Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 452

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 452
    • CCCC MS 452
    • MS 452
    • Parker Library MS 452
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Eadmer (106.?-113.?)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1000 - 1099
  • Script :
    • mainly in the Christ Church hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 7 + 189 + 6
  • Dimensions :
    • 118 x 175
  • Codicological details :
    • 24 and 27 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + i-vii + pp. 1-108 + 108a + 109a + 109-150 + 150a + 151a + 151-360 + 401-404 + ff. viii + c-d
    • a(2) b(4) c (one). i(8)-vi(8) vii(10)-ix(10) x(8)-xv(8) xvi(10) xvii(8) xviii(10) xix(8)-xxi(8) (+1), d(4) e(2). There is an obvious change of hand on p. 298.

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Contents

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : CCCC MS 452 contains the Historia nouorum in Anglia of Eadmer of Canterbury OSB (d. after 1124), copied in the first half of the twelfth century, after 1122, at Christ Church, Canterbury. It probably once formed part of what is now CCCC MS 371, and it has been speculated that Eadmer himself may have removed the Historia from this other contemporary collection of his works. The Historia is an account of English history from the Conquest to 1122 and it preserves a large amount of ecclesiastical history of this period that Parker and successive generations of historians of the Church have found extremely useful. Presumably, Parker acquired this manuscript more or less directly from Christ Church. After its acquisition a thirteenth-century miniature of Noli me tangere was inserted, probably cut from French psalter.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Eadmer of Canterbury OSB - author

    1-354 - Eadmer of Canterbury OSB, Historia nouorum in Anglia || Eadmeri historia novorum in Anglia, libri vi || Eadmer's Historia novorum

    Note : (1) Title in red capitals

    rubric : (1) Incipit Prefatio historie novorum in Anglia

    incipit : (1) Cum presentis etatis uiros

    explicit : (3) breui relatu progrediendum

    rubric : (3) Explicit prefatio. Incipit liber primus historie novorum in Anglia

    incipit : (3) Regnante in anglia gloriosissimo rege eadgaro

    Note : (3) Initial in red

    Note : After the first quire there are 27 lines to a page

    Note : Some initials in purple occur

    Note : (77) Liber II

    Note : (134) Liber III

    Note : (184) Liber IV

    Note : (259) Liber V

    Note : (341) Liber VI

    Note : There is a small hole in the inner side of pp. 345-354 (now repaired)

    Note : Text ends

    explicit : (354) in medio aule maioris ecclesie decenter sepultus

    Note : Four blank leaves follow

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Provenance

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • From Christ Church, Canterbury. Ancient Libraries, p. 37, no. 188.

Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Research: The last edition of the text is that in the Rolls Series by Martin Rule, M.A. In his introduction he discusses the character of our MS. minutely. Further he has produced a yet more minute study of the book and its evolution in Camb. Ant. Soc. Proceedings, vol. VI (1886), 194-304, with facsimiles of pp. 16, 17 of this MS.
  • Additions: On the two last flyleaves are Parkerian notes.

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