Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 092: John of Worcester OSB ('Florence of Worcester'), Chronica chronicarum
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 92 contains a copy of the Chronica chronicarum (Chronicon ex chronicis) of John of Worcester (d. c. 1140), from the Creation to 1131 with later, anonymous, additions that take the Chronica up to the late thirteenth century. Once attributed to Florence of Worcester (d. 1118), it is now known that, using the existing chronicles of Marianus Scotus and Eadmer of Canterbury as the basis for his work, John compiled the Chronica, adding numerous details of English history. This manuscript of the text was produced at Abingdon Abbey in the third quarter of the twelfth century, but was later at Peterborough Abbey, from where it presumably passed into Parker's collection.
- Contents
- Chronica chronicarum
Description
Alternative title | Florentius Wigorniensis |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 204 + 3 |
Date created | [ca. 1175 - 1325] |
Language | Latin |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | double columns of 44 lines |
Height (mm) | 375 |
Width (mm) | 270 |
Collation | 2 flyleaves, 1(8) (1 canc.) 2(8) (7, 8 canc.) 3(10) 4(8)-16(8) 17(10) (8 canc.) 18(8)-22(8) (7, 8 canc.) | 23(12) 24(12) 25 (six), one flyleaf. |
Writing | finely written |
Foliation | ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-204 + iii + c-d |
Provenance | At top of f. 1r: Liber Abbatis et conuentus de Burgo sancti Petri (i.e. Peterborough). Just below this Parker has written in red: hic liber olim cenobii S. Edmundi, the result of confusion between Burgo and Bury. |
Research | This copy was used for the text from 450 to 1066 in Monumenta Historica Britannica 522 sqq.: cf. Hardy II 129, 246. |
Additions | Flyleaves from a large Missal of cent. xiv in double columns containing part of the office for Palm Sunday. |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xii late, xiii and xiv early |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 28 |
Stanley | C. 7 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/wz774ws7198 |
Location | MS 092 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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- Use and reproduction
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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