Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 318: Lives of Saints and Romances

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 318: Lives of Saints and Romances
Alternate Title:
Ailredi Vita S. Edwardi. Eadmeri Vita Anselmi. Apollonius Tyrius, etc.
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 4 + 184 + 73 + 4
Dimensions:
237 Height (mm) and 165 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1100 - 1199]
Provenance:
On f. ivv: Hic liber datus Mattheo Cantuar a decano roffensi. and At bottom of p. 1 on a slip replacing a cut-off margin: Liber de Claustro Roffensi. Per fratrem Willelmum de Cornubia monachum.
Table of contents:
  • Vita Sancti Edwardi regis et confessoris
  • Vita Sancti Anselmi
  • Vita Herluini abbatis
  • Vita venerabilis Bedae
  • Liber Sancti Iacobi
  • Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi
  • De inventione corporis Turpini
  • Vita Sanctae Theclae
  • Historia Apollonii regis Tyri
Description:
The two parts of CCCC MS 318 may once have been separate manuscripts, but they were certainly together at Rochester in the twelfth century, when a contents list and an anathema were added to the volume. The first part is a twelfth-century collection of hagiography containing vitae of Edward the Confessor, Anselm of Canterbury, Herluin of Bec, and the Venerable Bede. The second part is also a twelfth-century collection of hagiography, but with some romance material as well: it contains texts on James the apostle, Charlemagne and Roland, Bishop Turpin, Thecla, and Apollonius of Tyre. An inscription says that the manuscript was given to Parker by a deacon of Rochester.
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