Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 100: Transcripts (16th century). Simeon of Durham OSB. Geoffrey of Coldingham OSB. Tito Livio Frulovisi. Walter of Guisborough OSA. Asser

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 100: Transcripts (16th century). Simeon of Durham OSB. Geoffrey of Coldingham OSB. Tito Livio Frulovisi. Walter of Guisborough OSA. Asser
Alternate Title:
Transcripts etc.
Language:
Latin and English
Extent:
pp. 340 numbered
Dimensions:
335 Height (mm) and 220 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1500 - 1599]
Table of contents:
  • Libellus de exordio et procursu Dunelmensis ecclesiaeContinuatio PrimaDe statu ecclesiae Dunelmensis
  • Vita Henrici V regis Angliae
  • On translating the Bible into English
  • Chronicle (extract covering the reign of Edward II)
  • Genealogical tables from the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris
  • Annales Britanniae
  • Notes on Alfred the Great taken from various chronicles
  • De rebus gestis Ælfredi regis
  • Life of St Alban of Mainz
  • Speech of Sir Nicholas Carew at his execution on Tower Hill, March 3, 1538
Description:
CCCC MS 100 contains sixteenth-century transcripts, predominantly of medieval texts. Of particular interest is the transcript of Asser's De rebus gestis Ælfredi regis which was transcribed from London, BL MS Cotton Otho A. XII, a manuscript which was destroyed by a fire in Sir Robert Cotton's library in 1731. Asser (d. 909), was the bishop of Sherborne and several works ascribed to him survive. His account of King Alfred is of particular importance as one of the main historical sources for Alfred's reign. MS 100 also contains a copy of a Middle English tract, 'On translating the Bible into English', which was published in 1530 and frequently thereafter. More scholarly attention has been paid to the copy of this tract in CCCC MS 298, item 25.
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