Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 342: John of Rainham OSB (attrib.), Annales ecclesiae Roffensis

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Summary: CCCC MS 342 demonstrates that Matthew Parker was not solely concerned to acquire original copies of manuscript material that interested him, but that he actively sought to propagate new copies of texts. This manuscript contains a version of the Flores historiarum (Annales ecclesiae Roffensis) with a particular emphasis on events in Rochester, sometimes attributed to Edmund of Haddenham OSB (fl. c. 1300), a monk of Rochester or John of Rainham OSB (d. 1294), prior of Rochester. This text was copied, on Parker's instructions, directly from BL Cotton Nero D.II, itself in the hands of Parker's secretary, John Joscelin (1529-1603) at the time. Parker's characteristic red chalk underlining in this volume reveals his interest in the subject of clerical marriage, a matter of more than public and historical interest to the Archbishop of Canterbury who was, despite Queen Elizabeth I's objections, a married man.
Contents: Annales ecclesiae Roffensis (a version of the Flores historiarum)

Description

Alternative title	Historia Roffensis
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 130 written
Date created	[ca. 1500 - 1599]
Language	Latin
Material	Paper
Height (mm)	370
Width (mm)	243
Writing	in several hands of cent. xvi, some extremely good
Foliation	ff. a + i-v + 1-130 + vi
Provenance	The volume is evidently a transcript of Nero D. 2 (on which see Luard, Flores Historiarum I p. xxvi). Wharton, Anglia Sacra I 341 (and p. xxxi) printed a great part of the passages relating to Rochester. Nero D. 2 formerly belonged to Joscelin, and the note mentioned by Nasmith was written by him therein.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xvi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rx797kq9936/MS_342.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ds820dk8640/342.pdf
Contains	Title John of Rainham OSB (attrib.), Annales ecclesiae Roffensis (a version of the Flores historiarum). 1r-129v Author John of Rainham OSB (attrib.) Note Chronicon desumptum ex historia Roffensi ab anno 179 ad annum 1377.Haec omnia desumpta sunt ex historia Roffensi, quam ut verisimile est tres monachi ejusdem ecclesiae sese ordine in opere succedentes composuere: non enim est unius sonus totius orationis, non idem stylus; sed triplex quidem ratio constructionis. Quorum monachorum primus deducit historiam ab mundi initio ad obitum Henrici III. ad annum videlicet Domini 1273, quando apparet monachum claruisse; alter adjecit historiam Edwardi I. filii prefati Henrici, qui obiit anno Domini 1307; reliquam persecutus est monachorum tertius: quibus autem appellationibus fuere hi monachi me latet. Prefata historia Roffensis nisi cum agat de rebus ecclesiae Roffensis est omnino eadem cum historia [Matthei Westmonast.] quae dicitur flores historiarum. Duas priores partes hujus historiae, videlicet ad annum 1307, Edmundo de Haddenham ascribendas putat Cl. Whartonus, et tertiam partem monachum ejusdem cenobii autorem non habuisse quod in ea nulla fit mentio de rebus Roffensibus. Chronico praemittitur brevis historia de ecclesiis fundatis ante adventum Normannorum in Anglia ex eodem libro Roffensi. Rubric (1r) Britannia primo fidem Christi suscepit anno 179 ut ueriores annales commemorant per lucium tunc temporis regem Incipit (1r) Eleutherus papa sedit in chathedra Romana annis quindecem mensibus sex Note Ends Incipit (129v) 1377. Hoc anno cardinalis Angliae Explicit (129v) et in festo eiusdem magdalene spiritum exhalavit Note Then follows the note given above Incipit (129v) Hec omnia desumpta sunt ex historia Roffensi
TJames	326
Stanley	9. 2
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/mx583dd3116
Location	MS 342
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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