Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 276: Histories of the Romans and Normans

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 276: Histories of the Romans and Normans
Alternate Title:
Eutropius. Dudo
Language:
Latin and Greek, Modern (1453- )
Extent:
ff. 2 + 134 + 2
Dimensions:
266 Height (mm) and 180 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Provenance:
From St Augustine's, Canterbury. On f. ir an erasure, also: S (?) lib. ffre. Walter' Vls ... . On f. iiv: Historia Romanorum et normannorum (xiii): added later: Cum B. De librar. S. Aug. Cant. Dist. xa. Gra. II. See Ancient Libraries, pp. 293, 528.
Table of contents:
  • Historia Romana (an augmentation of Flavius Eutropius, Breuiarium ab urbe condita)
  • Spurious charter of Pope Leo VIII
  • De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum
Description:
CCCC MS 276 is a witness to the cultural influences at work at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, in the first generations after the Norman Conquest. It contains two separate volumes which have been together since the twelfth century: the first was written in the late eleventh century and contains the Historia Romana, a version of Eutropius' Breuiarium ab urbe condita by Paul the Deacon (c. 720/30-99); the second was written circa 1100 and contains the De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum (Historia Normannorum) of Dudo of Saint-Quentin (c. 960-1026). Both were made at St Augustine's. The first volume contains the work of two co-operating scribes, one writing an angular Norman hand, the other the round exaggerated Anglo-Caroline typical of St Augustine's at this date. Mont-St-Michel influence has been detected in the initials. The manuscript was owned by a certain William Carye before Parker acquired it.
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