Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 369: Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III, continuatio eiusdem chronice ad Edwardum III

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Summary: CCCC MS 369 contains a miscellany of historical texts, including genealogies of the English kings, the earls of Chester and the Hastangs family and lists of castles and religious houses in Britain copied at various times in the fourteenth, early fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The most substantial text in this slim volume is a chronicle from the arrival of the Saxons to the reign of Henry III with continuations in various hands down to 1337. This section can probably be dated c. 1425. The basis of the chronicle in this manuscript was identified by Hardy in the late nineteenth century as being a work by John Bever (d. c. 1311) known as the Brutus abbreuiato. The provenance of this manuscript is uncertain, with Ker demurring from James' belief that it may have been from Lichfield.
Contents: Descriptio genealogiae comitum Cestriae -- Laus Angliae -- Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III. anno 1216, lib. vi -- Continuatio ejusdem chronici (regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III) ad Edwardum III -- Poem 'On the Rebellion of Jack Straw' -- Genealogy of the Hastangs family

Description

Alternative title	Chronica, etc.
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 47
Date created	[ca. 1300 - 1499]
Language	Latin; English
Material	Vellum and paper, Paper
Layout	several volumes, varying numbers of lines
Height (mm)	221
Width (mm)	143
Collation	1 (eleven (vide diagram) + slip) 2(12) (12 canc.) 3(8) 4(10) 5 (paper: seven).
Writing	irregularly written in various rather careless and ugly hands
Foliation	ff. i-ii + 1-8 + 8a + 9-48 + iii-iv
Provenance	Possibly from Lichfield: see on f. 40v.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xv and xiv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sr374hh7729/MS_369.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jd930pj5897/369.pdf
Contains	Title Descriptio genealogiae comitum Cestriae. 1r-4r Nasmith Descriptio genealogiae comitum Cestriae a primo comite Hugone Lupo ad ultimum comitem Iohannem de Scotia. 1r-4r Note In double columns of 35 lines. Cent. xiv-xv Incipit (1r) Descriptio geneolagie comitatum (!) cestrie a primo comite hugone lowe latine lupo cognomine usque ad ultimum comitem iohannem de Scocia Explicit (3v) Anno domini mo cco liiijo henricus rex anglie dedit Edwardo filio suo primogenito comitatum cestrie et sic omnes primogeniti Regum anglie deinceps facti sunt comites Cestrie Rubric (4r) Explicit etc. Title Laus Angliae. 4r-4v Nasmith Laus Angliae: - tempora quibus ordines religiosi fundebantur - catalogus regum Saxonum, in uno folio. 4r-4v Note In other hands Title Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III. anno 1216, lib. vi. 5r-40v Nasmith Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III. anno 1216, lib. vi. 5r-40v Note Sextus liber continet catalogum episcopatuum abbatiarum prioratuum castellorum et decanatuum in quolibet Angliae comitatu, in comitatibus Leonis et Fife in Scotia, et in Wallia; et an monachi vel moniales erant, albi vel nigri vel grisei. Opus ut videtur seculo xiii compilatum, episcopatus enim Carliolensis novus dicitur (5r) Chronicle. Liber primus Rubric (5r) De participatione Anglie et quot regna fuerunt? in ea Incipit (5r) Primum igitur erat regnum Cantuariorum. Secundum erat Westsaxonum ... et ab Anglis Anglia nuncupatur Rubric (5r) De origine Anglorum Incipit (5r) De tribus Germanie populis venerunt angli Note (11v) Ends with list of kings to Henry V (12r) Liber II Rubric (12r) De Ina rege Note (17r) Liber III Rubric (17r) De Ricicardo duce Normannie qui appellatus est filius willi Long spy Note ff. 15v - 19r are from Liber V, Liber III continues at f. 20r Liber IV Rubric (25v) Quomodo Robertus Willelmum Bastardum genuit Note But on f. 30r we have Explicit liber tercius: followed by a note on the books Primus liber de particione anglie et quot regna fuerunt in ea, etc. Liber secundus de historiis anglorum usque ad conquestum et de gestis eorum Liber tercius de gestis normannorum usque ad Will. Bastard Item Liber quartus de gestis normannorum usque ad conquestum anglie per Willelmum Bastardum Liber quintus de conquestus Anglie per Willelmum Bastardum et de regibus succedentibus Liber sextus de descripcione comitatuum tocius britannie et de summa domuum religiosorum In another hand: (30r) Notes on events in 1203, 1204 (30v) Genealogy from Priam to Brutus, and back to Noah (31r) Continues in former hand Incipit (31r) Anno igitur domini mo co nonagesimo nono successit eidem Ricardo Iohannes frater suus Explicit (32r) diaconus iudeus effectus degradatus est et in ignem a laicis proiectus Note Liber VI (32r) List of counties Incipit (32r) Has itaque sciras uel comitatus alio quidam numerant ordine, etc. Note (32v) List of religious houses and castles by counties. (The list is in tabular form, in three columns, arranged horizontally) Rubric (32v) I. Cancia Note (32v) (Column I) Archiepiscopatus(Column II)Cantuarie Sancte Trinitatis(Column III) monachi nigri The last are Durham, In Scocia In loeneis (Lothian) regis Scocie, In comitatu de ffyff in Scocia, Episcopatus et Abbatie in Wallia (40v) Ending Notes in other hands on St Chad (one perhaps in the hand of Roger Wall of Lichfield) See Hardy III 39, 43, 282 Title Continuatio ejusdem chronici (regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III) ad Edwardum III. 41r-47r Nasmith Continuatio ejusdem chronici (regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III) ad Edw. III. 41r-47r Note (41r) Paper Rubric (41r) Anno gracie mo cco xvjo Incipit (41r) Henricus rex filius regis Johannis puer nouem annorum iussu Walonis legati unctus est in regem Note Ends in 1337 (46v) Dominus Rex cepit lanam ad certum numerum saccorum, etc. Explicit (46v) tam mercatorum quam aliorum Note (47r) blank Title Poem 'On the Rebellion of Jack Straw'. 47v-48r Nasmith Versus de insurrectione plebis regnante Ricardo II. 47v-48r Note Princip. Tax has tenet us alle, probat hoc mors tot validorum The kyng the of hade smalle fuit in manibus cupidorum. Rubric (47v) xvio kalendas Augusti anno domini millesimo ccco septuagesimo vijo Coronacio Regis Ricardi secundi post conquestum anno etatis sue vndecimo Incipit (47v) Tax has tenet vs alle probat hoc mors tot validorum ... baculus capiatur et equs Note Wright, Political Poems (Rolls I 224) Title Genealogy of the Hastangs family. 48v-48v Nasmith Genealogia familiae de Hastangs. 48v-48v Rubric (48v) Gradus consanguinitatis talis est Incipit (48v) Stipes et pater vocabatur Robertus de hastang de quo processit Johannes hastang filius suus et heres ac eciam quedam Johanna, etc. Note Katherine daughter of John quondam uxor Radulphi Comitis Stafford her daughter Johanna uxor domini Nicholi de Beeke her dau. Elizabet uxor domini Roberti de Swynneston in alia parte ultimo descripto adhuc viuentis The issue of Johanna Hastang is then given
TJames	329
Stanley	11. 8
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/kg825fb3377
Location	MS 369
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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