Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 006: John of Tynemouth, Historia aurea, Part II

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Summary
CCCC MS 6, dating from c. 1420-40, contains the second part of John of Tynemouth's Historia Aurea from the rule of Diocletian to the reign of Edward III, together with an anonymous continuation for the years 1343-77. CCCC MS 6 was one of several manuscripts (others include CCCC MSS 5 and 7, BL MS Lansdowne 375 and Cambridge UL MS Ee.4.20) owned and, in some cases, commissioned by William Wintershill (d. c. 1435) the almoner of the Benedictine Abbey of St Albans in Hertfordshire. An erased inscription in this manuscript is probably a copy of the material in CCCC MS 5 that relates how Wintershill donated the two volumes to the Abbey at his death.
Contents
Historia aurea, Part II

Description

Alternative title Joh. Tynemouth. Historia Aurea II
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 299 + 4
Date created [ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout double columns of 65-66 lines
Height (mm) 515
Width (mm) 360
Collation 1(8)-5(8) 6(6) (wants 6) | 7(8)-10(8) (wants 3-8) 11(8)-16(8) 17(6) 18(8) 19(8) 20(6) 21(8)-26(8) (wants 6-8) 27(8) (wants 1, 2) 28(8) 29(8) 30(6) 31(8)-39(8) [40(1)] 41(6).
Writing in the same hand or hands as MS 5
Foliation ff. a-c + i-ii + 1-299 + iii-iv + d-f
Provenance At top of f. 1r in red Hic est liber S. Albani de libraria conuentus. A long inscription in large letters, no doubt referring to Wyntreshull and very probably a duplicate of that in MS 5, has been erased from the R. margin of f. 1r.
Additions Fine initials and partial borders to the several books.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:bm588tp7790/MS_6.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hg116jm7287/6.pdf
Contains
Title
John of Tynemouth, Historia aurea, Part II. 1r-299r
Author
John of Tynemouth
Rubric
(1r) Incipit Liber 12 Cronicarum Johannis. De Sancto Mauricio cum sociis suis c. i
Incipit
(1r) Dioclicianus incepit regnare
Note
(45r) c. 124
Rubric
(45r) De Sancto petro alexandrino
Note
(46r) Liber XIII. c. i
Rubric
(46r) De S. katerina virgine
Note
c. 58
Rubric
(70r) De S. florencio
Note
(70v) At the end in a xvith cent. hand
(70v) Hic Inc. 2us Tomus ut ibi scribitur Johannis Anglici
(70v) Liber XIV. c. i
Rubric
(70v) De gestis illius temporis
Incipit
(70v) Romanorum igitur tricesimus quintus regnauit constantinus
Note
(113v) c. (124). Death of Theodosius
Rubrics and numbers of chapters gradually cease to be added
Much of this book is from Vitae Patrum
(71v) Most of cc. 4-22 are wanting after f. 72v
(113v) Liber XV. c. i. Arcadius and Honorius
(145r) Prophecy of Merlin in verse
Incipit
(145r) Cumque peragratis sub multis regibus annis
Note
(192v) Five leaves are gone after f. 199v
(256r) There is a clever unfinished pencil sketch of a Mongol or Tartar on the margin
No beginning of a fresh book is marked after f. 120v. The narrative is continued to f. 303v, the year being 1343
It breaks off in the literae Edwardi delegatis pape et vicecomitibus suis (Hearne, Hemingford II 371) with the words
Explicit
(292v) Nos ad instantiam (catchword) requisicionem
Note
(293r) a leaf added by Parker's scribes, and on it they have written the end of the chapter and continue
Rubric
(293r) Scripsit quoque rex vicecomitibus pro eodem sub hac forma
Note
The text of this is given. Then follow heads of chapters, no text being given
(293r) Qualiter papa scripsit regi Edwardo quod nuntios ut condictum fuerat non misit ad Curiam
(293r) Qualiter rex Angliae asserit treugas per Philippum de Valesio a parte violatas, et ipsum monet de observatione illarum
(293r) Litera Philippi regis francie missa reg. Scotorum ante transitum regis Angliae in Normanniam
(293r) Litera regis fran. missa reg. Scotie statim post aduentum regis Angliae in Normanniam
(293r) Litera missa Edwardo reg. Ang. ante bellum de Cressi per Philippum
(293r) Responsio Edwardi
(293r) De victoria regis Edwardi habita apud Cressy
(293r) De bello fact. apud Dunelm
(293r) De victoria contra Gallicos Thome de Dagworth diuinitus collata
(293r) Qualiter papa post victoriam regi Ang. scripsit
(293r) De captione Caroli de Blois et qualiter deuictus est
(293r) Hec omnia clare scribuntur in libro Mri Price ( = Bodl. 240) et sequuntur multa de Johannis Anglici de vitis sanctorum ut habetur in martirologio suo et in sanctilogio suo et aliis libris
(293v) blank
Then follows a quire in one of the hands of the earlier part of the MS. containing a chronicle from 1343 to 1377 which is said (by Horstmann) to be the source both of the Chron. Angliae ed. E. M. Thompson and of Tho. Walsingham from 1343. It begins
Incipit
(294r) 18(th year of Ed. III). Sub eodem tempore missi sunt ex parte Regis Angl. procuratores ad curiam romanam. Dominus Henricus de lancastria etc.
Note
Ends
Explicit
(299r) que famam eius indicibiliter minuerunt
Note
(299r) In the lower margin in pencil is
(299r) In spacio sequenti scribatur de prole et naturali progenie dicti regis / Item cathololgus virorum forcium etc. prelatorum et deuotorum virorum vidlt domino principe etc. De rege scottorum (??) de cant. archiep. et / de armachano etc. De Ric. heremita priore ... de beligtan (? berlington) etc./ Item de ffundaco mon. cisterciens. apud turrim (??) london. et minorissarumffratrum predicatorum apud langeley. sororum eiusdem ordinis apud darteford sutheg' (?)
(299r) In the remaining line the 4th word seems to be Westminstre
TJames 347
Stanley Under B. 2
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/fc249qf5364
Location MS 006
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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