Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 377

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 377
    • CCCC MS 377
    • MS 377
    • Parker Library MS 377
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • fine black hand of cent. xiii-xiv
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 7 + 1 + 63 + 15
  • Dimensions :
    • 136 x 217
  • Codicological details :
    • mostly 37 lines to a page
    • ff. 1-87
    • 1(10) (wants 8-10) | 1 flyleaf | a(8)-h(8) (wants 8) | A(8) (2 canc.) B(8).

Contents

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : CCCC MS 377 contains three distinct items, seemingly with no connection to each other. The first is a twelfth-century Calendar which James, somewhat elliptically, described as having 'a certain German flavour'. The second item, which makes up the greater part of the manuscript, is a late fourteenth-century collection of English statutes (or material such as writs and letters patent conventionally accorded the status of statutes). To this has been added the third item, a fifteenth-century list of religious who possessed temporalities in the diocese of Ely. Nothing is known of how these disparate texts came to be included in the same codex, or how it came into Parker's possession, if indeed it was not he who combined them from separate codices.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    1r-8v - Kalendar || Kalendarium

    Note : Kalendar in black, green and red

    Note : (1r) January 14. Translatio Sancte Fidis in red 31. Ypoliti Martiris

    Note : (1v) February 1. Brigide Virginis 7. Dionisii 15. Victoria Christi, diabolus a domino recessit. Different ink 16. Iuliane Virginis et martiris. Different ink

    Note : (2r) March 1. Albini 18. Edwardi Regis et Martiris 19. Ioseph sponsi marie 20. Cuthberti 23. Adam creatus est 24. hic captus est Iesus a iudeis. Different ink

    Note : (2v) April 22. Dionisii cum sociis 30. Erconwoldi Episcopi

    Note : (2v) April 3 and May 12 (f. 3r). Pancracii

    Note : (2v) April 25 and May 18 (f. 3r). Marci Ewangeliste

    Note : (3r) May 19. Dunstani 20. Ethelberti Martiris

    Note : (3v) June has a good many additions (xiii). Original entries are 5. Bonefacii Archiepiscopi et Martiris Botulfi 20. Crispini Martiris Albani Etheldride

    Note : (4v) August 5. Oswaldi 24. Audoeni episcopi in green

    Note : (5v) October 4. Francis has been written over an original entry 10. Gereon 12. Wilfrid 23. Seuerini episcopi in colona

    Note : (6r) NovemberMartin in green Eadmundi Regis et Martiris

    Note : (6v) December 26. Lapidacio Sancti Stephani 29. bonifacii episcopi

    Note : There is a certain German flavour about this

    Note : On f. 7v (a slip) are notes

    Note : (7v) Nomina IIIm Magorum, Iaspar, Babtizar, Melchion. Nomina duorum latronum cum domino pendentium samatros et dismos

    Note : (7v) Petrus et paulus requiescunt Rome. Andreas Simon et Iudas et Mathias constantinopoli Johannes Zebedeus epheso. Iacobus frater eius gallicie. secundum quosdam. Iacobus frater domini ierosolimis. Matheus salerne. Bartholomeus boneuento. Tomas in edissa ciuitate indie. Philippus in cicilia (corr. to S-) in ecclesia ab ipso constructa

    Note : (7v) Other less interesting notes

    Note : (8v) Flyleaf, the end of a comment on the Apocalypse: fine black hand of cent. xiii-xiv

    explicit : (8v) colorum est uarietas. virtutum multiplicatas

    rubric : (8v) Expliciunt lectiones libri apocalypsi Iohannis apostoli


    9r-12r - Magna Carta || Magna carta 9 E. 1


    12r-13v - Carta de foresta || Carta de libertatibus forestae


    14r-15r - Confirmatio cartarum || Confirmatio earundem per Edwardum I


    15r-15r - Sententia excommunicationis per Edwardum I || Sententia excommunicationis. etc., ut supra


    15r-15v - Statute 'de tallagio' || Statutum de tallagio


    15v-17v - Statute of Merton (1235) || Provisiones de Mertona


    17v-22r - Statute of Marlborough (1267) || Statutum de Marleburg


    22r-24v - Statute of Gloucester (1278) || Statuta Gloucestriae


    24v-25r - 'Explanationes' of the Statute of Gloucester (1278) || Explanationes Gloucestriae


    25r-34r - Statute of Westminster I (1275) || Statut. Westmonasterii prim.


    34r-51v - Statute of Westminster II (1285) || Statut. Westmonasterii secund.


    51v-52r - Quia emptores (1290) || Statut. de emptoribus terrarum


    52r-53v - Statute of merchants (1283) || Statut. de mercatoribus


    53v-54v - De libertate clamanda (The Statute of Gloucester pt I) || Statut. de libertate clamanda


    54v-55r - Circumspecte Agatis (pt II) (1285) || Statut. de prohibitionibus


    55r-55v - Statute of money (1284) || Statut. de moneta


    55v-56v - Statute of fines (1299) || Statut. de finibus


    56v-57r - Statute of Gavalet in London || Statutum de Gavaleto


    57r-57v - Statute of Quo warranto (1278) || Statutum de quo warranto


    57v-58r - Statute of Quo warranto (1290) || Statutum novum de quo warranto


    58r-58v - Statute of jurors (1305 ?) || Statut. de juratoribus


    58v-58v - Statute of conspirators (1305) (Champerty ?) || Statut. de conspiratoribus


    58v-59r - Assisa de ponderibus et mensuris (pt I) || Compositio monetae et mensurarum


    59r-59v - Extenta manerii (Manorial extents) || Extenta manerii


    59v-60v - Statute of the exchequer (1275) || Statutum de scaccario


    60v-62r - 'Distinctiones' of the Statute of the exchequer (1275) || Distinctiones scaccarii


    62r-62v - Statute of mortmain (1279) || Statutum de religiosis


    63v-64r - Visus franci plegii || Visus franci plegii


    64r-64v - Assisa de ponderibus et mensuris || Statutum de ponderibus et mensuris


    64v-66r - Capitula of pleas in eyre || Capitula quae placitantur in itinere


    66r-66v - Dies communes de banco (1267) || Dies communes in banco


    66v-67r - Dies communes de dote (1267) || Dies in placito dotis


    67r-68v - Pleas of the crown || Ordo de placitis coronae


    69r-72v - Statute of Winchester (1285) || Statutum Wintoniensis

    Note : (71v) An original list of the statutes is on f. 63v


    73r-87v - Spiritual and temporal returns of the Diocese of Ely || Valorem omnium possessionum tam spiritualium quam temporalium in dioecesi Eliensi

    rubric : (73r) Decanatus Cantebrigie

    incipit : (73r) Ecclesia beate marie cantebrigie vi (?) iiiid, etc.

    rubric : (73r) Decanatus de Campes.

    rubric : (73v) Decanatus de Chesterton

    rubric : (74r) Nomina religiosorum habentium spiritualia tantum in diocesi Eliensi

    rubric : (74v) Nomina religiosorum habentium temporalia tantum in diocesi Eliensi

    rubric : (75r) Nomina religiosorum habentium bona spiritualia et temporalia in diocesi Eliensi

    Note : The remainder of the return is occupied almost wholly with a detailed list of the spirituals and temporals held by each of the religious named

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