Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 298: Laurence Wade OSB, Life of Becket. Canterbury Documents

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Summary: CCCC MS 298 consists of four separate books bound together. The first contains a unique sixteenth-century copy of the Life of St Thomas Becket in Middle English verse written in 1497 by Laurence Wade OSB.The second part contains a collection of documents relating to the history and landholdings of Canterbury and the archbishops and dates to the early sixteenth century. The third part consists of an early fifteenth-century copy of the Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis of Thomas Stubbs OP (d. 1381), with an anonymous continuation and two collection of documents. The chronicle is a history of the church of York covering the period 1147-1373. The fourth part contains a variety of letters, canons and excerpts from longer texts written in a Parkerian hand of the sixteenth century.
Contents: Life of Becket -- List of donations to Christ Church, Canterbury -- List of English kings and the location of their tombs from Ethelbert king of Kent to Henry VII -- List of archbishops of Canterbury from St Augustine to William Warham -- List of the priors of Christ Church, Canterbury from the Norman conquest to Thomas Goldwell (1066-1539) -- The death and funeral of Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, archbishop of Canterbury (1486) -- Description of the pageants in the city of London upon the arrival of the emperor Charles V and Henry VIII -- List of names of monks of Christ Church, Canterbury 1207-1527 -- Excerpt from a papal bull against the taking of benevolencies -- On the founding of the Abbey at Beverley -- Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis -- Excerpts from an ancient register of the bishop of Rochester on the church of Rochester -- Letter of Edward I to the pope on the legitimacy of his rule of Scotland -- Letter of king Cnut to the English, 1027. Brief chronicle of English affairs from the death of Cnut to the death of Hardicnut -- On the early statutes of the church of Worcester and of the possessions given to it by kings and vassals -- Brief annals of English affairs 1530-1540 -- Excerpt from the history of Jervaulx abbey at the time of King Edgar concerning the true cross at Winchester -- Letter from Pope Alexander II to William the Conqueror, late 1071, and excerpts from the Passionale Sancti Ignatii -- Canons of the primatial council at Winchester, 1076 -- Profession of Thomas archbishop of York and list of all other bishops who made professions to the archbishop of Canterbury -- Canons of the synod of bishops Patricius and Isernius. (The first synod of St Patrick -- Synod of London under Anselm (1102), decree against clerical marriage -- Letter of Pope Paschal II to Anselm (epistola 43) -- On translating the Bible into English -- Quaestiones quodlibetales (extract, I. q. 13)

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Alternative title	Laur. Wade. Life of Becket. Canterbury documents
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 56 + 71 + 21 + 4 + 26 + 79
Date created	[ca. 1500 - 1525]
Language	Latin; English; French; English, Middle (1100-1500)
Material	Vellum, Paper (and vellum), Paper
Layout	varying numbers of lines to a page
Height (mm)	262
Width (mm)	195
Writing	very well written in a Gothic hand
Foliation	ff. i-viii + 1-162 + 162a + 163 + 163a + 164-165 + 165a + 166-258

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xvi and xv early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ck771tw8255/MS_298.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:xd453pq0164/298.pdf
Contains	Title Laurence Wade OSB, Life of Becket. 1r-56v Nasmith The life of Thomas Beckett translated into English verse by Laurence Wade monk of Christ-church Canterbury 1497. 1r-56v Author Laurence Wade OSB Note (2r) Beginning O ye virtuous soverayns spiritual and temporal And all ye devoute people both more and lesse That thys now shall here hartely I praye yow all To support my imperfection of lowly gentylnesse For the lyeff here I purpose with your pacience to reherse Off seynt Thomas the blissed laureat martir dere That dyed for the churchys ryght onely in Cristys werre. On f. 1r Thomas Cantuariensis (Cranmer's autograph) Eight verses in red: Herbertum Bosue (i.e. Bosham) virtute virum renitentem...Quem cum rore rigent celibe corda pia (1v) Note of the author that his sources are the Thomus of Herbert de Bosham, and the Life by John Grandison Prologue Incipit (2r) O ye vertuous souerayns spirituall and temporall Rubric (2r) Incipit vita cum actibus gloriosi martiris Thome Cantuariensi archiepiscopi translata a Laurentio Wade claustrali commonacho ecclesie Christi Cantuariensi (2v) De mirabili ortu Sancti Thome secundum Johannem Exoniensem Incipit (2v) The custome off all holy chirch is laudable and ffamous Note 7-line stanzas Ends Explicit (56v) Recommend hym wnto this blissed saynt that hath shewyd ws her his story. ffinis Note Hardy II 363 prints the prologue, beginning and end. The whole is printed by C. Horstmann in Kölbing's Englische Studien III (1880), pp. 409-469 Title List of donations to Christ Church, Canterbury. 88r-100r Nasmith Donationes et acquisitiones maneriorum cum ecclesiis totius prioratus ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi concessae et confirmatae [ad annum 17 Ricardi II.]. 88r-100r Rubric (88r) Donaciones et adquisitiones maneriorum etc. (88r) Palatium Sancti Ethelberti Note The last is Rubric (96r) Hospicium de le Crown in Cant. Note Ending Explicit (96r) Anno regni (Regi Ricardi II) xviio Rubric (96v) Ecclesie appropriate ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi (98r) Decima omnium bonorum temporalium et spiritualium ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi extracta de rotulis d. Regis a. d. mo cccco ijo Note (99v) London churches in the patronage of the Convent (99v) London advowsons of the Archbishop Title List of English kings and the location of their tombs from Ethelbert king of Kent to Henry VII. 100v-106v Nasmith Catalogus regum Anglorum et loca sepulturae eorundem ab Ethelberto rege Cantiae ad Henricum VII. 100v-106v Rubric (100v) De regibus Anglorum, a. d. 562 Incipit (100v) In primis de regibus Cantie regnauit Ethelbertus Note At p. 92 an insertion de coronacione regum anglie secundum registrum Henrici prioris Bull of Alexander (III) to Archbishop Richard Ends Explicit (106r) Anno domini (blank) Henricus septimus (blank) Note p. 98 blank Title List of archbishops of Canterbury from St Augustine to William Warham. 107r-113v Nasmith De archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus quanto tempore in archiepiscopatu vixerunt et in quo gradu et dignitate prius erant (a Sancto Augustino ad Willelmum Warham et neoterica manu ad M. Parker). 107r-113v Rubric (107r) De archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus etc. Incipit (107r) Sanctus Augustinus primus archiepiscopus Cantuariensis sedit annis xvj Note Ended originally with Warham Explicit (113r) sub fenestra in capella quam ipse fundauerat Note Continued in a Parkerian hand: ends with Parker Explicit (113v) Sedit annis (blank) Title List of the priors of Christ Church, Canterbury from the Norman conquest to Thomas Goldwell (1066-1539). 114r-120v Nasmith De prioribus ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi et nomina eorum ab adventu Normannorum nam antea decani vocabantur (ad Thomam Goldwell ultimum priorem). 114r-120v Rubric (114r) De prioribus ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi etc. Incipit (114r) Henricus primus prior ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi contemporaneus Lanfranco Note Ends Explicit (119r) Thomas Goldwell prior doctor theologie vixit in prioratu annis (blank) Note 124-126 blank Title The death and funeral of Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, archbishop of Canterbury (1486). 121r-123r Nasmith Obitus et exequiae Thomae Bouchier presbiteri cardinalis et Cantuariensis archiepiscopi. 121r-123r Rubric (121r) Obitus domini Thomae Boughier etc. Incipit (121r) Memorandum quod a. d. mo cccco lxxxvjo Explicit (123r) et dominus Thomas Goldston sacrae theologiae bachalarius verbum dei seminauit Title Description of the pageants in the city of London upon the arrival of the emperor Charles V and Henry VIII. 123v-128v Nasmith The descrypcion of the pageantes made in the cyte of London at the recevyng of the most excellent pryncys Charlys the fyfte emperour and Henry the VIII. king off Englonde. 123v-128v Rubric (123v) The descrypcioun of the pageantes etc. Incipit (123v) Fyrst my lorde mayer and the aldyrmen Explicit (128v) and organs with most swetyst musyke thatt cowed be devysede Title List of names of monks of Christ Church, Canterbury 1207-1527. 129r-150r Nasmith Nomina monachorum ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi a tempore exilii eorundem A. D. I. 1207, idibus Julii A. R. regis Iohannis octavo [ad annum 1527]. 129r-150r Note altera manu addit. ut videtur a Matthaeo Parkero Rubric (129r) Nomina monachorum etc. Incipit (129r) Prior. Johannes Sydyngborne Note Ends (a. d. 1527) Explicit (145v) Thomas Farley Note Edited from this and Thomas Cawston's MS. at Canterbury by W. G. Searle, Christ Church Canterbury, C. A. S. 1902, p. 173 Four blank leaves follow ff. 146r - 150r blank Title Excerpt from a papal bull against the taking of benevolencies. 150v-151v Nasmith Excerptum bullae papalis contra convivia quae nomine benevolentiae a prebendario intrante residentiam suam in ecclesia cathedrali exigebantur. 150v-151v Note Dicitur talia convivia per quadraginta dies continuari, et expensas eorundem ad c libras sterl. communiter ascendere In Parkerian hand Rubric (150v) De benevolentia quam vocant prebendarii Note See MS. Gonville & Caius 449, f. 126 Title On the founding of the Abbey at Beverley. 151v-153v Nasmith De fundatione abbatiae Beverlacensis. 151v-153v Note in membranis seculo xiv scriptis Rubric (151v) De abbatia Beverlaci Incipit (151v) A. d. dclxxiiiio mense Septembri xiio die consecratus est Sanctus Iohannes Note (152r) A. d. mill. lxiiiio Aldredus Eboracensis Archiepiscopus statuit prefatos septem canonicos Beuerlaci, etc. See MS. Gonville & Caius 449, f. 127 (153v) Index to the following tract 192 blank Title Thomas Stubbs OP (attrib.), Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis. 154r-180r Nasmith Cronica [Thomae Stobbes sive Stobrei dominicani] de successionibus et gestis Eboracensium archiepiscoporum. 154r-180r Author Thomas Stubbs OP (attrib.) Title Excerpts from an ancient register of the bishop of Rochester on the church of Rochester. 180v-192v Nasmith Excerpta e registro veteri episcopi Roffensis de ecclesia Roffensi. 180v-192v Note (180v) Extracts about Canterbury and Rochester Rubric (181r) Exscripta e registro veteri Episcopi Roffensis foll. ijo Incipit (181r) Successit tunc Gilbertus Note References to folia are given 24-26 blank Title Letter of Edward I to the pope on the legitimacy of his rule of Scotland. 193r-199r Nasmith Epistola Edwardi I. ad papam de jure suo in regnum Scotiae. 193r-199r Author Edward I Note (193r) Heading and colophon in French 36-39 blank Title Letter of king Cnut to the English, 1027. Brief chronicle of English affairs from the death of Cnut to the death of Hardicnut. 199v-203r Nasmith Epistola Canuti regis Angliae scripta Romae, in qua testatur papam concessisse, ut archiepiscopi Angliae non amplius Romam ire cogerentur pallii causa:- cui subjungitur brevis narratio rerum Anglicanarum a morte Canuti ad mortem filii ejus Hardicnuti. 199v-203r Note (199v) Begins abruptly: huius etiam instantia. The opening words are supplied on the last page of the volume (f. 257v) f. 203r blank Title On the early statutes of the church of Worcester and of the possessions given to it by kings and vassals. 203v-206v Nasmith De pontificali sede quomodo primitus statuta sit Wigorniae, et de possessionibus quae a regibus subregulis et bonae recordationis viris datae sunt Wigornensi ecclesiae. 203v-206v Incipit (203v) Egregio Merciorum regi Wifario ... germanus suus generosus rex Sanctus Athelredus in regnum successit Explicit (206r) Herebertum Herefordensem Episcopum baculo pastorali privavit Note Haec descripta e libro quodam veteri ecclesiae Wigorniensis vocato opusculum Bedae de diversis episcopatibus Rubric (206r) Hec descripta e Libro quodam veteri etc., as Nasmith Note f. 206v blank Title Brief annals of English affairs 1530-1540. 207r-232r Nasmith Breve annales rerum memorabilium in Anglia, praesertim ab anno 1530 ad annum 1540. 207r-232r Incipit (207r) A. d. mill. quingent. trices. septimo Invictissimus Rex henricus octauus misit literas suas Abbati et Conuentui Sancti augustini de comutacione terr. (207r) Anno regni tricesimo regi Henrici Octavimonasterium Augustini prefatum extra muros Ciuitatis Cantuariensis in festo domini Petri ad vincula dissolutum est et monachi expulsi doctore Leython. Anthonio sentleger et Joh. Moile commissar' Note The latest events noted are in 1540. Chronological order is not kept. The last entry is 1537: surrender of Abingdon Abbey and Boxley Priory, with the rood ff. 33v-53r blank Title Excerpt from the history of Jervaulx abbey at the time of King Edgar concerning the true cross at Winchester. 232v-233r Nasmith Excerpta ab historia libri monasterii Jorevallensis in vita regis Edgari, de cruce loquente apud Winton. 232v-233r Note (232v) One page f. 233r blank Title Letter from Pope Alexander II to William the Conqueror, late 1071, and excerpts from the Passionale Sancti Ignatii. 233v-234r Nasmith Epistola Alexandri papae ad Wilhelmum conquisitorem. 233v-234r Author Pope Alexander II Note e quodam vetusto libro ecclesiae Cantuariensis vocato passionale Sancti Ignacii jam in manibus Magistri Bower Rubric (233v) Ex quodam vetusto libro quondam ecclesiae Cantuariensis iam in manibus magistri Bower (Thomas Bowyer?) Note (233v) Liber vocatur passionale Sancti Ignatii The book appears to have been lost: but the flyleaf is in Trinity College MS. O.2.51 Title Canons of the primatial council at Winchester, 1076. 234v-234v Nasmith De synodo habita Winton. anno 1076, ubi matrimonia clericorum prohibebantur. 234v-234v Note ex vetusto libro e bibliotheca Wigorniense Rubric (234v) Ex vetusto libro e Bibliotheca Wigorniensis ecclesiae et in duobus libris habetur Note ?MS 190. 26 Title Profession of Thomas archbishop of York and list of all other bishops who made professions to the archbishop of Canterbury. 235r-236r Nasmith Professio Thomae Eboracensi archiepiscopi: et catalogus omnium episcoporum qui tales professiones fecerunt archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus. 235r-236r Rubric (235r) Petitio clericorum Eboraci Note (235r) Ex libro veteri ecclesiae Cantuariensis Title Canons of the synod of bishops Patricius and Isernius. (The first synod of St Patrick. 236v-238r Nasmith Canones synodi episcoporum Patricii et Issernini. 236v-238r Rubric (236v) Ex libro quodam vetusto ecclesiae Wigorniensis Note = MS 279 (List of professions (article 21) is continued on 58r) ff. 237v-238r blank Title Synod of London under Anselm (1102), decree against clerical marriage. 238v-239v Nasmith Synodus Londini sub Anselmo contra uxores presbiterorum. 238v-239v Rubric (238v) E libro vetusto ecclesiae Cantuariensis Incipit (238v) Hec sunt statuta de archidiaconibus Explicit (238r) et concubine cum rebus suis velut adultere Note f. 61v blank Title Letter of Pope Paschal II to Anselm (epistola 43). 240r-241v Nasmith Paschalis papa ad Anselmum. 240r-241v Author Pope Paschal II Note (240r) Hec epistola habetur inter Epistolae Anselmi centur. 2 Epistola 43 From MS 135(?) ff. 62v, 63r-63v blank Title On translating the Bible into English. 242r-252r Nasmith A determination of a doctor of divinity against them that say it is not lawful to have holy writte and other bookes in Englishe. 242r-252r Rubric (242r) This is a determinacion etc. Incipit (242r) Agaynst theym that say that holy wrytt shulde not be drawen into Englishe Explicit (243r) and other landes also haue the Bible in their mother tong, as Italy Note (bottom of f. 65r) At top of f. 65v a space and hec ... ta sunt ex quodam lacero fragmento Bibliothecae Wigorniensis Text continues: hathe in latin for þat is her moder tonge and by many yeres haue hade Ends Explicit (245v) is not ells but þe habite of right speakinge and right pronouncinge and right writinge Note See Ussher's Historia Dogmatica, s. v. 1410, and MS 100. 3 ff. 68r-74r blank Title Nicholas Trevet OP, Quaestiones quodlibetales (extract, I. q. 13). 252v-257v Nasmith Questio determinata per Magistrum Nicolaum dictum Trivet de ordine predicatorum, quod omnia sunt admittenda quae tradit ecclesia circa passionem Christi. 252v-257v Author Nicholas Trevet OP Incipit (252v) Questio utrum omnia sint admittenda que tradit ecclesia circa passionem christi Note Deals with the date principally: ends Explicit (253v) Quinta decima 8 kalendas apriles indic(t)ione Note ff. 254r-257r, 258r-258v blank On f. 79v notes in a good hand on Alfred
TJames	171
Stanley	N. 7
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/jd333ny9731
Location	MS 298
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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