Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 290: Ado of Vienne, Chronica

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Summary
CCCC MS 290 was almost certainly produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Albans, Hertfordshire, in the late eleventh or early twelfth century. It contains a number of texts concerned with continental history, of which the main texts are the Chronicon (De sex aetatibus mundi) of Ado of Vienne (d. 875), followed by genealogies of the Frankish kings and the dukes of Normandy. In the early fourteenth century the Registrum Anglie recorded that the manuscript was still at St Albans. The flyleaves preserve deeds bearing the date 1521 and a notarial mark which mentions John Dowman (or Dolman) LLD (d.1524), elected Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1495.
Contents
Chronica

Description

Alternative title Chronica Odonis (Adonis)
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 2 + 118 + 2
Date created [ca. 1000 - 1199]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout 25 lines to a page
Height (mm) 257
Width (mm) 175
Collation a(2) I(8)-XV(8) (wants 7, 8), 2 flyleaves.
Writing very well written
Foliation ff. a-b + i-ii + pp. 1-164 + 164a-b + 165-234 + ff. iii-iv + c-d
Provenance On f. iir an erasure not recoverable. On f. iiv erased: Cronica Odonis Abbatis. At top of f. 1r an obliterated line in red which I am almost sure was: Liber S. Albani ... titulum deleuerit anathema sit amen. The main hand is very like that of Christ Church, Canterbury.
Additions The flyleaves at end are part of a deed of cent. xvi, with notarial mark.
2 fo. dccc. vii. Porro

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xi-xii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:xn508qd1641/MS_290.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mn178fq8449/290.pdf
Contains
Title
Ado of Vienne, Chronica. 1-234
James
Chronica Odonis (Adonis). 1-234
Author
Ado of Vienne
Note
On f. iv note on the author Ex Joh. parisiensi a. d. 900
Fine initial on f. 1r in pale colours and pen and ink ornament
Rubric
(1) Incipit cronica odonis abbatis (l. Adonis)
Incipit
(1) Breues temporum annotationes per generationes et regna. Primus ex nostris Iulius Affricanus
Note
(P. L. CXXIII 23)
Explicit
(221) dehonestatus iniuria moritur
Incipit
(221) Ab orbe condito usque ad urbem conditam Anni iiiior milia cccc octuaginta iiiior
Explicit
(224) Anno dccxxiii Leoni successit Constantinus
Incipit
(225) Anno dominicae incarnationis dccc lxx vi Rollo cum normannis gallis appulit
Note
Ends
Explicit
(225) Anno i (blank) Obiit Willelmus rex Anglorum
Note
(this in another hand)
Rubric
(225) Incipit genealogia Regum Francorum
Incipit
(225) Ex genealogia Priami fuit Meroueus pater Childerici
Explicit
(232) karlomannum pariter sue benedictionis oleo perunxit
Rubric
(232) Item genealogia Regum
Incipit
(232) Ex genealogia Priami fuit meroueus qui genuit Childericum
Explicit
(233) ludouicus qui fuit huius prosapie regalis rex ultimus
Note
Another hand
Incipit
(233) Karolus princeps Pipini regis filius
Note
(Condemnation of Charles: dragon comes out of his tomb)
Explicit
(234) nobis uiua uoce sunt testati que uiderunt et audierunt
TJames 9
Stanley A. 9
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/kc237kj0918
Location MS 290
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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