Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 181: William of Jumièges OSB, Gesta Normannorum ducum. Robert de Torigni OSB, Chronica. Iohannes de Plano Carpini, Historia Mongolorum. Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 181, copied in the early fourteenth century, contains the Gesta Normannorum ducum compiled by William of Jumièges OSB (d. 1087?), Orderic Vitalis OSB (1075-c.1143) and Robert de Torigni OSB (d. 1186), Torigni's distinct Chronicon for the years 1137 onwards, continued by a later author to 1259, as well as a number of shorter texts of continental, particularly Norman and French, history. This codex also contains two well-known pieces of medieval travel literature about the far east, Willelmus de Rubruk OFM (fl. 1248-57) Itinerarium ad partes orientales and Iohannes de Plano Carpini (c. 1182-c. 1252) Historia mongolorum quos nos tartaros appellamus. A shelf mark indicates that this volume is one of two in Parker's collection that can be shown to have once been in the library of the Benedictine Abbey of St Mary's, York (the other being CCCC MS 309). How this manuscript came into Parker's possession is not known.
- Contents
- Gesta Normannorum ducum, with a continuation 1070-1135 by Robert de Torigni OSB -- Historia breuis Angliae a morte Gulielmi I. ad annum 1239 -- Vita Caroli regis Francorum et imperatoris Romanorum -- Historia Franciae ab Antenore ad annum 1137 -- La pes et lordenance fete entre excellenz princes Loys roi de France et Henri roi d'Engleterre -- Bulla Gregorii papae contra Simonem et Guidonem de Monteforti occisores cum eorum excusationibus et condemnatione -- Bulla Ioannis papae data A. D. 1326, pro pace concilianda inter reges Franciae et Angliae -- Historia mongolorum quos nos tartaros appellamus -- Itinerarium ad partes orientales
Description
Alternative title | William of Jumièges etc. Itinera Odorici, W. de Rubruc, etc. |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 200 + 2 |
Date created | [ca. 1300 - 1349] |
Language | Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | 37 lines to a page |
Height (mm) | 291 |
Width (mm) | 182 |
Collation | 2 flyleaves, 1(12) 2(12) 3(8) 4(12)-6(12) (wants 12) 7(12)-9(12) 10(8) (wants 6-8) 11(10) (wants 6-10) 12(12) 13(12) 14(12) 14(4) 15(12)-19(12) (wants 12). |
Writing | in a good large clear hand, perhaps modelled on the Italian script of the time |
Foliation | ff. a-b + i-ii + pp. 1-400 + ff. c-d |
Provenance | At the bottom of i is the mark: In. 3. J. This is the mark of the Abbey of St Mary at York. In C. C. C. Oxford MS. 224 is one very similar, together with the name of the monastery. Others are at Dublin1 and Dublin2 and in Lord Herries' Library at Everingham: cf. MS 309 in this collection. |
Research | In M. Delisle's Mélanges de Paléographie et de Bibliographie, 1880, p. 190, a Leyden manuscript is described, the contents of which coincide in a remarkable degree with those of the volume under consideration. It is Vossianus 104 of the early xivth cent., has 191 leaves, and formerly belonged to Paul Petau. To M. Delisle's description I owe many of the references inserted above. A statement of the correspondences of the two books may be given here: It is evident that the two are sister books. The only important difference between them is that the Leyden MS. contains the History of Geoffrey of Monmouth. The Cambridge MS. may at one time have contained this also, since at the place where it would naturally come (after p. 216) a quire ends. The one thing in the Cambridge MS. which does not occur in the Leyden one is the Bull added on p. 278 by a later hand |
2 fo. | manu tenebat |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xiv (first half) |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
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TJames | 61 |
Stanley | E. 8 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/gg784fk0128 |
Location | MS 181 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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