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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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- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
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- 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
- Simeon of Durham OSB, Libellus de exordio et procursu Dunelmensis ecclesiae. Anonymous, Continuatio Prima. Geoffrey of Coldingham OSB, De statu ecclesiae Dunelmensis. 1-126
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- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/sx352np4045
- MS 100
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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