Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 051: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici canones, transl. by Jerome. Sigebert of Gembloux OSB, Chronica
Alternate Title:
Chronica Eusebii, Sigeberti, etc.
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 3 + 133 + 3
Dimensions:
344 Height (mm) and 247 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1175 - 1199]
Provenance:
From Christ Church, Canterbury. On the flyleaf (reversed) is: Cronica EusebiiSalomonis. D. vj. Gra. xiij. Demonstratio ia. See Ancient Libraries, p. 49, no. 282. Salomon is the donor's name: he was Sub-prior in 1207, and gave several other books.
Chronici canones, transl. by Jerome (continuation to 378)
Chronici canones, transl. by Jerome (continuation to 455)
Chronica (continued by Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum (excerpt 1099-1113))
Description:
CCCC MS 51 contains a series of chronicles including Jerome's Latin translation of Eusebius of Caesarea's Chronici canones, the Chronica Gallica ad annum CCCCLII with excerpts of Prosper's Epitoma Chronicon, and the Chronica of Sigebert of Gembloux (c. 1030-1112). In the early fourteenth-century catalogue of the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury manuscripts drawn up under Henry of Eastry this book is called Cronica Eusebii Salomonis, a reference to Salomon, a monk and sub-Prior of Christ Church in 1207. Salomon has also been identified as the possible compiler of a late twelfth-century collection of mnemonic verses and notes on the compotus now found in London, BL MS Egerton 3314.