Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 438: Gervase of Canterbury OSB, Gesta regum etc
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 438 contains two quite distinct types of text. In the first category is a thirteenth-century copy of the medical treatise De uiribus herbarum attributed variously to Odo of Meung (fl. last third of eleventh century), once considered to be by the Roman poet Aemilius Macer. The rest of the manuscript is taken up with material relating to the history of England and of Canterbury in particular. Thus one finds in this codex thirteenth-century copies of the Gesta regum and Actus pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae of Gervase of Canterbury OSB (d. 1210), a fifteenth-century transcript of clerical taxation records and a copy of the bull of 1170 authorising the canonization of Anselm of Canterbury. The contents and other notes strongly support a provenance at the Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity, Christ Church, Canterbury.
- Contents
- List of kings of England from the conquest to Henry IV -- Mappa mundi -- De uiribus herbarum -- Gesta regum -- Actus pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae -- Successio pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae -- The clerical tenth of 1402 extracted from royal accounts by Thomas Chillenden -- Bull granting Thomas Bourgchier archbishop of Canterbury license to canonize Anselm of Canterbury
Description
Alternative title | Gervase of Canterbury, etc. |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 8 + 48 + 132 + 21 + 41 + 12 |
Date created | [ca. 1200 - 1499] |
Language | Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600); English, Middle (1100-1500) |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | double and single columns of 33, 32, 27 lines |
Height (mm) | 193 |
Width (mm) | 136 |
Collation | a(8), 1(12)-4(12) | 5(10) 6(10) 7(12)-12(12) 13(8)-17(8) | 18(12) (+1) 19(8) | 20(12)-22(12) 23 (five) | 24(12). |
Writing | in a careful hand |
Foliation | ff. a-b + 1-262 + c-d |
Provenance | From Christ Church, Canterbury: apparently not in the catalogues. Ancient Libraries, p. 528. |
Additions | On f. iv note (xv): 1434. 13o kal. May o(biit) Iohannes Brun Ciuis et Balliuus Cant. qui dedit ecclesie Christi Cant. Manerium Beukysburne quod comparauit pro 1100 marcis ao 1434 13 kal. may. (Stubbs, Gervase of Canterbury II, p. xlix.) On f. iir chronograms: Henrici perci corpora caede madentis (m. ccc. iii.) . Cancia flere potest quia thomas cessit arundel (m. ccc. ll. iii., 1403) . computa literas numerales. Stubbs, l. c. On iiv (p. 2) (xv): Secunda pars Gervasii monachi ecclesie Christi Cant. |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xiii-xv |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 255 |
Stanley | Q. 2 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/wq149yj5620 |
Location | MS 438 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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