Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 016I: Matthew Paris OSB, Chronica maiora II
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- Matthew Paris OSB (c. 1200-59), a Benedictine monk of St Albans Abbey, was their official chronicler who wrote chronicles covering both world history and British history. These two volumes are of his most important work, the Chronica maiora, covering world history, but with a particular emphasis on that of Britain - vol I is CCCC MS 26 and vol II is CCCC MS 16, their production dating to the period c. 1240-55. Matthew was also a talented artist who was both scribe and illustrator of his own chronicles. These volumes have coloured marginal drawings, and also signs and heraldic shields in the borders signifying the persons and incidents in their lives, and also signifying their deaths, set beside the text passages mentioning these events. Recently, in 2003, the prefatory section to MS 16 (ff. i recto - v verso), containing lists and genealogies of kings, a diagram of the winds, itineraries, maps, and the picture of the elephant given by Louis IX to Henry III, has been bound separately as MS 16I. The part containing the chronicle text itself, ff. 1v-282r, has been rebound as MS 16II.
- Contents
- Chronica maiora II (preliminary matter)
Description
| Alternative title | Matthaei Paris Chronica Maiora II |
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| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 5 + 281 |
| Date created | [ca. 1200 - 1299] |
| Language | Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | double columns of 56 and 52 lines |
| Height (mm) | 358 |
| Width (mm) | 244 |
| Collation | a(6?) (wants 6) | I(10) (wanting 4-7, which are replaced by 7 leaves (6 + 1) inserted by Parker, with about 44 lines to a page) II(10) (1 replaced by 2 leaves in the second hand) III(10) IV(12) (+ 1 after 2nd and a half-leaf after 7th) V(12) VI(14) (or 12 + 2: in two hands, the second beginning art the 5th leaf) VII(16) (+1) VIII(14) IX(12) (wants 1; no number on last leaf) X(8 + 1) (originally 8, 2nd leaf replaced by two) XI(12) XII(14) XIII(12) XIV(12) (+ 1: the quire is numbered XXVII) XIIII(8) (+1) XV (eight leaves, but 1 is alone, 2 is alone, 3, 4 are one sheet, 5-8 a quire of 4) XVI (23 leaves: first 4 leaves: then leaves numbered I-XIII, partly a quire of 10: then 6 leaves (2-3 forming a pair)) XVII(12) (12 canc.?) XVIII(10) (1-4, 7-10 original: 5-6 a pair inserted by Parker) XIX(8) XX(12) (or 10 + 2) XXI(12) (not numbered) XXII (twelve leaves, misbound, a leaf lost at the end). |
| Writing | in four(?) hands |
| Foliation | ff. a-b + i-v + c-d |
| Provenance | This volume appears to have been in the hands of Robert Talbot prebendary of Norwich (1547-1558) who has written a note on f. 245r. It afterwards belonged to Sir Henry Sidney, K.G., from whom Parker borrowed it. |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xiii |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| TJames | 25 |
| Stanley | C. 5 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/rb378fk5493 |
| Location | MS 016I |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
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