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

Description

Alternative title
Transcripts etc.
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
pp. 340 numbered
Date created
[ca. 1500-1599]
Language
Latin, English
Material
Paper
Layout
Two main sections, of which pp. 1-248 form one volume
Height (mm)
335
Width (mm)
220
Writing
written for the most part in one hand
Foliation
ff. i-iii + pp. 1-324 + 324a-d + 325-338 + 338a-339a + 339-380 + ff. iv-v

Abstract/Contents

Summary
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.
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 --

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xvi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qw494zq1179/MS_100.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jz876vk5433/100.pdf
Contains
  • Simeon of Durham OSB, Libellus de exordio et procursu Dunelmensis ecclesiae. Anonymous, Continuatio Prima. Geoffrey of Coldingham OSB, De statu ecclesiae Dunelmensis. 1-126
    Nasmith
    Chronicon monasterii Dunelmensis [sive historia Simeonis Dunelmensis cum continuationibus anonimi et Gaufridi de Coldingham]. 1-126
    Author
    Simeon of Durham OSB
    Anonymous
    Geoffrey of Coldingham OSB
    Note
    desunt x. capitula ad finem
    Copied from MS 139
    pp. 123-126 blank
  • Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici V regis Angliae. 127-226
    Nasmith
    Invictissimi Anglorum Franciaeque regis Henrici quinti ad ejus filium christianissimum regem Henricum sextum vita per Titum Livium de Frulovissiis Ferrariensem. 127-226
    Author
    Tito Livio Frulovisi
    Note
    Copied from MS 285. 1
  • On translating the Bible into English. 227-236
    Nasmith
    A determination of a doctor of divinity against them that say, it is not lawful to have holy writte and other bookes in English. 227-236
    Note
    From a Worcester MS. Note on p. 229: Hec extracta sunt ex quodam lacero fragmento bibliothece Wigorniensis
    Incipit
    (227) Against theim that say that holy writt shoulde not be drawen into Englishe
    Note
    Ends
    Explicit
    (233) ryght speakinge and ryght pronouncinge and ryght wrytinge
    Note
    pp. 234-236 blank
    Cf. Trinity College B. 1. 26, Ussher, Historia Dogmatica sub anno 1410, and MS 298. 52 (actually item 25)
  • Walter of Guisborough OSA, Chronicle (extract covering the reign of Edward II). 237-250
    Nasmith
    G. [Gualterus Hemingford, canonicus] de Gysburne de rege Edwardo II. 237-250
    Author
    Walter of Guisborough OSA
    Note
    Continet historiam Angliae a morte Edwardi I. ad annum salutis 1312; et omnino concordat cum libro quarto ejusdem autoris de gestis regum Angliae
    From MS 250
    Incipit
    (237) Mortuo strenuissimo Rege Edwardo
    Explicit
    (247) terra siluit et quievit
    Note
    See Hardy, Materials III 257, 306
  • Genealogical tables from the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris. 251-260
    Nasmith
    Tabellae ante historiam Matthei Parisiensis. 251-260
    Author
    Matthew Paris
    Note
    Copy of genealogical tables from MS 26, continued to Henry V
    Incipit
    (251) Considerans prolixitatem cronicorum anglie
  • Asser (attrib.), Annales Britanniae. 261-323
    Nasmith
    Annales Britanniae authore I. Asser cum paralipomenis alterius scriptoris. 261-323
    Author
    Asser (attrib.)
    Note
    Hic liber transcriptus e quodam vetustissimo codice notato in margine manu Iohannis Leilandi
    From the manuscript now at Trinity College R. 7. 28
    Hardy I 557
    pp. 320-323 blank
  • Matthew Parker, Notes on Alfred the Great taken from various chronicles. 324-324b
    Nasmith
    Notae chronologicae de Ælfredo manu Matthei Parker. 324-324b
    Author
    Matthew Parker
    Note
    Short extracts from Chronica regia (et est liber scriptus in cenobio Sancti Edmundi, see on MS 251), Ranulphus, Johannes Parisiensis (see MS 60), Petrus de Yckham
    A slip follows with notes from Asser
  • Asser, De rebus gestis Ælfredi regis. 324c-364
    Nasmith
    Ælfredi res gestae, autore Asser. 324c-364
    Author
    Asser
    Note
    Hunc librum apographum esse MS. Cottoniani, nos docet Cl. Wise in prefatione ad editionem suam
    From the lost Cotton MS. Otho A XII
    See W. H. Stevenson's edition, 1904, p. li. Its symbol there is Co. It is said by Mr Stevenson to be the most valuable of the transcripts, having been made from the Cotton MS. before Parker interpolated the text
    pp. 363-364 blank (ruled)
  • Life of St Alban of Mainz. 365-372
    Nasmith
    De Sancto Albano. 365-372
    James
    The Life of St Alban of Mainz. 365-372
    Note
    Fabulosa haec historia in quinque paginis enarrat vitam nescio cujus Albani, qui ex incesto thalamo procreatus, et in Hungariam deportatus ibique expositus, regi defertur, et ab eodem in filium adoptatur. Deinde inscienter propriam matrem in uxorem ducit; re autem comperta, deliciis mundi renuens, reliquam vitam anachoretice agit
    On 3 leaves of smaller size. Cent. xv, 44 lines to a page
    Incipit
    (365) Erat olim in partibus aquilonis homo quidam potens et nobilis
    Explicit
    (369) cum eo a nostris facinoribus ablui et super niuem dealbari. Amen Amen Amen
    Rubric
    (369) Explicit vita Sancti Albani martiris
    Note
    Cf. Hardy I 32, BHL. 201
    pp. 370-372 blank
  • Speech of Sir Nicholas Carew at his execution on Tower Hill, March 3, 1538. 373-374
    Nasmith
    Speech of sir Nicholas Carew at his execution on Tower-hill, March 3, 1538; communicated to archbishop Parker by sir Robert Chester. 373-374
    Note
    One leaf
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Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 100

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