Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 393

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 393
    • CCCC MS 393
    • MS 393
    • Parker Library MS 393
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Gregorius Eliensis monachus (10..-11..) | Goscelin (1035?-1107?)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1100 - 1199
  • Script :
    • in a very beautiful clear upright round hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 1 + 82 + 1
  • Dimensions :
    • 150 x 220
  • Codicological details :
    • 24 lines to a page
    • ff. a + i + 1-82 + ii + b
    • 1 flyleaf , 1(8)-3(8) 4(10) (misbound) 5(8)-8(8) 9(10) 10(8) (wants 7, 8), 1 flyleaf.

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 393 contains the Historia Eliensis, an account of the history of the Benedictine cathedral priory of Ely written c. 1130 at Ely, with press marks and inscriptions revealing that it remained there throughout the medieval period. The manuscript contains a number of important hagiographical texts relating to the lives and miracles of saints associated with the priory, including the unique copy of the Vita et miracula Sanctae Etheldredae metrice by Gregory of Ely OSB (d. after 1116), and another important text describing the posthumous miracles of St Etheldreda.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    1r-33v - Vita et miracula beatae Æthelthrythae || Vita et miracula beatae Etheldrithae

    Note : (1r) Large and fine initial in colour, with yellow-brown ground

    incipit : (1r) Anno ab incarnatione dominica DC xvi qui est annus uigesimus primus ex quo augustinus

    explicit : (2v) in magna gloria solet celebrari die nonarum iuliarum

    incipit : (3r) Beata et gloriosa uirgo Aetheldritha utriusque titulo nobilitatis insignita

    Note : (not in BHL)

    Note : (3r) Fine initial with blue ground

    explicit : (33v) referens cunctis audire uolentibus omnia que ei contigerunt


    Intervenants :

    Gregory of Ely OSB - author

    33v-58v - Gregory of Ely OSB, Vita et miracula Sanctae Etheldredae metrice || Vita et gesta ejusdem per Gregorium Eliensem monachum versifice composita

    rubric : (33v) Incipit prologus in libellum de uita et gestis Beate ÆÐELÐREÐE uirginis quem uersifice composuit Gregorius Eliensis monachus

    incipit : (34r) Qui iouis ardores rapti ganimedis amores

    Note : (34r) Handsome blue initial

    explicit : (34r) Ut rosa pulchra rubens ut lilia florida candens

    rubric : (34v) Explicit prologus

    rubric : (34v) Incipit liber primus de uita et obitu Beate Æðeldriðe Uirginis et anglorum regine

    incipit : (34v) Celum sideribus decoratur. lumine. phebus Autunnus pomis. uer floribus. uua racemis

    explicit : (39v) Effectumque rei sic ELGE dicimus ely

    rubric : (39v) Explicit Vita Sancte Æðeldriðe Virginis

    rubric : (42r) Incipit prologus in librum II de miraculis eiusdem

    incipit : (42r) Scribere uirtutum uirgo sacra gesta tuarum

    rubric : (42r) Capitula libri secundi

    incipit : (42r) De statu anglie, etc.

    Note : Text

    incipit : (42v) Postquam deuicto mundo pariterque relicto

    explicit : (50r) Que bis nupsisti dotem geminam meruisti

    Note : Epilogue to liber II or Prologue to liber III

    incipit : (50v) Virgo uirgineas utinam te uirgine dignas

    explicit : (50v) Tertius expressit nostro que tempore gessit

    Note : (50v) Capitula, unfinished

    Note : Text

    incipit : (51r) Anglorum populis diuersa sorte minutis

    Note : Ends unfinished

    explicit : (55r) Virginis ut meritum testantia nobile factum

    Note : (Of the prisoner Brithstanus delivered)

    Note : ff. 55v-58v blank

    Note : Hardy I 280. BHL. 2639


    39v-41v - Description of the Isle of Ely || Descriptio situs Eliensis insulae et de quibusdam ejusdem insulae proprietatibus

    Note : (ut opinor ejusdem autoris)

    rubric : (39v) Incipit Descriptio situs eliensis insule et de quibusdam insule proprietatibus

    incipit : (40r) Iam locus atque loci tanto splendore decori

    rubric : (41v) Epilogus primi libri

    Note : ending

    explicit : (41v) Fructum centenum cumulans tibi fenore plenum


    59r-69r - Vita Sanctae Wihtburgae virginis || Vita Beatae Withburgae sororis Beatae Ætheldrithae

    Note : In protocollo (f. iv), haec sunt Helye lanterna capella Mariae astque molendinum multum dans vinea vinum continet insontes quos vallant undique pontes hos ditant montes nec desunt flumina fontes

    Note : (Wharton, Anglia Sacra I. 592)

    Note : Later heading

    rubric : (59r) De Sancta Wythburga sorore Sancte Ætheldrede virginis

    rubric : (59r) Prohemium in vita Sancte Wihtburge virginis

    incipit : (59r) Orientale orientalium anglorum sidus

    Note : (59r) Good initial, Withburga nimbed, throned, holding flowering branch and crown. Drapery outlined with green and blue. Ground, blue

    explicit : (59v) nec sensus sufficiat nec lingua nec manus

    rubric : (59v) Vita eiusdem

    incipit : (59v) Filia et aurora lucis etheree nata regaliter

    explicit : (69r) diem quo incorrupto ostensa est corpore

    Note : Hardy I 469. Mostly abridged from the text in Trinity O. 2. 1


    Intervenants :

    Goscelin of Saint-Bertin - author

    69r-71v - Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in festiuitate Sanctae Sexburgae || In festivitate Sancte Sexburge

    incipit : (69r) Regum proles et regum parens

    explicit : (71v) testatur se posidere cum Christo regna celestia ipso prestante qui cum patre et spiritu sancto regnat in eterna secula

    Note : Hardy I 361 mentions the same text as in Caligula A. 8, but does not mention this copy


    71v-75r - Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lectiones in natale Sanctae Eormenhilde || In natale Sancte Eormenilde

    incipit : (71v) De beata et deo digna Eormenilda eadem fere recensemus

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (75r) consortio perfruamur largiente ipso domino saluatore nostro qui omnium seculorum dominatur cum deo patre et spiritus Sancto. Amen

    Note : Hardy I 368. Also in Caligula A. 8 and Trinity College O. 2. 1


    75r-iir - Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sanctae Werburgae || Vita Sancte Werburge virginis

    incipit : (75r) Filia regum et sponsa Christi decentissima

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (81v) annuat inquam ipse saluator qui cum patre et spiritus Sancto in omnia secula regnat et dominatur. Amen

    Note : By Goscelin (?). Hardy I 421, who does not mention this copy. Also in Caligula A. 8, Acta Sanctorum 3 Feb. (I 386)

    Note : (iir) On the flyleaf is a note (xiv?)

    Note : (iir) Erconbertus et sexburga. Dux tonbertus. Sancta Etheldreda. Rex Egfrid. Sancta Withburga. Rex Wlferus. Sancta Ermenilda. Sanctus Petrus Sanctus Benedictus

    Note : Perhaps this is a list of figures on a shrine or painting

    Note : (iir) A rough pencil sketch of a church and a very faint inscription in old pencil

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Provenance

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  • From Ely Priory. On the R. margin of f. 1r is the Ely mark erased. The lower edge of the leaf has been cut off. On f. 82v below the text is an erased inscription: iste liber pertinet ecclesie de ely.

Notes

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  • Additions: On f. iv old title: de vita S. Erkengote et de vita S. Etheldrede, etc. The lines: Hec sunt helye, etc. in a hand of cent. xv. Date of Augustine's coming (xv).

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