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• Résumé : CCCC MS 138 is a portmanteau manuscript, dating to the last quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains a wide variety of broadly historical material including extracts from Bede, the chronicles of Matthew Paris OSB (c. 1200-59) and William of Jumièges OSB (d. 1087?), papal letters, a genealogy of the kings of France and a list of the archbishops of York. Perhaps originally from Norwich Cathedral Priory, MS 138 may have been one of several manuscripts now in the Parker collection that was once in the possession of William Carye of Cheapside (d. 1573) and it certainly passed through the hands of Robert Recorde (d. 1588), the mathematician and fellow of All Souls, Oxford, who copied extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle into the margins of the early part of this manuscript.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  1r-63v - Epitome of the history of Britain from the birth of Christ to the year 1255 || Alexandri Essebiensis epitome historiae Britanniae a Christo nato ad annum 1255

  Note : Ad initium hujus historiae desunt fol. 10

  Note : Ten leaves are missing. Parker's paging begins with 21

  Note : Text begins

  rubric : (1r) Anno gracie 75

  incipit : (1r) Rex pictorum rodricus de sithia ueniens in aquilonalem britannie partem

  Note : Ends in 1257

  explicit : (63v) Ricardus frater regis henrici ... solenniter aquis grani coronatur

  Note : Apparently an abridgment of Matt. Paris ... There does not seem to be anything in the piece that gives authority for assigning it to Alexander of Esseby.Hardy III 145

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Roger of Howden - author

  64r-70r - Roger of Howden, Chronica (excerpts 1066-1201) || Excerptiones de chronicis Rogeri Hoveden ab anno 1066 ab annum 1201

  Note : Begins

  rubric : (64r) 1077. haraldus

  incipit : (64r) Rex norwegie haraldus cum plus quam 500 nauibus

  Note : Ends with a letter of Christ recited by Abbot Eustace (of Fleix) in 1201

  explicit : (70r) ut fere deuorabunt. Et cetera nonnulla de eodem scripto retulit palam Abbas ille

  rubric : (70r) Explicit excerpciones de cronicis Rogeri de houedene

  Note : Mentioned by Stubbs, Hoveden I lxxxiv, Hardy III 15

  
  

  70r-71v - Letters between masters of the University of Paris and Popes John XXII and Benedict XII concerning the status of the soul after death, A. D. 1333 || Epistolae inter Parisienses doctores ad mandatum Philippi regis Francorum, et Ioannem XXII, et Benedictum XII. papas de statu animarum post mortem A. D. 1333

  Note : Added later by the original scribe

  Note : a.

  Note : (70r) Johanni ... Petrus patriarcha Ierosol. etc.

  Note : b.

  Note : (70v) Johannes. Ne super hiis que de animabus

  Note : c.

  Note : (71r) Benedictus. Benedictus deus in donis suis

  
  

  71v-71v - Charter of Richard I concerning the renunciation of the homage of the King of Scotland || Carta Ricardi I. de renuntiatione homagii regis Scotiae

  Note : Added later by the original scribe

  Note : Mutilated by loss of leaf

  
  

  72r-72r - Chronological and historical notes on the period 1329 to 1347 || Breves notae chronologicae et historicae ab anno 1329 ad annum 1347

  Note : In another hand, begins imperfectly

  incipit : (72r) aduentus domini. edwardus secundus apud glouerniam sepelitur

  Note : Ends 1347

  explicit : (72r) Thomas dagword circa nativitatem Johanni baptiste carolum de bloys in bello cepit

  
  

  72v-72v - Genealogical diagram indicating Edward III's claim to the French throne || Stemma genealogicum Sancti Ludovici regis Franciae ad ostendendum jus Edwardi III. in regnum Franciae

  Note : In the original hand

  Note : 73r-74v blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  William of Jumièges OSB - author

  75r-80r - William of Jumièges OSB, Gesta Normannorum ducum (excerpts) || Excerptiones de historia Wilhelmi Gemiticensis de gestis ducum Normannorum

  incipit : (75r) lapheth enim noe filius genuit filium quem magog nominauit

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (80r) hos per normannica compita dispergeret uiolancia dire captiuitatis

  Note : Follows in a little later hand

  incipit : (80r) Fuit enim apud damascum metropolim sirie quedam matrona (S. Mary of Sardenay)

  Note : Unfinished, 80v blank

  Note : Mentioned by Hardy II 18

  
  

  81r-84v - Liber Vasilographus (excerpts); Prophecies || Liber extractus de libro qui dicitur Vanlographo i. e. imperialis scriptura, quam Sibilla Erithea Babilonica condidit ad petitionem Graecorum, ipsa Priami regis Trojae filia; quem Vedoxa peritissimus pater in Graecum transtulit de Caldeo; tandem de errario Emanuelis imperatoris Graecorum editum Eugenius regni Siciliae admiratus de Graeco transtulit

  Note : a.

  incipit : (81r) Exquiritis me o illustrissima turba danaum

  Note : (Alexandre, Oracula Sibyllina II 291)

  Note : With some interlinear glosses

  explicit : (82v) hos autem in sorte demonum uoret auernus

  rubric : (82v) Explicit liber sibille erithee babilonice

  Note : Another copy with the same title in University Library Mm.1.16

  Note : Vanlographus is Vasilographus. Vedoxa peritissimus pater is corrupt for Doxapater: on Nilus Doxapatrius see Rendel Harris, The Ferrar Group

  Note : b.

  Note : Another prophecy

  incipit : (82v) Deinde leopardus ex illis procreabitur qui regnum bestie inuadendo

  explicit : (83r) ante sepulcrum domini gladium uibrabit

  Note : c.

  Note : In a larger hand

  incipit : (83r) Prophetia cuiusdam spiritus phitonici in Cambria

  incipit : (83r) Catulus leenicus in lupum rapidum conuertetur

  explicit : (83r) promerebitur fauorem altissimi et ad superos conuolabit

  Note : (Note in lower margin. A.d. 1365 redibit tota grecia ad obedienciam romanorum et tunc audietur noua de predicacione antichristi. hoc reperitur secundum loachim in maiori (?) libro de concordanciis)

  rubric : (83r) Versus normanniae uaticinales

  Note : (13)

  incipit : (83r) Anglia transmittet leopardum. lilia galli

  explicit : (83r) Imperium mundi sibi quo dabit huic heremita

  Note : Versus Alani uiri sancti et religiosi de eodem 6o

  Note : Illius imperium gens barbara senciet. illumRoma uolet tanto principe digna regiConferet hic rome plus laudis quam sibi romaPlus dabit hic orbi quam dabit orbis ei

  Note : Versus Gilde de sexto hibernie

  Note : Ter tria lustra tenet cum semi tempore sextiEns uagus in primo perdet. sed fine resumetMulta rapit medio. uolitans sub fine secundiOrbem submittet. reli(quo)s clerumque reducetAd statum primum. tunc renouat loca sanctaHuic terrena spuens sanctus sub ethere scandet.

  Note : (83r) Prediction of planetary conjunctions and their consequences for October 1365, June 1357

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Iohannes de Rupescissa OFM (attrib.) - author

  84r-84r - Iohannes de Rupescissa OFM (attrib.), Prophecies || Nonnulla alia ejusdem farinae ex Ioanne de Rupescissa

  rubric : (84r) Verba fratri Johannis de Rupe(s)cissa ord. min. de futuris euentibus etc. abreuiata de libro qui intitulatur ostensor futurorum

  Note : Referring to the years 1350 and following

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Philip of Clairvaux OCist - author

  85r-88v - Philip of Clairvaux OCist, Vita Sanctae Elizabethae de Spalbec || Narratio quaedam de virgine in territorio Leodiensi, quae miracula multa fecit, scripta per Philippum de Claraeval

  rubric : (85r) De Sancta Elisabetha virgine

  Note : (85r) A xvith century note: angelus malus transfigurat se in angelum lucis

  incipit : (85r) Quoniam ut legitur in ecclesiastico 43. gloria domini plenum est opus eius

  Note : (By Philip of Clairvaux. BHL. 2484)

  explicit : (85r) non possumus non loqui

  incipit : (85r) Porro in territorio leodicensi

  Note : (Abbey of Herkenrode)

  explicit : (88v) occupacionum necessitas necessario claudit stilum

  Note : (88v) Another copy of no. 6: but rougher

  
  

  89r-97cr - History of the bishops of Lindisfarne and Durham from Aidan to Richard de Bury || Brevis historia episcoporum Lindisfarnensium et Dunelmensium ab Aidano ad Ricardum de Bury

  incipit : (89r) Anno dominice incarnatione 635 aduentus anglorum in britanniam

  Note : From Aidan to the election of Robert de Graystanes, 1333

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (97v) unde omnes Ricardo de Bury obedienciam iurauerunt

  Note : Four small leaves of paper are here inserted (ff. 97ar-97dv), of cent. xvi, containing an account of Richard de Bury

  incipit : (97ar) Richardus de Bury fuit sufficienter literatus in regendo familiam distinctus

  explicit : (97ar) ad australem angulum dunelm ecclesie tumulatus

  incipit : (97ar) Hec in tabula. Que iam sequuntur narrauit Willelmus de Chambr. Richardus de Bury natus fuit in quadam villula

  explicit : (97cr) monachos dunelmensis ecclesie semper habuit in maximo honore

  Note : ff. 97cv-97dv blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Thomas Stubbs OP (attrib.) - author

  98r-99v - Thomas Stubbs OP (attrib.), Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis || Successio episcoporum Eboracensium

  incipit : (98r) Tempore quo gens northanhimbrorum cum suo rege edwino

  Note : Goes down to Thurstinus 1140

  explicit : (99v) in fine uite sue decreuit

  Note : A fuller text in Raine, Historians of the Church of York (Rolls) II 513

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Pope Clement V - author

  99v-100ar - Bull of Pope Clement V, 'Regnans in caelis', 12 August 1308 || Processus contra templarios

  incipit : (99v) Clemens episcopus etc. Regnans in celis

  Note : It is a copy of the Bull, ending (lower margin cut)

  explicit : (100v) gemendi materia fletum non (?)

  Note : Here is inserted a small leaf of vellum with entries in three hands of cent. xiii

  Note : (a)

  incipit : (100ar) Concessimus Domino Priori et Conuentui Cantuarie plenariam societatem ecclesie nostre etc.

  explicit : (100ar) Et sciendum quod occasione huius societatis et concessionis archiepiscopi cantuariensis in ecclesia norwici uel episcopi norwicensis in ecclesia cantuarie iurisdictionem nullam uel potestatem sibi poterunt uendicare plusquam prius habuisse dinoscuntur

  Note : (b)

  incipit : (100ar) Concessimus singulis monachis S. Benedicti de Hulmo iii missas etc.

  Note : (c)

  incipit : (100ar) Concessimus abbati et conuentui de Bello plenariam societatem domus nostre etc.

  Note : The end of (a) points to Norwich as the source of this leaf, and I have no reason for thinking that the leaf has not been in the volume for a long period. The verso is blank

  
  

  101r-105r - History of England from the coming of the Saxons to the reign of Henry II || Brevis historia Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum II.

  Note : (a)

  Note : (101r) Descent from Adam to Woden: and descents of the kings of the Heptarchy from Woden

  Note : (b)

  incipit : (101r) Britannia insula a quodam romano nomine bruto dicta

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (105r) Cui successit henricus filius galfridi comitis andegauensis et matilde imperatricis filie regis henrici. qui duxit in uxorem alienoram reginam francie filiam ducis aquitanie

  Note : A column and a bit blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Pope Innocent VI - author

  Edward, prince of Wales - author

  105v-106v - Letters between Pope Innocent VI and Edward, prince of Wales concerning peace, A.D. 1355 || Epistolae inter Innocentium papam VI. et Edwardum principem Walliae de pace A. D. 1355

  Note : In a larger hand

  Note : (a)

  Note : (105v) Innocencius ... edwardo ... principi Wallie

  Note : Avignon5 Nonas Octobris 3rd year of pontificate

  Note : (b)

  Note : To the same. Avignon 14 kalendas Novembris 4th year

  Note : (c)

  Note : Edward to Innocent

  incipit : (106r) Humili recommendacione prehabita seipsum paratissimum cum omni reuerencia filiali

  explicit : (106v) per tempora longiora. Dat. etc. Deuotissimus filius uester Edwardus princeps Wallie