Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 301: Annals of St Augustine's, Canterbury. Canterbury Documents, etc
Description
Abstract/Contents
- 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
Bibliographic information
- 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- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
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- Annals of St Augustine's, Canterbury (to 1316). 1r-68v
- Nasmith
- Annales ecclesiae Augustini Cantuariensis. 1r-68v
- Note
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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
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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
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(20v) Ipseque Rex ffrancorum Regem Johannem de prodicione appellauit
(20v) Quere de gestis Henrici filii Johannis in xio xiio xiiio et quartodecimo foliis - Note
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(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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
- Annals of St Augustine's, Canterbury (to 1316). 1r-68v
- TJames
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- Stanley
- A. 7
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/mt674jt4474
- MS 301
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- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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