Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 250: Walter of Guisborough OSA, Chronicle (1048-1312)

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Summary: CCCC MS 250, dating from the early sixteenth century, contains one of around ten surviving manuscripts of Walter of Guisborough's Chronicle which covers the period 1048-1305, with a continuation 1305-12, probably by an anonymous Durham continuator. Walter of Guisborough (fl. c.1290c.1305) (also known as Walter 'of Hemingford' or 'of Hemingburgh') was an Augustinian canon of the priory of St Mary at Guisborough. The early portion of the chronicle draws heavily on the chronicle of William of Newburgh OSA (d. after 1199), the Historia post Bedam and other northern sources. The roughly contemporary portion of the chronicle shows some similarities to other Northern histories of the period but is considered to be an independent chronicle. The chronicle tends to be more accurate regarding events in the north of England than in the south.
Contents: Chronicle

Alternative title	W. Hemingford (Hemingburgh)
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 144
Date created	[ca. 1500 - 1525]
Language	Latin
Material	Paper
Layout	36 lines to a page
Height (mm)	279
Width (mm)	188
Writing	in a rather ugly current hand
Foliation	ff. i-iii + 1-146
Additions	An illegible erasure on f. 1r at top: Sum .. Stuard(?)

M.R. James Date	xvi early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tt031yk4356/MS_250.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wy517bt9296/250.pdf
Contains	Title Walter of Guisborough OSA, Chronicle (1048-1312). 1r-144r Author Walter of Guisborough OSA Note Text Incipit (1r) Ne fastidiosus occurram Explicit (1r) usque ad annum eundem domini mo ccco Rubric (1r) Explicit prohemium Incipit liber primus... Incipit (1r) Ut sciatur origo Note Ends in 1312 (quomodo dominus Robertus de brus latenter venit in episcopatum Dunelmensem etc.) Explicit (143v) siluit et quieuit Rubric (144r) Nomina regum qui plenarie regnauerunt ex quo terra vocabatur Anglia et populi Angli Note Ends Explicit (144r) Ricardus tercius regnauit hunc septimus henricus jugulauitTriphario titulo frangitur ipse suo Note This MS. is mentioned by Hardy, Catalogue III 257. Edited by H. C. Hamilton, 1848 (English Historical Society). A partial transcript is in MS 100. 4
TJames	131
Stanley	L. 10
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/dr261hp0466
Location	MS 250
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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