Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 281: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae. Annals (Incarnation-1339) etc. Thomas de la More (attrib.), Vita et mors Edwardi II regis (excerpt). Gesta Francorum

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Summary: CCCC MS 281 is a manuscript of diverse texts made up of three distinct volumes copied between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. The material contained within the codex is wide-ranging but broadly historical in nature. It includes a copy of Historia regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), an anonymous Annal from the birth of Christ to the mid-fourteenth century, an extract from the Latin version of the account of the death of Edward II attributed to Thomas de la More (fl. mid-fourteenth century) and historical documents relating to King Edward I's relations with Scotland. The manuscript has sometimes been described as having once been in the possession of the Benedictine abbey of St Modwenna in Burton-on-Trent, but Nasmith concluded, on the basis of the text of the Annals, that they were written at the Cluniac house of St Andrew's, Northampton.
Contents: Historia regum Britanniae -- Chronicon S. Andreae in Antona Sempentrionalis -- Vita et mors Edwardi II regis (excerpt) -- Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum

Description

Alternative title	Galfr. Monumethensis. Annales, etc.
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 2 + 79 + 54 + 22
Date created	[ca. 1100 - 1199]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	varying numbers of lines to a page
Height (mm)	255
Width (mm)	175
Collation	Volume I: a(2) 1(8)-4(8) (wants 6-8) 5(8)-9(8) 10(6) 11(4).Volume II: a(12) b(8) (wants 8) c(8) (wants 8) d(8) e(12) f(8).Volume III: A(8)-C(8) (wants 7, 8).
Writing	a good hand
Foliation	ff. a-b + i-ii + iib + 1-155 + c-d
Additions	On f. iv a note of Parker's time: In the masters LodgingeGaufridus monumetensisAnnales BurtonensesHistoriola de terra sancta., On f. iir a note on Geoffrey of Monmouth. f. iibv is a paper leaf previously covering f. iiv and now lifted on which are carefully written verses (xvi): Strenua cunctorum delectant gesta proborum In quibus armorum micat ars et laus animorum. Ending: Monte minutensis Galfridus acutus ut ensis Transtulit intensis studiis hec dulcia musis Frater wallensis madocus edeirnianensis Ex libris densis collegit nos refouens his.
2 fo.	Pluribus quoque

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zk129vy5075/MS_281.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gg119qm0186/281.pdf
Contains	Title Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae. 1r-79v Nasmith Galfredi Monumetensis historia Brittanniae. 1r-79v Author Geoffrey of Monmouth Note Text Rubric (1r) Incipit prefatio in libro Brittonum Incipit (1r) Cum mecum multa et de multis Explicit (1r) Opusculo igitur meo Rodberte dux claudiocestrie etc. ... interno congratulatur affectu Rubric (1r) Explicit prefatio (1r) Incipit liber Incipit (1r) Brittannia insularum optima Note The first quires have 29 and 36 lines to a page respectively (19v) Liber II (numbered later) (26r) Liber III Explicit (29r) existimantes numen esse in illo Note (29r) (Liber 4) Incipit (29r) Nondum autem ad hunc locum Explicit (29r) ei cum huiusmodi litteris direxi Note f. 29v blank These first quires have been written to supply another copy which wanted them (30r) This copy now begins: Coegit me alexander lincoliensis A good hand, 29 lines to a page: a second scribe begins near the end of line 7 on f. 30r (35r) Prophecies end Explicit (35r) inter sydera conficient Incipit (35r) Cum igitur hec et alia Note Initial in colour (35r) Liber V, marked (xvi) on this page: Nec mora Liber VI at f. 40r and f. 41r, Eodem tempore pascentius, and Apparente itaque (45v) Liber VII, Defuncto igitur (67r) Liber VIII (70r) Liber IX Ends Explicit (77r) transferre curaui Note Poem Incipit (77v) Venimus ad naues conscendere me prohibebatInperiosa satis causa, timere mori (78r) Emenso pelago cum demum gallus ad anglosApplicui placuit applicuisse mihi Note Ending Explicit (78r) Ingenii precium facies promittere letaAc monstrare potest officiosa manus Incipit (78v) Anglia terra ferax et fertilis angulus orbis Explicit (79r) Terminat hora diem terminat auctor opus Note In a hand of cent. xvi a. Rubric (79r) Epitaphium Lewelini magni Note Hic iacet anglorum tortor tutor wenedorum,Princeps Wallorum Lewelinus regula morumGemma coeuorum flos regum pretentorum,Forma futurorum dux lux laus lex populorum b. Rubric (79r) De Sancto Patricio Note Hic iacent in duno tumulo tumulantur in uno,Brigidapatricius atque columba pius f. 79v blank except for sixteenth-century scribbles Title Chronicon S. Andreae in Antona Sempentrionalis. 80r-127r Nasmith Annales a nativitate Christi ad annum 1339. 80r-127r Note Ad imum primae paginae Iste liber est de communitate Burtoniae, qui eum alienaverit anathema sit, Amen. Ex hac inscriptione codici quidem coaeva, folio vero non inscripta sed eidem agglutinata, hi annales a Parkero Jamesio et Stanley nominati sunt annales de Burton; recte tamen observavit Cl. Stanley eos ab impressis prorsus esse diversos. Codicem diligenter evolventi occurrerunt multa quae mihi fidem fecerunt eos a quodam monacho cenobii S. Andreae apud Northampton conscriptos esse. Primo enim notatur successio abbatum Cluniacensium, cujus ordinis fuit hoc cenobium: secundo, nulla fit mentio monasterii de Burton, sed fundatio domus S. Andreae per Simonem comitem de Northampton occurrit ad annum 1083, tertio, ad annum 1237 sunt haec verba In hoc monasterio beati Andreae quoddam mirabile contigit. Usque ad annum 1206 eadem manu scribuntur, postea diversis; anno 1249 inseritur edictum Gallica lingua scriptum Edwardi I. quando Scotiam intravit, et genealogia eorum qui jus suum asseruerunt in illud regnum In annalistic form. Years from Annus domini I: a line to each, every 10th year in red. Few entries at first On a slip of vellum pasted on to f. 1r, Iste liber est de communitate burtonie qui eum alienauerit anathema sit. amen (xv late) The page is headed in red and green capitals: Anni ab incarnatione Domini There are a few late additions, e.g. at 141 a.d.: hic baptizati sunt nouem ex doctoribus et scolaribus cantebrigie 532 of Agapitus: hic instituit doctores sacre theologie Great interest is shown in the Cluniac order and its saints At 1083 is a later note: Hoc anno Simon comes Northamton edificauit domum Sancti Andree 1101 added: Item inuencio Sancte Milburge apud wenlok The hand (probably two hands) preserves uniformity to the end of f. 19v (1140), an obviously different one begins at f. 20r leaving irregular spaces for the years. It continues to f. 24v (1206) and goes on writing the numbers of the years perhaps as far as 1218. But the entries are in different and smaller hands. There are many of these. They continue to f. 34v (1294) (114r) Then intervenes a document of Edward I asserting his claim to Scotland The hand of 1294 resumes on f. 38r with 1295 and goes on to 1303 On f. 39v a hand of much more current type begins and goes on to f. 46v (1330): a second hand of the same type continues to f. 48r (1339) Explicit (127r) et mense marcio regressus est rex in angliam Note Some of the additions relating to Cambridge are quoted by Caius De Antiq. Acad., p. 73 Title Thomas de la More (attrib.), Vita et mors Edwardi II regis (excerpt). 127v-128r Nasmith Excerpta ex Thoma de la More de morte Edwardi II. 127v-128r Author Thomas de la More (attrib.) Note In a Parkerian hand Rubric (127v) Thomas de la Moore in libro suo de morte et vita Edwardi secundi Incipit (127v) Mittuntur littere increpatorie custodibus (Castri de Barkley) Explicit (128r) minis terribilibus in fugam coactiuis affligere non cessauit Note ff. 49v-54v ruled but blank Title Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum. 134r-155v Nasmith Expeditio contra Turcos circa annum 1094. 134r-155v Note Extat inter gesta Dei per Francos sub hoc titulo Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum Incipit (134r) Cum iam appropinquasset ille terminus Note The hand of the last 5.5 leaves is different Ends Explicit (155v) Hoc bellum actum est ii idus augusti largiente domini nostri Ihesu Christi cui est honor et gloria nunc et semper et per infinita seculorum secula dicat omnis spiritus. Amen Note In Bongars, Gesta Dei per Francos, p. 1 (Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum)
TJames	38
Stanley	D. 7
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/wd305nz9008
Location	MS 281
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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