Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 059: Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum. Letters, Charters and other Historical Writings (55)
- Title:
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 059: Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum. Letters, Charters and other Historical Writings (55)
- Alternate Title:
- Chronica Martini Poloni etc. Statuta, Chartae, Miscellanea
- Language:
- Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), and English
- Extent:
- ff. 253 + 3
- Dimensions:
- 325 Height (mm) and 225 Width (mm)
- Approximate Date:
- [ca. 1300 - 1325]
- Provenance:
- At top (xvi): hic liber scriptus ut apparet in cenobio martyn. The writer meant Merton Priory but was misunderstood by Nasmith:in coenobio D. Martini. The book may be from West Langdon; cf. Articles 15 and 45.
- Table of contents:
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- Imago mundi (books 1-2)
- Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum
- Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de situ Indie
- Chronica pontificum
- Ecclesiastical lists (cardinals, archbishops etc.)
- Catalogue of Roman pontiffs from St Peter to Nicholas III
- On schismatics in the Roman Church
- Catalogue of Archbishops of Canterbury from St Augustine to Simon Meopham
- Catalogue of Roman pontiffs and emperors to Innocent III
- List of Synods
- Chronica imperatorum
- De initio et fine saeculi
- De situ, commendatio et mirabilibus Britanniae
- Annales de gestis Britonum, Saxonum, Danorum et Normannorum (to 1216)
- Merton Annals (from the arrival of the Normans to the year 1242)
- Services owed by the Barons of the cinque ports to the crown
- Wardens of Dover Castle
- Magna carta (confirmation of 1225)
- Carta de forestis (confirmation of 1225)
- Decree of the church for the peace of the realm and the liberty of the church, 1253
- Letter of Innocent IV to the English bishops in answer to their letters concerning the Magna carta and Carta de forestis
- Two bulls of Alexander IV confirming the Magna carta and Carta de forestis
- Bull of Innocent IV to the clergy of the province of Canterbury concerning the taking of procurations by the archbishop
- Bull of Innocent IV that no archbishop or suffragan shall prevent appeals to Rome
- Charter of liberties granted to the county of Surrey by Edward I
- The Law of Oléron (The judgements of the sea)
- Evidence of the liberty and immunity of the church of St Martin, Dover
- The Statute of Marlborough
- The Statute of Westminster I
- The Statute of Gloucester
- The Statute 'de religionis'
- The Statute of Merton
- The Statute of Westminster II
- King Æthelred to Ealdred, bishop of Cornwall, grant of privileges, 994
- King Cnut to St Mary's Exeter, confirmation of privileges, 1019
- King Edward joins the two dioceses of Devon and Cornwall and transfers the see to Exeter, 1050
- Petitions at the Carlisle parliament, Hilary 1307
- The Statute of Carlisle
- Bull of Pope John against the errors of master John de Senliac
- Genealogical tables demonstrating the right of the English king in France
- Writ or Assize of iuris utrum
- Verses 'on the times'
- Letter of the barons to Clement VI (1244)
- The manner of Richard II's abdication and Henry IV's election
- Proceedings of the visitation of Bayham abbey by William, abbot of Langdon
- Proceedings of the papal nuncio against King John
- Charter of King John ceding England to the pope as a vassal
- Bull of Innocent III confirming King John's charter concerning ecclesiastical elections
- Statute of Edward III
- Bull on the residence of priests (incomplete)
- Tract on priestly office
- Summons to a provincial chapter, incorporating the copy of a bull of Benedict XII, 1337
- Decree of the Holy Roman Emperor that his election does not require papal confirmation, 1338?
- Constitutions of Clarendon, 1164
- Letter of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Cistercians concerning tithes
- King Edgar's instructions to bishops and abbots
- Description:
- CCCC MS 59, dating from the early fourteenth century, is a collection of texts probably designed to appeal to a monastic audience's hunger for knowledge of the world beyond its walls. Among the manuscript's profusion of texts and documents are the spurious Letters of Prester John and of Alexander the Great to Aristotle, statutes, charters and papal bulls. There is a much interest in chronological material, with short chronicles being accompanied by lists of popes, emperors, kings and archbishops of Canterbury. The precise provenance of this manuscript is unknown, though a continuation of one of the most substantial texts in the codex, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum by Martin of Troppau OP (d. 1278), records the martyrdom of Thomas de la Hale of Dover, suggesting a link to the south coast of England, possibly the Premonstratensian abbey of the Virgin and St Thomas the Martyr at West Langdon, Kent.