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• Résumé : CCCC MS 76 contains an incomplete copy of De institutis coenobiorum of John Cassian (c. 360-435) and extracts from the Abbreuiationes chronicorum of Ralph de Diceto (d. c. 1199/1200) under the title Annales de Dorobernensibus Archiepiscopis. The Annales were copied in a late twelfth-century hand which, it has been argued, may be that of Diceto himself. An inscription hints that this manuscript may have been intended for presentation to Hubert Walter, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1205). If so, this may explain how it came to be in the possession of a later archbishop, Stephen Langton (c. 1165-1228) from whom it passed to the priory of the Holy Trinity, Christ Church, Canterbury where it is recorded in the early fourteenth-century library catalogue of Henry of Eastry.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Ralph de Diceto - author

  2r-32v - Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum (extract on the Annals of the archbishops of Canterbury)

  rubric : (2r) Incipit libellus ad Reuerendum patrem hubertum Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem et apostolice sedis legatum directus a Radulfo de diceto Lundoniensis ecclesie decano

  Note : (This rubric is repeated on 1v)

  rubric : (2v) Prologus

  incipit : (2v) Annos ab incarnatione domini seriatim expassos per temporum annotationes

  explicit : (2v) uel bedam tertulliano leuiter anteponas

  incipit : (2v) Opus itaque sequens plurimum a compendio mutuatur

  explicit : (2v) nec concinnitas tediosa

  Note : (2v) This first leaf is in a different hand from the rest

  rubric : (3r) Incipiunt annales de Dorobernensibus Archiepiscopis

  rubric : (3r) Hamonius Floriacensis libro secundo

  incipit : (3r) Res geste que nulla regum ac temporum certitudine commendantur etc.

  rubric : (3r) Agellius. libro quinto Capitulo octauo decimo

  incipit : (3r) Hystoria differt ab annalibus - deinceps componuntur

  incipit : (3r) Quibus ergo temporibus ubi uel quorum ministerio

  explicit : (3r) breuiter enarremus

  incipit : (3r) Augustinus a beato gregorio directus

  Note : Crowns, swords and crosiers are drawn (and coloured) in the margins to mark coronations etc.

  Note : (20r) In quire 4, after f. 18v, several leaves have been cut out (probably four) which narrated the death of St Thomas. They are supplied in a good xvith century hand by one of Parker's scribes

  Note : Ends with a brief of Celestine to the Abp of York, on Abp Hubert's appointment as legate

  Note : (23v) Then after a space is added by the original hand

  rubric : (23v) Verba Merlini

  Note : (Galfr. Monumet. vii 3)

  incipit : (23v) Exin coronabitur germanicus uermis etc.

  rubric : (23v) Item uerba Merlini

  incipit : (24r) Apri dentibus accinctus

  explicit : (24r) discidium alienigenarum orietur

  Note : (24r) A list of Emperors, Karolus Magnus to Henry (VI), is on L. margin

  rubric : (24r) Archiepiscopi Cant. ante Conquestum (added in cent. xvi)

  Note : (24v) post conquestum (to Hubert)

  
  

  Intervenants :

  John Cassian - author

  33r-90v - John Cassian, De institutis coenobiorum

  Note : (33r) Title in red capitals

  rubric : (33r) Regula Sancti Johannis Cassiani quam Castori Pape in novello monasterio scripsit

  incipit : (33r) Ueteris instrumenti narrat hystoria

  Note : (XLIX 53)

  Note : (33r) Fine initial, conventional foliage on burnished gold, somewhat in the English style. There are a good many such initials in the book which seem English - others distinctly do not: e.g. one on f. 2r

  Note : (34r) Prologus ends

  explicit : (34r) eciam in impari facultate

  rubric : (34r) Explicit prologus

  rubric : (34r) Incipiunt Capitula

  Note : Text

  rubric : (34r) Incipit liber primus de habitu monachi

  incipit : (34r) De institutis ac regulis monasteriorum dicturi

  Note : (36v) Liber II

  Note : (40v) Liber III

  Note : (44v) Liber IV

  Note : (53v) Liber V

  Note : (62r) Liber VI

  Note : (66r) Liber VII

  Note : (70v) Liber VIII

  Note : (74v) Liber IX

  Note : (76r) Liber X

  Note : (81v) Liber XI

  Note : (84r) Liber XII

  Note : Ends unfinished or imperfect in capitulum 30

  explicit : (90v) Humilitas uero nullatenus po-

  Note : (91r) Three blank leaves follow