Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 433: Cluniac Chronicle. Miscellanea

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Summary
CCCC MS 433 is a manuscript containing a miscellany of texts copied in a number of hands between the thirteenth and the late fifteenth centuries. Among the notable or characteristic items in this volume are two Cluniac chronicles, one with much interest in affairs in the Welsh marches. The volume also contains the tract De miseria humanae conditionis by Pope Innocent III (1160/6-1219 - pope 1198-1216), the fable De Mauro bubulco, a version of the Miracula Sanctae Milburgae, as well as a treatise on the sacraments and a number of sermons. The Cluniac material has led to some speculation that this manuscript may be linked to the Cluniac house of St Milburga at Much Wenlock, Shropshire, though this has been disputed.
Contents
Constitutions of the Cluniac Order -- Chronicle 1066-1294 -- Tract on the seven sacraments -- De Mauro bubulco -- Sermon (Quid exiuistis in deserto) -- Miracles of St Milburga -- Sermon (Angelus Domini ascendit de Galgala) -- Liber exceptionum, part 2, book 1, ch. 1-4 -- De miseria humanae conditionis -- Sermons for Rogations, Ascension, Whitsunday, John Baptist, Assumption

Description

Alternative title Chronica. Miscellanea
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 1 + 99 + 1
Date created [ca. 1200 - 1399]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout several volumes
Height (mm) 195
Width (mm) 149
Collation 1 flyleaf, 1(8)-3(8) (wants 5-8) || 4(6) 5(8) 6(6) 7(6) 8(8) (wants 6-8) || gap || 9(8) (wants 1, 2) || 10(8) | 11(6) | 12(10) 13(14) || 14 (four) | 2 flyleaves.
Writing in something of a charter hand
Foliation ff. i + 1-99 + ii-iii
Provenance The book may be from Much Wenlock: see later.
Additions The flyleaves are from a service-book of cent. xi in a fine round hand, the text carefully erased., On f. 1v in red chalk the name: hare., On the flyleaves (xv-xvi): a. Ten Commandments in verse. Disce deum colere, etc. b. Pallida luna pluit rubea ventum alba serenat nolo caueat monachos miles. tremo miles. nescio doctus sec. Rolandum brugge monachum. c. De Buildwas Abbas die S. Michaelis de tumba fuit a visitatoribus suis depositus a. d. m. ccccc. xx. ao r. r. Henrici 12. Earlier writing has been obliterated from this flyleaf.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xiii and xiv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jn990yv0162/MS_433.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:bv407ty9207/433.pdf
Contains
Title
Pope Nicholas II (?), Constitutions of the Cluniac Order. 1r-7v
Nasmith
Constitutiones datae a Nicolao papa ordini Cluniacensi. 1r-7v
Author
Pope Nicholas II (?)
Incipit
(1r) Nicholaus episcopus seruus, etc. Abbati Clun. eiusque coabbatibus...Regis pacifici pacis opera diligentis
Explicit
(7v) intendere valeamus. Dat. rate secundo Idus Sept. pontif. nostri anno secundo
Note
(7v) blank
Title
Chronicle 1066-1294. 8r-20v
Nasmith
Chronicon a conquestu ad annum 1294. 8r-20v
Note
In a similar but not the same hand
Incipit
(8r) Notandum quod ab orbe condito usque aduentum Bretonum in anglia sunt anni d cccc et xv
Explicit
(8r) ergo ab origine mundi usque aduentum normannorum in anglia sunt anni vj cc lxv et est summa totalis
Incipit
(8r) Anno ab incarnacione domini mo lxvj aduentus normannorum, etc.
Note
In lower margin: a very slightly later hand
(8r) Mo lxi (?) Incepit locus sancte Marie de carit. Stephani
Various added entries concerning Cluniacs and Reading Abbey
(8v) 1088. Ob. dominus Girardus primus prior de car'
(8v) 1089. Monachi Bermund' venerunt in angl.
(9r) 1110 (original). fundata est Abbacia de Hagemon
(9r) 1121. petrus prior cluniacensis et vii fratres cum eo rogatu regis H. venerunt apud Rading
(9r) 1123. Hugo prior de sancto pancratio Rad' abb. efficitur. petrus prior clun. redit
(9v) 1144 (original). puer willelmus crucifixus est a Judeis apud Nortwicum
(10v) 1172 (original). Foundation of Wigmore
(11r) 1180(original). Transl. of S. Frideswide
(13v) 1234 (original). Conuentus de Hagemon vestierunt nigra capa
The succession of Bps of Hereford is specially noted and also Welsh affairs
(16r) 1276 original. Conbustio eccl. S. Cedde Salop cum medietate ville
(17r) 1284. benedictus est Gilbertus de Campedene in Abbatem de Hagemon
(17r) 1285. Added: Johannes tunc prior de Wenlak factus est prior de Lewes cui successit pater henr. de bono villario tunc prior de Bermundeseye et intrauit domum suam de Wenl. honorifice vigil. S. Nicholai
The entries for 1293-4 are much longer than the rest and are in one or two different hands
Ends
Explicit
(20r) hoc eciam anno recessit rex Scocie a fidelitate et homagio domini Regis Anglie Regi ffrancie confederatus
Note
Hardy III 243, 246 resembles the Chronicle of Wigmore (P. 291)
There seems to be a primary connexion with Haughmond (Augustinian): the Cluniac additions would suit Wenlock. Both these are in Shropshire
Title
Tract on the seven sacraments. 21r-53v
Nasmith
Tractatus de septem sacramentis. 21r-53v
Incipit
(21r) Sacramenta ecclesie quot sunt. Septem. que. Baptisma, etc.
Explicit
(48r) et eorum immitatione proficiat de die in diem et ad uitam eternam perueniat. Amen
Note
(48r) Examination of a penitent
Incipit
(48r) Frater si peccasti in superbia extollens te corde
Explicit
(51r) admoneat preterea ut uitet omnes occasiones peccandi. coreas. ludos. aleas. et huiusmodi
Note
ff. 51v-53v blank
Title
De Mauro bubulco. 54r-57r
Nasmith
De Mauro bubulco fabula. 54r-57r
Rubric
(54r) De mauro bubulco
Incipit
(54r) Fertur fuisse quidam rex nobilis potens et diues qui habuit principes multos. comites. barones. milites. et clientes
Note
Story of bull with golden horns, and the full confession of Maurus to the king, followed by moralization, ending
Explicit
(57r) per quem celi ardentes soluentur et elementa
Note
Printed by T. Wright, Latin Stories, Percy Society, vol. VIII, no. 1
(57v) blank
Title
Sermon (Quid exiuistis in deserto). 58r-62v
Nasmith
Sermo in Quid exivistis in deserto. 58r-62v
Incipit
(58r) Quid existis in deserto uidere. Gregorus ait super Ezechielem
Explicit
(62v) sequitur effectus gloriosus. prestante domino nostro Ihesu Christo qui cum patre, etc.
Title
Miracles of St Milburga. 62v-68v
Nasmith
Miracula sanctae Milburgae. 62v-68v
Rubric
(62v) Summa cum veneratione salutem dicit plurimam tuus litterarius tirunculus et novitius
Incipit
(62v) Habet in manibus tua iam reuerenda paternitas nostro marte quidem conscripta milburge sanctissime signorum sanctitatisque quedam insignia
Explicit
(62v) Valeat tua reuerenda paternitas ultra cornices viuax
Rubric
(62v) Incipit Sancti Milburge miracula
(62v) De infante quodam vasculo demerso
Incipit
(62v) Quam multos clarissimos suis temporibus
Rubric
(64r) De filio cuiusdam milburge fonte submerso
(65v) De monacho ecclesie cacumine lapso
Explicit
(67r) defendat nos ab eterna morte. Amen
Note
At bottom of f. 67r and at top of f. 67v
(67r) per rolandum brug and Hec Rolandus brugge
On f. 67v the conclusion
Explicit
(67v) Hec tibi pater venerande, etc.Benedictus es domine qui adiuvisti me, etc.Apertis ut ferunt musarum Ianuis-paucissimis ut potero rem ipsam expediam
Note
(67v) This last paragraph is the beginning of a new series of miracles or the like, not written
f. 68r-68v blank
The compilation is probably by Roland Brugge. St Milburga was buried at Wenlock
Referred to in Hardy I 275
Title
Sermon (Angelus Domini ascendit de Galgala). 69r-71v
Nasmith
Sermo in Angelus Domini ascendit de Galgala. 69r-71v
Note
(69r) At top, in red (xvi): Dan Rolande Brugge
Incipit
(69r) Angelus domini ascendit de galgala Judic. 2. Cum ista sacra sollempnitas dominice ascensionis
Explicit
(71v) continuacio eternitatis ad quam, etc.
Title
Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, Liber exceptionum, part 2, book 1, ch. 1-4. 72r-73v
Nasmith
72r-73v
Author
Richard of Saint-Victor OSA
Note
(72r) Beginning of Allegoriae Petri Comestoris
Incipit
(72r) In precedentibus premissa descriptione originis
Note
(P. L. CLXXV 631 [633])
(73v) Ends unfinished
Title
Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis), De miseria humanae conditionis. 73v-91r
Nasmith
Tractatus domini papae Innocentii III. de contemptu mundi. 73v-91r
Author
Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis)
Rubric
(73v) Incipit tractatus domini pape Innocencii tercii de contemptu mundi
Incipit
(73v) Domino patri ... petro dei gratia portuensi episcopo lotharius, etc.
(73v) Quare de uulua
Note
(P. L. CCXVII 701)
Explicit
(91r) ardens in secula seculorum. Amen
Title
Sermons for Rogations, Ascension, Whitsunday, John Baptist, Assumption. 96r-99v
James
Fragment of a collection of Sermons. 96r-99v
Note
Those which remain are for Rogations, Ascension, Whitsunday, John Baptist, Assumption
On f. 99r are two sermons or parts of sermons in another hand
(99r) 1. Vado ad eum qui me misit, etc.
(99r) 2. De omnibus sanctis. Legimus in historiis sanctorum patrum fratres mei quad sanctus bonefacius qui quartus fuit a beato gregorio
TJames 79
Stanley G. 10
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/bq134cn1846
Location MS 433
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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