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Alternative title

Eadmer's Historia novorum

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 7 + 189 + 6

Date created

[ca. 1000-1099]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

24 and 27 lines to a page

Height (mm)

175

Width (mm)

118

Collation

a(2) b(4) c (one). i(8)-vi(8) vii(10)-ix(10) x(8)-xv(8) xvi(10) xvii(8) xviii(10) xix(8)-xxi(8) (+1), d(4) e(2). There is an obvious change of hand on p. 298.

Writing

mainly in the Christ Church hand

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-vii + pp. 1-108 + 108a + 109a + 109-150 + 150a + 151a + 151-360 + 401-404 + ff. viii + c-d

Provenance

From Christ Church, Canterbury. Ancient Libraries, p. 37, no. 188.

Research

The last edition of the text is that in the Rolls Series by Martin Rule, M.A. In his introduction he discusses the character of our MS. minutely. Further he has produced a yet more minute study of the book and its evolution in Camb. Ant. Soc. Proceedings, vol. VI (1886), 194-304, with facsimiles of pp. 16, 17 of this MS.

Additions

On the two last flyleaves are Parkerian notes.

Summary

CCCC MS 452 contains the Historia nouorum in Anglia of Eadmer of Canterbury OSB (d. after 1124), copied in the first half of the twelfth century, after 1122, at Christ Church, Canterbury. It probably once formed part of what is now CCCC MS 371, and it has been speculated that Eadmer himself may have removed the Historia from this other contemporary collection of his works. The Historia is an account of English history from the Conquest to 1122 and it preserves a large amount of ecclesiastical history of this period that Parker and successive generations of historians of the Church have found extremely useful. Presumably, Parker acquired this manuscript more or less directly from Christ Church. After its acquisition a thirteenth-century miniature of Noli me tangere was inserted, probably cut from French psalter.

Contents

Historia nouorum in Anglia

M.R. James Date

xi

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jc578ft0734/MS_452.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:br789nx6685/452.pdf

Contains

• Eadmer of Canterbury OSB, Historia nouorum in Anglia. 1-354

  Nasmith

  Eadmeri historia novorum in Anglia, libri vi. 1-354

  James

  Eadmer's Historia novorum. 1-354

  Author

  Eadmer of Canterbury OSB

  Note

  (1) Title in red capitals

  Rubric

  (1) Incipit Prefatio historie novorum in Anglia

  Incipit

  (1) Cum presentis etatis uiros

  Explicit

  (3) breui relatu progrediendum

  Rubric

  (3) Explicit prefatio. Incipit liber primus historie novorum in Anglia

  Incipit

  (3) Regnante in anglia gloriosissimo rege eadgaro

  Note

  (3) Initial in red
  After the first quire there are 27 lines to a page
  Some initials in purple occur
  (77) Liber II
  (134) Liber III
  (184) Liber IV
  (259) Liber V
  (341) Liber VI
  There is a small hole in the inner side of pp. 345-354 (now repaired)
  Text ends

  Explicit

  (354) in medio aule maioris ecclesie decenter sepultus

  Note

  Four blank leaves follow

TJames

78

Stanley

G. 11

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 452

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