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• Résumé : CCCC MS 59, dating from the early fourteenth century, is a collection of texts probably designed to appeal to a monastic audience's hunger for knowledge of the world beyond its walls. Among the manuscript's profusion of texts and documents are the spurious Letters of Prester John and of Alexander the Great to Aristotle, statutes, charters and papal bulls. There is a much interest in chronological material, with short chronicles being accompanied by lists of popes, emperors, kings and archbishops of Canterbury. The precise provenance of this manuscript is unknown, though a continuation of one of the most substantial texts in the codex, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum by Martin of Troppau OP (d. 1278), records the martyrdom of Thomas de la Hale of Dover, suggesting a link to the south coast of England, possibly the Premonstratensian abbey of the Virgin and St Thomas the Martyr at West Langdon, Kent.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, français, anglais

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Honorius Augustodunensis - author

  4r-27v - Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi (books 1-2) || Anselmi Cantuariensis imago mundi, libri ii

  Note : Hic libellus in alio codice hujus bibliothecae, viz. LXVI. 1. adscribitur Henrico canonico: caeterum omnino consonant haec duo exemplaria, si excipias prologos, qui sunt diversi, et chronologiam, quae ulterius deducitur in cod. LXVI

  rubric : (4r) Incipit prologus cuiusdam doctoris clarissimi Anselmi super liber qui dicitur ymago mundi

  incipit : (4r) Ad instructionem multorum

  Note : Capitulum I

  incipit : (4r) Mundus dicitur quasi undique motus

  Note : (P. L. CLXXII 115)

  Note : (16r) Liber II

  Note : ends unfinished in Etas quinta

  explicit : (27v) Sibilla septima cumana claruit et ezechiel

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Iohannes presbyter ('Prester John') - author

  28r-31v - Iohannes presbyter ('Prester John'), Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum || Epistola presbiteri Ioannis de India ad Emanuelem imperatorem Constantinopol

  rubric : (28r) Hanc epistolam misit presbiter Iohannes de india ad emanuelem imperatorem constantantinopol

  incipit : (28r) Presbiter Johannes potencia et uirtute dei

  explicit : (31v) benedictus in secula

  Note : Collated by H. Bradshaw for Dr Zarncke

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Alexandri - author

  31v-42v - Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de situ Indie || Epistola Alexandri regis magni Macedonis ad magistrum suum Aristotelem de situ Indiae

  rubric : (31v) Incipit epistola Alexandri regis magni Macedonie ad magistrum suum Aristotelem de situ indie

  incipit : (31v) Semper memor

  explicit : (41v) optimi aristotelis indicium

  Note : f. 39r-39v blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Martin of Troppau OP - author

  43r-79v - Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum || Chronica Romanorum pontificum a tempore Jesu Christi et Octaviani imperatoris [usque ad Nicolaum III anno 1277, et recentiori manu ad Clementem VI, autore Martino Polono] || Chronica Martini Poloni

  Note : In hoc codice nulla fit mentio Johannae papissae

  rubric : (43r) Cronica romanorum pontificum a tempore iesu Christi et Ottouiani imperatoris

  incipit : (43r) Anno xlii. Ottouiani Augusti

  Note : (P. L. XCIV, 1163)

  Note : Ends Nicholas III

  explicit : (78r) vito Kalendas Decembris sedit

  Note : (78r) Continued by other hands to Clement VI

  explicit : (78r) Clemens successor eiusdem sedit annis

  Note : f. 75v-76v blank

  Note : See MGH. SS. XXII

  
  

  80r-85r - Ecclesiastical lists (cardinals, archbishops etc.) || Commemoratio stationum urbis Romae; - episcopi qui sunt immediate subjecti papae: - ecclesiae quinque parochiales in Roma: - ecclesiae in Roma quibus assignati sunt presbiteri vel diaconi cardinales: - archiepiscopi cum suis suffraganeis in Sicilia, Calabria, Apulia, Terra-laboris, Tuscia, Flaminia, Lumbardia, Dalmatia supra mare, Istria supra mare, Sclavonia, Hungaria, Polonia, Allemannia, Provincia, Burgundia, Francia, Normannia, Aquitania, Vasconia, Tocia (or Gocia), Catalonia, Hispania, Anglia, Dacia, Norwagia, Suescia, Scotia, Hybernia, Sardinia, ultra mare seu in parte infidelium; imperatores Romani et reges Christiani

  Note : (80r) Provinciale. Triple columns

  
  

  85v-88r - Catalogue of Roman pontiffs from St Peter to Nicholas III || Catalogus pontificum Romanorum a beato Petro ad Nicolaum III

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (88r) Nicholaus natione romanus sedit

  
  

  88r-89r - On schismatics in the Roman Church || De schismatibus in sede Romana || De scismatibus in ecclesia Romana

  incipit : (88r) Eleutherius papa misit fuganum

  Note : To Alexander III

  explicit : (89r) Guido de crema Jo et hannes sunt anathemaNon puto peccaui nec falso grammaticaui.Scismatici praui. si nomen scismaticaui

  
  

  89v-89v - Catalogue of Archbishops of Canterbury from St Augustine to Simon Meopham || Catalogus archiepiscoporum Cantuar. a S. Augustino ad Simonem Mepeham

  Note : (89v) First hand goes to John Peckham. It is not the hand of the rest of the volume

  
  

  90r-96v - Catalogue of Roman pontiffs and emperors to Innocent III || Catalogus omnium pontificum Romanorum et omnium imperatorum ad Innocentium III

  rubric : (90r) Catalogus omnium pontificum romanorum et omnium imperatorum et primum de Ihesu Christo

  incipit : (90r) Dominus Ihesus Christus primus et summus pontifex

  Note : To Innocent III

  explicit : (96v) consecratus in festo cathedre Sancti Petri

  
  

  97r-98v - List of Synods || De synodis nonnullis

  Note : (98r) (The last synod is cccx episcoporum temp. Alex. III)

  Note : f. 95r is a slip, verso (98v) blank

  
  

  99r-140v - Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica imperatorum || Chronica imperatorum Romanorum ad annum 1308, autore Martino Polono || Chronica Martini Poloni

  incipit : (99r) Post natiuitatem domini nostri Iesu Christi

  Note : (MGH. SS. xxii p. 443)

  Note : This portion ends

  explicit : (138r) et plerique puluere cuiusdam montis pro farina uterentur

  Note : MGH. p. 472

  Note : This is the end of the text edited by Fabricius (Codex A*)

  Note : There follows in the hand of the Continuator of the Papal Chronicle (no. 4) above

  incipit : (138r) Ipsius etiam tempore in Burgundia imperiali per terram

  explicit : (139v) in Siciliam veniens est defunctus

  Note : (an extract from Martinus)

  Note : (139v) Then a South English continuation in the same hand

  incipit : (139v) Anno 1290 capta est achon

  Note : In 1295 the martyrdom of St Thomas (de la Hale) of Dover

  Note : (139v) ad cuius tumulum fiunt miracula

  Note : Ending in 1308

  explicit : (140r) omnibus templaribus et incarcerati sunt

  Note : 133v blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  pseudo-Methodius - author

  141r-146v - pseudo-Methodius, De initio et fine saeculi || Liber Methodii [Paterensis] martyris de principio seculi et de regnis gentium et fine seculorum

  rubric : (141r) Incipit prologus in liber Methodii martiris

  incipit : (141r) In nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi incipit liber methodii

  explicit : (141r) plurimum collaudauit

  rubric : (141r) Explicit prologus

  rubric : (141r) Incipit liber de primo miliario seculi

  incipit : (141r) Sciendum namque est nobis fratres karissimi

  explicit : (146v) unde nos dominus eripere dignetur. Qui cum patre etc.

  Note : Printed in Orthodoxographa etc.

  
  

  147r-149v - De situ, commendatio et mirabilibus Britanniae || Beda de situ Britanniae, - commendatio ejusdem - et de mirabilibus ejus

  
  

  149v-158r - Annales de gestis Britonum, Saxonum, Danorum et Normannorum (to 1216) || Annales de gestis Britonum, Saxonum, Danorum et Normannorum, desinunt in anno 1216

  rubric : (149v) Incipiunt Annales de gestis Britonum. de gestis saxonum. de gestis danorum. de gestis normannorum. Prologus incipit

  incipit : (149v) Ad expediendas regni necessitates militiam

  explicit : (150r) subiugata fuisse non dubites

  rubric : (150r) De gestis Britonum

  incipit : (150r) Brutus genere Troianus filius Siluii

  Note : The original hand goes to the death of John. Another continues to the Coronation of Edward II

  Note : Hardy III 46, 291: to 1216 it resembles Faustina A. VIII 15. Up to the accession of Richard I it is identical with Tib. A. IX 6 attributed to T. Wykes

  
  

  158v-180r - Merton Annals (from the arrival of the Normans to the year 1242) || Alia chronica brevissima a tempore adventus Normannorum in Angliam ad annum 1242

  Note : Haec chronica ascribuntur Thomae Wickes canonico de Osneye a quodam neoterico, minime tamen concordant cum eis a Cl. Gale sub nomine hujus autoris editis, et potius ex frequenti mentione coenobii Mertonensis in agro Surriensi, cuidam ejus loci monacho ascribenda videntur

  rubric : (158v) Incipiunt alia cronica breuissima a tempore aduentus Normannorum in Angliam. de fortuitis in hiis diebus contingentibus

  rubric : (158v) Anno Incarnationis domini mlxv. Ciclus annorum magnus D. xxxii bis a natiuitatis Christi decursus tertio incepit. Anno domini mlxvi Obiit Sancti eadwardus rex etc.

  Note : (166r) On the year 1183 is a marginal note, Hoc anno Will. de Auberuilla fundauit Abbaciam de Langeden (West Langdon in Kent)

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (180r) Eodem anno post festum Sancti Michaelis obiit Jocelinus episcopus Bathoniensis

  rubric : (180r) [finis sexterni]

  Note : Hardy III 10: rather fuller than Faust. A. VIII 36. By a Canon of Merton Priory

  Note : Liebermann, l. c. p. 36, says that it is neither by Wykes nor yet from Merton: the end = Annals of Waverly sub anno 1242 (ed. Luard, to whom this copy was not known). The text appears to be better than his in one place

  
  

  180v-180v - Services owed by the Barons of the cinque ports to the crown || Les services qe les barouns des Cynk-portes deivent au roi de an en an par meer si mester est

  Note : Added on 173v

  
  

  180v-181v - Wardens of Dover Castle || De wardis castri Dover

  Note : Added on 173v

  Note : 174v blank

  
  

  182r-186v - Magna carta (confirmation of 1225) || Confirmatio magnae chartae a rege Henrico III sub initio ejus regni facta

  Note : (182r) Original hand

  
  

  186v-188v - Carta de forestis (confirmation of 1225) || Carta de forestis ejusdem regis

  Note : Original hand

  
  

  188v-189r - Decree of the church for the peace of the realm and the liberty of the church, 1253 || Sententia prelatorum pro pace regni et libertate ecclesiae, anno 1253

  Note : Original hand

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Innocent IV - author

  189v-190v - Letter of Innocent IV to the English bishops in answer to their letters concerning the Magna carta and Carta de forestis || Epistola Innocentii papae (IV) ad archiepiscopos et episcopos Angliae pro confirmatione literarum ab illis editarum de cartis precedentibus

  Note : Original hand

  Note : Potthast 15534

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Alexander IV - author

  190v-192r - Two bulls of Alexander IV confirming the Magna carta and Carta de forestis || Duae Bullae Alexandri papae pro confirmatione earundem cartarum

  Note : Memorandum quod tres predictae literae bullatae in custodia venerabilis patris Laurentii Roffensis episcopi, qui eas impetravit, remanserunt.

  
  

  192r-192v - Bull of Innocent IV to the clergy of the province of Canterbury concerning the taking of procurations by the archbishop || Bulla Innocentii papae IV pro clericis Cantuariensis provinciae ne solvant procurationes archiepiscopo ratione visitationis

  Note : Potthast 14628

  
  

  192v-193r - Bull of Innocent IV that no archbishop or suffragan shall prevent appeals to Rome || Bulla ejusdem papae ne archiepiscopus suffraganeorum suorum jurisdictionem impediat in appellationibus ad sedem apostolicam vel metropolitanam

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Edward I - author

  193r-193v - Charter of liberties granted to the county of Surrey by Edward I || Carta libertatum Surriae concessa per Edwardum I

  Note : Later hand

  
  

  193v-195r - The Law of Oléron (The judgements of the sea) || Oleroun de jugemens de la meer

  Note : Later hand, closely written

  
  

  195r-196v - Evidence of the liberty and immunity of the church of St Martin, Dover || Testimonium libertatum et immunitatum ecclesiae Sancti Martini infra Dover a rege Withredo fundatae

  Note : Later still (xiv late?)

  Note : 189v blank

  
  

  197r-200v - The Statute of Marlborough || Statuta quae dicuntur provisiones de Marleberge

  Note : Original hand

  
  

  200v-211v - The Statute of Westminster I || Les establisemens del roi Edward fiz del roi Henri fist a Westminster a son premier general parlement

  
  

  211v-216v - The Statute of Gloucester || Provisiones Glocestriae, partim Latine partim Gallice

  
  

  216v-217r - The Statute 'de religionis' || Statutum de religiosis 7 Edw. I

  
  

  217v-219r - The Statute of Merton || Provisiones de Mertone 29 Hen. III

  Note : Possibly the original hand, but probably not

  
  

  219v-225v - The Statute of Westminster II || Statuta facta apud Westmonasterium 13 Edw. I

  Note : Later hand: still double columns

  
  

  Intervenants :

  King Æthelred - author

  226r-227r - King Æthelred to Ealdred, bishop of Cornwall, grant of privileges, 994 || Carta Adelridi regis de libertate ecclesiae

  Note : S 880

  Note : Like the original hand. The preamble identical with the next

  
  

  Intervenants :

  King Cnut - author

  227r-227v - King Cnut to St Mary's Exeter, confirmation of privileges, 1019 || Carta Cnuthonis regis de immunitatibus monasterii de Exencestre

  Note : S 954

  Note : See Kemble, Cod. Diplom. no. 729

  
  

  227v-229r - King Edward joins the two dioceses of Devon and Cornwall and transfers the see to Exeter, 1050 || Carta de translatione sedis cathedralis de Crideton in Exonie anno 1050

  Note : Ib. no. 791

  Note : S 1021

  Note : 221r blank

  
  

  229v-230r - Petitions at the Carlisle parliament, Hilary 1307 || Petitiones oblatae in parliamento apud Karleol

  Note : Later: double columns

  
  

  230r-231v - The Statute of Carlisle || Edw. I contra gravamina et extortiones papae, et ordinationes ibidem factae in hac causa

  Note : Later: double columns

  Note : 223v blank

  
  

  232r-232r - Bull of Pope John against the errors of master John de Senliac || Bulla Iohannis papae contra quosdam errores magistri Iohannis de Senliaco S. T. D.

  Note : Another hand

  
  

  232v-232v - Genealogical tables demonstrating the right of the English king in France || Tabula genealogica ostendens jus quod habet rex Angliae in regnum Franciae

  
  

  232v-232v - Writ or Assize of iuris utrum || Breve regis Waltero de Gloucest. escaetori suo citra Trentam directum, ut per sacrum proborum et legalium hominum inquirat, utrum quaedam tenementa in Leystona Knoteshale Theberton fuerunt abbatis et conventus Leystonae ante publicationem statuti de terris et tenementis ad mortuam manum non ponendis

  
  

  233r-233v - Verses 'on the times' || Versus de tempore Iohannis Straw

  Note : (xiv late. 2 columns)

  incipit : (233r) Proh dolor accreuit nuper confusio rerum

  explicit : Ut populi cernant ne cupiant vetita

  Note : Wright, Political Poems (Rolls) I 227 from this and another MS

  
  

  234r-236v - Letter of the barons to Clement VI (1244) || Lettre des barons au pape Clement VI

  Note : (234r) an English translation of this letter written on paper in the 16th century is inserted immediately before it

  Note : Preceded by four leaves of paper of cent. xvi

  
  

  236v-237r - The manner of Richard II's abdication and Henry IV's election || La manere de la renonciation del roy Richard de sa corone et de la election del roy Henri le quarte puis le conqueste

  
  

  237v-241r - Proceedings of the visitation of Bayham abbey by William, abbot of Langdon || Processus visitationis monasterii de Begeham per Willelmum abbatem de Langedone; in qua visitatione Laurentius abbas officium resignavit, et Lucas de Coldone electus est in locum ejus, anno 1315

  Note : Double columns (earlier than 39-44)

  Note : A quarter of f. 232r-232v is cut away

  Note : Art. 45 is mentioned by Tanner in the Notitia

  
  

  241r-242r - Proceedings of the papal nuncio against King John || Processus nuntii papae contra regem Ioannem

  Note : Hardy III 46

  
  

  242r-243r - Charter of King John ceding England to the pope as a vassal || Carta regis Iohannis facta papae et ecclesiae Romanae, qua se regnumque suum sedi apostolicae subjecit, et ad tributum annuum mille marcarum solvendum obligavit

  Note : Hardy III 46

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Innocent III - author

  243r-243r - Bull of Innocent III confirming King John's charter concerning ecclesiastical elections || Bulla papalis confirmans chartam regis Iohannis de liberis electionibus ecclesiae Anglicanae, manu neoterica

  Note : Added in cent. xvi, Hardy III 46

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Edward III - author

  243v-244v - Statute of Edward III || Statutum Edwardi III, anno regni Angliae 200 Franciae 70

  Note : quaedam folia excisa

  Note : Double columns

  
  

  245r-245r - Bull on the residence of priests (incomplete) || Conclusio bullae papalis pro residentia prelatorum

  Note : A larger hand, double columns

  Note : Dated

  explicit : (245r) Apud Sanctum Petrum IIIIto kalendas Aprilis Pontificatus anno secundo

  
  

  245v-254v - Tract on priestly office || Tractatus theologicus de officio sacerdotali, et cetera

  incipit : (245v) Paulus prelatis ait. Quamdiu sum gencium apostolus

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (254v) De secundis. Gaudens gaudebo in domino

  rubric : (254v) Hoc opus impletur propter quod scriptor ametur

  
  

  255r-256r - Summons to a provincial chapter, incorporating the copy of a bull of Benedict XII, 1337 || Citatio primi capituli provincialis, in qua inseritur copia et tenor bullae directae executoribus per Benedictum papam xii anno 1337

  Note : Another hand, single lines

  Note : Copy attested by Joh. de Aldefeld notary of York diocese

  
  

  256v-257r - Decree of the Holy Roman Emperor that his election does not require papal confirmation, 1338? || Decretum principum Romani imperii, quod imperator electus non debeat a papa confirmari, factum anno 1327

  Note : alia quaedam excisa

  Note : (257r) This is followed by a page in 2 columns containing the end of a tract De Sapientia Divina(?) ending

  explicit : (257r) que amicos dei et prophetas constituit. Capitulum 7. et hec ad presens de hiis sufficiant

  Note : (257r) and a paragraph in defence of Thomas of Canterbury

  incipit : (257r) Circa beatum virum dextere excelsi mutacionem

  
  

  257v-258v - Constitutions of Clarendon, 1164 || Constitutiones de Clarendon factae per Henric. II anno 1164

  Note : Fraterculus, qui eas transcripsit, titulum apposuit, funesti cyrographi gloriosi neomartyris Thomae primo exilii et postea martyrii causae

  Note : Not in the same hand as 251r. Apparently an extract from Herbert de Bosham's Liber Melorum (ed. Giles)

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Archbishop of Canterbury - author

  258v-259r - Letter of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Cistercians concerning tithes || Epistola Domini Cantuariensis archiepiscopi ad Cicestercienses (sic pro Cistercienses) de cupiditate in decimis exigendis reprimenda

  
  

  Intervenants :

  King Edgar - author

  259r-259v - King Edgar's instructions to bishops and abbots || Monitio regis Edgari praelatis et abbatibus, fine mutilata

  Note : In a good hand

  Note : Preceded by a note in the same hand on lower margin of 253r

  Note : (259r) Rex edgarus in ecclesiis construendis etc., the end of which is cut off

  Note : The Monitio ends imperfectly

  explicit : (259v) et non deerit tibi potestas regia. et sic factum est

  Note : [Note (xvi): finis epistole deest sed habetur in libro de potestate regia et ecclesiastica]