Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 267: Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica. Peter Damian OSB, De nouissimis et Antichristo. John Thwing of Bridlington OSA, Versus prophetiales
Freculphus
mixed material
ff. 4 + 120
Vellum
41-42 lines to a page
266
169
a(4) 1(8)-15(8).
in a lovely upright round hand, characteristic of St Augustine's, Canterbury
ff. a + i-iv + 1-116 + 116a + 117-120 + b-c
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
ff. ir-iiv blank except for a fine pencil sketch of a dragon on iiv. f. iiir blank
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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.
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-- Chronica -- De nouissimis et Antichristo (pseudo-Jerome, De XV signis) -- Versus prophetiales
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MS 267
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Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica
1v-119v
Frechulf of Lisieux
author
(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
(1v) Domino preceptori desiderantissimo Elisacharo Frethulfus
(collated by Hampe: Neues Archiv, XXII 669)
(2r) hec decerpsimus
(2r) (T)e duce Christe uia facilis est ire per omnes
(P. L. CVI 919)
(2r) Non ignota canens ueterum sed dicta priorum
(2r) Capitula
Text
(3v) Cum aliquam temporum seriem
(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
(119v) ad lucem uenimus ueram qua respersi in domini Christi aduentu librorum finem fecimus ut omnes sciant in me SUNT
Peter Damian OSB, De nouissimis et Antichristo (pseudo-Jerome, De XV signis)
119v-120r
Peter Damian OSB
author
(119v) In a hand like that of Christchurch
(119v) Ieronimus in annalibus hebreorum de xv signis ante diem iudicii
(119v) Signum primi diei. Maria omnia in altitudinem
Ends
(120r) xv. Finis id est ipsa dies iudicii
Often printed, e.g. P. L. XCIV 555Actually P. L. CXXXXV 840
John Thwing of Bridlington OSA, Versus prophetiales
120r-120v
Prophecy of John Bridlington
120r-120v
John Thwing of Bridlington OSA
author
(120r) In a scrawly hand of cent. xv
(120r) ffebribus infectus requies fuerat mihi lectus
(120v) Sanguine scotorum spoliatorum sociorum
(cap. iv, fin.)
(Wright, Political Poems, Rolls Series I pp. 128-141)
Parker Manuscripts
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