Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405: Charters, Letters, Bulls, Liturgical Texts, Anglo-Norman Texts etc

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405: Charters, Letters, Bulls, Liturgical Texts, Anglo-Norman Texts etc
Alternate Title:
Chartae, Liturgica, Poemata, etc.
Language:
Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), and English, Middle (1100-1500)
Extent:
ff. 1 + 253
Dimensions:
220 Height (mm) and 150 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1200 - 1325]
Provenance:
Evidently belonged to the brethren of St John of Jerusalem at Waterford.
Table of contents:
  • Bull of Pope Alexander IV to the Knights Hospitallers of Ireland, 21 May 1255
  • Bull of Pope Alexander IV to the Knights Hospitallers in Ireland, 5 February 1259
  • Bull of Pope Alexander IV concerning excommunication, suspension and interdict, 20 February 1256
  • Letter of Edward I regarding the Knights Hospitallers of Ireland (1281)
  • Bull of Pope John XXII concerning the transfer of the property of the Templars to the Knights Hospitallers, 17/3/1317
  • Prophecies of MerlinProphecies of the Six Kings attrib. Merlin
  • De Temporibus Liber chap. XVI-XXII (Observations on the Six Ages in Anglo-Norman)List of KingsCharmsThe Perilous Days
  • Interpretation of Dreams
  • De vita christiana
  • Incantation contre les maux et les périlsEpistle of Jesus to Abgar
  • Irish Kalendar
  • Breviary Offices (Irish)
  • Confirmation Charter of the Liberties of Waterford, 1311
  • Borough Customs of Waterford
  • Laws of Waterford
  • Customs of Waterford
  • Other customs of Waterford, 1326
  • Customs of Bristol, 1326
  • Charters for Drogheda
  • Charter for Haverford
  • Chronological notes from birth of Christ to 1308
  • Medical receipts
  • Bull of Pope Boniface XIII confirming Rule of the Knights Hospitallers by Raymond du Puy, 7 April 1301
  • The Rule of the Hospitallers (Order of the Hospital of St John Jerusalem)
  • Prayer to the Virgin: Aves, Joys, Litany of Saints
  • Disticha Catonis, translated into Anglo-Norman by Elias of Winchester)
  • Le Petit Sermon
  • Le Petit Sermon (continued)
  • The Fall, Harrowing of Hell, and Passion
  • Diuisiones mundi
  • Lucidaire (incomplete)
  • St Paul's Vision of Hell (incomplete)
  • Libre des moralités (incomplete)
  • Letters patent of King Edward regarding Ireland
  • Representation of towns to the justice and state council of Ireland
  • Charter for Waterford
  • Charter for Knights Hospitallers of Ireland
  • Indulgences of Pope John XXII
Description:
CCCC MS 405 was formed from several manuscripts dating from the early thirteenth century and the early fourteenth century. It once belonged to the Knights Hospitallers' (the Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem) temple at Kilbarry, near Waterford in Ireland and contains an Irish monastic calendar, liturgical offices, a collection of texts and verses, predominantly in Anglo-Norman, and numerous transcribed documents, mainly in Latin, relating to the Knights Hospitallers and the borough of Waterford. The volume has been used as evidence of the wide usage of Anglo-Norman in Ireland and to demonstrate the variety of tracts available to Ireland's monastic communities as well as being an important source regarding the city of Waterford due to the civic documents which are included in the manuscript.
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