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Alternative title

Freculphus

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 4 + 120

Date created

[ca. 1000 - 1099]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

41-42 lines to a page

Height (mm)

266

Width (mm)

169

Collation

a(4) 1(8)-15(8).

Writing

in a lovely upright round hand, characteristic of St Augustine's, Canterbury

Foliation

ff. a + i-iv + 1-116 + 116a + 117-120 + b-c

Provenance

On f. 1r: Liber S. Augustini Cant. Fretulfus Di. x. Gra II cum A. This is written twice, in hands of cent. xiii and xiv. See Ancient Libraries, p. 292, no. 884

Additions

ff. ir-iiv blank except for a fine pencil sketch of a dragon on iiv. f. iiir blank

2 fo.

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Summary

CCCC MS 267 is a late eleventh- or early twelfth-century copy of the Chronica of Frechulf of Lisieux (fl. 823-53); it contains only the first part, from Adam to the Incarnation. It is one of the manuscripts produced at St Augustine's Abbey Canterbury after the Conquest in an almost exaggeratedly English style of script. The same scribe is found in other St Augustine's books, and this manuscript is identifiable in the medieval catalogue of the abbey's library. A short text by Peter Damian (1007-72) was added not long after the manuscript was written. A near-contemporary copy of a neumed hymn to St Mellitus, the third archbishop of Canterbury, is now at the front of the book, but because it is codicologically separable it may not always have been part of this manuscript. In the fifteenth century a short prophetic poem by John Thwing of Bridlington OSA (d. 1379) was added at the back of the volume. The chronicle section contains fine illuminated initials.

Contents

-- Chronica -- De nouissimis et Antichristo (pseudo-Jerome, De XV signis) -- Versus prophetiales

M.R. James Date

xi

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:df460hr2338/MS_267.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kx668bp8258/267.pdf

Contains

• Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica. 1v-119v

  Author

  Frechulf of Lisieux

  Note

  (1r) Some notes (xiii-xiv) of chapters in the various books of the History
  (1v) The main hand begins
  Prologue
  (1v) Initial in purple to prologue

  Incipit

  (1v) Domino preceptori desiderantissimo Elisacharo Frethulfus

  Note

  (collated by Hampe: Neues Archiv, XXII 669)

  Explicit

  (2r) hec decerpsimus

  Incipit

  (2r) (T)e duce Christe uia facilis est ire per omnes

  Note

  (P. L. CVI 919)

  Explicit

  (2r) Non ignota canens ueterum sed dicta priorum

  Note

  (2r) Capitula
  Text

  Incipit

  (3v) Cum aliquam temporum seriem

  Note

  (3v) In green and purple capitals: initial in red, purple and green
  Marginalia, some of cent. xv. One on f. 4r quotes Rabi moyses
  (18r) Liber II. Capitula
  (19v) Text. Purple initial
  (36r) Liber III. Capitula
  (37r) Text. Purple initial
  (50v) Liber IV. Capitula
  (51v) Text. Purple and blue initial
  (69v) Liber V. Capitula
  (70r) Text. Purple and green initial
  (84v) Liber VI. Capitula
  (85v) Text. Purple initial
  (100r) Liber VII. Capitula (incomplete)
  (100r) Text. Green initial
  Ends

  Explicit

  (119v) ad lucem uenimus ueram qua respersi in domini Christi aduentu librorum finem fecimus ut omnes sciant in me SUNT

• Peter Damian OSB, De nouissimis et Antichristo (pseudo-Jerome, De XV signis). 119v-120r

  Author

  Peter Damian OSB

  Note

  (119v) In a hand like that of Christchurch

  Rubric

  (119v) Ieronimus in annalibus hebreorum de xv signis ante diem iudicii

  Incipit

  (119v) Signum primi diei. Maria omnia in altitudinem

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (120r) xv. Finis id est ipsa dies iudicii

  Note

  Often printed, e.g. P. L. XCIV 555Actually P. L. CXXXXV 840

• John Thwing of Bridlington OSA, Versus prophetiales. 120r-120v

  James

  Prophecy of John Bridlington. 120r-120v

  Author

  John Thwing of Bridlington OSA

  Note

  (120r) In a scrawly hand of cent. xv

  Incipit

  (120r) ffebribus infectus requies fuerat mihi lectus

  Explicit

  (120v) Sanguine scotorum spoliatorum sociorum

  Note

  (cap. iv, fin.)
  (Wright, Political Poems, Rolls Series I pp. 128-141)

TJames

49

Stanley

E. 7

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 267

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