Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 043: William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta pontificum Anglorum. Adam of Eynsham OSB, Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham

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Abstract/Contents

Summary: CCCC MS 43 contains a copy of William of Malmesbury OSB (c. 1080-1143), Gesta pontificum Anglorum, together with a complete version of Adam of Eynsham OSB (d. after 1233) Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham. The greater part of the text is in a late fourteenth-century hand, but the fifth book of the Gesta pontificum, together with extracts from William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum, have been added in sixteenth-century hands. Parker and his secretaries have added a number of aides mémoires to the margins of the text, revealing their interest in the history of the English episcopacy. Some fourteenth-century notes at the end of the manuscript, together with the script and ornament, led M. R. James to believe that the manuscript had an East Anglian provenance, possibly from Norwich, but its exact provenance remains unknown.
Contents: Gesta pontificum Anglorum, books 1-4 -- Gesta pontificum Anglorum, book 5 -- Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham -- Gesta regum Anglorum, book 1 (excerpts)

Description

Alternative title	William of Malmesbury. Gesta Pontificum
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 1 + 64 + 56 + 24
Date created	[ca. 1300 - 1399]
Language	Latin
Material	vellum, Vellum and paper, paper
Layout	double columns of 46 lines
Height (mm)	340
Width (mm)	210
Collation	1 flyleaf, 1(8)-8(8) (wants 8, supplied in cent. xvi) \| 56 leaves of paper follow of cent. xvi \| 9(8)-11(8).
Writing	in pale ink
Foliation	ff. a-b + i + 1-119 + 119a + 120-142 + ii + c-d
Provenance	Possibly from Norwich, see below: it may have been the property of Bale., The contents show an interest in East Anglian matters. The look of the book, style of script and ornament incline me to suggest Norwich as its home. There is a xvth cent. note on the same page of payments. The MS. is mentioned as no. 17 in the Rolls edition. Parker and his secretaries have made many marginal notes.
2 fo.	laude et dulcedine

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xiv (and xvi)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hh299wv6310/MS_43.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ym769rc5484/43.pdf
Contains	Title William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta pontificum Anglorum, books 1-4. 1r-68v James Will. Malmesbury. Gesta Pontificum. 1r-68v Author William of Malmesbury OSB Rubric (1r) Incipit liber W. Malmesburiensis monachi de summis pontificibus liber primus Incipit (1r) Prima sedes episcoporum Note (27r) Liber II (41v) Liber III (54v) Liber IV The old hand ends in IV 186 (p. 326 Rolls Ed.) Explicit (63v) herbarum uiridantibus Note f. 64r is a supply of cent. xvi on vellum Title William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta pontificum Anglorum, book 5. 69r-119av Author William of Malmesbury OSB Note Then follows the fifth book supplied on paper (28 lines to a page) by one of Parker's secretaries, ending 89 8 blank leaves follow (119av) On the verso of the last is a note in Latin on the fabulosity of the next article Title Adam of Eynsham OSB, Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham. 120r-141v Author Adam of Eynsham OSB Note (120r) Vision of the monk of Eynesham Rubric (120r) Incipit tractatus de uisione monachi Eneshamie. anno domini 1196 Note (This rubric is later than the text, and the last three words are of cent. xvi) The text is in a hand of the same character (possibly in the same hand) as no. 1 Incipit (120r) Quoniam notissimum habetur quod diem terris sole post tenebras Note Ends Explicit (141v) uirtus et magnificencia regnumque et imperium in secula seculorum. Amen Note It is the full text by Adam of Eynesham. See Ward, Catalogue of Romances II 493 Title William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta regum Anglorum, book 1 (excerpts). 142r-142v Author William of Malmesbury OSB Note (142r) On the following page in a hand of cent. xvi in double columns is an abridged extract from the Gesta Regum beginning Incipit (142r) et profecto conceptum opus pietas explesset Note (145, p. 46 Rolls Ed.) Ending Explicit (142v) post beatum Aldelmum et Bedam doctissimus Note (Rolls Ed. p. 69) At the top of this page in a hand of cent. xiv like that of the text is a note (142v) Episcopi Estanglorum notantur fo. xxmo ixo sec. W. Malmsberi et de factis Herberti episcopi et de sedibus apud helmam et Theford. Eliense monasterium post (?primo) constituit S. Etheldrida postea S. Athelwoldus Ep. monachos induxit folio 63
TJames	82
Stanley	H. 1
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/jp667cv9012
Location	MS 043
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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