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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 452: Eadmer of Canterbury OSB, Historia nouorum in Anglia

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 452: Eadmer of Canterbury OSB, Historia nouorum in Anglia

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

Bibliographic information

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/nz518wt4652
MS 452
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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