Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 051: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici canones, transl. by Jerome. Sigebert of Gembloux OSB, Chronica

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Summary: CCCC MS 51 contains a series of chronicles including Jerome's Latin translation of Eusebius of Caesarea's Chronici canones, the Chronica Gallica ad annum CCCCLII with excerpts of Prosper's Epitoma Chronicon, and the Chronica of Sigebert of Gembloux (c. 1030-1112). In the early fourteenth-century catalogue of the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury manuscripts drawn up under Henry of Eastry this book is called Cronica Eusebii Salomonis, a reference to Salomon, a monk and sub-Prior of Christ Church in 1207. Salomon has also been identified as the possible compiler of a late twelfth-century collection of mnemonic verses and notes on the compotus now found in London, BL MS Egerton 3314.
Contents: Chronici canones, transl. by Jerome (to 329) -- Chronici canones, transl. by Jerome (continuation to 378) -- Chronici canones, transl. by Jerome (continuation to 455) -- Chronica (continued by Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum (excerpt 1099-1113))

Description

Alternative title	Chronica Eusebii, Sigeberti, etc.
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 3 + 133 + 3
Date created	[ca. 1175 - 1199]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	37 lines to a page (double columns at first)
Height (mm)	344
Width (mm)	247
Collation	3 flyleaves, 1(8)-16(8), 17(8) (6, 7, and 8 cancelled after page 266).
Writing	very finely written in long lines
Foliation	ff. a-b + i + pp. 1-266 + ff. c-e
Provenance	From Christ Church, Canterbury. On the flyleaf (reversed) is: Cronica EusebiiSalomonis. D. vj. Gra. xiij. Demonstratio ia. See Ancient Libraries, p. 49, no. 282. Salomon is the donor's name: he was Sub-prior in 1207, and gave several other books.
Research	This MS. is noted as C 1 in MGH. Scriptores VI p. 290. It is there said to be of the ' familia Atrebatensis.' The only peculiar additions which it has are at the years 640, 698 ('depositio eximii patris nostri Bertini'), 807, 820, which show it to have been either written at St Bertin's or copied from a Bertinian archetype.
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Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xii late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wh778df2596/MS_51.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mc684zj4800/51.pdf
Contains	Title Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici canones, transl. by Jerome (to 329). 1-105 Nasmith Chronicon Eusebii Caesariensis ex versione Hieronimi ad annum 329. 1-105 Author Eusebius of Caesarea Jerome Rubric (1) In Christi nomine incipit liber cronicorum. Eusebius Ieronimus uincentio et Galieno suis salutem Note (in blue and red) Incipit (1) Uetus iste disertorum mos fuit Note (1) Initial. Gold ground. Jerome as black monk in chair with open book: a clerk (young) sits at his feet writing Explicit (3) incerta sunt omnia Rubric (3) Explicit prefatio ieronimi (3) Incipit Eusebii interpretata prefatio Incipit (4) Moysen gentis Hebraice Note (4) Initial. Gold ground. On L. tonsured man sits writing. On R. a bishop in mitre, chasuble and pallium sits speaking to him Explicit (7) cum summa breuitate ponemus Rubric (7) Explicit prefatio Note Text Incipit (8) Primus assiriorum Rex ninus Note (8) Initial. Gold ground. Sceptred king (Ninus) sits on L. On R. above, a city (Nineveh): below a child in bed or cradle (Abraham who was born in Ninus' reign). These initials are of fine bold work: edged with green Explicit (105) sequenti anno rome edita. ccc. xxix Title Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici canones, transl. by Jerome (continuation to 378). 105-111 Nasmith Continuatio Hieronimi ad annum 378. 105-111 Author Eusebius of Caesarea Jerome Rubric (105) Huc usque hystoriam scribit Eusebius pamphili martiris contubernalis cui nos (i.e. Jerome) ista subiecimus Incipit (105) Arnobius rethor in affrica Explicit (111) Anni quinque milia quingenti septuaginta nouem Title Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici canones, transl. by Jerome (continuation to 455). 111-115 Nasmith Continuatio Prosperi ad mortem Valentiniani. 111-115 Author Eusebius of Caesarea Jerome Rubric (111) Huc usque Jeronimus presbiter ordinem precedentium digessit annorum. que sequuntur prosper digessit Incipit (111) Igitur Valente a gothis Explicit (116) carthaginem abducti sunt. Huc usque prosperi cronographia Title Sigebert of Gembloux OSB, Chronica (continued by Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum (excerpt 1099-1113)). 116-266 Nasmith Continuatio Sigeberti Gemblacensis ad annum 1113. 116-266 Author Sigebert of Gembloux OSB Ralph de Diceto Note Ad annum 1109 annotavit in margine Joscelinus, Sigebertum Gemblacensem chronicon suum ibi clausisse et reliqua Ranulpho (Rad.) Diceto deberi; editores autem hujus chronici, ut discimus ex Cavesio et Oudino, omnia usque ad annum 1113, quo mortuus est Sigebertus, ei attribuunt; sed nec haec nec ilia opinio mihi arridet, eo quod ex rebus memoratis patet hoc qualecunque supplementum aliquem ex coenobio Aquiticensi (Anchin) habuisse autorem Rubric (116) Incipit cronographia Sigeberti monachi gemblacensis Incipit (116) Dicturi aliquid iuuante deo Note There are some underlinings and notes by Parker (etc.) and a few older pencil notes. Parker notes the omission of Pope Joan (p. 205) At p. 256 (A.D. 1099) marginal note (xvi) that Sigebert ends and Ranulfus Dicetus continues On p. 264 is a passage about Robertas aquicinensis cenobii quintus abbas. Parker writes in the margin in red chalk (264) forte hic robertus scripsit supplementum sigiberti ad annum 1182. hoc supplementum habet mr patey (? Patten) in parochia aldermanbury Ends with the death of Sigibert of Gemblours (iiio nones Octobris) Explicit (265) Dominus Sigibertus uenerabilis monachus gemblacensis cenobii etc. ... suis grauissimum merorem absentie sue reliquit Note (266) On this page a very faint old pencil note beginning Incipit (266) Symmachus papa constituit
TJames	57
Stanley	F. 2
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/xb003nj3345
Location	MS 051
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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