Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 066: Imago mundi. Pliny. Historia Anglorum. Miscellaneous Theological Texts

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Summary: MS 66, as described by M. R. James, included half of a manuscript belonging to the Cistercian abbey of Sawley (Yorks.) and half of a manuscript belonging to the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds. The other two halves of the Bury and Sawley manuscripts are bound together as Cambridge, UL MS Ff. 1. 27. However, MS 66 has since been separated into MS 66 (Sawley MS) and MS 66A (Bury MS). The volume now known as MS 66 contains copies of the Imago mundi of Honorius Augustodunensis (fl. first half of twelfth century); Extracts from Pliny the Elder and Solinus; the Historia Anglorum; De statu ecclesiae by Gilbert of Limerick (d. 1145); Theobald of Étampes's Letter to Robert Bloet, Bishop of Lincoln; De sex alis cherubim and De tribus in penitentia considerandis both by Clement of Llanthony OSA (d. after 1169), and a treatise on confession. The Imago mundi and De sex alis cherubim contain four large framed coloured drawings and a map of the world.
Contents: Imago mundi -- Extracts from Pliny the Elder and Solinus -- Historia Anglorum -- De statu ecclesiae (prologue) -- Letter of Theobald of Ã‰tampes to Robert Bloet, Bishop of Lincoln -- De sex alis cherubim -- De tribus in poenitentiae considerandis --

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Alternative title	Imago Mundi. Chronica. Itinera in Terram Sanctam etc.
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 58 + 4 + 238
Date created	[ca. 1100 - 1199]; [ca. 1300 - 1399]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	in double columns of 33, 43, 37 lines
Height (mm)	298
Width (mm)	203
Collation	1(8) (+1*) 2(8)-4(8) \| 5(10) (10 canc.) 6(8)-7(8).
Writing	in another hand
Foliation	f. i + pp. 1-22 + 22a + 23a + 23-114 + f. ii
Provenance	Vol. I is from Sawley or Salley Abbey. On p. 2 at top in red is: Liber Sancte Marie de Salleia. The latter half of it, bound up together with the latter half of the Bury St Edmund's MS. which forms Vol. II of the present book (now MS 66A), was given by Parker to the University Library, and is now MS. Ff. 1. 27 there. James provides a full listing of the contents for two manuscripts, one from Sawley and one from Bury St. Edmund's, each of which had been split in half and rebound - the first half of the Sawley with the first half of the Bury, second half of Sawley with second half of Bury - into MS 66 and ULC Ff. 1. 27 respectively. James' CCC 66 has since been separated again (rebound in 1954 by John Gray) so that James' Volume I (the Sawley portion) is now MS 66 and James' Volume II (the Bury portion) is now MS 66A.
Research	James lists the following contents for the complete Sawley MS., which is currently divided between MS 66 and ULC. Ff. 1. 27:CCC 66: Mappa Mundi, p. 2. Imago Mundi, p. 3. Miscellaneous extracts on Cosmography, p. 58. Wheel of Fortune, p. 66. Genealogical table, p. 67. Hist, de origine Anglorum, p. 68. Prologue of Gilbert of Limerick, p. 99. Theobaldus Stampensis de confessione, p. 99. Picture of Cherub, p. 100. De sexalis Cherubin, p. 101. De confessione, p. 108. De quatuor generibus confessionis, p. 112. ULC Ff. I 27: Gildas. (Nennius) Hist. Britonum, p. 112. Hist. Britonum (2) (Gildas): Drawing of the sons of Noah. *Bede, de temporibus. Chronological matter from Bede. Stories from Will. Malmesbury. Symeon of Durham. Hist. Dunelm. Miscellanea (Durham). Hist. de S. Cuthberto. Anglo-Saxon poem on Durham. Æthelwulf's poem. De regibus angliae. Miracles. Richard of Hexham. Full-page drawing. Gilbert of Limerick. Kings of Britain, Israel, Judah, Persia, Chaldaea. Reges Francorum. For the complete list of contents given by James for both manuscripts, please see the following figure:

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xii (xiii?) and xiv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sh672kr4803/MS_66.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:bs888ch4104/66.pdf
Contains	Title Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi. 1-58 Nasmith Imago mundi contexta per Henricum canonicum ecclesiae S. Mariae civitatis Moguntiae de rerum naturis, imperatoribus, regnis, regibus, et pontificibus, usque ad Henricum imperatorem filium Henrici, lib. ii. 1-58 Author Honorius Augustodunensis Note Huic operi praefigitur mappa mundi, p.5 (1) List of contents (xv), the latter part erased (2) A Mappa Mundi in roughly oval form. In the corners of the page are full-length angels with gold nimbi and drapery in red and green outline. Two of them hold books, a third a trumpet. On this map see Santarem Essai de l'histoire de la Cosmographie III 463-492 (3) Capitula of Imago Mundi as far as De Cesare Augusta Continuing Incipit (4) Post hec de omnibus imperatoribus ... (as far as the year IIII) quo anno liber iste finitur (4) Iste henricus qui hunc librum edidit fuit canonicus ecclesie s. marie ciuitatis Magontie in qua ecclesia sunt canonici bis quater quaterque deni Note A paragraph in another hand Incipit (4) Omnes reges persarum artaxerses dicuntur Explicit (4) omnes reges Atheniensium cicropes dicuntur Rubric (5) Epistola henrici ad henricum Incipit (5) Henrico. Septiformi spiritu in trina fide, etc. Note (CLXXII 119) Explicit (5) penitus ignorare Rubric (5) Rescriptum henrici. Incipit prefacio henrici in libro qui dicitur ymago mundi Incipit (5) Sapientie alumno abdita diligenter scrutanti Note (CLXXII 119) Explicit (6) maior(um) commendat traditio Rubric (6) Liber Henrici qui dicitur imago mundi (6) Incipit liber I qui describit omnem corpoream creaturam Incipit (6) Mundus dicitur quasi undique motus Note (CLXXII 121) (6) Handsome initial in gold filled with work in red and green (28) Liber II Incipit (28) Priori libello globum Note (CLXXII 146) (51) An insertion or supply in much smaller hand: apparently the place was blank Ends Explicit (58) anno ab incarn. domini mo. co. xo. [added (xii): quis autem post hunc regnum adepturus sit, posteritas uidebit] Note Colophon added xiv Rubric (58) Explicit ymago mundi contexta per Henricum canonicum ecclesie sancte marie ciuitatis Magoncie de rerum naturis etc. ad henricum imperatorem filium henrici Note Usually ascribed to Honorius of Autun, but conjectured by Lebeuf to have been written by a German (Neues ArchivV 643). Extracts in MGH (Scriptores X 132) Title Extracts from Pliny the Elder and Solinus. 58-65 Nasmith Quaedam ex Plinio aliisque de geographia. 58-65 Author Pliny the Elder Solinus Note (58) Plinius IIus libro 1o Incipit (58) Mundus et in eo terre (?II 1) (59) Uni animancium luctus (59) Sequitur terra cui uni rerum (II 63) (60) Effigiem dei formamque querere (II 7) Explicit (60) totus animi totus sui Rubric (60) Ista omnia plinius secundus Note (61) Another hand Incipit (61) Niniue speciosa interpretatur. Et de deo atque mundo in quodam philosophorum legitur. Tu cuncta superno ducis ab exemplo pulcrum pulcherrimus ipse etc. Explicit (61) Nunc aliqua de ecclesie decore in medium prodeant Incipit (61) Mundus septem habet liquores uinum. oleum, lac. etc. (62) Solinus. Vrbs Babilon est lx ma passuum (62) Uiginti duobus milibus passuum muro amplexa Explicit (62) obiectu protente lingue strangulatur Rubric (62) Mensura circuit totius terre sec. romanos doctissimos gnomonica ratione certissime comprobata Incipit (62) Terre tocius ambitus omnisque plenus circuitus iuxta romanorum diuisionem est trecencies et quindecies centena m. passuum Explicit (62) per gados et omnis mensura attestante artemidoro assertionibus meis habet m. octogies sexies lxxxv. En habes longitudinem multipliciter memoratam Incipit (63) Latitude autem Explicit (63) usque ad tilen ultimam tendi Rubric (63) Alia ratio de longitudine Incipit (63) Europe solius mensura Explicit (63) cum ipsa meotide clxxxii xc passuum Note Change of hand Incipit (63) Hec monstra sub solis ortu habitant. alii tocius oris planicie informes Explicit (63) In mari rubro sunt tres insule. enea una. alia ferrea tercia erea Incipit (64) Quis primus fuit rex in mundo. Tanus rex scitarum in tempore Ragau Explicit (64) Baltasar regem illius interfecit Incipit (64) Arbor quelibet infructuosa si perforetur terebro et cuneo obstruetur fructifera efficitur (ends here) Note (65) blank Title Historia Anglorum. 66-98 Nasmith Historia de origine Anglorum et de regnis eorum ab Adam usque ad secundum Henricum imperatricis filium, qui regnavit in Anglia post pium et nobilem regem Stephanum, et de omnibus episcopatibus et episcopis totius Anglias pulchre et subtiliter composita. 66-98 Note Ex adverso primae paginas est delineatio rotae fortunas coloribus illuminata; sequitur tabula genealogica ab Adamo ad Woden, in qua enumerantur generationes saltem xxvi; et post hanc figura Wodeni satis nitida cum nominibus filiorum ejus unde reges Angliae duxerunt originem: historia ipsa incipit ab heptarchia, et continuatur usque ad Henricum II, sed ea brevitate ut septem solummodo constet foliis. Liber secundus eadem brevitate enarrat successionem episcoporum: res vero Eboracenses fusius caeteris tractantur, dimidio libri huic provincial impenso: desinit utraque historia in anno 1181 (66) A fine full-page picture framed, medallions at corners of two birds and two beasts. Ground red at the sides, dark blue in the middle. Above in C. is the wheel of fortune mainly in gold with the usual four figures. It is inscribed: (top) Glorior elatus. (R.) Descendo minorificatus. (bottom) Infimus axe teror. (L.) rursus ad astra feror. Below two stately crowned females in patterned robes, and light pink mantles, gold-bordered. The one on L. Fortuna is turning the wheel. She has a scroll: Mundana casu aguntur omnia. The other Sapientia points one finger up: her scroll is: Nichil in mundo fit casu. Round the frame on three sides is: Ego sapientia habito in consilio et eruditis intersum cogitationibus, per me reges regnant etc. to inuenient me (Prov. viii. 12-17). The style is severe and impressive (67) is framed and has a central shaft inscribed in red with the line of descent from Adam to Woden. At top of this is the bust of Adam, a silver rainbow over him, and at bottom are his feet. On R. and L. are Biblical genealogies, Adam to Manasses and a list of descendants of Shem, Ham, Japheth At bottom Rubric (67) Incipit historia de origine Anglorum et de regnis eorum Incipit (68) Britannia a quodam consule romano Bruto dictum est Note (69) This page is framed and has full-length figure of Woden crowned holding gold flower, in red and green outline, silver and gold borders to his robes. At the sides are crowned busts of his seven sons. In the field are written accounts of them At bottom Rubric (69) Incipit liber primus de gestis regum Note (70) The hand changes to a thicker and smaller script Incipit (70) Prenotata serie generationum ex qua primi anglici generis reges prodierant Note The kingdoms of the heptarchy are treated, successively, names of kings in red at the side and between the columns. Each kingdom has handsome gold or red initial of the same style as that on p. 6 Ends Explicit (79) Duxit uero uxorem Alienorem ... ducis aquitanie Rubric (79) Explicit liber primus de gestis regum (79) Incipit liber secundus de gestis pontificum Incipit (80) Siquidem anno ab incarnacione domini d. lxxxxii. Mauricius ab augusto Lus IIIIus imperium suscipiens Note The sees are treated separately, and there are many tables of bishops elaborately framed in red and green Ends with Candida Casa (9th Bp Christianus): on p. 98 a later hand inserts York, ending with Tunbertus, Johannes Explicit (98) Explicit Historia de gestis omnium regum anglorum post aduentum illorum in angliam et episcoporum et omnium episcopatuum tocius anglie post aduentum sancti augustini in angliam usque hodiernum diem id est usque ad annum post incarnationem Christi m. c. octogesimum VIII regnante glorioso rege henrico secundo. Angli saxones regnante marciano secundo uenerunt ad britanniam anno uidel. post passionem Christi ccccmo. xlo. septimo Title Gilbert of Limerick, De statu ecclesiae (prologue). 98-98 Nasmith Prologus libelli Gillas episcopi Luwnicensis de usu ecclesiastico. 98-98 Author Gilbert of Limerick Note (98) (Gilbert of Limerick) Larger hand Incipit (98) Episcopis presbiteris tocius hibernie infimus presulum. Gille lumnicensis in Christo salutem. Rogatu necnon et precepto multorum ex uobis karissimi canonicalem consuetudinem in dicendis horis et peragendo tocius ecclesiastici ordinis officio scribere conatus sum etc. Explicit (98) sic ei uestris precibus adiutus una uobiscum spallere in celestibus ualere merear. Amen Rubric (98) Explicit prologus libelli Gille lumnicensis episcopi De usu ecclesiastico Note The prologue and the tract are in Ff. 1. 27, pp. 239 - 42 (no. 16), and also in the Durham MS. B. II. 35. Printed by Ussher, Sylloge Epistolarum Hibernicarum, no. xxx. P. L. CLIX 995 Title Letter of Theobald of Étampes to Robert Bloet, Bishop of Lincoln. 99-101 Nasmith Theobaldus Stampensis ad Robertum Lincoln, de confessione in ultimo. 99-101 Author Theobald of Étampes Rubric (99) De confessione in ultimo Teobaldus Stampensis ad Robertum Lincolniensem Episcopum Incipit (99) De quibusdam in diuina pagina titubantibus Explicit (101) commimeatus (?) in puluerem redigatur Rubric (101) Explicit epistola de confessione in ultimis Note See Mon. Germ. Hist. (Libelli de Lite III 603: by Boehmer, from Dachery's printed edition) The text is interrupted on p. 100 by the frontispiece to no. 6 Title Clement of Lanthony OSA, De sex alis cherubim. 100-108 Nasmith Descriptio magistri Clementis [Lanthoniensis] prioris canonicorum regularium sanctas Mariae civitatis Claudiocestrias de sex alis et xxx pennis Cherubim. 100-108 Author Clement of Lanthony OSA Note (100) This page is framed and has full-page drawing in coloured outline of a six-winged cherub with the wings and feathers inscribed with names of virtues etc. represented by them Rubric (101) Incipit descriptio prime ale cherubin Note (name of author added xvi) Incipit (102) Prima ala confessio est Note (cf. P. L. CCX 269) Explicit (108) in hac uita diligenter custodiat Rubric (108) Explicit descriptio magistri clementis prioris canonicorum regularium S. Marie ciuit. claudiocestrie de sex alis et xxxta pennis cherubin Title Clement of Lanthony OSA, De tribus in poenitentiae considerandis. 108-112 Nasmith Idem de tribus in penitentia considerandis, scilicet compunctione, confessione, satisfactione. 108-112 Author Clement of Lanthony OSA Rubric (108) Incipit idem de tribus in penitentia considerandis, scilicet compunctione, confessione, satisfactione Incipit (108) De confessione superiori tractatu Explicit (112) minus uel parum peccantibus
TJames	367
Stanley	Under D. 12
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/jb848tp9919
Location	MS 066
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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