Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 343

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    • CAMBRIDGE. Corpus Christi College Library, 343
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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 343
    • CCCC MS 343
    • MS 343
    • Parker Library MS 343
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Author : Anonyme | Raoul Le Noir (1140?-1200?) | Raoul de Coggeshall (11..-1228?)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • rather roughly but clearly written
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 2 + 83
  • Dimensions :
    • 247 x 343
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 60 lines
    • ff. a-b + i + 1-83 + ii + c-d
    • cover(2), 1(12)-7(12) (wants 12).

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Contents

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  • Anonyme | Sur les mesures
    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Li dener deit peiser xx greinz
    Folio 72r - 72r

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 343 contains fourteenth-century copies of historical material of the kind that interested Parker. In this instance the texts include Ralph Niger (d. c. 1210), to whose Chronicum, covering the period from the Creation to 1199, has been added extracts from the Chronicon Anglicanum by Ralph of Coggeshall OCist (d. after 1224), and a copy of Coggeshall's Chronicon terrae sanctae et de captis a Saladino Hierosolymis. In addition, the manuscript contains a handful of other texts of a varied nature, including verses on weights and measures, a guide to playing chess, a gospel parody (Sequencia leti euuangelii secundum lucrum) and a short history of the dukes of Normandy from William I to John. The flyleaves of the volume are made up of two leaves of a late fifteenth-century abstract version of the Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364). Nothing is known of the provenance of this manuscript.


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


    Intervenants :

    Ralph Niger - author

    Ralph of Coggeshall OCist - author

    1v-72r - Ralph Niger, Chronicum (Creation-1199, continued to 1224 by Ralph of Coggeshall OCist, Chronicon Anglicanum) || Radulphi Nigri chronicon de vita et actis imperatorum et regum Angliae et Franciae

    rubric : (1v) Incipit prefatio magistri Radulfi Nigri

    incipit : (1v) Etsi succensere sibi neminem conueniat

    explicit : (1v) superflua eius effusione se proluat

    rubric : (1v) Explicit prefatio de prima particula huius cronice

    incipit : (1v) Ab adam usque ad diluuium sunt anni duo milia ccti xliiti secundum lxxti interpretes

    Note : On f. 23r after the birth of Prince Henry (1155) is a digression on Justinian

    Note : On f. 24r begin short annalistic notes 1065-1202. The entries lengthen to 1224

    Note : A note by Bale (?) on f. 28r: finiunt additiones Cisterciensis monachi de Cogeshal (i.e. Ralph of Coggeshall)

    Note : On f. 28v we go back to 1066 and proceed again to 1224. Ending (of Falco)

    explicit : (71v) Elegit uti terram relinqueret et trans mare

    Note : Rad. Coggeshall, Rolls Series, p. 208

    rubric : (71v) Explicit liber de uita et actibus im(per)atorum anglie et francie

    Note : The chronicle of Radulfus Niger was edited by Anstruther for the Caxton Society. On it see Hardy II 281, 287, 415, 496, and III 56 etc. This MS. does not seem to be mentioned by him

    Note : (72r) Verses on chess (28): Hic fit formosa sine sanguine pungna iocosa...Omnis homo matum clamat matum sibi matum

    Note : (72r) Then on weights: Li dener deit peiser xx greinz etc.

    Note : Then a parody of a gospel

    rubric : (72r) Sequencia leti euuangelii secundum luc(r)um

    incipit : (72r) In illo tempore. Erat quidam phariseus lucius uoragine princeps potatorum. Et congregatis discipulis suis interrogauit eum unus dicens, Magister dic quid faciam et vitam iocundam possidebo

    Note : Ending

    explicit : (72r) quod timet impius eueniet et. letabitur iustus. et merces eius cum eo et opus illius coram ipso est

    rubric : (72r) Credo in bacum patrem omnipotor


    72v-83r - Ralph of Coggeshall OCist, Chronicon terrae sanctae et de captis a Saladino Hierosolymis || Chronicon de terra sancta, seu de captione Hierusalem

    rubric : (72v) (Cronica de terra sancta)

    rubric : (72v) Quantis pressuris et calamitatibus oppressa sit et contrita orientalis ecclesia

    Note : After a letter of Saladin to Frederic (f. 82r) ending

    explicit : (83r) suscitatoris progeniei myramkaem

    Note : printed in Rad. of Coggeshall, Rolls, p. 209


    83r-83v - De ducibus Normannie

    rubric : (83r) De ducibus normannie et regibus anglie

    incipit : (83r) Primus normannie dux qui Robertus in baptismo dictus

    explicit : (83v) quo defuncto Iohannes frater eius comes de mortoiy successit ei in regnum anglie qui regnauit xvii annis et v mensibus

    rubric : (83v) Explicit expliceat scriptor ludere eat

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Notes

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  • Additions: The text of f. 1r and part of col. 1 of 1v is crossed out. It is part of a gloss on the Epistle of Jude, not written in the strict order of the text.
  • Additions: The other paragraphs are (f. ir): Storm of 1202. Dominican order founded. Franciscans founded. Henry III crowned. Death and burial. Storm of 1221. iv Jew in sewer at Tewkesbury, 1258. 1262. Coronation of Edward I. Death and burial. 1307. Coronation of Edward II. Death and burial. 1316. Floods and famine. 1326. Edward III. 1340. Battle of 'Sluse.' 1348. Plague. 1346. Battle of Cressy. iir 1346. Siege of Calais. 1356. Poitiers. 1361. Wind on St Maur's day. 2nd Plague. 1368. 3rd Plague. 1376. Death of Black Prince. 1377. Death of Edward III. iir 1382. Earthquake. 1377. Richard II. Coronation, death, burial. 1389. Henry IV. Coronation, death, burial. 1413. Henry V. Coronation, death, burial. 1429. Henry VI. Coronation, death, burial. 1461. Edward IV. Coronation, death, burial. How therle of Warwike toke ye kyng Edward prisoner & of his escape afterwarde & fledde into flaundres. Of his retourne ageyn in to England and made the felde at ... (end of iiv).
  • Additions: Coronation of John (f. ir): In the yere of oure lorde god M. C. iiiixx xix at Westmynester was the Coronacion of Kynge John.
  • Additions: Bound in a double leaf (ff. ir-iiv) of a handsomely written Chronicle in English (double columns of 38 lines, cent. xv) with small initials alternately in blue and gold. The first leaf (f. ir)begins in a paragraph on the death of Richard I ending: And ys buried at the brygge of Ebraunde (sc. Pons Ebraldi for Fons Ebraldi) beyonde the see.

Bibliography

  • Wilkins, Nigel. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Français de La Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library). Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Parker Library Publications, 1993.

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