Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 240

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 240
    • CCCC MS 240
    • MS 240
    • Parker Library MS 240
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Thomas Walsingham (1345?-1422?)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1400 - 1499
  • Script :
    • in a clear hand
  • Support Material : Paper
  • Composition :
    • ff. 192
  • Dimensions :
    • 142 x 196
  • Codicological details :
    • mostly 38 lines to a page
    • ff. i-iii + 1-193. Partially imaged: front cover exterior and interior + ff. i r-iii v + 1r-24v + back cover exterior and interior
    • 1(10) (10 canc.) 2(8)-24(8) (8 canc.).

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Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : CCCC MS 240 is the unique fifteenth-century copy of the Latin chronicle known as the Ypodigma Neustriae often, and probably mistakenly, attributed to Thomas Walsingham (c. 1370-c. 1422). The Ypodigma Neustriae is a chronicle of events in Normandy and England from 911 to 1416 and written, perhaps, as a flattery to Henry V's successful conquests in France. Its dating can probably be narrowed down to c. 1419. Nothing is known of how this manuscript came to be in Parker's collection, though it was, presumably, one of the many manuscripts dealing with historical themes that the archbishop acquired from the monastery of St Alban, Hertfordshire which had produced some of the greatest medieval English monastic chroniclers. See also MS 176. The book is bound in an old limp vellum binding. As a result of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the covers and part of the text pages, ff. ir-iiiv, 1r-24v.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Thomas Walsingham OSB - author

    1r-189v - Thomas Walsingham OSB, Ypodigma Neustriae || Thomae Walsingham Ypodigma Neustriae sive historia rerum Normannicarum et Anglicarum a Rollone primo duce Normanniae ad annum 1419, 7 Hen. V

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Provenance

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • On f. 1r (xv): liber m hugonis ffraunce. Also in red chalk henr. 5.

Notes

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  • Research: The whole manuscript was edited by H. T. Riley in the Rolls Series, 1876. It is the only copy of the Ypodigma Neustriae.
  • Additions: Binding, brown leather with a little blind tooling (xvi): one clasp gone.

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