Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 267: Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica. Peter Damian OSB, De nouissimis et Antichristo. John Thwing of Bridlington OSA, Versus prophetiales

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Abstract/Contents

Summary: CCCC MS 267 is a late eleventh- or early twelfth-century copy of the Chronica of Frechulf of Lisieux (fl. 823-53); it contains only the first part, from Adam to the Incarnation. It is one of the manuscripts produced at St Augustine's Abbey Canterbury after the Conquest in an almost exaggeratedly English style of script. The same scribe is found in other St Augustine's books, and this manuscript is identifiable in the medieval catalogue of the abbey's library. A short text by Peter Damian (1007-72) was added not long after the manuscript was written. A near-contemporary copy of a neumed hymn to St Mellitus, the third archbishop of Canterbury, is now at the front of the book, but because it is codicologically separable it may not always have been part of this manuscript. In the fifteenth century a short prophetic poem by John Thwing of Bridlington OSA (d. 1379) was added at the back of the volume. The chronicle section contains fine illuminated initials.
Contents: -- Chronica -- De nouissimis et Antichristo (pseudo-Jerome, De XV signis) -- Versus prophetiales

Description

Alternative title	Freculphus
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 4 + 120
Date created	[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	41-42 lines to a page
Height (mm)	266
Width (mm)	169
Collation	a(4) 1(8)-15(8).
Writing	in a lovely upright round hand, characteristic of St Augustine's, Canterbury
Foliation	ff. a + i-iv + 1-116 + 116a + 117-120 + b-c
Provenance	On f. 1r: Liber S. Augustini Cant. Fretulfus Di. x. Gra II cum A. This is written twice, in hands of cent. xiii and xiv. See Ancient Libraries, p. 292, no. 884
Additions	ff. ir-iiv blank except for a fine pencil sketch of a dragon on iiv. f. iiir blank
2 fo.	immutauerit

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:df460hr2338/MS_267.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kx668bp8258/267.pdf
Contains	Title Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica. 1v-119v Author Frechulf of Lisieux Note (1r) Some notes (xiii-xiv) of chapters in the various books of the History (1v) The main hand begins Prologue (1v) Initial in purple to prologue Incipit (1v) Domino preceptori desiderantissimo Elisacharo Frethulfus Note (collated by Hampe: Neues Archiv, XXII 669) Explicit (2r) hec decerpsimus Incipit (2r) (T)e duce Christe uia facilis est ire per omnes Note (P. L. CVI 919) Explicit (2r) Non ignota canens ueterum sed dicta priorum Note (2r) Capitula Text Incipit (3v) Cum aliquam temporum seriem Note (3v) In green and purple capitals: initial in red, purple and green Marginalia, some of cent. xv. One on f. 4r quotes Rabi moyses (18r) Liber II. Capitula (19v) Text. Purple initial (36r) Liber III. Capitula (37r) Text. Purple initial (50v) Liber IV. Capitula (51v) Text. Purple and blue initial (69v) Liber V. Capitula (70r) Text. Purple and green initial (84v) Liber VI. Capitula (85v) Text. Purple initial (100r) Liber VII. Capitula (incomplete) (100r) Text. Green initial Ends Explicit (119v) ad lucem uenimus ueram qua respersi in domini Christi aduentu librorum finem fecimus ut omnes sciant in me SUNT Title Peter Damian OSB, De nouissimis et Antichristo (pseudo-Jerome, De XV signis). 119v-120r Author Peter Damian OSB Note (119v) In a hand like that of Christchurch Rubric (119v) Ieronimus in annalibus hebreorum de xv signis ante diem iudicii Incipit (119v) Signum primi diei. Maria omnia in altitudinem Note Ends Explicit (120r) xv. Finis id est ipsa dies iudicii Note Often printed, e.g. P. L. XCIV 555Actually P. L. CXXXXV 840 Title John Thwing of Bridlington OSA, Versus prophetiales. 120r-120v James Prophecy of John Bridlington. 120r-120v Author John Thwing of Bridlington OSA Note (120r) In a scrawly hand of cent. xv Incipit (120r) ffebribus infectus requies fuerat mihi lectus Explicit (120v) Sanguine scotorum spoliatorum sociorum Note (cap. iv, fin.) (Wright, Political Poems, Rolls Series I pp. 128-141)
TJames	49
Stanley	E. 7
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/xq050qp5257
Location	MS 267
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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