Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 21

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • MS 021
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 21
    • CCCC MS 21
    • Parker Library MS 21
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Ranulf Higden (1280?-1364)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1375 - 1399
  • Script :
    • very finely written
  • Decoration :
    • Each book has a very fine decorative initial and partial border in gold and colour. The red flourishing of the smaller initials is very good.
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 179 + 2
  • Dimensions :
    • 262 x 378
  • Codicological details :
    • 46 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-178 + iii + c-d
    • 2 flyleaves, a(10) (1 canc.) 1(8)-20(8) 21(6) 22(4).

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 21 contains a high quality copy of Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden (d. 1364) with a continuation to 1377, and was copied shortly after that date. A note in a fifteenth-century hand records that the manuscript was given by 'Henry Somer' to the Hospital of St John the Evangelist in Cambridge. It is sometimes assumed that this is the same man who is described as a Fellow of King's Hall in the early fifteenth century. However, a case can be made for the donor to have been another Henry Somer, a senior royal official who rose to be Chancellor of the Exchequer (1410-39) before his death in 1450, and who expressed a desire to be buried at St John's Hospital. The book passed into the possession of the newly founded St John's College in 1511, since another scribble records the name of 'Shorton', presumably Robert Shorton, the first Master of St John's but later Parker's predecessor as Dean of Stoke by Clare College (1529-35). A sixteenth-century note adds that Somer was involved in a dispute with Corpus Christi over tithes due in Grantchester. It is to be wondered how this 'Inimicus Collegio Corporis Christi Cantabrigiae' might view the acquisition of one of his books by the college.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Ranulf Higden OSB - author

    10r-174r - Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (continued to 1377) || Ranulphi HigdenPolychronicon

    incipit : (10r) Post preclaros

    Note : At 332 (anno 1342) carceris et capitis interdixit, is the note (in the text) Usque huc scripsit R.

    Note : Text continues

    Note : (167v) Hoc idem anno non. Junii natus est regi E. IIIo Edmundus etc.

    Note : Liber VII ends in 1377

    explicit : (174r) Et quod grauius longam continuacionem postea habuerunt

    rubric : (174r) Explicit liber septimus qui est ultimus historie policronice


    174r-178v - Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon (Chronology to 1377)

    Note : In a different hand probably of cent. xiv late

    rubric : (174r) Hic incipit Cronica bona et compendiosa de regibus anglie tantum a Noe usque ad hunc diem

    incipit : (174r) Noe fuerunt tres filii

    Note : Ends with the accession of Richard II

    explicit : (178v) in regnum successit anglorum anno etatis sue undecimo

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  • At the bottom of the last leaf but one (p. 356): Istum librum henricus somer dedit hospitali s. Johannis Euangeliste Cantebrigie cuius anime propicietur deus.
  • Below, by one of Parker's scribes: Hic henricus somer fuit dominus manerii de Jakes in Grancestre et s(? trenu)us Inimicus Collegio Corporis Christi Cantabrigiae ratione decimarum in Grancestre ut in libris Collegii patet.
  • Names: doctor shorton, Henr. Somer, and 'exham' are also scribbled here.

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