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

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

Description

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

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
  • 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
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Stanley
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Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/mt674jt4474
MS 301
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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