Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 393: Historia Eliensis

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Summary: CCCC MS 393 contains the Historia Eliensis, an account of the history of the Benedictine cathedral priory of Ely written c. 1130 at Ely, with press marks and inscriptions revealing that it remained there throughout the medieval period. The manuscript contains a number of important hagiographical texts relating to the lives and miracles of saints associated with the priory, including the unique copy of the Vita et miracula Sanctae Etheldredae metrice by Gregory of Ely OSB (d. after 1116), and another important text describing the posthumous miracles of St Etheldreda.
Contents: Vita et miracula beatae Ã†thelthrythae -- Vita et miracula Sanctae Etheldredae metrice -- Description of the Isle of Ely -- Vita Sanctae Wihtburgae virginis -- Lectiones in festiuitate Sanctae Sexburgae -- Lectiones in natale Sanctae Eormenhilde -- Vita Sanctae Werburgae

Description

Alternative title	Historia Eliensis
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 1 + 82 + 1
Date created	[ca. 1100 - 1199]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	24 lines to a page
Height (mm)	220
Width (mm)	150
Collation	1 flyleaf , 1(8)-3(8) 4(10) (misbound) 5(8)-8(8) 9(10) 10(8) (wants 7, 8), 1 flyleaf.
Writing	in a very beautiful clear upright round hand
Foliation	ff. a + i + 1-82 + ii + b
Provenance	From Ely Priory. On the R. margin of f. 1r is the Ely mark erased. The lower edge of the leaf has been cut off. On f. 82v below the text is an erased inscription: iste liber pertinet ecclesie de ely.
Additions	On f. iv old title: de vita S. Erkengote et de vita S. Etheldrede, etc. The lines: Hec sunt helye, etc. in a hand of cent. xv. Date of Augustine's coming (xv).

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pj149ps9182/MS_393.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tk898kd8069/393.pdf
Contains	Title Vita et miracula beatae Æthelthrythae. 1r-33v Nasmith Vita et miracula beatae Etheldrithae. 1r-33v Note (1r) Large and fine initial in colour, with yellow-brown ground Incipit (1r) Anno ab incarnatione dominica DC xvi qui est annus uigesimus primus ex quo augustinus Explicit (2v) in magna gloria solet celebrari die nonarum iuliarum Incipit (3r) Beata et gloriosa uirgo Aetheldritha utriusque titulo nobilitatis insignita Note (not in BHL) (3r) Fine initial with blue ground Explicit (33v) referens cunctis audire uolentibus omnia que ei contigerunt Title Gregory of Ely OSB, Vita et miracula Sanctae Etheldredae metrice. 33v-58v Nasmith Vita et gesta ejusdem per Gregorium Eliensem monachum versifice composita. 33v-58v Author Gregory of Ely OSB Rubric (33v) Incipit prologus in libellum de uita et gestis Beate ÆÐELÐREÐE uirginis quem uersifice composuit Gregorius Eliensis monachus Incipit (34r) Qui iouis ardores rapti ganimedis amores Note (34r) Handsome blue initial Explicit (34r) Ut rosa pulchra rubens ut lilia florida candens Rubric (34v) Explicit prologus (34v) Incipit liber primus de uita et obitu Beate Æðeldriðe Uirginis et anglorum regine Incipit (34v) Celum sideribus decoratur. lumine. phebus Autunnus pomis. uer floribus. uua racemis Explicit (39v) Effectumque rei sic ELGE dicimus ely Rubric (39v) Explicit Vita Sancte Æðeldriðe Virginis (42r) Incipit prologus in librum II de miraculis eiusdem Incipit (42r) Scribere uirtutum uirgo sacra gesta tuarum Rubric (42r) Capitula libri secundi Incipit (42r) De statu anglie, etc. Note Text Incipit (42v) Postquam deuicto mundo pariterque relicto Explicit (50r) Que bis nupsisti dotem geminam meruisti Note Epilogue to liber II or Prologue to liber III Incipit (50v) Virgo uirgineas utinam te uirgine dignas Explicit (50v) Tertius expressit nostro que tempore gessit Note (50v) Capitula, unfinished Text Incipit (51r) Anglorum populis diuersa sorte minutis Note Ends unfinished Explicit (55r) Virginis ut meritum testantia nobile factum Note (Of the prisoner Brithstanus delivered) ff. 55v-58v blank Hardy I 280. BHL. 2639 Title Description of the Isle of Ely. 39v-41v Nasmith Descriptio situs Eliensis insulae et de quibusdam ejusdem insulae proprietatibus. 39v-41v Note (ut opinor ejusdem autoris) Rubric (39v) Incipit Descriptio situs eliensis insule et de quibusdam insule proprietatibus Incipit (40r) Iam locus atque loci tanto splendore decori Rubric (41v) Epilogus primi libri Note ending Explicit (41v) Fructum centenum cumulans tibi fenore plenum Title Vita Sanctae Wihtburgae virginis. 59r-69r Nasmith Vita Beatae Withburgae sororis Beatae Ætheldrithae. 59r-69r Note In protocollo (f. iv), haec sunt Helye lanterna capella Mariae astque molendinum multum dans vinea vinum continet insontes quos vallant undique pontes hos ditant montes nec desunt flumina fontes (Wharton, Anglia Sacra I. 592) Later heading Rubric (59r) De Sancta Wythburga sorore Sancte Ætheldrede virginis (59r) Prohemium in vita Sancte Wihtburge virginis Incipit (59r) Orientale orientalium anglorum sidus Note (59r) Good initial, Withburga nimbed, throned, holding flowering branch and crown. Drapery outlined with green and blue. Ground, blue Explicit (59v) nec sensus sufficiat nec lingua nec manus Rubric (59v) Vita eiusdem Incipit (59v) Filia et aurora lucis etheree nata regaliter Explicit (69r) diem quo incorrupto ostensa est corpore Note Hardy I 469. Mostly abridged from the text in Trinity O. 2. 1 Title Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in festiuitate Sanctae Sexburgae. 69r-71v James In festivitate Sancte Sexburge. 69r-71v Author Goscelin of Saint-Bertin Incipit (69r) Regum proles et regum parens Explicit (71v) testatur se posidere cum Christo regna celestia ipso prestante qui cum patre et spiritu sancto regnat in eterna secula Note Hardy I 361 mentions the same text as in Caligula A. 8, but does not mention this copy Title Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in natale Sanctae Eormenhilde. 71v-75r James In natale Sancte Eormenilde. 71v-75r Author Goscelin of Saint-Bertin Incipit (71v) De beata et deo digna Eormenilda eadem fere recensemus Note Ends Explicit (75r) consortio perfruamur largiente ipso domino saluatore nostro qui omnium seculorum dominatur cum deo patre et spiritus Sancto. Amen Note Hardy I 368. Also in Caligula A. 8 and Trinity College O. 2. 1 Title Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sanctae Werburgae. 75r-iir James Vita Sancte Werburge virginis. 75r-iir Author Goscelin of Saint-Bertin Incipit (75r) Filia regum et sponsa Christi decentissima Note Ends Explicit (81v) annuat inquam ipse saluator qui cum patre et spiritus Sancto in omnia secula regnat et dominatur. Amen Note By Goscelin (?). Hardy I 421, who does not mention this copy. Also in Caligula A. 8, Acta Sanctorum 3 Feb. (I 386) (iir) On the flyleaf is a note (xiv?) (iir) Erconbertus et sexburga. Dux tonbertus. Sancta Etheldreda. Rex Egfrid. Sancta Withburga. Rex Wlferus. Sancta Ermenilda. Sanctus Petrus Sanctus Benedictus Perhaps this is a list of figures on a shrine or painting (iir) A rough pencil sketch of a church and a very faint inscription in old pencil
TJames	103
Stanley	I. 13
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/nt685jr6866
Location	MS 393
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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