Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 348: Matthew Paris OSB, Historia Anglorum (1135-79). Continuation of Matthew Paris OSB, Chronica maiora III (1259-72), Leges Anglicanae

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 348: Matthew Paris OSB, Historia Anglorum (1135-79). Continuation of Matthew Paris OSB, Chronica maiora III (1259-72), Leges Anglicanae
Alternate Title:
Matt. Paris. Leges Anglicanae
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 139
Dimensions:
322 Height (mm) and 205 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1500 - 1599]
Table of contents:
  • Historia Anglorum (excerpt, 1135-1179)
  • Chronica maiora III (1259-72)
  • Laws and institutes of Ine
  • Laws and institutes of Alfred the Great
  • Laws and institutes of Alfred the Great and Guthrum
  • Laws and institutes of Edward the Elder
  • Laws and institutes of Æthelstan
  • Laws and institutes of Edmund
  • Laws and institutes of Edgar
  • Laws and institutes of Æthelred the Unready
  • Laws and institutes of Cnut
Description:
CCCC MS 348 is another instance of Parker not simply collecting original manuscript versions of texts he regarded as important, but actually creating new copies of them. This codex contains two distinct texts, one, the Chronica minora of Matthew Paris OSB (c. 1195-1259), is copied from the version of the same text now in BL Royal 14.C.VII. The same manuscript was used as the basis for a much fuller transcription now in CCCC MS 56. The second text in this manuscript is a transcription of a number of Anglo-Saxon law codes from Alfred to Cnut copied from the version of the so-called Quadripartitus collection in CCCC MS 96. Both texts reveal Parker's interest in English history, and in particular in the Saxon origins of the English state and society.
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