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Alternative title

Th. Walsingham

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 2 + 247 + 1

Date created

[ca. 1400 - 1599]

Language

Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)

Material

Paper (and vellum)

Layout

about 44 lines to a page

Height (mm)

281

Width (mm)

219

Collation

1 flyleaf, 13 preliminary leaves +(14) A(14) (wants 14), 30 leaves of cent. xvi, 1 leaf xv, 9 leaves xvi, 8 leaves xv, E(10) F(10) | 3 ff. xvi, 4 ff. xv, 5 ff. xvi | H 1-4 (xv), 9 ff. xvi, I(10) K(12), 20 ff. xvi, M(12) N(14) O(10) P(14) (one canc.) R(14) (one canc.), 10 ff. blank, 1 flyleaf.

Writing

in a fine hand of cent. xiii early

Foliation

ff. i-ii + pp. 1-4 + 4a + 5a + 5-344 + 344a-345a + 345-492 + f. iii

Research

I do not find any notice of this MS. in Riley's edition. I suspect the sixteenth century portions were supplied by Parker from the College of Arms MS. Arundel VII, which he certainly used for his edition printed in 1574. Sir F. Madden in the Preface to Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum I lxvi, says definitely that this MS. was used by Parker for his edition and that the fact escaped Mr Riley's notice. He also records that this MS. is in the same hand as the Colbert copy (formerly Sir W. Cecil's) of Matthew Paris, now Bibl. Nationale Lat. 6048B. Parker had noted this fact in the Paris MS.

Additions

Two flyleaves of vellum (f. iiv, p. 491) pasted over with paper are in a fine hand of cent. xiii early and have portions of a French gloss on parts of Ps. xvi, xvii (Latin) with Latin text in red. Ps. xvii (xviii) begins thus: Diligam te, etc. ... liberator meus ciuers uiaut dire O tu sire ie tamerai tu es force tu es mon firmament tu es mon defendement et tu es mon deliureres. Li titles de cist saumes en latin est a dauid por les paroles que il chaunta en ce saume a nostre signor.

Summary

CCCC MS 195 contains a copy of Thomas Walsingham OSB (d. c. 1422), Chronica maiora. The majority of the text was copied in the second quarter of the fifteenth century, but lacunae have been filled in a sixteenth-century hand with a version of the text perhaps taken from London, College of Arms MS Arundel VII. This manuscript, which was once in the hands of the historian John Bale (1495-1563) before passing to Parker, was used by Parker as the basis for his edition of the Historia breuis published in 1574.

Contents

Chronica maiora (1272-1392)

M.R. James Date

xv and xvi

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:px556vd3648/MS_195.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:xy986hw3865/195.pdf

Contains

• Thomas Walsingham OSB, Chronica maiora (1272-1392). 25-469

  Author

  Thomas Walsingham OSB

  Note

  At top of p. 25, almost cut off, is: Chronicon s. Albani prothomartiris

  Rubric

  (25) De tempore Regis Edwardi post conquestum primi Cap. 1m. Anno gratie millesimo ducentesimo (lxxo added) tercio

  Note

  (Ed. Riley, Rolls Series I p. 17)
  Text ends

  Explicit

  (469) disposicioni sunt commissa

  Rubric

  (469) ffinis henrici quinti

  Note

  (Ed. Riley, Rolls Series II, p. 346)
  pp. 470-490 blank but text area is demarcated

TJames

27

Stanley

C. 4

Location

https://purl.stanford.edu/tt572sb8174

MS 195

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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