Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 297: Statuta. Palladius, De agricultura. Thorney Documents, etc

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 297: Statuta. Palladius, De agricultura. Thorney Documents, etc
Alternate Title:
Statuta. Palladius. Thorney Documents, etc.
Language:
Latin and French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Extent:
ff. 1 + 22 + 182
Dimensions:
265 Height (mm) and 175 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1200 - 1325]
Provenance:
From Thorney, written by the precentor Johannes Brito. On the lower margin of f. 29r is: Istum librum scripsit frater iohannes brito. On lower margin of 105r is a notice of receipt: Omnibus chr. fidelibus, etc. fr. J. Brito precentor Thorn'. Has received from Roger de Drayton Rector of All SS. Huntingdon 5s de annua pensione precentorie Thorn'. debita de termino S. Michel. a. d. mo cc xcii.
Table of contents:
  • English Statutes
  • De agricultura
  • Register of ancient writs
  • The art of writing letters, or a formulary (1)
  • The art of writing letters, or a formulary (2)
  • The art of writing letters, or a formulary (3)
  • Experimenta
  • A book of names
  • Poems on the death of Radulphus Abbot of Thorney
  • Liber Almansoris (transl. by Gerard of Cremona)
  • Anglo-Saxon law terms with a French gloss
  • Form of accounts for an abbey or convent
  • Process of the pleas between the Abbot of Thorney, plaintiff, and the Abbot of St Peters, deforciant, 1304
  • Veterinary receipts for horses
Description:
CCCC MS 297 is an interesting manuscript because of its very ordinariness. It contains a number of disparate texts copied at Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire between the early thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, including copies of legal material such as the Statuta abbreviata and an account of a dispute involving the abbot of Thorney, together with tracts on diplomatic practice, husbandry, medicine (both human and veterinary) and accounting. The suggestion must be that this volume was one of very many created as a commonplace book either for a monastic administrator or as a more general source of information useful to a monastic community.
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