Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 5

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • MS 005
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 5
    • CCCC MS 5
    • Parker Library MS 5
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : John of Tynemouth
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1400 - 1499
  • Script :
    • in two good hands
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 284 + 14 + 4
  • Dimensions :
    • 360 x 515
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 66 lines
    • ff. a-c + i-ix + 1-284 + x-xviii + d-f
    • 2 flyleaves, a(8) (wants 1(?): or (10) wants 1, 2 and 10) 1(8)-24(8) 25(4) (+4*) | 26(8)-29(8) (wants 4) 30(8)-36(8) (7 canc.) 37(2) (wants 2): b(10) (wants 8-10), 2 flyleaves.

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Contents

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 5 is the first of a two-volume copy of the Historia aurea of John of Tynemouth (fl. c. 1350), dating from c. 1420-40, the second volume being in CCCC MS 6. This manuscript of the Historia contains a history of the world from creation to the death of Vespasian, but also includes a description of the world based on the writings of Marco Polo and the versified Itinerarium Cambriae. CCCC MS 5 was one of several manuscripts (others include CCCC MSS 6 and 7, BL MS Lansdowne 375 and Cambridge UL MS Ee.4.20) owned and, in some cases, commissioned by William Wintershill (d. c. 1435) the almoner of the Benedictine Abbey of St Albans in Hertfordshire. An inscription in this manuscript relates how Wintershill donated CCCC MS 5 and its companion, now CCCC MS 6, to the Abbey at his death.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    John of Tynemouth - author

    iiir-284v - John of Tynemouth, Historia aurea, Part I

    Note : (iiir) Alphabetical table of names etc. beginning imperfectly in Cresus, ending with Uxores

    Note : (ixv) The account of John of Tynemouth given by Bale, copied out in good black letter by one of Parker's secretaries

    Note : The following note is appended

    Note : Hunc Authorem in quibusdam libris tradunt Authorem esse Johannem Anglicum ut habetur in exemplari scripto Mri Richi Prise in Wallia, qui habet plures libros usque ad (blank) inter quos capite 49 habentur quedam grauamina 9 scilicet monachorum Sancti Edmundi contra Willelmum Bateman Ep. Norwicensem circa Am Dni 1344. Ubi etiam recitantur carte plurimorum regum el pontificum pro libertatibus predicti monasterii

    Note : The MS. here mentioned is Bodl. 240. Cf. Arnold, Memorials of Bury, III 321

    rubric : (1r) Historie auree pars prima

    incipit : (1r) Julius cesar diuinis humanisque rebus singulariter instructus This is the incipit of the Polychronicon which is extensively used by Tynemouth

    Note : (1r) Handsome gold initial on pink and blue

    Note : Liber I has 89 chapters and contains a description of the world. The sources are given in the margin. Much is drawn from Marco Polo: for English geography Alfridus or Affridus is quoted. The versified Itinerarium Cambriae (printed in Wright's Poems of W. Mapes) is extensively used

    Note : (28v) Liber II: 68 chapters, beginning Deus est etc. and ending with

    rubric : (48r) De oppressione filiorum Israel post mortem ioseph

    Note : The History of Aseneth and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs are used

    Note : (48v) Liber III

    Note : chapter 1

    rubric : (48v) De natiuitate moysi

    Note : chapter 29

    rubric : (56r) De secundis tabulis et composicione tabernaculi

    Note : (56r) Liber IV

    Note : chapter 1

    Note : (56r) De sacrificiis

    Note : chapter 30

    Note : (63v) De morte moysi etc.

    Note : (64r) Liber V

    Note : chapter 1

    Note : (64r) De Iosue etc.

    Note : (64r) Fine gold initial

    Note : chapter 44

    rubric : (76v) De uictoria dauid contra amalech et de morte saulis

    Note : (77r) Liber VI

    Note : chapter 1

    Note : (77r) De planctu dauid etc.

    Note : chapter 77

    rubric : (98r) De fuga sedechie et urbis incendio

    Note : (98v) Liber VII

    Note : chapter 1

    Note : (98v) De morte sedechie etc.

    Note : chapter 60

    rubric : (114r) De nece philippi regis

    Note : chapters 21-24 are from Aesop's fables

    Note : chapters 40-43 from 4 Esdras

    Note : (114v) Liber VIII

    Note : chapter 1

    rubric : (114v) De primordiis regis Alexandri

    Note : chapter 94

    rubric : (139v) De aduentu domini - nostri jhesu christi

    Note : chapters 1-19 from Gesta Alexandri

    Note : chapter 60 from Moralia Catonis

    Note : chapter 66. Julius Celsus is quoted = Caesar's Commentaries

    Note : (140r) Liber IX

    Note : chapter 1

    rubric : (140r) De natiuitate domini

    Note : chapter 176

    rubric : (197r) De claudii imperatoris gestis et moribus

    Note : chapters 102-115 are on the Assumption and Miracles of the Virgin

    Note : chapter 124. Acts of S. James the Great (Abdias liber iv)

    Note : chapters 129-164. On the Sacraments

    Note : (198r) Liber X

    Note : (198r) Here a change of hand takes place. There is a fine border

    Note : chapter 1

    rubric : (198r) De nerone et eius moribus

    Note : chapter 63

    rubric : (231v) De hiis que precesserunt mortem neronis

    Note : chapters 2-7 are from Seneca

    Note : chapters 13-21 from Clementine Recognitions

    Note : chapter 22. S. Petronilla

    Note : chapters 23-25. S. Martial

    Note : chapters 30, 31. Thecla

    Note : chapter 39 etc. Legends of Apostles

    Note : A gap from the end of chapter 50 to the end of chapter 52

    Note : (232r) Liber XI

    Note : chapter 1

    rubric : (232r) De moribus vespasiani imperatoris

    Note : chapter 132

    rubric : (284v) De Sanctis Agapito et ceteris martiribus

    Note : (284v) This ends imperfectly: only one leaf seems to be wanting

    Note : This book is practically all concerned with Lives of Saints

    Note : (xr) Then follows the alphabetical table to Part II beginning with Aaron and ending with Pueri. Three leaves are gone at the end

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Provenance

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  • The volume, with MS 6 and MS 7, belonged to St Alban's Abbey. On f. 1r of text, at top of col. 1, in large red letters is: Hic est liber S. Albani de libraria conuentus. At the bottom of the page in a large hand is: Uir uenerabilis dominus Willelmus Wyntresshull quondam huius Monasterii monachus inter plurima beneficia quibus honorem huius ecclesie multipliciter ampliauit. Hanc historiam que dicitur Aurea, et in partes duas diuiditur. non sine magnis sumptibus fecit conscribi: quod opus in libraria conuentus ad opus claustralium voluit remanere. Cuius donum auctorizando confirmauit reuerendus in Christo huius Monasterii pater et Abbas dominus videlicet Johannes Whethamstede sacre theologie professor predictumque librum in duobus voluminibus ut predicitur diuisum ad opus sui Conuentus pro futuris temporibus perenniter stabiliuit. Wyntreshull was among other things Almoner of the Abbey, and died perhaps about 1424. (See Horstmann, Nova Legenda Angliae, Oxford, 1901, I xlviii.)

Notes

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  • Research: The work contained in these volumes is the Historia Aurea of John of Tynemouth. It has never been printed. The best account of it is to be found in Dr Horstmann's work just cited, pp. xliv-li, lv-lxv. There are three copies known. 1. MSS. Lambeth 10, 11, 12 which as I have elsewhere pointed out are from Durham Priory. 2. The present MS. 3. MS. Bodl. 240 from Bury St Edmunds, owned in cent. xvi by Thomas Prise or Price.
  • Additions: At each end are two leaves of a large xvth cent. Antiphoner in double columns, of the same size as the leaves of the book.

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