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

Description

Alternative title
Eutropius. Dudo
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 2 + 134 + 2
Date created
[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Language
Latin, Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material
Vellum
Layout
varying numbers of lines to a page
Height (mm)
266
Width (mm)
180
Collation
a(2) 1(8)-6(8) 7(6) | I(8)-X(8) | b(2).
Writing
in various hands, all very good
Foliation
ff. a + i-ii + 1-136 + b
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.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
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.
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

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xi (and xii?)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:st065rm7751/MS_276.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gs029xx1593/276.pdf
Contains
  • Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana (an augmentation of Flavius Eutropius, Breuiarium ab urbe condita). 1r-52v
    Nasmith
    Historia Romana ab urbe condita ad Justinianum imperatorem libri xvi. 1r-52v
    Author
    Paul the Deacon
    Flavius Eutropius
    Note
    Decem priores libri sunt Eutropii cum additamentis Pauli diaconi, sex posteriores incerti autoris
    f. 1r blank
    f. 1v has title in four lines, purple initial, text in capitals, green and purple in alternate lines
    Rubric
    (1v) Incipit / liber / primus / Historiae / Romanorum
    Incipit
    (2r) Primus in italia ut quibusdam placet
    Note
    (2r) (purple and green capitals)
    (35v) Liber X ends
    Explicit
    (35v) ad maiorem scribendi diligentiam reseruamus
    Rubric
    (35v) Explicit liber decimus. hucusque historiam eutropius composuit cui tamen aliqua paulus diaconus addidit
    (35v) Incipit liber undecimus
    Incipit
    (36r) Anno ab urbe condita millesimo centesimo octauo decimoUalentinianus tricesimus octauus e pannonia
    Note
    (51r) Liber XVI ends
    Explicit
    (51r) Quia uero restant adhuc que iustiniani augusti felicitate dicantur in sequenti deo presule libello promenda sunt
    Rubric
    (51r) Explicit liber XVI
    (51r) Imperatores Rome vel Constantinopoli regnantes
    Incipit
    (51r) Augustus regnauit annos quinquaginta vi
    Explicit
    (52v) IustinusConstantinopoli ... morbo periit
    Note
    A later hand adds
    (52v) Iustinianus nepos Justini ex sorore
    Cf. MS 129. 1
  • Spurious charter of Pope Leo VIII. 53r-54v
    Nasmith
    Carta Leonis papae VIII. in qua confirmat Ottoni I. imperatori jus tam eligendi quam ordinandi pontificem Romanum et alios episcopos. 53r-54v
    Author
    Pope Leo VIII
    Incipit
    (53r) Conuenit apostolico moderamine pollentibus
    Note
    (Jaffe 3704)
    Explicit
    (53v) eternam cum omnibus sanctis habere mereatur in saeculorum saecula. Amen
    Note
    f. 54r-54v blank
  • Dudo of Saint-Quentin, De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum. 55r-134v
    Nasmith
    Dudonis historia Normannorum. 55r-134v
    Author
    Dudo of Saint-Quentin
    Note
    De libraria sancti Augustini Cantuariensi
    Rubric
    (55r) Epistola panagirica atque apologitica ratione transcursa
    Incipit
    (55r) Inclito et pie venerando ... Adalberoni ... Dude ... Gloriosissimi nominis tui diuulgamen
    Explicit
    (57r) senatorem celestis aule
    Rubric
    (57r) Allocutio ad librum. monocolo monostropho ducursa
    Note
    (57r) (In Greek letters, transliterated above)
    Incipit
    (57r) Themate pertenui quoniam digestus haberis
    Rubric
    (58r) Versus ad comitem rodulfum
    (58v) Item ad Rodbertum archiepiscopum
    (59v) Oratio
    Note
    Text
    Incipit
    (59v) Totius nanque molis orbe descripto
    Note
    The Greek words are written with some knowledge
    Ends unfinished
    Explicit
    (134v) uulgus concrepabat pro uocibus ululantium
    Note
    (Duchesne, p. 157D)
    (135r) The flyleaves are blank
    See Hardy I 616
    Ed. Duchesne, 1619. Historiae Normannorum Scriptores Antiqui
TJames
5
Stanley
A. 5
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/rk793ps8480
MS 276
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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