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Alternative title

Ioh. Stone

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 103

Date created

[ca. 1467]

Language

Latin

Material

Paper

Layout

about 21 lines to a page

Height (mm)

214

Width (mm)

145

Collation

1(6) 2(8)-10(8) 11(12) 12(14) (wants 14).

Writing

in a good clear hand

Foliation

ff. i-ii + 1-103 + iii-iv

Provenance

From Christ Church, Canterbury. It does not appear in any old catalogue.

Research

The whole text (with slight omissions) has been edited by the Rev. W. G. Searle for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Christ Church, Canterbury, 1902, C. A. S. 8vo publications no. 34.

2 fo.

Expense

Stephanus

Summary

CCCC MS 417 contains the unique copy of the Chronicle of Canterbury cathedral priory by John Stone OSB (d. c. 1480), covering the years 1415 to 1467 with an anonymous continuation to 1472. The main text was probably written c. 1467-72. Appended to this is an account of the enthronement of Archbishop William Wareham (c. 1456-1532) in 1503. Parker no doubt wanted to add this manuscript to his collection because of its associations with the see of Canterbury and of a previous incumbent as archbishop, both themes that are found throughout his collection. The manuscript certainly came from Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury.

Contents

Chronicle (Donations to the Church of Christ Church, Canterbury) -- Chronicle (Books of obits and other memorials) -- Enthronement of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1505

M.R. James Date

xv (1467)

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:bm742fw9831/MS_417.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zm881wm0415/417.pdf

Contains

• John Stone OSB, Chronicle (Donations to the Church of Christ Church, Canterbury). 1r-7v

  Nasmith

  Dona et expensae quae vel quas ad diversa opera et ornamenta ad domus Dei decorem noscitur dedisse. 1r-7v

  Author

  John Stone OSB

  Rubric

  (1r) Liber fratris Johannis Stone monachi ecclesie Christi Cant. quem ex suo magno labore composuit a. d. millmo ccccmo lxvijo. monachatus sui anno quinquagesimo

  Note

  (Searle, p. 3)
  ff. 1v-3v blank

  Incipit

  (4r) In memoriam rei futuram. Anno gratie mill. quadring. decimo octauo videlicet in die S. lucie virginis feria iia contingit quod frater Johannes Stone monachus sancte Cantuar. Ecclesie receptus et acceptatus fuit ad habitum monachalem tempore domini Johannis Wodennisbeg' tunc prioris qui subsequenter vixit in religione per .l. (small blank space) cum sancti spiritus gracia assistente ut speratur qui eciam ne traderentur perpetue obliuioni dona et expensas que uel quas ad diuersa opera et ornamenta ad domus dei decorem noscitur dedisse hic curauit seriosius inserere et in specie annotare

  Note

  (Searle, p. 5)
  (4r) In primis ad feretra SS. dunstani et Elphegi vjs. viijd
  (5v) Ending
  ff. 6r-7v blank

• John Stone OSB, Chronicle (Books of obits and other memorials). 8r-96v

  Nasmith

  Liber de obitibus et aliis memorabilibus istius cenobii autore Iohanne Stone [ab anno 1415 ad annum 1472]. 8r-96v

  Author

  John Stone OSB

  Note

  Then, in a hand somewhat different in aspect but probably the same, the Chronicle

  Rubric

  (8r) Willelmus Stone

  Note

  (Searle, p. 7)

  Incipit

  (8r) Anno domini mo ccccmo xvo Willelmus Stone Granetarius obiit

  Note

  (79v) There is an obvious modification in the hand (1467)
  (93r) The last entry (in a different hand), 1472. Consecration of Bp Goldwell (Searle, p. 118)
  ff. 93v-96v blank

• Enthronement of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1505. 97r-100r

  Nasmith

  Inthronizatio D. Willelmi Warham Cantuar. archiepiscopi anno regis Henrici VII. vicesimo, manu neoterica. 97r-100r

  Note

  In a quite different hand

  Rubric

  (97r) Intronizacio domini Willelmi Warham Cantuariensis archiepiscopi anno r. r. henrici 7i xxo

  Incipit

  (97r) Quoniam temporis longitudine

  Explicit

  (100r) possit merces concedi. Finis

  Note

  (100r) Two paragraphs in the same hand on a penitent and a theft of jewels
  The contents of ff. 97r-100r are not printed by Searle
  ff. 100v-103v blank

TJames

264

Stanley

Q. 8

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 417

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