Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 488: John Joscelyn, Historiola Collegii Corporis Christi

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Summary
CCCC MS 488 contains a copy of John Joscelyn's Historiola Collegii Corporis Christi dated 1569. John Joscelyn (1529–1603) was Matthew Parker's Latin secretary. He proved very adept at finding Old English manuscripts and at preparing them for publication. In addition to his work on Old English he also wrote this history of Corpus Christi College and also a biography of Matthew Parker which can also be found in the Parker Library manuscript collection (see CCCC MS 489).
Contents
Historiola Collegii Corporis Christi

Description

Alternative title Joscelyn's Historiola
Type of resource mixed material
Extent pp. 99 numbered in red chalk
Date created [ca. 1569]
Language Latin; English
Material Paper, vellum
Layout 23 lines to a full page
Height (mm) 285
Width (mm) 207
Foliation f. i + pp. 1-13 + 13a + 14a + 14-48 + 48a + 49a + 49-94 (95-96 missing) + 97-100
Additions At each end is a vellum leaf from an inventory roll of cent. xv-xvi, in English, containing these headings (iv and 99): Hangings, Carpettes, Pillowes, Plegges (mostly plate), Counterpoyntes and other Stuff, In the Entre by the Chapell, In the Chapell. The last includes a Missale Imprinted, a Tablet of Alabaster wt a Crucifix., On the title-page is printed the woodcut of the College arms with the fields coloured, and the motto Signat auis Christum, etc., printed below. A frame has been drawn round it in pencil. The title is written above: Historia de fundatione et statu Collegii corporis Christi et beatae Mariae virginis Cantabrigiae: tam de primis fundatoribus eiusdem quam de aliis benefactoribus et ceteris euentibus ad hunc usque annum domini 1569.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xvi (1569)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pc358qh8190/MS_488.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ck589gp6439/488.pdf
Contains
Title
John Joscelyn, Historiola Collegii Corporis Christi. 3-91
Author
John Joscelyn
Note
(3) The text begins on p. 3 and has by way of initial a wood-cut engraving, hand-coloured, of Parker's arms and motto
It ends on p. 91
The whole text was edited for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in 1880 by J. W. Clark, M.A. (v. p. 52 for a notice of the MSS.)
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/tb744fn4050
Location MS 488
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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Collection

Parker Manuscripts

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