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• Résumé : CCCC MS 281 is a manuscript of diverse texts made up of three distinct volumes copied between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. The material contained within the codex is wide-ranging but broadly historical in nature. It includes a copy of Historia regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), an anonymous Annal from the birth of Christ to the mid-fourteenth century, an extract from the Latin version of the account of the death of Edward II attributed to Thomas de la More (fl. mid-fourteenth century) and historical documents relating to King Edward I's relations with Scotland. The manuscript has sometimes been described as having once been in the possession of the Benedictine abbey of St Modwenna in Burton-on-Trent, but Nasmith concluded, on the basis of the text of the Annals, that they were written at the Cluniac house of St Andrew's, Northampton.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Geoffrey of Monmouth - author

  1r-79v - Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae || Galfredi Monumetensis historia Brittanniae

  Note : Text

  rubric : (1r) Incipit prefatio in libro Brittonum

  incipit : (1r) Cum mecum multa et de multis

  explicit : (1r) Opusculo igitur meo Rodberte dux claudiocestrie etc. ... interno congratulatur affectu

  rubric : (1r) Explicit prefatio

  rubric : (1r) Incipit liber

  incipit : (1r) Brittannia insularum optima

  Note : The first quires have 29 and 36 lines to a page respectively

  Note : (19v) Liber II (numbered later)

  Note : (26r) Liber III

  explicit : (29r) existimantes numen esse in illo

  Note : (29r) (Liber 4)

  incipit : (29r) Nondum autem ad hunc locum

  explicit : (29r) ei cum huiusmodi litteris direxi

  Note : f. 29v blank

  Note : These first quires have been written to supply another copy which wanted them

  Note : (30r) This copy now begins: Coegit me alexander lincoliensis

  Note : A good hand, 29 lines to a page: a second scribe begins near the end of line 7 on f. 30r

  Note : (35r) Prophecies end

  explicit : (35r) inter sydera conficient

  incipit : (35r) Cum igitur hec et alia

  Note : Initial in colour

  Note : (35r) Liber V, marked (xvi) on this page: Nec mora

  Note : Liber VI at f. 40r and f. 41r, Eodem tempore pascentius, and Apparente itaque

  Note : (45v) Liber VII, Defuncto igitur

  Note : (67r) Liber VIII

  Note : (70r) Liber IX

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (77r) transferre curaui

  Note : Poem

  incipit : (77v) Venimus ad naues conscendere me prohibebatInperiosa satis causa, timere mori

  incipit : (78r) Emenso pelago cum demum gallus ad anglosApplicui placuit applicuisse mihi

  Note : Ending

  explicit : (78r) Ingenii precium facies promittere letaAc monstrare potest officiosa manus

  incipit : (78v) Anglia terra ferax et fertilis angulus orbis

  explicit : (79r) Terminat hora diem terminat auctor opus

  Note : In a hand of cent. xvi

  Note : a.

  rubric : (79r) Epitaphium Lewelini magni

  Note : Hic iacet anglorum tortor tutor wenedorum,Princeps Wallorum Lewelinus regula morumGemma coeuorum flos regum pretentorum,Forma futurorum dux lux laus lex populorum

  Note : b.

  rubric : (79r) De Sancto Patricio

  Note : Hic iacent in duno tumulo tumulantur in uno,Brigidapatricius atque columba pius

  Note : f. 79v blank except for sixteenth-century scribbles

  
  

  80r-127r - Chronicon S. Andreae in Antona Sempentrionalis || Annales a nativitate Christi ad annum 1339

  Note : Ad imum primae paginae Iste liber est de communitate Burtoniae, qui eum alienaverit anathema sit, Amen.

  Note : Ex hac inscriptione codici quidem coaeva, folio vero non inscripta sed eidem agglutinata, hi annales a Parkero Jamesio et Stanley nominati sunt annales de Burton; recte tamen observavit Cl. Stanley eos ab impressis prorsus esse diversos. Codicem diligenter evolventi occurrerunt multa quae mihi fidem fecerunt eos a quodam monacho cenobii S. Andreae apud Northampton conscriptos esse. Primo enim notatur successio abbatum Cluniacensium, cujus ordinis fuit hoc cenobium: secundo, nulla fit mentio monasterii de Burton, sed fundatio domus S. Andreae per Simonem comitem de Northampton occurrit ad annum 1083, tertio, ad annum 1237 sunt haec verba In hoc monasterio beati Andreae quoddam mirabile contigit. Usque ad annum 1206 eadem manu scribuntur, postea diversis; anno 1249 inseritur edictum Gallica lingua scriptum Edwardi I. quando Scotiam intravit, et genealogia eorum qui jus suum asseruerunt in illud regnum

  Note : In annalistic form. Years from Annus domini I: a line to each, every 10th year in red. Few entries at first

  Note : On a slip of vellum pasted on to f. 1r, Iste liber est de communitate burtonie qui eum alienauerit anathema sit. amen (xv late)

  Note : The page is headed in red and green capitals: Anni ab incarnatione Domini

  Note : There are a few late additions, e.g. at 141 a.d.: hic baptizati sunt nouem ex doctoribus et scolaribus cantebrigie

  Note : 532 of Agapitus: hic instituit doctores sacre theologie

  Note : Great interest is shown in the Cluniac order and its saints

  Note : At 1083 is a later note: Hoc anno Simon comes Northamton edificauit domum Sancti Andree

  Note : 1101 added: Item inuencio Sancte Milburge apud wenlok

  Note : The hand (probably two hands) preserves uniformity to the end of f. 19v (1140), an obviously different one begins at f. 20r leaving irregular spaces for the years. It continues to f. 24v (1206) and goes on writing the numbers of the years perhaps as far as 1218. But the entries are in different and smaller hands. There are many of these. They continue to f. 34v (1294)

  Note : (114r) Then intervenes a document of Edward I asserting his claim to Scotland

  Note : The hand of 1294 resumes on f. 38r with 1295 and goes on to 1303

  Note : On f. 39v a hand of much more current type begins and goes on to f. 46v (1330): a second hand of the same type continues to f. 48r (1339)

  explicit : (127r) et mense marcio regressus est rex in angliam

  Note : Some of the additions relating to Cambridge are quoted by Caius De Antiq. Acad., p. 73

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Thomas de la More (attrib.) - author

  127v-128r - Thomas de la More (attrib.), Vita et mors Edwardi II regis (excerpt) || Excerpta ex Thoma de la More de morte Edwardi II

  Note : In a Parkerian hand

  rubric : (127v) Thomas de la Moore in libro suo de morte et vita Edwardi secundi

  incipit : (127v) Mittuntur littere increpatorie custodibus (Castri de Barkley)

  explicit : (128r) minis terribilibus in fugam coactiuis affligere non cessauit

  Note : ff. 49v-54v ruled but blank

  
  

  134r-155v - Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum || Expeditio contra Turcos circa annum 1094

  Note : Extat inter gesta Dei per Francos sub hoc titulo Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum

  incipit : (134r) Cum iam appropinquasset ille terminus

  Note : The hand of the last 5.5 leaves is different

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (155v) Hoc bellum actum est ii idus augusti largiente domini nostri Ihesu Christi cui est honor et gloria nunc et semper et per infinita seculorum secula dicat omnis spiritus. Amen

  Note : In Bongars, Gesta Dei per Francos, p. 1 (Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum)