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• Résumé : CCCC MS 370 is another of those manuscripts that may have been intended as light reading matter for a monastic community, containing as it does the perennial favourites of material concerning Alexander the Great in both the version of Julius Valerius (3rd/4th century) and the Historia de Preliis, alongside the fictional exchange of letters between Alexander and various figures in the ancient world. In addition, this codex contains an account of the Black Prince's campaign during the siege of Rouen that has been much used by historians of the Hundred Years' War. The presence of Bishop William Bateman's (d. 1355) Injunctions that resulted from his visitation to the Benedictine Cathedral Priory of Holy Trinity, Norwich in 1347 has led some to conclude that this manuscript was once in the library of that institution, though it lacks a press mark or any other evidence to that effect.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  1r-25v - Historia Alexandri Magni (Gesta Alexandri magni) || Historia Alexandri magni regis Macedonum, ortus vita et obitus || Gesta Alexandri

  rubric : (1r) Incipit historia Alexandri magni regis Macedonum. ortus uita et obitus

  incipit : (1r) Egyptii sapientes fati genere diuino primi feruntur

  explicit : (25v) ueneno superatus atque extinctus occubuit

  rubric : (25v) Explicit ortus uita et obitus Alexandri regis magni macedonum

  Note : Abridgement of Julius Valerius (ed. Zacher, Iulii Valerii Epitome, 1867): see H.L.D. Ward, British Museum Catalogue of Romances I 106

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Alexandri - author

  25v-38v - Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de situ Indiae (Gesta Alexandri magni) || Epistola Alexandri regis magni Macedonum, quam ab India magistro suo Aristoteli misit

  rubric : (25v) Incipit epistola Alexandri regis magni macedonum quam ab india magistro suo aristotili misit

  incipit : (25v) Semper memor tui

  explicit : (38v) optime aristotelis ponderaris

  rubric : (38v) Finit epistola Alexandri regis magis macedonum missa ab india ad arist. preceptorum suum

  Note : Ed. Andr. Paulini, Giessen, 1706. Cockayne (Narratiunculae, 1861); A. Hilka, Breslau-program 1909, etc. Catalogue of Romances I 108

  
  

  38v-47v - Epistolae inter Alexandrum magnum et Dindium regum || Epistolae inter Alexandrum magnum et Dindimum regem

  Note : (Alexander Dindimo)

  incipit : (38v) Sepius ad aures

  Note : The following letters are

  incipit : (39r) Desiderantem te alexander

  incipit : (44v) Si hec ita sunt

  incipit : (45r) Nos inquit dindimus

  incipit : (45v) Tunc ideo beatum te

  explicit : (47v) inuidie quodam meliora prestantur

  Note : Ed. Bysshe, Palladius de Gentibus Indiae et Bragmanibus, 1668. Cat. of Romances I 108

  
  

  48r-80r - Gesta Alexandri magni (Historia de Preliis) || Gesta Alexandri magni imperatoris et regis Macedoniae

  rubric : (48r) Hic incipit gesta Alexandri magni Imperatoris et Regis Macedonie

  incipit : (48r) Sapientissimi egipcii scientes mensuram terre

  Note : Ending

  explicit : (80r) Mense marcio fabricauit xii ciuitates que adhuc inhabitantur

  rubric : (80r) Expliciunt gesta Alexandri magni quondam regis Macedonie qui totam mundi machinam suo imperio subiugauit

  Note : This is the Historia de Preliis. Cf. Cat. of Romances I 120

  Note : A riddle

  incipit : (80r) Fili si uixisses quantum uixisti et iterum tantum et dimidium tanti dimidij centum compleuisses annos

  incipit : (80r) Vixisset iuuenis annis bis terque uigenis

  explicit : (80r) A summa luna primi coibente profundo

  
  

  Intervenants :

  William Bateman - author

  80v-85r - William Bateman, Injunctiones || Injunctiones datae priori et capitulo ecclesiae Norwicensis per Willelmum [Bateman] episcopum Norwicensem in visitatione sua

  incipit : (80v) Willelmus permissione diuina Norwic. ep. ... Priori et capitulo ecclesie nostre Norwic. ... Ex debito pastoralis officii

  explicit : (85r) modo simili custodiri. dat. in palacio nostro Norwicensi die v mensis maij. anno domini mill. cccmo quadragesimo septimo. Et consecracionis nostre iiij In cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum duximus apponendum

  explicit : (85r) Hee sunt iniuncciones d. Will. de Norwico. Norwic. Ep.

  Note : The end is on f. 83r

  Note : Immediately before this are inserted two leaves of paper containing

  Note : Hic interseruntur duo folia chartacea seculo xvi scripta quibus continetur

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Thomas Walsingham OSB - author

  83r-84v - Thomas Walsingham OSB, Chronica maiora (extracts: De calumnia et injuriis ... in monasterio sancti Edmundi) || De calumnia et injuriis per eundem episcopum in monasterio S. Edmundi illatis, et per merita S. Edmundi finitis, una cum gravaminibus ejusdem monasterii, ex historia aurea

  rubric : (83r) De calumnia et iniuriis per Willelmus Bateman ... in monasterio S. Edmundi illatus et per merita S. Edmundi finitis

  incipit : (83r) Ex libro 22 histor. auree Johannis anglici cap. 49

  rubric : (84r) Grauamina monasterij

  rubric : (84v) Ex Thomas Walsingham in maiori hist.

  
  

  85v-97v - Itinerarium cuiusdam anglici terram sanctam, 1344 || Itinerarium cujusdam Anglici terram sanctam et alia loca sancta visitantis, anno 1344

  Note : In the former hand: no title

  incipit : (85v) Arripiens quondam iter et pergere sum profectus ad sanctum sepulcrum. quia quanto hominis ingenium curiosius tanto uult perspicacius rimari que super terram et mare perspexi precordialiter impressi

  Note : The lower part of f. 94r is cut off

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (95v) Et sic reposita est nobis corona iusticie quam reddet nobis in illa die iustus iudex

  rubric : (95v) Explicit Itinerarium cuiusdam anglici terram sanctam et alia loca sancta uisitantis

  Note : ff. 95r - 96v blank

  Note : The travellers (three Englishmen) left Avignon on 3 October 1344 and reached home late in 1345

  Note : The description of Cyprus is interesting. I do not find that the narrative has been printed.

  
  

  98r-105v - Gesta Edwardi III || Acta bellicosa Edwardi III. regis Angliae et Edwardi principis Walliae ejus filii in mari et regno Franciae

  rubric : (98r) Hec sunt acta bellicosa illustrissimorum principum dominorum Edwardi d. g. regis ... et Edwardi eiusdem regis primogeniti ... a penultimo die mensis Junij anno domini mill. cccmo quadragesimo sexto ... et deinceps

  incipit : (98r) Felix anglie regis Edwardi progressus ad littora procerum armatorum et plebis exercitum

  Note : After f. 100 is a lacuna of 4 leaves (probably) where the events of July 29 - Aug. 10 (part), 1346, were narrated.

  Note : Ends f. 103v (20 Aug. 1346)

  explicit : (104v) Sagittariorum domesticorum et familiaris comitiua. quidam premissa faciebat licet sibi caucius alii ipmus

  Note : f. 104r is blank

  Note : On f. 104v is the same text as on f. 102v beginning

  incipit : (105v) Rex anglorum illo die

  Note : and ending at a rather earlier point than f. 102v

  explicit : (105v) poiastes ensi auoir

  Note : It was used by Joshua Barnes in his Life of Edward III, 1688, Bk II, chap. 2, and was printed in full by J. Moisant, S. J., Le Prince Noir en Aquitaine, etc., 1894, p. 157; also by Prof. Prentout of Caen.