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• Résumé : CCCC MS 139 is one of the most important post-Conquest chronicle manuscripts in the Parker Library. It contains a unique version of the Historia regum by Simeon of Durham OSB (fl. c. 1090-c. 1128) and its Continuation by John of Hexham OSA (d. before 1209), together with a number of other important texts relevant to the history of Durham, northern England and Scotland. Its production has variously been ascribed to the religious houses of Fountains, Hexham, Sawley and Durham, though by the sixteenth century it was almost certainly at Westminster Abbey, where it was seen by the historian John Bale (1495-1563).

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Regino of Prüm - author

  17r-35v - Regino of Prüm, Chronicon || Cronica abbatis Prumiensis monasterii a Christo nato ad annum 1002

  rubric : (17r) Incipit cronica abbatis prumiensis monasterii ubi lotharius imperator ad conuersionem uenit

  incipit : (17r) Anno imperii Octouiani cesaris xl. ii. iesus Christus filius dei natus est

  Note : Here begins a hand which has written the bulk of the volume

  Note : (29r) Liber II

  explicit : (35v) ex quo uulnere eadem nocte extinguitur

  rubric : (35v) Explicit cronica abatis prumiensis ecclesiae

  Note : Regino of Prum. MGH. Scriptores I 537. This MS. was not seen by the editors. It ends in 1002 (p. 609 MGH)

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Richard of Hexham OSA - author

  36r-46r - Richard of Hexham OSA, De gestis regis Stephani et de bello standardii || Historia piae memoriae Ricardi prioris Hagustaldensis ecclesiae de gestis regis Stephani et de bello Standardii

  Note : Originally began on the same page (f. 35v) but a little more than half a column has been erased. The two next leaves were cut out and replaced by a sheet (still cent. xii) in at least three hands

  rubric : (36r) Incipit historia pie memorie prioris Ricardi Haugustaldensis ecclesiae De gestis regis Stephani et de bello standardii

  incipit : (36r) Anno uerbi incarnati m.c.xxxv

  Note : Last printed in Chronicles of Stephen, Henry II, Richard I (Rolls) by R. Howlett: III p. lvi: 137. This is the only copy

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (46r) defuncti sunt

  rubric : (46r) Explicit bellum standardii

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Simeon of Durham OSB - author

  48v-90r - Simeon of Durham OSB, Epistola ad Hugonem decanum Eboracensem de archiepiscopis Eboracensium || Epistola Simeonis monachi ecclesiae S. Cuthberti Dunelmi ad Hugonem decanum Eboracensem de archiepiscopis Eboraci

  Note : (48v) Ed. Raine, Historians of the Church of York (Rolls) II xvii 252, principally from another MS. Twysden Scriptores, col. 75, gives our text

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Simeon of Durham OSB (attrib.) - author

  50r-51v - Simeon of Durham OSB (attrib.), De obsessione Dunelmi et de probitate Ucthredi comitis et de comitibus qui ei succeserunt || De obsessione Dunelmi et de probitate Uithredi comitis

  Note : (50r) Arnold: Symeon of Durham (Rolls) I 315, Twysden, col. 79

  Note : Ends f. 51v

  
  

  52r-129v - Simeon of Durham OSB, Historia regum || Historia sanctae et suavis memoriae Symeonis monachi et precentoris ecclesiae sancti Cuthberti Dunelmi de regibus Anglorum et Dacorum et creberrimis bellis et rapinis et incendiis eorum post obitum venerabilis Bedae presbiteri fere usque ad obitum Henrici filii Willelmi nothi

  Note : The title (Incipit historia sancte et suauis etc.) is written on f. 51v at the bottom of col. 2. But f. 52r sqq. are in a different hand, with rubric in large letters at top

  rubric : (52r) Incipit passio sanctorum Ethelberti atque Ethelredi regie stirpis puerorum

  Note : After four leaves the hand settles down into one like that of no. 1 which continues to f. 76r

  Note : f. 59v, recto blank, is an insertion of cent. xvi with the Prologus Rogeri de Houedon in historiam suam (which imitates the lost prologue of Symeon)

  Note : At the top of f. 60r is a xvith cent. note

  Note : Historia Simeonis Dunelm. monachi. sed desunt folia nonnulla. debuerat posuisse immediate post titulum operis ante passionem Ethelberti et Ethelredi

  Note : This is the only copy of the Historia Regum of Symeon: last printed by Arnold, Symeon of Durham II (Rolls: for his account of the MS. see p. x, etc.). Parts of the text occur in a xiith cent. MS. formerly Ashburnham, Appendix, no. 112 now Bibl. Nat. Nouv. acq. Lat. 692. A transcript of the C. C. C. MS. is in MS 100. 1

  Note : There are marginalia in various hands, notably one very tall one

  Note : There seems to be a change of hand at f. 76r (Arnold, p. 95), Sequitur recapitulatio

  Note : The hand which follows, on f. 77r, begins with a large red and green initial. It goes on for a long time

  
  

  Intervenants :

  John of Hexham OSA - author

  129v-132v - John of Hexham OSA, Continuation of Simeon of Durham OSB's Historia regum || Historia Ioannis prioris Hagustaldensis ecclesiae XXV annorum

  Note : (129v) Printed by Arnold, Symeon of Durham II 284

  Note : On 134r is a rude late (?) sketch of a comet

  Note : On 134v intervene, in the text of John of Hexham, between pp. 296 and 297 of Arnold's ed., nos. 9 (Carmen Serlonis), 9a (Carmen de morte Sumerledi), 10 (Ailred, Relatio de standardo)

  Note : Another copy of 8 is in Bibliothèque Nationale Nouv. acq. Lat. 692 (see above on 7)

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Serlo of Fountains OCist - author

  132v-133r - Serlo of Fountains OCist, Descriptio de bello inter regem Scotiae et barones Angliae || Descriptio Serlonis monachi fratris Radulphi abbatis de Parcho de bello inter regem Scotiae et barones Angliae

  Note : (132v) Carmen Serlonis. Twysden, col. 331. Raine, Lawrence of Durham, p. 74

  
  

  Intervenants :

  William of Glasgow - author

  133r-133v - William of Glasgow, Carmen de morte Sumerledi

  Note : (133r) Carmen de morte Sumerledi. Arnold, l. c. II 385. Skene, Fordun I, Appendix V Raine, l. c. p. 78

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Aelred of Rievaulx OCist - author

  134r-138r - Aelred of Rievaulx OCist, Relatio de standardo || Descriptio venerabilis viri Aetheldredi abbatis Rievallis de bello inter regem Scotiae et barones Angliae apud Standardum juxta Alvertoniam

  Note : Aethelred de bello Standardi, Chronicles of Stephen etc. II, see p. lviii. Skene, Fordun I, Appendix IV 136

  Note : Begins with a large red and green initial. On ff. 136v, 137r are two marginal drawings of the Standard: the first is late (cent. xvi?), the other original. These or similar ones have been often reproduced

  Note : On f. 140r the text of item 8 is resumed. Arnold p. 297

  rubric : (138r) Explicit descriptio Aethelredi abbatis

  rubric : (138r) Incipit descriptio predicti prioris haugustaldensis ecclesie

  Note : Ends f. 149r

  
  

  147r-149v - Aelred of Rievaulx OCist, Miraculum de quadam sanctimonali de Watton || Quoddam miraculum mirabile descriptum a viro venerabili Aethelredo abbate Rievall. de quadam sanctimoniali femina de Wattun

  Note : Printed in Twysden, col. 415. Migne P. L. CXCV 789

  Note : (149v) At end a xvith cent. note referring to the Life of St Elizabeth in MS 138 item 10

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Stephen of Whitby OSB - author

  150r-152v - Stephen of Whitby OSB, Historia fundationis abbatiae Sanctae Mariae Eboracensis || Quo modo et a quibus cenobium Sanctae Mariae Eboraci fundatum sit, et quantas invidorum perturbationes impulsum sustinuerat, sed Dei protegente gratia magis ac magis auctum et multiplicatum fuerat; autore Stephano ejusdem cenobii abbate

  Note : Printed in Monasticon III 544

  Note : (150r) Begins with a green initial. These three leaves are in a fresh hand, upright and regular

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Thurstan archbishop of York - author

  153r-158r - Thurstan archbishop of York, Epistola de egressu monachorum Fontanensium || Epistola Thurstini archiepiscopi Eboraci ad Wilhelmum archiepiscopum Cantuariae de cenobio Sanctae Mariae Eboraci et observantia regulae Sancti Benedicti in eo

  Note : (153r) See Memorials of the Abbey of St Mary of Fountains, ed. Walbran, Surtees Society 1863

  Note : The script is probably the same as that of item 11 etc.

  
  

  Intervenants :

  William of Malmesbury OSB - author

  158r-160r - William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta regum Anglorum (excerpt) || De vita et conversatione Gereberti papae

  Note : (158r) From William of Malmesbury Gesta Regum I 193-201 fallere

  
  

  160r-161v - William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta regum Anglorum (excerpt) || Visio Karoli imperatoris

  Note : (160r) ibid. I 112

  
  

  161r-161r - William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta regum Anglorum (excerpt) || Visio S. Maurilii

  Note : (161r) ibid. II 327

  
  

  161r-161v - William of Malmesbury OSB, Gesta regum Anglorum (excerpt) || De annulo statuae commendato

  Note : (161r) ibid. I 256

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Geffrei Gaimar - author

  162r-165r - Geffrei Gaimar, Estoire des Engleis (excerpt) || Narratio de uxore Ernulfi ab Aella rege Deirorum violata

  Note : Printed in Gaimar (Rolls) I 328; also in the Notes to Gaimar, Monumenta I 795 and in Wright's Caxton Society edition

  Note : On a fresh quire and in a large regular hand

  
  

  165v-165v - Visio cuiusdam clerici de gloria regis Malcolmi || Visio cujusdam clerici de gloria regis Malcolmi

  rubric : (165v) Visio Malcolmi cui ad singula interrogata super statu suo in hunc sensum respondit

  incipit : (165v) Cur sic care taces. pro me loquitur me(a) uita

  Note : 14 lines ending

  Note : (165v) quidque tuis mandans perpetuo ualeant

  incipit : (165v) Rex uero Malcolmus summe ingenuitatis titulus ueluti surculus ex dulcissima abscisus arbore

  explicit : (165v) lucidissima in celestes thesauros intulerunt mella

  Note : Skene, Fordun I, Appendix VI, from a copy furnished by Mr Henry Bradshaw: Raine, l. c. p. 81

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Nennius (attrib.) - author

  166r-176v - Nennius (attrib.), Historia Brittonum || Eulogium brevissimum Britanniae insulae quod Ninnius Elvodugi discipulus congregavit

  Note : A new volume, double columns of 35 lines, hand very slightly sloping, plain red initials

  Note : The first leaf was originally blank

  Note : On the recto is a paragraph in a small hand of cent. xiii early, not beginning at the top of the page

  Note : (166r) Gualenses nichilominus insistebant ius suum sibi concedi postulantes

  Note : Quid enim inquiunt o rex formidas et tunicas illas ferreas quas eminus cernis nimium expauescis. Nobis certe sunt latera ferrea pectus ereum mens timoris uacua quorum nec pedes fugam nec unquam uulnus terga sensere. quid gallis apud cliderhou profuere lorice. Numquid non inermes isti ut dicunt illos et loricas proicere et negligere et scuta relinquere coegerunt. Uideat igitur o rex prudentia uestra quale sit in his habere fiduciam que in necessitate magis sunt oneri quam consolationi. Nos apud cliderhou de loricatis uictoriam reportauimus. Nos hodie et istos anime uirtute pro scuto utentes lanceis prosternemus. Hoc bellum factum est inter anglos et pictos et scottos apud cliderhou feria vi die vii [xii?] ante natiuitate sancti Johannis Baptistae anno predicto id est m. c. xxx viio

  Note : Bellum apud Cliderhou ubi multi nobiles et ignobiles perierunt

  Note : This is a quotation from Aelred de Bello Standardi (Chronicles of Stephen etc. II, p. 190)

  Note : On f. 168v are various items enumerated by Mommsen in his prolegomena to Nennius, Mon. Germ. Hist. XIII 1 (Chronica Minora III 1), p. 125

  Note : On the margin

  Note : (166v) Incipit apologia. Nemnii britonum historiografi

  Note : and

  Note : (166v) Incipit hystori[c]a ortografia mundi

  Note : (not as Mommsen)

  Note : Col. 1.

  rubric : (166v) Incipit eulogium breuissimum brittannie insule. quod Ninnius eluodugi discipulus congregauit

  incipit : (166v) Ego Ninnius eluodugi

  explicit : (166v) Cedo illi qui plus nouerit in ista pericia satis quam ego

  rubric : (166v) Explicit eulogium

  rubric : (166v) Item eiusdem quod scribi debet in fine libri

  rubric : (166v) De malis et peruersis naturis gen-ti-um

  Note : (Chronica Minora II 389)

  Note : Inuidia iudeorum

  Note : This is written in two columns, with additions by the large hand which annotates the MS. throughout and also by a neater and smaller hand

  Note : The original hand goes down to

  Note : Ira brittonum

  Note : then

  Note : De bonis naturis gentium

  Note : Prudencia hebreorum to Argutia hispanorum

  Note : The large hand adds to col. 1

  Note : Libido sueuorum

  Note : Duricia (uel superbia above) pictauorum The original hand already had Duricia pictorum

  Note : It adds to col. 2

  Note : A line erased

  Note : Communio normannorum

  Note : Grecus irascitur ante causam

  Note : Francus in causa

  Note : Romanus propter causam

  Note : Francus fortis

  Note : Romanus grauis

  Note : Affer semper uersipellis

  Note : The second (smaller) hand adds to the Vices

  Note : Spurcicia sclauorum

  Note : Rapacitas normannorum

  Note : Normanni nimis sunt animosi

  Note : The large hand adds to the Virtues

  Note : Sollercia egiptiorum

  Note : Col. 2. At top, three lines erased, perhaps written by the large hand

  Note : Despicientes deum viiio ab (hole in vellum) bates fuerunt

  Note : Riccardus prior primus abbas de fontibus [1132]

  Note : Riccardus sacrista se(cundus) abbas de fontibus [1139]

  Note : Lower down are the additions to the list of Virtues and Vices

  Note : Then in the original hand the two poems Adiutor benignus, and Fornifer

  rubric : (167r) Sancti spiritus assit nobis gratia. Incipit Res gesta a Nennio sapiente composita

  Note : With marginal and interlinear additions in several hands including the large hand and the hand of f. 168v

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (176v) finibus cosmi

  Note : (Mommsen, p. 218): the section ending thus is placed by several other MSS. as well as this after that ending Luchechach (Mommsen, p. 219) which forms the end of M.'s text

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Caradog of Llancarfan - author

  176v-179r - Caradog of Llancarfan, Vita Sancti Gildae || Res gestae a Nennio sapiente compositae, Vita sanctissimi atque doctissimi viri Gildas autore Caradoco Nancarbanensi

  Note : (176v) Vita Gildae

  Note : Mommsen, p. 107

  Note : Capitula and rubric in the hand of f. 168v

  Note : Ends 181r

  Note : In another rough hand follow

  Note : (a) Col. 1. The poem Fornifer

  Note : (b) Col. 2. On the translation of St Benedict to Fleury

  incipit : (179v) Circa hec tempora cum in castro cassino

  Note : (c) (De naturis gentium)

  incipit : (179v) Inuidia iudeorum

  explicit : (179v) Duritia uel superbia pictauorum

  Note : This is copied in a confused order

  Note : In the lower margin the name Aelsi

  Note : On the verso and last leaf are many xvth cent. scribbles and a few earlier

  Note : On the Kings of England

  Note : On the same, in verse: Dux Normannorum Willelmus vi validorum (to Edward III)

  Note : Willelmus rufus. versus

  Note : Visibus humanis aulas ornatas inanisfecit fundare propter sua festa parareaulam maiorem construxit Londoniarumorbis terrarum non optinet utilioremIudicibus legis ac ad conuiuia regisregnum regnorum flos est domus illa domorum

  Note : (Referring to Westminster Hall)

  Note : Further notes on English Kings

  Note : Drawings of two bearded men: one labelled Tome T.. ywalle

  Note : A badly written name Arthur Harvy(?)