Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 138: Chronicles, Various

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 138: Chronicles, Various
Alternate Title:
Chronica varia
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 106 + 3
Dimensions:
300 Height (mm) and 215 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1399]
Provenance:
The book seems to be from Norwich: see later. It seems to be mentioned in Bale, Index, p. 94, s.v. Gildas. Many references to Recorde's Museum occur in the Index.
Table of contents:
  • Epitome of the history of Britain from the birth of Christ to the year 1255
  • Chronica (excerpts 1066-1201)
  • Letters between masters of the University of Paris and Popes John XXII and Benedict XII concerning the status of the soul after death, A. D. 1333
  • Charter of Richard I concerning the renunciation of the homage of the King of Scotland
  • Chronological and historical notes on the period 1329 to 1347
  • Genealogical diagram indicating Edward III's claim to the French throne
  • Gesta Normannorum ducum (excerpts)
  • Liber Vasilographus (excerpts); Prophecies
  • Prophecies
  • Vita Sanctae Elizabethae de Spalbec
  • History of the bishops of Lindisfarne and Durham from Aidan to Richard de Bury
  • Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis
  • Bull of Pope Clement V, 'Regnans in caelis', 12 August 1308
  • History of England from the coming of the Saxons to the reign of Henry II
  • Letters between Pope Innocent VI and Edward, prince of Wales concerning peace, A.D. 1355
Description:
CCCC MS 138 is a portmanteau manuscript, dating to the last quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains a wide variety of broadly historical material including extracts from Bede, the chronicles of Matthew Paris OSB (c. 1200-59) and William of Jumièges OSB (d. 1087?), papal letters, a genealogy of the kings of France and a list of the archbishops of York. Perhaps originally from Norwich Cathedral Priory, MS 138 may have been one of several manuscripts now in the Parker collection that was once in the possession of William Carye of Cheapside (d. 1573) and it certainly passed through the hands of Robert Recorde (d. 1588), the mathematician and fellow of All Souls, Oxford, who copied extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle into the margins of the early part of this manuscript.
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