Description
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.
Abstract/Contents
- 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
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