Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 370: Historia Alexandri Magni (Gesta Alexandri magni). Epistolae Alexandri. Gesta Edwardi III

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 370: Historia Alexandri Magni (Gesta Alexandri magni). Epistolae Alexandri. Gesta Edwardi III
Alternate Title:
Gesta Alexandri. Iter in terram sanctam. Gesta Edwardi
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 104
Dimensions:
230 Height (mm) and 160 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1399]
Provenance:
Probably from Norwich, to which no. 5 refers.
Table of contents:
  • Historia Alexandri Magni (Gesta Alexandri magni)
  • Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de situ Indiae (Gesta Alexandri magni)
  • Epistolae inter Alexandrum magnum et Dindium regum
  • Gesta Alexandri magni (Historia de Preliis)
  • Injunctiones
  • Chronica maiora (extracts: De calumnia et injuriis ... in monasterio sancti Edmundi)
  • Itinerarium cuiusdam anglici terram sanctam, 1344
  • Gesta Edwardi III
Description:
CCCC MS 370 is another of those manuscripts that may have been intended as light reading matter for a monastic community, containing as it does the perennial favourites of material concerning Alexander the Great in both the version of Julius Valerius (3rd/4th century) and the Historia de Preliis, alongside the fictional exchange of letters between Alexander and various figures in the ancient world. In addition, this codex contains an account of the Black Prince's campaign during the siege of Rouen that has been much used by historians of the Hundred Years' War. The presence of Bishop William Bateman's (d. 1355) Injunctions that resulted from his visitation to the Benedictine Cathedral Priory of Holy Trinity, Norwich in 1347 has led some to conclude that this manuscript was once in the library of that institution, though it lacks a press mark or any other evidence to that effect.
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