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• Résumé : CCCC MS 298 consists of four separate books bound together. The first contains a unique sixteenth-century copy of the Life of St Thomas Becket in Middle English verse written in 1497 by Laurence Wade OSB.The second part contains a collection of documents relating to the history and landholdings of Canterbury and the archbishops and dates to the early sixteenth century. The third part consists of an early fifteenth-century copy of the Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis of Thomas Stubbs OP (d. 1381), with an anonymous continuation and two collection of documents. The chronicle is a history of the church of York covering the period 1147-1373. The fourth part contains a variety of letters, canons and excerpts from longer texts written in a Parkerian hand of the sixteenth century.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais, français, anglais

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Laurence Wade OSB - author

  1r-56v - Laurence Wade OSB, Life of Becket || The life of Thomas Beckett translated into English verse by Laurence Wade monk of Christ-church Canterbury 1497

  Note : (2r) Beginning O ye virtuous soverayns spiritual and temporal And all ye devoute people both more and lesse That thys now shall here hartely I praye yow all To support my imperfection of lowly gentylnesse For the lyeff here I purpose with your pacience to reherse Off seynt Thomas the blissed laureat martir dere That dyed for the churchys ryght onely in Cristys werre.

  Note : On f. 1r Thomas Cantuariensis (Cranmer's autograph)

  Note : Eight verses in red: Herbertum Bosue (i.e. Bosham) virtute virum renitentem...Quem cum rore rigent celibe corda pia

  Note : (1v) Note of the author that his sources are the Thomus of Herbert de Bosham, and the Life by John Grandison

  Note : Prologue

  incipit : (2r) O ye vertuous souerayns spirituall and temporall

  rubric : (2r) Incipit vita cum actibus gloriosi martiris Thome Cantuariensi archiepiscopi translata a Laurentio Wade claustrali commonacho ecclesie Christi Cantuariensi

  rubric : (2v) De mirabili ortu Sancti Thome secundum Johannem Exoniensem

  incipit : (2v) The custome off all holy chirch is laudable and ffamous

  Note : 7-line stanzas

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (56v) Recommend hym wnto this blissed saynt that hath shewyd ws her his story. ffinis

  Note : Hardy II 363 prints the prologue, beginning and end. The whole is printed by C. Horstmann in Kölbing's Englische Studien III (1880), pp. 409-469

  
  

  88r-100r - List of donations to Christ Church, Canterbury || Donationes et acquisitiones maneriorum cum ecclesiis totius prioratus ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi concessae et confirmatae [ad annum 17 Ricardi II.]

  rubric : (88r) Donaciones et adquisitiones maneriorum etc.

  rubric : (88r) Palatium Sancti Ethelberti

  Note : The last is

  rubric : (96r) Hospicium de le Crown in Cant.

  Note : Ending

  explicit : (96r) Anno regni (Regi Ricardi II) xviio

  rubric : (96v) Ecclesie appropriate ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi

  rubric : (98r) Decima omnium bonorum temporalium et spiritualium ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi extracta de rotulis d. Regis a. d. mo cccco ijo

  Note : (99v) London churches in the patronage of the Convent

  Note : (99v) London advowsons of the Archbishop

  
  

  100v-106v - List of English kings and the location of their tombs from Ethelbert king of Kent to Henry VII || Catalogus regum Anglorum et loca sepulturae eorundem ab Ethelberto rege Cantiae ad Henricum VII

  rubric : (100v) De regibus Anglorum, a. d. 562

  incipit : (100v) In primis de regibus Cantie regnauit Ethelbertus

  Note : At p. 92 an insertion de coronacione regum anglie secundum registrum Henrici prioris

  Note : Bull of Alexander (III) to Archbishop Richard

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (106r) Anno domini (blank) Henricus septimus (blank)

  Note : p. 98 blank

  
  

  107r-113v - List of archbishops of Canterbury from St Augustine to William Warham || De archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus quanto tempore in archiepiscopatu vixerunt et in quo gradu et dignitate prius erant (a Sancto Augustino ad Willelmum Warham et neoterica manu ad M. Parker)

  rubric : (107r) De archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus etc.

  incipit : (107r) Sanctus Augustinus primus archiepiscopus Cantuariensis sedit annis xvj

  Note : Ended originally with Warham

  explicit : (113r) sub fenestra in capella quam ipse fundauerat

  Note : Continued in a Parkerian hand: ends with Parker

  explicit : (113v) Sedit annis (blank)

  
  

  114r-120v - List of the priors of Christ Church, Canterbury from the Norman conquest to Thomas Goldwell (1066-1539) || De prioribus ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi et nomina eorum ab adventu Normannorum nam antea decani vocabantur (ad Thomam Goldwell ultimum priorem)

  rubric : (114r) De prioribus ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi etc.

  incipit : (114r) Henricus primus prior ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi contemporaneus Lanfranco

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (119r) Thomas Goldwell prior doctor theologie vixit in prioratu annis (blank)

  Note : 124-126 blank

  
  

  121r-123r - The death and funeral of Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, archbishop of Canterbury (1486) || Obitus et exequiae Thomae Bouchier presbiteri cardinalis et Cantuariensis archiepiscopi

  rubric : (121r) Obitus domini Thomae Boughier etc.

  incipit : (121r) Memorandum quod a. d. mo cccco lxxxvjo

  explicit : (123r) et dominus Thomas Goldston sacrae theologiae bachalarius verbum dei seminauit

  
  

  123v-128v - Description of the pageants in the city of London upon the arrival of the emperor Charles V and Henry VIII || The descrypcion of the pageantes made in the cyte of London at the recevyng of the most excellent pryncys Charlys the fyfte emperour and Henry the VIII. king off Englonde

  rubric : (123v) The descrypcioun of the pageantes etc.

  incipit : (123v) Fyrst my lorde mayer and the aldyrmen

  explicit : (128v) and organs with most swetyst musyke thatt cowed be devysede

  
  

  129r-150r - List of names of monks of Christ Church, Canterbury 1207-1527 || Nomina monachorum ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensi a tempore exilii eorundem A. D. I. 1207, idibus Julii A. R. regis Iohannis octavo [ad annum 1527]

  Note : altera manu addit. ut videtur a Matthaeo Parkero

  rubric : (129r) Nomina monachorum etc.

  incipit : (129r) Prior. Johannes Sydyngborne

  Note : Ends (a. d. 1527)

  explicit : (145v) Thomas Farley

  Note : Edited from this and Thomas Cawston's MS. at Canterbury by W. G. Searle, Christ Church Canterbury, C. A. S. 1902, p. 173

  Note : Four blank leaves follow

  Note : ff. 146r - 150r blank

  
  

  150v-151v - Excerpt from a papal bull against the taking of benevolencies || Excerptum bullae papalis contra convivia quae nomine benevolentiae a prebendario intrante residentiam suam in ecclesia cathedrali exigebantur

  Note : Dicitur talia convivia per quadraginta dies continuari, et expensas eorundem ad c libras sterl. communiter ascendere

  Note : In Parkerian hand

  rubric : (150v) De benevolentia quam vocant prebendarii

  Note : See MS. Gonville & Caius 449, f. 126

  
  

  151v-153v - On the founding of the Abbey at Beverley || De fundatione abbatiae Beverlacensis

  Note : in membranis seculo xiv scriptis

  rubric : (151v) De abbatia Beverlaci

  incipit : (151v) A. d. dclxxiiiio mense Septembri xiio die consecratus est Sanctus Iohannes

  Note : (152r) A. d. mill. lxiiiio Aldredus Eboracensis Archiepiscopus statuit prefatos septem canonicos Beuerlaci, etc.

  Note : See MS. Gonville & Caius 449, f. 127

  Note : (153v) Index to the following tract

  Note : 192 blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Thomas Stubbs OP (attrib.) - author

  154r-180r - Thomas Stubbs OP (attrib.), Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis || Cronica [Thomae Stobbes sive Stobrei dominicani] de successionibus et gestis Eboracensium archiepiscoporum

  
  

  180v-192v - Excerpts from an ancient register of the bishop of Rochester on the church of Rochester || Excerpta e registro veteri episcopi Roffensis de ecclesia Roffensi

  Note : (180v) Extracts about Canterbury and Rochester

  rubric : (181r) Exscripta e registro veteri Episcopi Roffensis foll. ijo

  incipit : (181r) Successit tunc Gilbertus

  Note : References to folia are given

  Note : 24-26 blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Edward I - author

  193r-199r - Letter of Edward I to the pope on the legitimacy of his rule of Scotland || Epistola Edwardi I. ad papam de jure suo in regnum Scotiae

  Note : (193r) Heading and colophon in French

  Note : 36-39 blank

  
  

  199v-203r - Letter of king Cnut to the English, 1027. Brief chronicle of English affairs from the death of Cnut to the death of Hardicnut || Epistola Canuti regis Angliae scripta Romae, in qua testatur papam concessisse, ut archiepiscopi Angliae non amplius Romam ire cogerentur pallii causa:- cui subjungitur brevis narratio rerum Anglicanarum a morte Canuti ad mortem filii ejus Hardicnuti

  Note : (199v) Begins abruptly: huius etiam instantia. The opening words are supplied on the last page of the volume (f. 257v)

  Note : f. 203r blank

  
  

  203v-206v - On the early statutes of the church of Worcester and of the possessions given to it by kings and vassals || De pontificali sede quomodo primitus statuta sit Wigorniae, et de possessionibus quae a regibus subregulis et bonae recordationis viris datae sunt Wigornensi ecclesiae

  incipit : (203v) Egregio Merciorum regi Wifario ... germanus suus generosus rex Sanctus Athelredus in regnum successit

  explicit : (206r) Herebertum Herefordensem Episcopum baculo pastorali privavit

  Note : Haec descripta e libro quodam veteri ecclesiae Wigorniensis vocato opusculum Bedae de diversis episcopatibus

  rubric : (206r) Hec descripta e Libro quodam veteri etc., as Nasmith

  Note : f. 206v blank

  
  

  207r-232r - Brief annals of English affairs 1530-1540 || Breve annales rerum memorabilium in Anglia, praesertim ab anno 1530 ad annum 1540

  incipit : (207r) A. d. mill. quingent. trices. septimo Invictissimus Rex henricus octauus misit literas suas Abbati et Conuentui Sancti augustini de comutacione terr.

  incipit : (207r) Anno regni tricesimo regi Henrici Octavimonasterium Augustini prefatum extra muros Ciuitatis Cantuariensis in festo domini Petri ad vincula dissolutum est et monachi expulsi doctore Leython. Anthonio sentleger et Joh. Moile commissar'

  Note : The latest events noted are in 1540. Chronological order is not kept. The last entry is 1537: surrender of Abingdon Abbey and Boxley Priory, with the rood

  Note : ff. 33v-53r blank

  
  

  232v-233r - Excerpt from the history of Jervaulx abbey at the time of King Edgar concerning the true cross at Winchester || Excerpta ab historia libri monasterii Jorevallensis in vita regis Edgari, de cruce loquente apud Winton.

  Note : (232v) One page

  Note : f. 233r blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Pope Alexander II - author

  233v-234r - Letter from Pope Alexander II to William the Conqueror, late 1071, and excerpts from the Passionale Sancti Ignatii || Epistola Alexandri papae ad Wilhelmum conquisitorem

  Note : e quodam vetusto libro ecclesiae Cantuariensis vocato passionale Sancti Ignacii jam in manibus Magistri Bower

  rubric : (233v) Ex quodam vetusto libro quondam ecclesiae Cantuariensis iam in manibus magistri Bower (Thomas Bowyer?)

  Note : (233v) Liber vocatur passionale Sancti Ignatii

  Note : The book appears to have been lost: but the flyleaf is in Trinity College MS. O.2.51

  
  

  234v-234v - Canons of the primatial council at Winchester, 1076 || De synodo habita Winton. anno 1076, ubi matrimonia clericorum prohibebantur

  Note : ex vetusto libro e bibliotheca Wigorniense

  rubric : (234v) Ex vetusto libro e Bibliotheca Wigorniensis ecclesiae et in duobus libris habetur

  Note : ?MS 190. 26

  
  

  235r-236r - Profession of Thomas archbishop of York and list of all other bishops who made professions to the archbishop of Canterbury || Professio Thomae Eboracensi archiepiscopi: et catalogus omnium episcoporum qui tales professiones fecerunt archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus

  rubric : (235r) Petitio clericorum Eboraci

  Note : (235r) Ex libro veteri ecclesiae Cantuariensis

  
  

  236v-238r - Canons of the synod of bishops Patricius and Isernius. (The first synod of St Patrick || Canones synodi episcoporum Patricii et Issernini

  rubric : (236v) Ex libro quodam vetusto ecclesiae Wigorniensis

  Note : = MS 279

  Note : (List of professions (article 21) is continued on 58r)

  Note : ff. 237v-238r blank

  
  

  238v-239v - Synod of London under Anselm (1102), decree against clerical marriage || Synodus Londini sub Anselmo contra uxores presbiterorum

  rubric : (238v) E libro vetusto ecclesiae Cantuariensis

  incipit : (238v) Hec sunt statuta de archidiaconibus

  explicit : (238r) et concubine cum rebus suis velut adultere

  Note : f. 61v blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Pope Paschal II - author

  240r-241v - Letter of Pope Paschal II to Anselm (epistola 43) || Paschalis papa ad Anselmum

  Note : (240r) Hec epistola habetur inter Epistolae Anselmi centur. 2 Epistola 43

  Note : From MS 135(?)

  Note : ff. 62v, 63r-63v blank

  
  

  242r-252r - On translating the Bible into English || A determination of a doctor of divinity against them that say it is not lawful to have holy writte and other bookes in Englishe

  rubric : (242r) This is a determinacion etc.

  incipit : (242r) Agaynst theym that say that holy wrytt shulde not be drawen into Englishe

  explicit : (243r) and other landes also haue the Bible in their mother tong, as Italy

  Note : (bottom of f. 65r)

  Note : At top of f. 65v a space and hec ... ta sunt ex quodam lacero fragmento Bibliothecae Wigorniensis

  Note : Text continues: hathe in latin for þat is her moder tonge and by many yeres haue hade

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (245v) is not ells but þe habite of right speakinge and right pronouncinge and right writinge

  Note : See Ussher's Historia Dogmatica, s. v. 1410, and MS 100. 3

  Note : ff. 68r-74r blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Nicholas Trevet OP - author

  252v-257v - Nicholas Trevet OP, Quaestiones quodlibetales (extract, I. q. 13) || Questio determinata per Magistrum Nicolaum dictum Trivet de ordine predicatorum, quod omnia sunt admittenda quae tradit ecclesia circa passionem Christi

  incipit : (252v) Questio utrum omnia sint admittenda que tradit ecclesia circa passionem christi

  Note : Deals with the date principally: ends

  explicit : (253v) Quinta decima 8 kalendas apriles indic(t)ione

  Note : ff. 254r-257r, 258r-258v blank

  Note : On f. 79v notes in a good hand on Alfred