Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 117: Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1378)

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Summary: CCCC MS 117 contains a decorated version of the text of the Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364) copied in the last quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains a small number of marginal drawings. The text of the Polychronicon is littered with Parker's characteristic red chalk noting items of interest such as a mention of Oxford University and church affairs. In addition, the manuscript contains two items of the correspondence of Anselm of Canterbury copied from CCCC MS 135 and an account of the Primatial Council at Winchester of 1 April 1076 copied from Bodleian MS Junius 121, all in a sixteenth-century hand, and with an accompanying note as to the source of the texts. It is possible that these items, written on paper and added to the parchment endleaves, were copied for Parker.
Contents: Polychronicon (continued to 1378) -- Les noms des comtes barouns et baronettis pris et tuez par le counte de Northumberland -- Letter from Gerald of York to Anselm of Canterbury OSB -- Letter from Anselm of Canterbury OSB to Gerald of York --

Description

Alternative title	Ran. Higden Polychronicon
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 165 + 2
Date created	[ca. 1300 - 1499]
Language	Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Material	Vellum
Layout	double columns of 53 lines
Height (mm)	325
Width (mm)	232
Collation	1(12)-13(12) 14 (nine): 2 ff. of paper written.
Writing	in a clear, rather pointed hand
Foliation	ff. i-ii + 1-167 + iii-iv
2 fo.	de papa, cabilem

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xiv-xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wz852mw6626/MS_117.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tk783vs8539/117.pdf
Contains	Title Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1378). 1r-160r Author Ranulf Higden OSB Note (1r) Table to the Polychronicon. Handsome initial and partial border (7r) Note on the ages of the world Text Incipit (7v) Post preclaros (9r) Ex senatus consulto censuit Julius Cesar Note (Rolls Edition I 46) (9r) Fine initial and partial border. The ornament throughout suggests cent. xiv late. Most of the books have some of it at the beginning (32v) Liber II (48v) Liber III (72v) Liber IV (no initial) (90v) Liber V (112v) Liber VI (129v) Liber VII Ends (1378) Explicit (160r) Et quod dolendum est in manu continuacionem post ea habuerunt Note (cf. Hog's edition) Rubric (160r) Qui scripsit librum sit benedictus in euum Dignus est operarius mercede sua Note (160r) Then, erased: Cronica quam composuit M. J. Carrik (?) mendaciorum summus compilator Title Les noms des comtes barouns et baronettis pris et tuez par le counte de Northumberland. 160r-160r Nasmith Les noms des comtes barouns et baronettis pris et tuez par le counte de Northumberland le counte de Dunbar et Mons. Henri Perci le jour du exaltacion du seint Croys a la battaille du Humbyldon-hyll lan du roy Henri IIII. puisse le conquest Dengleterre III. 160r-160r Note In another hand Incipit (160r) Ceux sount lez noms des Countes etc. Note At bottom a longer erased note of 11 lines 160v-165v blank Title Letter from Gerald of York to Anselm of Canterbury OSB. 166r-166v Nasmith Epistola Gerardi Eboracensis ad Anselmum Cantuariensem. 166r-166v Author Gerald of York Note in chartis seculo xvi The Bury MS. from which nos. 2, 3 are copied is MS 135 in this collection Title Letter from Anselm of Canterbury OSB to Gerald of York. 166v-166v Nasmith Responsio Anselmi. 166v-166v Author Anselm of Canterbury OSB Note in chartis seculo xvi Ex libro MS. quondam monasterii S. Edmundi regis et martyris The Bury MS. from which nos. 2, 3 are copied is MS 135 in this collection
TJames	81
Stanley	Misc. 27
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/gr993gt8457
Location	MS 117
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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