Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 066A: Jacques de Vitry, Historia orientalis. Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales. pseudo-John of Damascus, Barlaam et Iosaphat

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 066A: Jacques de Vitry, Historia orientalis. Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales. pseudo-John of Damascus, Barlaam et Iosaphat
Language:
Latin, English, and French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Dimensions:
300 Height (mm) and 208 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1100 - 1199]; [ca. 1300 - 1399]
Provenance:
p. 115 blank, on p. 116 list of contents (xvi) and also a piece of parchment pasted on inscribed (xiv-xv): J. 90. Liber de communitate monachorum Sancti Edmundi in quo subscripta continentur. List of contents (9-24). The MS. Ff. I. 27 in the University Library, given by Archbishop Parker, contains (Art. 19-29) the latter part of this volume. James provides a full listing of the contents for two manuscripts, one from Sawley and one from Bury St. Edmunds, each of which had been split in half and rebound - the first half of the Sawley with the first half of the Bury, second half of Sawley with second half of Bury - into MS 66 and Cambridge University Library Ff. 1. 27 respectively. James' MS 66 has since been separated again (rebound in 1954 by John Gray) so that James' Volume I (the Sawley portion) is now MS 66 and James' Volume II (the Bury portion) is now MS 66A. James lists the following contents for the complete Bury MS., which is currently divided between MS 66A and CUL Ff. 1. 27: CCC 66 (now CCCC MS 66A): Jacobus de VitriacoWillelmus RubrucJourney of MacariusImago mundi Liber IPrester JohnJohannes de Sacro bosco de spheraBarlaam and JosaphatImago mundi Liber IIStory of the CrossFrench poem thereonInfancy of Christ. French verseTracts on the Holy LandStories of Pilate and JudasMiraclespseudo-MethodiusULC Ff. I 27:Giraldus Cambrensis Descriptio HiberniaeGiraldus Cambrensis Vaticinalis historiaLife of PatrickGiraldus Cambrensis Descriptio Cambriae (xvi)PropheciesGiraldus Cambrensis Itinerarium CambriaePatrick's PurgatoryExtract from Chronicle of SigebertProphecy of MerlinLife of St DavidGaufredus de Fontibus (xv) de infantia Sancti Edmundi For the complete list of contents given by James for both manuscripts, please see the following figure:
Table of contents:
  • Historia orientalis
  • Itinerarium ad partes orientales
  • Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum
  • Tractatus de sphaera
  • Barlaam et Iosaphat
  • Legend of the Cross Before Christ
  • Seth or The Holy Rood in Verse
  • Childhood of Jesus
  • Historia orientalis (excerpt)
  • Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (excerpt from book 5)
  • Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (excerpt from book 5)
  • The Birth and Life of Pilate (extract from Legenda Aurea)
  • The Birth and Life of Judas (extract from Legenda Aurea)
  • Visio Rodulfi
  • De Stephano monacho cartusiensi
  • Revelations
Description:
MS 66, as described by M. R. James, included half of a manuscript belonging to the Cistercian abbey of Sawley (Yorks.) and half of a manuscript belonging to the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds. The other two halves of the Bury and Sawley manuscripts are bound together as Cambridge, UL MS Ff. 1. 27. However, MS 66 has since been separated into MS 66 (Sawley MS) and MS 66A (Bury MS). MS 66A contains copies of Jacques de Vitry's Historia orientalis; Willelmus de Rubruk's Itinerarium ad partes orientales; Itinerarium usque ad paradisum terrestrem; Imago mundi; the letter of Prester John; Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera; Barlaam et Iosaphat by pseudo-John of Damascus; the Legend of the Cross Before Christ; Seth or The Holy Rood in Verse; the Childhood of Jesus; excerpts from Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and the Legenda Aurea; Visio Rodulfi; De Stephano monacho cartusiensi and pseudo-Methodius's Revelations. There are illuminated historiated initials at the beginning of most of these texts.
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