Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 060: John of Saint-Victor OSA, Memoriale historiarum
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 60 contains a copy of the Memoriale historiarum, a chronicle with particular emphasis on France, attributed to John of Paris (d. 1306) (or sometimes John of Saint-Victor), who is also called Jean Boyvin in the description of a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century copy of the same text now in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris (MS 516). The Corpus manuscript is copied in a late fourteenth-century hand and is accompanied by a genealogy tracing the descent of Edward III from the French royal family, presumably part of the English propaganda campaign of the Hundred Years' War. Parker gave a version of the Memoriale to Cambridge University Library (now CUL MS Ii. 2. 18) and a copy was reportedly in the library of Sir Walter Cope (c. 1553-1614), gentleman usher to Parker's colleague in government, William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
- Contents
- Memoriale historiarum
Description
Alternative title | Iohannes Parisiensis memoriale Historiarum |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 275 + 1 |
Date created | [ca. 1375 - 1399] |
Language | Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | double columns of 50 lines |
Height (mm) | 318 |
Width (mm) | 225 |
Collation | 1 flyleaf, 1(12)-17(12) (wants 5) 18(12)-22(12) | gap | 23(12) (1 now bound as 11). |
Writing | in clear ugly black hand |
Foliation | ff. aa + a-b + i + 1-196 (197 missing) + 198-264 (265-277 missing) + 278-289 + c-d |
Provenance | An erased inscription on f. 1r at top: Cronica magna boa de librario. (?) Cronica magna V. On f. 39r: Ihesus hawe marcye off me amen Jo beyk. At top of text: I parisiensis G. |
Research | Hardy III 375. Tanner Bibl. p. 572 mentions a Flores historiarum by this author in bibliotheca Gualteri Cope. Compare the Memoriale historiarum given by Parker to the University Library (Ii. 2. 18). This volume, handsomely written in cent. xiv late, in double columns of 47 lines, begins: Labilis est hominum memoria ...cum dei adiutorio perstringemus In huius operis inicio primum de diuersarum origine gencium but ends exactly as the Corpus Christi copy, as Joscelin has noted. Duchesne Historiae Francorum Scriptores I 128-133 prints a passage from a Memoriale Historiarum Ioannis Parisiensis Canon. Regul. ap. S. Victorem MS. which occurs in the University Library MS., pp. 19-24. |
2 fo. | est per prelium |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xiv late |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 20 |
Stanley | B. 8 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qk452gk8977 |
Location | MS 060 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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