Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 060: John of Saint-Victor OSA, Memoriale historiarum

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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

Alternative title	Iohannes Parisiensis memoriale Historiarum
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.
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M.R. James Date	xiv late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jk621ky9152/MS_60.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wm196rk8722/60.pdf
Contains	Title John of Saint-Victor OSA, Memoriale historiarum. 1r-289r Author John of Saint-Victor OSA Incipit (1r) In exordio rerum et initio creaturarum opifex omnium deus Note The gaps are at William I (1 leaf) and the end of Edward I (a quire) Ends in 1322 Explicit (289r) propter hoc fecit ei dictus comes multas iniurias et penurias perpeti sine causa Note On the verso of the last leaf is a note (289v) Liber iste vocatur collectorium hystoriarum quia in eo collecta sunt utiliora et notabiliora excerpta primo de ystoriis sacre scripture etc. (not important) followed by Tabula progenierum francie showing the descent of Edward from Philippe le conqueraunt With explanatory text in French below
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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