Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 276: Histories of the Romans and Normans

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Summary: CCCC MS 276 is a witness to the cultural influences at work at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, in the first generations after the Norman Conquest. It contains two separate volumes which have been together since the twelfth century: the first was written in the late eleventh century and contains the Historia Romana, a version of Eutropius' Breuiarium ab urbe condita by Paul the Deacon (c. 720/30-99); the second was written circa 1100 and contains the De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum (Historia Normannorum) of Dudo of Saint-Quentin (c. 960-1026). Both were made at St Augustine's. The first volume contains the work of two co-operating scribes, one writing an angular Norman hand, the other the round exaggerated Anglo-Caroline typical of St Augustine's at this date. Mont-St-Michel influence has been detected in the initials. The manuscript was owned by a certain William Carye before Parker acquired it.
Contents: Historia Romana (an augmentation of Flavius Eutropius, Breuiarium ab urbe condita) -- Spurious charter of Pope Leo VIII -- De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum

Description

Alternative title	Eutropius. Dudo
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 2 + 134 + 2
Date created	[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Language	Latin; Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material	Vellum
Layout	varying numbers of lines to a page
Height (mm)	266
Width (mm)	180
Collation	a(2) 1(8)-6(8) 7(6) \| I(8)-X(8) \| b(2).
Writing	in various hands, all very good
Foliation	ff. a + i-ii + 1-136 + b
Provenance	From St Augustine's, Canterbury. On f. ir an erasure, also: S (?) lib. ffre. Walter' Vls ... . On f. iiv: Historia Romanorum et normannorum (xiii): added later: Cum B. De librar. S. Aug. Cant. Dist. xa. Gra. II. See Ancient Libraries, pp. 293, 528.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xi (and xii?)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:st065rm7751/MS_276.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gs029xx1593/276.pdf
Contains	Title Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana (an augmentation of Flavius Eutropius, Breuiarium ab urbe condita). 1r-52v Nasmith Historia Romana ab urbe condita ad Justinianum imperatorem libri xvi. 1r-52v Author Paul the Deacon Flavius Eutropius Note Decem priores libri sunt Eutropii cum additamentis Pauli diaconi, sex posteriores incerti autoris f. 1r blank f. 1v has title in four lines, purple initial, text in capitals, green and purple in alternate lines Rubric (1v) Incipit / liber / primus / Historiae / Romanorum Incipit (2r) Primus in italia ut quibusdam placet Note (2r) (purple and green capitals) (35v) Liber X ends Explicit (35v) ad maiorem scribendi diligentiam reseruamus Rubric (35v) Explicit liber decimus. hucusque historiam eutropius composuit cui tamen aliqua paulus diaconus addidit (35v) Incipit liber undecimus Incipit (36r) Anno ab urbe condita millesimo centesimo octauo decimoUalentinianus tricesimus octauus e pannonia Note (51r) Liber XVI ends Explicit (51r) Quia uero restant adhuc que iustiniani augusti felicitate dicantur in sequenti deo presule libello promenda sunt Rubric (51r) Explicit liber XVI (51r) Imperatores Rome vel Constantinopoli regnantes Incipit (51r) Augustus regnauit annos quinquaginta vi Explicit (52v) IustinusConstantinopoli ... morbo periit Note A later hand adds (52v) Iustinianus nepos Justini ex sorore Cf. MS 129. 1 Title Spurious charter of Pope Leo VIII. 53r-54v Nasmith Carta Leonis papae VIII. in qua confirmat Ottoni I. imperatori jus tam eligendi quam ordinandi pontificem Romanum et alios episcopos. 53r-54v Author Pope Leo VIII Incipit (53r) Conuenit apostolico moderamine pollentibus Note (Jaffe 3704) Explicit (53v) eternam cum omnibus sanctis habere mereatur in saeculorum saecula. Amen Note f. 54r-54v blank Title Dudo of Saint-Quentin, De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum. 55r-134v Nasmith Dudonis historia Normannorum. 55r-134v Author Dudo of Saint-Quentin Note De libraria sancti Augustini Cantuariensi Rubric (55r) Epistola panagirica atque apologitica ratione transcursa Incipit (55r) Inclito et pie venerando ... Adalberoni ... Dude ... Gloriosissimi nominis tui diuulgamen Explicit (57r) senatorem celestis aule Rubric (57r) Allocutio ad librum. monocolo monostropho ducursa Note (57r) (In Greek letters, transliterated above) Incipit (57r) Themate pertenui quoniam digestus haberis Rubric (58r) Versus ad comitem rodulfum (58v) Item ad Rodbertum archiepiscopum (59v) Oratio Note Text Incipit (59v) Totius nanque molis orbe descripto Note The Greek words are written with some knowledge Ends unfinished Explicit (134v) uulgus concrepabat pro uocibus ululantium Note (Duchesne, p. 157D) (135r) The flyleaves are blank See Hardy I 616 Ed. Duchesne, 1619. Historiae Normannorum Scriptores Antiqui
TJames	5
Stanley	A. 5
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/rk793ps8480
Location	MS 276
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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