Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 259: Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (to 1338)

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Summary: CCCC MS 259 is one of several copies of the Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364), a monk of St Werburga's Abbey, Chester, owned by Parker, and reflecting the latter's interest in British history. The version of this chronicle contained in this manuscript ends in 1338 and was copied not long after the last events it describes in the mid-fourteenth century. The Polychronicon was the most widely read chronicle in late medieval England, and exists in many manuscripts, other copies being CCCC MSS 21, 117, 164, and in English translation in CCCC MS 354 . It has on the front flyleaf a note by the historian John Bale (1495-1563), attributing the text to 'Roger of Chester', a figure sometimes supposed to have written the Polychronicon until Higden's identity was confirmed in the nineteenth century. The provenance of the manuscript is unknown.
Contents: Polychronicon (to 1338)

Alternative title	Ranulf Higden Polychronicon
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 204
Date created	[ca. 1300 - 1349]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum, paper
Layout	52, 45, 40 lines to a page
Height (mm)	275
Width (mm)	172
Collation	1(12)-17(12) (modern foliation incorrect by two).
Writing	in several hands
Foliation	ff. a-b + i + 1-204 + c-d
Research	This MS. is noticed in the Rolls ed. of the Polychronicon (I p. xx note) as being of the type to which the name of Roger of Chester is attached.
Additions	Notes from Bale on paper flyleaf (f. iv).
2 fo.	l. 6 \| bi.

M.R. James Date	xiv (first half)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gh879yq3175/MS_259.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fg875ww4473/259.pdf
Contains	Title Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (to 1338). 1r-200r Nasmith Polycratica temporum Rogeri Cestriensis. 1r-200r James Ranulf HigdenPolychronicon. 1r-200r Author Ranulf Higden OSB Note Text Incipit (1r) Intrabo in agros priscorum subsequens metentes Note There are rather copious marginal notes of cent. xvi Several hands have been employed: the last begins on f. 190r Historia desinit in anno 1338 Liber VII ends in 1338 Explicit (200r) Conferentes se ad portum de Hamptone ubi duas naues statim postea conbusserunt
TJames	6
Stanley	A. 6
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/wr788qx9113
Location	MS 259
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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