Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 060: John of Saint-Victor OSA, Memoriale historiarum
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- Title:
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 060: John of Saint-Victor OSA, Memoriale historiarum
- Alternate Title:
- Iohannes Parisiensis memoriale Historiarum
- Language:
- Latin and French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
- Extent:
- ff. 275 + 1
- Dimensions:
- 318 Height (mm) and 225 Width (mm)
- Approximate Date:
- [ca. 1375 - 1399]
- Provenance:
- An erased inscription on f. 1r at top: Cronica magna boa de librario. (?) Cronica magna V. On f. 39r: Ihesus hawe marcye off me amen Jo beyk. At top of text: I parisiensis G.
- Table of contents:
- Memoriale historiarum
- Description:
- CCCC MS 60 contains a copy of the Memoriale historiarum, a chronicle with particular emphasis on France, attributed to John of Paris (d. 1306) (or sometimes John of Saint-Victor), who is also called Jean Boyvin in the description of a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century copy of the same text now in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris (MS 516). The Corpus manuscript is copied in a late fourteenth-century hand and is accompanied by a genealogy tracing the descent of Edward III from the French royal family, presumably part of the English propaganda campaign of the Hundred Years' War. Parker gave a version of the Memoriale to Cambridge University Library (now CUL MS Ii. 2. 18) and a copy was reportedly in the library of Sir Walter Cope (c. 1553-1614), gentleman usher to Parker's colleague in government, William Cecil, Lord Burghley.