Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 438: Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Gesta regum etc
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 438 contains two quite distinct types of text. In the first category is a thirteenth-century copy of the medical treatise De uiribus herbarum attributed variously to Odo of Meung (fl. last third of eleventh century), once considered to be by the Roman poet Aemilius Macer. The rest of the manuscript is taken up with material relating to the history of England and of Canterbury in particular. Thus one finds in this codex thirteenth-century copies of the Gesta regum and Actus pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae of Gervase of Canterbury OSB (d. 1210), a fifteenth-century transcript of clerical taxation records and a copy of the bull of 1170 authorising the canonization of Anselm of Canterbury. The contents and other notes strongly support a provenance at the Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity, Christ Church, Canterbury.
- Contents
- List of kings of England from the conquest to Henry IV -- Mappa mundi -- De uiribus herbarum -- Gesta regum -- Actus pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae -- Successio pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae -- The clerical tenth of 1402 extracted from royal accounts by Thomas Chillenden -- Bull granting Thomas Bourgchier archbishop of Canterbury license to canonize Anselm of Canterbury
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiii-xv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qr129jr5890/MS_438.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ys575py2909/438.pdf
- Contains
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- List of kings of England from the conquest to Henry IV. 5v-8v
- Nasmith
- Catalogus regum Angliae a conquestu ad Henricum IV. 5v-8v
- Note
-
3-7 blank
Single lines. Cent. xiv-xv. Stubbs, l. c. - Rubric
- (5v) Catalogus Regum Anglie a conquestu
- Incipit
- (5v) Willelmus conquestor dux normann. applicuit in anglia cum exercitu suo
- Note
- (7v) The last entry (of Henry IV) is in another hand
- Explicit
- (7v) prope feretrum S. thome martiris gloriosi
- Note
- 13, 14 blank
- Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Mappa mundi. 9r-18v
- Nasmith
- Gervasii Dorobernensis mappa mundi. 9r-18v
- Author
- Gervase of Canterbury OSB
- Note
- Double columns. Cent. xiii. Second half
- Rubric
- (9r) Proemium in mappam mundi
- Incipit
- (9r) Anglicane insule situs et temperies
- Note
-
Stubbs II, p. 414
(18v) Ending with valuation of Scottish bishoprics in another hand
- Macer (attrib.), De uiribus herbarum. 19r-56v
- Nasmith
- Liber Macri de viribus herbarum. 19r-56v
- Author
- Macer (attrib.)
- Note
- Single lines
- Rubric
- (19r) Incipit liber macri de uiribus herbarum de arthemesea
- Note
- (19r) (In gallico hermoyse. in Angl. Mugwed: margin)
- Incipit
- (19r) Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine uires
- Note
-
A few names in French and English in the margins
Ends - Explicit
- (54v) sic apta solucio fiet
- Note
-
(54v) Note from Papias on coriandrum
107-110 blank
- Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Gesta regum. 57r-209v
- Nasmith
- Chronica Gervasii a Bruto ad regem Ioannem, cum continuatione ad annum 1316. 57r-209v
- Author
- Gervase of Canterbury OSB
- Note
- Double columns
- Rubric
- (57r) Incipiunt excepciones breuissime de numero et gestis regum britannie
- Incipit
- (57r) Cum multa mecum animo reuoluerem
- Note
-
The 'Gesta Regum.' Stubbs, p. 4
Hand changes at 295: at 375 single lines and change of hand: 393-394 an inserted leaf with account of resignation of Celestine V: in a good hand (Stubbs II 308)
Various hands appear on 400-408. (Stubbs II 318-324)
408-416 are mostly in the hand of 8 sqq.
(205v) Chronograms. Stubbs, p. 324 note - Rubric
- (206r) Bellum de peyters
- Note
-
Stubbs, p. l
Miscellaneous notes. Stubbs, pp. lii-liii
(208v) Account of Council of Cloveshoo - Incipit
- (208v) Anno domini dccmo xlij Cutbertus archiepiscopus dorobernie
- Explicit
- (209v) hiis legibus constitutis subscripsi
- Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Actus pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae. 210r-251r
- Nasmith
- Gervasii actus pontificum Cantuarie a S. Augustino ad Hubertum. 210r-251r
- Author
- Gervase of Canterbury OSB
- Note
- Double columns. Cent. xiii: hand of pp. 111 sqq.
- Rubric
- (210r) Incipit prologus in actus pontificum Cantuarie ecclesie
- Incipit
- (210r) Quia nomina regum britannie
- Note
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Stubbs II 325-411
509 is in the hand of 8 etc.: text ends - Explicit
- (251r) hanc Rex Iohannes ecclesie subtraxit
- Note
- The same hand of cent. xv continues
- Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Successio pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae. 251v-257r
- Nasmith
- Successio eorundem ab Augustino ad Ioannem Stafford. 251v-257r
- Author
- Gervase of Canterbury OSB
- Rubric
- (251v) Quantum archiepiscopi Cantuarie in archiepiscopatu vixerunt
- Note
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(251v) beginning with Augustine. (Stubbs, p. liii)
(255v) no. 59, Henry Chicchele is in another hand: ends with the name only of no. 60 John Stafford
519 has the set-off of some writing, but is blank. 520, 521 blank
- The clerical tenth of 1402 extracted from royal accounts by Thomas Chillenden. 257v-260r
- Nasmith
- Decima omnium bonorum temporalium et spiritualium ecclesiae Christi Cantuarie extracta de rotulis domini regis A. D. 1402, per Thomam Chillendene priorem. 257v-260r
- Rubric
- (257v) Decima omnium bonorum temporalium et spiritualium ecclesie Christi Cantuarie extracta de rotulis domini Regis a. d. mo cccco ijo per Thomam Chillyndene priorem
- Note
- 525-527 blank
- Alexander VI, Bull granting Thomas Bourgchier archbishop of Canterbury license to canonize Anselm of Canterbury. 260v-262v
- Nasmith
- Copia bullae Alexandri papae concessa sancto Thomae Cantuariensi archiepiscopo de canonizatione sancti Anselmi ejusdem ecclesiae archiepiscopi. 260v-262v
- Author
- Alexander VI
- Rubric
- (260v) Copia bulle Alexandri pape concessa Sancto Thome Cantuariensi archiepiscopo de canonizacione Sancti Anselmi eiusdem ecclesie Archiepiscopi
- Note
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In another hand
529 blank
Extract (xv) - Incipit
- (261v) Videtur itaque mihi claustralis vita
- Note
-
Stubbs, p. liii
(262r) Notes. Stubbs, p. liii, liv
532 covered with paper
- List of kings of England from the conquest to Henry IV. 5v-8v
- TJames
- 255
- Stanley
- Q. 2
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/wq149yj5620
- MS 438
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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