: suuerderi καὶ φιλῶν
  pp. 213-215 blank
  (105v) Accounts De Bosc. superius apud Tenterdenne 24 Edwardi III and other similar accounts
  (106v) Paragraph per viam eleccionis capituli cum expediat via mixta scrutinii et compromissi
  Compromisarii traxerunt se ad angulum australem capituli quorum duo, viz. fratres Thomas Ikham et Henricus Tilmanstone etc.
  (106v) List of monks and their votes (which are for William Thorne, Thomas Ikham, Michael Pecham: the last was eventually elected Abbot)
  (107v) Extractus de quadam tabula in ecclesia conuentuali Colcestre, giving dates of foundation of Glastonbury, Westminster (A.D. 169), St Augustine's, St Alban's
  (107v) Application from Richard Cokman, custos in St Nicholas Church at Dover, to Francis, Cardinal of the Four Crowned, for an indulgence for an altar of the Virgin and St John of Bridlington
  The Cardinal seems to be Francesco Uguccione, Archbishop of Bordeaux, d. 1412
  (108r) Epitaph of Archbishop Chicheley, Pauper eram natus etc.
  Receipt for gout, in French (xiv)
  Note of date of canonization of St Thomas of Hereford (1320, 14 kal. Mai)
  (108r) Epitaph of Peter Comestor (xvi)
  p. 222 covered with paper

TJames

7

Stanley

A. 7

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 301

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