Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 60

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    • CAMBRIDGE. Corpus Christi College Library, 060
    • CAMBRIDGE, Corpus Christi College Library, 060
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 60
    • CCCC MS 60
    • MS 060
    • Parker Library MS 60
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Author : Anonyme | Jean de Saint-Victor (13..-1351?)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in clear ugly black hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 275 + 1
  • Dimensions :
    • 225 x 318
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 50 lines
    • ff. aa + a-b + i + 1-196 (197 missing) + 198-264 (265-277 missing) + 278-289 + c-d
    • est per prelium
    • 1 flyleaf, 1(12)-17(12) (wants 5) 18(12)-22(12) | gap | 23(12) (1 now bound as 11).

Contents

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  • Anonyme | Commentaire d'une généalogie des enfants de France
    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Pur declaracioun avoir de la table de sus escrite fait a remembrer que Philipp roy de Ffrance est nomé le conquerant
    Folio 289v - 289v

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : CCCC MS 60 contains a copy of the Memoriale historiarum, a chronicle with particular emphasis on France, attributed to John of Paris (d. 1306) (or sometimes John of Saint-Victor), who is also called Jean Boyvin in the description of a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century copy of the same text now in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris (MS 516). The Corpus manuscript is copied in a late fourteenth-century hand and is accompanied by a genealogy tracing the descent of Edward III from the French royal family, presumably part of the English propaganda campaign of the Hundred Years' War. Parker gave a version of the Memoriale to Cambridge University Library (now CUL MS Ii. 2. 18) and a copy was reportedly in the library of Sir Walter Cope (c. 1553-1614), gentleman usher to Parker's colleague in government, William Cecil, Lord Burghley.


    Contenu :


    Langue(s) des textes : latin, français


    Intervenants :

    John of Saint-Victor OSA - author

    1r-289r - John of Saint-Victor OSA, Memoriale historiarum

    incipit : (1r) In exordio rerum et initio creaturarum opifex omnium deus

    Note : The gaps are at William I (1 leaf) and the end of Edward I (a quire)

    Note : Ends in 1322

    explicit : (289r) propter hoc fecit ei dictus comes multas iniurias et penurias perpeti sine causa

    Note : On the verso of the last leaf is a note

    Note : (289v) Liber iste vocatur collectorium hystoriarum quia in eo collecta sunt utiliora et notabiliora excerpta primo de ystoriis sacre scripture etc.

    Note : (not important)

    Note : followed by

    Note : Tabula progenierum francie

    Note : showing the descent of Edward from Philippe le conqueraunt

    Note : With explanatory text in French below

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Provenance

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • An erased inscription on f. 1r at top: Cronica magna boa de librario. (?) Cronica magna V. On f. 39r: Ihesus hawe marcye off me amen Jo beyk. At top of text: I parisiensis G.

Notes

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  • Une Tabula progenierum Francie a été ajoutée par une main postérieure en dernière page, qui démontre l'ascendance d'Edouard Ier, avec commentaire en français, "Pur declaracioun avoir de la table de sus escrite fait a remembrer que Philipp roy de Ffrance est nomé le conquerant"

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Research: Hardy III 375. Tanner Bibl. p. 572 mentions a Flores historiarum by this author in bibliotheca Gualteri Cope. Compare the Memoriale historiarum given by Parker to the University Library (Ii. 2. 18). This volume, handsomely written in cent. xiv late, in double columns of 47 lines, begins: Labilis est hominum memoria ...cum dei adiutorio perstringemus In huius operis inicio primum de diuersarum origine gencium but ends exactly as the Corpus Christi copy, as Joscelin has noted. Duchesne Historiae Francorum Scriptores I 128-133 prints a passage from a Memoriale Historiarum Ioannis Parisiensis Canon. Regul. ap. S. Victorem MS. which occurs in the University Library MS., pp. 19-24.

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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