Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries

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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 210

William Worcestre, Itineraria

Contents

Introduction: A note on the display of images: In several places in the manuscript, a single sheet document has been folded in two and placed around the outside of a quire. Some may have functioned as protective wrappers while those quires circulated separately, prior to their binding between covers with the rest of the manuscript. When bound into the manuscript, one half of such a document appears before the first leaf of the quire, and the other after the last leaf of the quire. When the manuscript came into the possession of Matthew Parker, the leaves were paginated in the characteristic red/orange crayon, with only odd numbers appearing on the recto side of each leaf. Since each half of these documents formed a leaf in the manuscript, these too were paginated in the same sequence, as follows:
  • pp. 1-2 + 3-4 [not enclosing other leaves]
  • pp. 39-40 + 41-42 [not enclosing other leaves]
  • pp. 77-78 + 79-80 [not enclosing other leaves]
  • pp. 235-236 + 257-258 [enclosing pp. 237-256]
  • pp. 243-244 + 249-250 [enclosing pp. 245-248]
  • pp. 299-300 + 311-312 [encloding pp. 301-310]
  • pp. 313-314 + 323-324 [enclosing pp. 315-322]
 When the manuscript was rebound in 1952, all but the last of these folded sheets was released, in order that the text they bore could be read. The fourth, fifth and six of those listed above were placed before the beginning of the quire they had previously enclosed. For reasons that are not clear, the seventh was never released, but remained bound in around pp. 315-322. The manuscript was disbound between 2005 and 2009, in preparation for its digitisation, and these bifolia were photographed as separate leaves and fully opened so that their text could be read across a single image. Once again, the seventh folded document was not given this treatment, and was photographed only as two separate leaves. As of 2012, the manuscript has been rebound in a limp parchment binding, matching the 1953 rearrangement but also releasing the seventh folded document and placing it before the leaves it formerly enclosed. This binding and its accompanying endleaves are recorded in this description but have not been digitised. The display of the images on the Parker Library on the Web is intended to show the manuscript's leaves in their sequence prior to the 1953 rearrangement and rebinding, but also to show the full text of these folded sheets once they have been opened up. The sequence the images follow is: the recto and then the verso of the first half of the folded sheet is shown, followed by the full opening, the rectos and versos of the enclosed leaves, and finally the recto and verso of the second half of the folded sheet. The presentation of pp. 39-40 + 41-42 is more complicated, because the sheet was folded in such a way that its text ran around the back of the sheet (not around the inside), and because the beginning of the text falls on the last page (p. 42) and its end on the first page (p. 39). As explained above, the one exception is the seventh sheet, which was not photographed fully opened across pp. 314 and 323. For the Cambridge Digital Library, it has been decided instead to show the images in the sequence that they now appear in the manuscript. The sequence the images follow is: the recto and then the verso of the first half of the folded sheet is shown, followed by the full opening, the recto and then the verso of the second half of the folded sheet, and then the rectos and versos of the leaves they enclosed. The pagination still follows that written in red/orange crayon, and where an opening is shown both page numbers are given: for example, pp. 42-39, or pp. 78-79. The textual contents of these folded leaves will be described only where the sheet is shown fully opened. Since the seventh folded sheet has been released, images of pp. 314 and 323 are adjacent to one another, and occur before the images of the leaves they formerly enclosed (pp. 315-322). Dr James Freeman|Medieval Manuscripts Specialist|Cambridge University Library

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper leaves with inserted legal documents and letters on single paper sheets.
Extent: Codex: iv + 2 | 160 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 + iv leaves. 195-300 × 75-110 mm.

NB: These dimensions correspond to the range of leaves found in the manuscript's core part (Part 2) to give a sense of the manuscript's tall and narrow shape. The dimensions of the other parts are ignored here because they concern inserted leaves that typically have been bound in vertically and their original height and width have been cropped to match the dimensions of the manuscript's core part.

As Rundle (2024) points out, the format of this mansucript is that of a so-called 'holster book'. Two other extant notebooks from Worcestre ( London, British Library, Cotton MS Julius F VII and London, British Library, Sloane MS 4 ) and his account book ( London, British Library, Add MS 28208 ) are in the same format.
Foliation:

16th-century Parkerian pagination, with supplementary numbering for fragmentary leaves supplied by a modern hand:

[i]-[iv] + 1-2, [2-3], 3-4 [= Part 1] | 5-30, 30a-30b, 31-38 [= Part 2a] | 42, [42-39], 39, 40, 41 [= Part 3] | 43-78, [78-79], 79-188, 188a-188b, 189-234 [= Part 2b] | 235-236, [236-257], 257-258 [= Part 4] | 237-242 [= Part 2c] | 243-244, [244-249], 249-250 [= Part 5] | 245-248, 251-256, 259-294, 294a-294b, 295-298 [= Part 2d] | 299-300, [300-311], 311-312 [= Part 6] | 301-304, 304a-304b, 305-310 [= Part 2e] | 313-314, 323-324 [= Part 7] | 315-322, 325-330, 330a-330b, 331-334 [= Part 2f] + [v]-[viii]

Numbering (odd numbers only) in red crayon in the upper right-hand corners of the rectos, by Matthew Parker (1504-1575) .

The leaves that contain pages 30a-30b, 294a-294b, and 304a-304b are fragmentary and have been restored to their original sizes with blank paper in modern times. The leaf that contains pages 330a-330b is a stub with a few scribles or notes written on it. The leaves were not paginated by Matthew Parker: a modern hand has written numbers with 'a' and 'b' supplements in pencil in the upper outer corners of both sides of these leaves. There is also one fragmentary leaf restored with blank paper that may have been paginated by Parker. This concerns the manuscript's final leaf to which a modern hand has added the numbers '333' and '334' in pencil to the upper outer corners of both sides of the leaf.

The square brackets that contain two numbers (i.e. [2-3], [42-39], [78-79], [236-257], [244-249], [300-311]) refer to images that show texts that run across two pages. These typically involve pre-existing documents that Worcestre inserted into this manuscript, except for pp. [78 and 79] which contains a text by Worcestre that is part of the Itineraria and runs across two pages. These numbers have been added to the foliation statement for reference purposes in this eletronic catalogue record.

Folios [i]-[iv] and [v]-[viii] are unfoliated/unpaginated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and end of the manuscript [not photographed] that have been allocated Roman numerals for reference purposes in this catalogue record. These numbers have been placed between square brackets to indicate that they have been supplied.

When the manuscript was rebound in 1953, it was decided to re-organise inserted leaves that originally were folded around the outsides of quires, and this new organisation was maintained when the manuscript was given its current binding in 2012. Consequently, Parker's pagination sequence is out of order. For a reconstruction of the manuscript's original order, see Harvey (1969), pp. 407-416 ('Conspectus of Pages').

Collation

The collation of the manuscript's current structure - which does not reflect its original division into quires - has not been established, but it contains many short booklets of 2 and 4 leaves. It also features inserted single documents that have been folded into bifolia and to which William Worcestre has added notes from his Itineraria. Because these documents were produced separately from this manuscript, they are treated as separate parts in this catalogue record.

Binding

The manuscript has a limp parchment binding [not photographed] that dates to 2012. It consists of veiny parchment that has been folded over thin paper covers laced onto an alum-tawed goatskin spine-covering featuring green headbands with six thongs of alum-tawed skin.

Current binding height: 310mm; width: 120mm; depth: 40mm.

The current binding (2012) replaces a binding that was made by the bookbinders J.P. Gray and Son of Cambridge in 1952. The latter has been preserved but is kept separately from the manuscript [not photographed]. It concerns a binding of brown leather over wooden boards with blind-tooled vertical 'teeth' on the covers that correspond with the positions of five raised bands on the spine. The latter features the gold-stamped classmark: ‘MS. 210’ and ‘C.C.C.C.’. The old binding is accompanied by two old paper flyleaves at the beginning, numerous rigid paper stubs, and two old paper flyleaves at the end. The classmark ‘MS 210’ is inscribed in ink on the first flyleaf at the beginning with a note about Gray.

Old binding height: 315mm; width: 150mm.

When the manuscript was re-bound in 1952, single documents that William Worcestre had folded around the outsides of quires were relocated so that they could be read across the fold without interuption. This modern organisation was maintained when the manuscript was bound again in 2012.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

William Worcestre [Worcester] [Botoner] (1415–1480x85) , secretary to Sir John Fastolf (1380-1459), antiquary, topographer, and chronicler: copied and owned the manuscript. A colophon in his own hand on p. 5: ‘Willelmus worcetor [sic] est author huius libri .vi. post .fo. 4.’. His name inscribed on p. 106 (lower margin): ‘Botiner qui est Wurcester’. His name inscribed on p. 118: ‘Nomen patris [...] qui hunc librum scripsit W. Wurcester’. Four other manuscripts with Worcestre's hand survive, including an account book concerning his surveyorship of the Manor of Castle combe, Wiltshire, for John Fastolf ( London, British Library, Add MS 28208 ); his commonplace book ( London, British Library, Cotton MS Julius F VII ); a compilation of historical texts copied by different hands, including Worcestre's ( London, British Library, Royal MS 13 C I ) and a medical manuscript ( London, British Library, Sloane MS 4 ). Worcestre's hand also occurs in Geoffrey Chaucer's Middle English translation of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae in Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 215 . As Daniel Wakelin points out (see his Introduction to Pembroke College, MS 215), Worcestre appears to have used Chaucer's translation to read the original Latin passages from Boethius (book IV, metre 3 and prose 3) that he copied on p. 194 of Corpus Christi College MS 210. This is suggested by the fact that he has highlighted the same passage in the Middle English version on ff. 66r-66v of Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 215 .

T.M. la Rosarius (fl. 16th century) : owned or accessed the manuscript. Their name inscribed on p. 219: ‘T.M. LA. ROSARIVS . brugensis - I.R. Rosarius la - I.R.’.

Robert Talbot (c. 1505-1558) , prebendary of Norwich Cathedral (from 1547) and treasurer there until his death: copied information from the Registrum Primum of Norwich Cathedral on p. 226.

Francis Rugge (1536-1607) , Freeman of Norwich in 1563, alderman from c. 1570 onwards, Sheriff of Norwich in 1572-3, and Mayor of Norwich in 1587-9: his name (‘ffrauncis Rugge’) inscribed on p. 286. While Harvey suggests that his name is written in the hand of that of Henry Aldrich (whose name occurs twice on the same page together with scribles), it is also possible that it was added by Rugge himself, either as an owner or user of the manuscript. Although Harvey does not identify ‘Thomas Rugge’, he almost certainly is the freeman, alderman, sheriff, and mayor of Norwhich who married Anne Aldrich (d. 1611). The latter was a daughter of John Aldrich (1520-1582), alderman and mercer of Norwich, and mayor of that city in 1570-71, and Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Sotherton (d.1540), alderman and Mayor of Norwich (1539-40), and sister of Henry Aldrich [see below] whose name is twice inscribed above that of Francis Rugge on p. 286.

Henry Aldrich (d. 1593) , Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1569-1579; who was licensed to teach grammar in Norwich in 1583: his name inscribed on p. 286: ‘Henricus Aldrichius’ and ‘Henry Aldryche’. His name inscriptions are accompanied by many pen trials, including initials and names (‘Mr Master Bristlye’) that appear to have been written by the same hand. Henry may have inscribed the name of ‘Thomas Rugge’ [probably his brother-in-law; see above] and a list of first names: ‘Thomas / Henry / John / Michael / Thomas / John / Henry’ [This list may refer to the sons of John Aldrich and Elizabeth Sotherton: aside from a son named Henry, there were sons named John, Michael, and Thomas]. The name of Christian Aldrich (‘Christian Aldrichus’) - who remains unidentified but almost certainly was a relative of Henry - is inscribed (upside down) in light brown ink on p. 278. According to Harvey (1969), the manuscript probably passed from Aldrich to Corpus Christi College but the presence of pagination in the hand of Matthew Parker (see below) and the existence of a partial transcription in a manuscript (now Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 101 ) that was copied for Matther Parker from books in his collection and elsewhere suggest otherwise.

Venn ALDC563H

Matthew Parker (1504-1575) , archbishop of Canterbury: not recorded in his register of books donated Corpus Christi College, now Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 575 , but his ownership is suggested by the presence of his pagination in red crayon throughout. As Rand (2009) notes, Parker owned two other notebooks that belonged to Robert Talbot. These are now Cambridge, Corpus Christi MS 111 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi MS 379 .

Perhaps bequeathed to Corpus Christi College by Matthew Parker (1504-1575) , and certainly there by 1600 (see Custodial History).

Part 1 [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 210, pp 1-2, [2-3], 3-4]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 1
Testament of Robert Bale of Castle Combe, Wiltshire 1454 Latin
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 1Probatum est testamentum coram nobis domino Roberto Bale cappelano parochiali sancti Andree de Castelcumbe [...] Rectoris ecclesie sancti Andree predicte
Explicit: 1 officio presentibus est appensum datum apud Castelcombe predictis die et anno supradictis
Harvey (1969), pp. 380-381 [edition and translation]
2. [2-3]
Testament of Richard Halwey of Castle Combe, Wiltshire 1454
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 2 CCCCo Liiijto Ego Ricardus Halwe sane mentis condo testamentum meum in hunc modum
Explicit: 3 suo legitime procreatis de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per seruicia inde debita et de
Final rubric: 3 Summa testamentum meum li. ij. li lij li. xxd
Harvey (1969), pp. 380-385 [edition and translation]
3. 4
Obits of the founders of the church of St Mary, Tintern and their families [= Part of William Worcestre's Itineraria]
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 4 de obitibus Fundatorum et de genere propinqua eorum Ecclesie sancte Marie Tynternie vt in kalendario Austclyff inueni registratum
Incipit: 4 Comes Gilbertus 6 die Januarij obijt
Explicit: 4 Rogerus Bygot Comes Norff. dedict Ecclesie de Tyntern dominium de Acle ac Ecclesiam cum aduocacione de Halveryate cum omnibus eorum pertinencijs
Harvey (1969), pp. 54-56 [edition and translation]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper. No watermark identified.
Extent: Sheet: folded to form 2 leaves. 200 × 290 mm. The dimensions provided are for the unfolded single leaf that makes up pages 1-4; and are measured according to this sheet's orginal orientation (the sheet has been folded and bound into the manuscript vertically).

Collation

A single sheet, folded to form a bifolium of two leaves (pp. 1-4).

Layout

No ruling. Text in a single column.

Hand(s)

The legal documents on pp. 1-3 are copied by a single hand in a cursive script with both anglicana and secretary features.

The notes on p. 4 are copied by William Worcestre [Worcester] [Botoner] (1415–1480x85) in a cursive script with anglicana features.

Decoration

This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.

History

Origin: 1454. ; England.

With additions from William Worcestre's Itineraria (1478-1480).

Part 2 [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 210, pp. 5-30, 30a-30b, 31-38, 43-188, 188a-188b, 189-234, 237-242, 245-248, 251-256, 259-294, 294a-294b, 295-298, 301-304, 304a-304b, 305-310, 315-322, 325-330, 330a-330b, 331-334]

Contents

Language(s): Latin, Middle English, Middle French with addeditions including Dutch, English, Greek, Hebrew, and Italian

1. 4-333
Itineraria [Itineraries] William Worcestre [Worcester] [Botoner]
Language(s): Latin, Middle English, Middle French
Incipit: 5 longitudo Ecclesie sancte marie Tynterne continet 77 \uel 75/ virgas
Explicit: 332 Ve michi nascente ; ve nato ; ve morienti / Ve michi ; quod sine ue non viuit filius Eue

NB: William Worcestre has inserted six documents into this manuscript that were created as separate textual units by other scribes and has added texts that are part of the Itineraria to them. This catalogue record treats these documents as separate parts. Parts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 should be consulted for further items of the ‘Itineraria’.

This catalogue record follows the edition of Harvey (1969) and considers a few items in Worcestre's hand as separate from the ‘Itineraria’.

Page 333 is a torn leaf with a fragmentary text that has not been read (no text is visible on the reverse of this leaf or p. 334).

Aside from historical and topographical information, the Itineraria include a wide range of other materials that evidently were of interest to Worcestre. For example, it includes a multiplication table that is attributed to Thomas Hengham, monk of Norwich Priory (‘Multiplicacio numerorum secundum laborem dompni Thome Hengham religiosi monasterij Norwicensis’), on p. 261 [perhaps Thomas Ingham, monk scholar of Norwich, who was at Cambridge in 1466-67; see Harvey (1969), p. 239 fn. 1]; a list of Arabic terms for parts of the Astrolabe (‘Termeni arabici in jnstrumento astrolabij’) on p. 261]; and notes on the art of grammar (‘Priscianus in Maiori’) on p. 320.

Dallaway (1834), pp. 27-166 [edition of topographical description of Bristol]
Harvey (1969), pp. 2-377 [edition and translation of the Itineraria exluding the description of Bristol]
2. 12
Medical recipe for gall or bladder stone
Language(s): Latin recipe with Middle English title
Rubric: 12 A medicine for þe stone
Incipit: 12 Ad sanandum lapidem . recipe herba vocat Anglice perspeere . que crescit prope terram in patria Catiswold et super mures castri Dover
Explicit: 12 et bibe de isto puluere nocte et mane cum seruisia desicata et sanabitur infra breue hec est practica Roberti Wardale

Copied by William Worcestre. The Robert Wardale who Worcestre associates with this recipe has not been identified before but is likely to be the Robert Wardale who served under John Fastolf and was at the siege of Pontorson in 1427 (on him, see Thomas Christian Bernard Drewitt-Wex, 'The English 'Soldier' c.1400-1461: Perceptions of Professionalism and Criminality' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Winchester, 2019), pp. 90 and 254.

3. 45
Note on St Michael's Mount, Cornwall
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 45 Memorandum mountez bay lyeth froe lesard yn the est party to [the] poynte of moushole yn the west party and the ch[ef] rode of the bay for seemen that comyth tha[t] way ys called gooveslake ouer ayenst newly[n]

Full transcription with missing letters supplied between square brackets as in Harvey (1969) and Rand (2009). Added between Worcestre's Latin entries on St Michael's Mount by a different hand.

Harvey (1969), p. 29 [edition]
Rand (2009), p. 29 [edition]
4.1. 57 (lower margin)
Scribbles in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew

Added by a 16th-century hand.

4.2. 59 (lower margin)
Scribbles in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew

Added by a 16th-century hand.

4.3. 87 (upper margin)
Scribbles in Latin and Greek

Added by a 16th-century hand.

4.4. 155 (blank space between lines)
Scribbles in Latin and Greek

Added by a 16th-century hand.

4.5. 186 (blank space)
Scribbles in Latin and Hebrew

Added by a 16th-century hand.

Harvey (1969), p. 396 [edition]
4.6. 202 (blank space)
Scribbles in Latin and Greek

Added by a 16th-century hand.

Harvey (1969), p. 266 [edition]
5. 59
List of objects (clothing items)
Language(s): English
Incipit: 59 A gowne of [?] grogram
Explicit: 59 A dubblet of [? faire Crimson]

Added by a 16th-century hand and crossed out. Above, in the same hand, are a few Latin words (‘femine [...] saluabitur / si eius super cu / [...]’) but it is not clear if these form a saying or are scribbles.

Harvey (1969), p. 152 [edition]
6. 84 (lower margin)
(?) Motto
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 84 (lower margin) misericordia et veritas eius in perpetuum

Added by a 16th-century hand alongside a few scribbles.

Harvey (1969), p. 153 [edition]
7. 87 (blank space between lines)
(?) Draft letter
Language(s): French
Incipit: 87 (blank space between lines) freres ie uous dis la veri[...] en Ludolphi andrewoss

Added by a 16th-century hand.

8. 137
Saying or motto
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 137 Laues deo semper in

Added by a 16th-century hand.

9. 185
Saying from the Amores [Amores 1.9] Ovid
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 185 Militant omnis amans et habet sua castra cupido / Attice crede michi militat omnis amans

Added by a 16th-century hand.

Harvey (1969), p. 374 [edition]
10. 185
Saying from the Epigrams Martial
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 185 Fortiter ille facit qui potest esse

Added by a 16th-century hand. This saying is followed by further words in Latin and (?) French that have not been transcribed.

Harvey (1969), p. 374 [edition]
11. 186
Sayings
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 186 Junior fui quoniam si volueris / Sacrificium dedissim tibi vtique / holocaustis non delectaberis / Sacrificium deo cor contribulatum / et contritum Deus non despicies

Added by a 16th-century hand.

Harvey (1969), p. 394 [edition]
12. 186
Saying
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 186 Frumentum omne quod ponitur in horreo / Significastis enim quod sic estis

Added by a 16th-century hand.

Harvey (1969), p. 396 [edition]
13. 194
Extract from De vetula Pseudo-Ovid
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 194 Ovidius: Methamorphoseos jncipit
Incipit: 194 O quam carus erat michi quamque optabilis ille / Femineus sexus sine quo nec viuere possem / In noua fert animus mutatas dicere formas / Corpora dij captis nam vos matuastis et illas

Full transcription. Copied by William Worcestre.

Harvey (1969), p. 391 [edition]
14. 194
Extract from the Fasti [Fasti, i. I] Ovid
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 194 Ouidius in fastis jncipit
Incipit: 194 Tempora cum causis Lacium digesta per annum / Ipsaque sub terras ortaque signa canam

Full transcription. Copied by William Worcestre.

Harvey (1969), p. 391 [edition]
15. 194
Extract from the Remedia Amoris [Remedia Amoris, I] Ovid
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 194 Ouidius de remedio amoris:
Incipit: 194 Legereat huius Amor titulum nomenque libelli / Bella mihi video bella parantur ait

Full transcription. Copied by William Worcestre.

Harvey (1969), p. 391 [edition]
16. 194
Extract from the Amores [Amores, ii, XV] Ovid
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 194 Ouidius de anulo jncipit:
Incipit: 194 Anule formose digitum vincire puelle / In censendum nil nisi vatis amor

Full transcription. Copied by William Worcestre.

Harvey (1969), p. 391 [edition]
17. 194
Extract from the Nux [Nux, I] Pseudo-Ovid
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 194 De nuc jncipit
Incipit: 194 Nux ego iuncta vie cum sim sine crimine vite / A populo saxis pretereunte petor

Full transcription. Copied by William Worcestre.

Harvey (1969), p. 391 [edition]
18. 194
Extract from the Amores [Amores, iii, V] Ovid
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 194 De sompno jncipit
Incipit: 194 Nox erat et sompnus laxos submisit ocellos / Terruerant animum talia visa meum

Full transcription. Copied by William Worcestre.

Harvey (1969), p. 391 [edition]
19. 194
Note on Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 194 De transformacione hominum et bestiarum:
Incipit: 194 Boicius de consolacione libro .4.to prosa et metro tercijs prosa ibi Qare versi in maliciam humanam quoque amisere naturam similiter de transformacione in bestias sequitur textus Boicij metro ibi: vela \id est Vlixis/ Naricij ducis . et vagas pelago rates . vbi ostendit transformacionem hominis per vicia esse peiorem transformacionem sociorum Vlixis /

Full transcription. Copied by William Worcestre.

Harvey (1969), p. 391 [edition]
20. 194
List with names of the sun
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 194 Nomina solis
Incipit: 194 Sol / Titan / Appollo / Phebus / Delyus / Yperyon / Cireus / Sinthius

Full transcription. Copied by William Worcestre.

Harvey (1969), p. 391 [edition]
21. 202
Scribbles
Language(s): Latin and French
Incipit: 202 in nomine tuo benedicet omnis gentes [...] surplement a cause [...] des ces saincts conmandemens [...]

Added by a 16th-century hand.

Harvey (1969), p. 266 [edition]
22. 219
Proverb
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 219 Propter euntes et redeuntes hostia claude / Multa petentes pauca ferentes sunt sine laude

Full transcription. Added by T.M. la Rosarius.

Harvey (1969), p. 368 [edition]
23. 219
Proverb
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 219 Oscula que Judas dedit domino hec michi tu das / Bene ore faris et tue Corde male meditaris

Full transcription. Added by T.M. la Rosarius.

Harvey (1969), p. 368 [edition]
24. 219
Note on the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht under David of Burgundy
Language(s): Latin with a few Dutch words
Incipit: 219 Traiectum inferius duod dicitur sticht van Vtrecht circa Hollandiam et Frisiam Et est episcopus ibidem prouincie Dauid filius naturalis ducis Philippi Burgundie

Full transcription. Added by (?) T.M. la Rosarius.

Harvey (1969), p. 368 [edition]
25. 226
History of the cloister of Norwich Cathedral
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 226 Claustrum Ecclesie Cathedralis Norwicensis
Incipit: 226 Anno domini Mo cco lxxxxvijo. inceptum est opus claustri Norwicensis ecclesie ante domum capitularem cum ipsa domo capitulari a domino Radulpho Walpole Norwicensi tunc episcopo
Explicit: 226 Et domini Wyllelmi Wursted prioris eiusdem ecclesie anno tertio. Tempus a principio operis vsque ad finem Cxxxiijbus annis

Copied by Robert Talbot

Harvey (1969), pp. 396-397 [edition and translation]
26. 278 (lower margin)
Scribbles
Language(s): Italian, French, Latin
Incipit: 278 (lower margin) desidero molto / Imparar / apprendre / Cinq pulch[...] / Cogoscre Jo Saprei / Dome sha non [...]glio / Vapere / Singularis / Homo [...]

Added by one of a few 16th-century hands.

27. 296
Scribbles
Language(s): English

Written by 'William Worcestre off london and Norwych'.

Harvey (1969), p. 372 [edition]
28. 296
(?) Scribbles
Language(s): English
Incipit: 296 my Cosine vn hapi make and [...] good inke [...]

Written upside down on the page by a (?) 16th-century hand.

Harvey (1969), p. 372 [edition]
29. 309-310
Accounts William Worcestre
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 309 Fyrst payd for the wrytyng of a cop[y] of the entree of the plee called the Inparlance ayenst thabbot of Langley vvpon the demaund of iiijxx. s.b iiij. d.
Explicit: 310 summa of thys bille besyde horshyre .xiij. s.

Copied by William Worcestre.

Harvey (1969), pp. 388-389 [edition]
30. 310 (written upwards along the page)
Copy of a plea (fragment)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 310 (written upwards along the page) Norffl. [?] domini Adam Mydylgate clericus pon. Thomam Corbrygge modo de Brandeston in Tempore H. et ver? in ipsum Adam apud Bundeseat et in Aber int[...]ale tradunt et tales et [...] meas circa negocium et

Copied by William Worcestre.

Harvey (1969), p. 389 [edition]
31. 318 (lower margin)
Unfinished (?) proverb
Language(s): English
Incipit: || 318 (lower margin) The more that a ma

Added by a 16th-century hand but left unfinished.

Harvey (1969), p. 246 [edition; transcribes ‘more’ as ‘most’]
32. 329-330
Accounts from a goldsmith
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 329 Abbat de Wendlyng pro fenestra .xx. li.
Explicit: 330 Radulphus Lampet .77. li. perditur in ca. Ricardi B[a]rker

According to Harvey (1969), these accounts were copied by William Worcestre from the account book of a goldsmith who also worked as a banker.

Harvey (1969), pp. 392-395 [edition and translation]
33. 330
Accounts
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 330 Layd out in Oxfordie
Incipit: 330 Inprimis for sitting in the scholes - 4s
Explicit: 330 Item for my Gouns makinge - 4s

Copied by a 16th-century hand. The accounts can be dated to 1555; see Harvey (1969), p. 398

Harvey (1969), p. 398 [edition and translation]
34. 332
Proverb
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 332 Ve mihi nascenti ve nato ve morienti

Copied by William Worcestre.

Walther, Initia Carminum Ac Versuum Medii Aevi Posteriosis Latinorum, no. 67779
Walther, Proverbia Sententiaeque Latinitatis Medii Aevino, . 32825
Harvey (1969), p. 389 [edition]

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 7: Ecclesia de Romesey
Form: codex
Support: Paper, folded in folio. Pages 5-30, 30a-30b, 31-38, 43-188, 188a-188b, 189-234, 237-242, 245-248, 251-256, 259-294, 294a-294b, 295-298, 301-304, 304a-304b, 305-310, 315-322, 325-330, 330a-330b, 331-334: various watermarks, including: Letter P, unicorn, bull's head with five-pointed star, anchor, coat of arms with cross.
Extent: Codex: 160 leaves.
Dimensions (leaf): 195-300 × 75-110 mm.

Collation

The collation for Part 2 (the core of the manuscript) has not been established.

Roman numerals (‘ii’ to ‘xvij’) written in dark ink on the lower outer corners of the first rectos of pages 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 27, 31, 35, 47, 51, 55, 59, 61, 67, and 69.

Layout

260-270 × 80-85 mm. Hardpoint ruling (vertical line in the inside margin only). Single columns. c. 40-c. 50 lines to the page.

Hand(s)

Copied by William Worcestre [Worcester] [Botoner] (1415–1480x85) in a cursive hand with anglicana features.

Decoration

On p. 129 is a drawing in plummet of the outline (‘jamb mould’) of the stonework on the South porch of St Stephen's Church, Bristol, attributed to the freemason Benedict Cross. Inside the outline is written: ‘Thys ys the Jamemoold of the porthe dore yn the southsyde of the chyrch of seynt stevyn’ (see Harvey (1969), pp. 316-317).

On p. 84, drawings of three coats of arms in brown ink, without colours but two have blazons written inside their escutcheons (see Harvey (1969), pp. 342-343).

On p. 223 are two nativity charts (horoscopes) for 3 September 1480, one for 6pm (‘Figure celi die .3. mensis Septembris hora .6. post meridiem anno .1480. de elongacione [?] secundum [?] etcaetera’) and another for 5pm (‘Figura anno mense et die supradictis hora circa .5.ta de elongacione [?] secundum etcaetera’). [see Harvey (1969), pp. 300-301].

Additions

Added to Worcestre's Itineraria are many annotations by later hands. For example, on p. 74 a later (?) 15th- or 16th-century hand as has added: ‘In ye Cittye of great Troye was a noble knyght / he meaneth Brutus as ys expressid in other place of thys booke’; on p. 95 (lower margin). Many of the annotations are in the hand of Robert Talbot. For example, he repeated Worcestre's comment on the grammarian John Leland the Elder (d. 1428): ‘Vt Rosa flos florum sic leland grammaticorum’ (p. 95); supplied titles for Worcestre's journeys, e.g. ‘Itinerarium a Norwico ad montem S. Michaelis’ (p. 60); titles for subjects. e.g. ‘Oratio pro itinerantibus’ and ‘S. Brandan’ Worcestre's prayers to the Three Magi and St Brendan for safe travels (p. 106); and ‘Catalogus operum Domini Johannis grossthead episcopi Lincoln’ for Worcestre's list of the works of Robert Grosseteste (p. 193).

History

Origin: 1478×1480. ; England.

Nichols (2008) dates pp. 1-86, 279-320 to 1478; pp. 87-226 to 1480 and pp. 227-78, 329-32 to 1579 (see p. 50, no. 67).

Part 3 [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 210, pp. 42, 39, [42-39], 40, 41]

Contents

Language(s): Middle English and Latin

1. [42-39]
Letter of R. Botoner to William Worcestre
Language(s): Middle English
Explicit: 42 Sir youre blissyng and my modirs desirid I sent yow a letter by Master Paston man. Which is in that contre etcaetera. Sir I am with my maister Lovel God geue me grace to plese hym. And sir he wol nedis haue a bed and I haue take youre bed except feither-bed and bolster etcaetera. Sir your hostes made suche wark that I am not fare with her they wold nat let me haue the bed tyll my coson sent his man
Explicit: 39 No more etcaetera but God prospere you I pray yow comaund me to my modir and sister and brodir and all my frendis I pray yow remembre my mater I here no word of the ansuere of W.B. deuandes etcaetera youre boke is to Wynchestre etcaetera. Wrete on Tuesday iijd weke of Lent - R. Botoner
Final rubric: 41 To William Worcestre this be delyuered / In hast etcaetera / loth to offend

Dallaway (1834) identifies the writer as Worcestre's son Richard. The letter, which mentions Thomas Kent and a letter from a male member of the Paston family, is undated but may have been written between c 1460-c. 1480. Afther the death of John Fastolf in 1459, Worcestre, Fastolf's former secretary, became much involved with John Paston, one of Fastolf's executors, concerning the distribution of his possessions.

Written across p. 39 are the numbers ‘1448’ [deleted: ‘1449’]; and ‘1330’ [deleted: ‘1330’] in different ink.

Harvey (1969), p. 386 [edition and translation]
2. 40
Memorandum concerning Piers Wylok of Helston [= Part of William Worcestre's Itinieraria]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 40 Memorandum locutus fui cum Piers Wylok de Helleston natus manens in Jermuth vocacus Piers Carde maryner
Explicit: 40 Item littera Johanni Emond de Hellyston mercer consanguineo Petri dicere quod vid. esse apud Helston circa festum Johannis Baptiste
Harvey (1969), p. 102 [edition and translation]
3. 40
Distances between Oxford and Exeter [= Part of William Worcestre's Itinieraria]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 40 Oxford vltra Faryndon .12. myle
Explicit: 40 De Colmyton vsque Excestre .10. miliaria / Excestre
Harvey (1969), pp. 12-15 [edition and translation]
4. 41
On the location of Saint Just, Cornwall [= Part of William Worcestre's Itinieraria]
Language(s): Latin with a Middle English word
Incipit: 41 Sanctus Justus martir iacet in parochia Sancti Yoest distat a Pensans versus occidentem per .5. miliaria
Explicit: 41 Lanceston villa est per .16. miliaria ex parte northwest
Harvey (1969), pp. 96-97 [edition and translation]
5. 41
Distances between Exeter and St Michael's Mount, Cornwall [= Part of William Worcestre's Itinieraria]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 41 De Excestre ad Montem Michaelis . prima villa baytyng ad Crokornwell .10. miliaria
Explicit: 41 De Redryth vsque Montem Sancti Michaelis .12. myles
Harvey (1969), pp. 14-15 [edition and translation]
6. 41
On the location of Truro, Cornwall [= Part of William Worcestre's Itinieraria]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 41 Memorandum quod [crossed out: ‘Retherith’] scita est circa Rytheryth versus orientem per .7. miliaria

Full transcription.

Harvey (1969), pp. 14-15 [edition and translation]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper Pages 39, 42, 40, 41: No watermark identified.
Extent: Sheet: folded to form 2 leaves. 145 × 190 mm. The dimensions provided are for the unfolded single leaf that makes up pages [42-39]; and are measured according to this sheet's orginal orientation (the sheet has been folded and bound into the manuscript vertically).

Collation

A single sheet, folded to form a bifolium of two leaves (pp. 42, 39, 40, 41).

Layout

No ruling. Text in a single column.

Hand(s)

The letter on pp. 39, 42 is copied by a single hand in a cursive script with anglicana and secretary features.

The topographical notes on pp. 40, 41 are copied by William Worcestre [Worcester] [Botoner] (1415–1480x85) in a cursive script with anglicana features.

Decoration

This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.

History

Origin: c. 1460-c. 1480. ; England.

Date of origin given for the letter; with additions from William Worcestre's Itineraria (1478-1480).

Part 4 [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 210, pp. 235-236, [236-257], 257-258]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 235
Notes on Ireland [= Part of William Worcestre's Itineraria]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 235 Insula Dondaron nullus avis volat in dicta jnsula quin moritur
Explicit: 235 Byere havyn est optimus havy tocius Hibernie
Harvey (1969), pp. 172-173 [edition and translation]
2. [236-257]
Letter from J. Bowler, dated Waltham 23 February (? 1479)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 236 Worshipfull sir, I recommende me to you in right herty wise for as moche as ye remembred me att my departyng owte of London of suche thynges as myght sounde to my greve in fame or any other personez
Explicit: 257 And the holy goste have you in his kepyng Written att Waltham the xxiijthe daye of Februar - your owne J. Bowler

The letter was probably sent to William Worcestre.

Harvey (1969), pp. 386-387 [edition and translation]
3. 258
Memorandum about the Neville family [= Part of William Worcestre's Itineraria]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 258 Memorandum quo Johannes Nevylle filius et heres J. NEvell comitis de [crossed out: ‘Nort’] Westmerland fuit filius et heres suus occisus apud obcidium de Orlyance anglice per vnam librillam in capite viuente patre eius comite
Explicit: 258 Et Charlys Nevylle fratrem suum bastardum similiter decapitatus apud York circa .15. dies post festum Sanci Petri aduincula
Harvey (1969), pp. 344-345 [edition and translation]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper. Folios 235-236, 257-258: watermark present but not identified.
Extent: Sheet: folded to form 2 leaves. 150 × 250 mm. The dimensions provided are for the unfolded single leaf that makes up pages [236-257]; and are measured according to this sheet's orginal orientation (the sheet has been folded and bound into the manuscript vertically).

Collation

A single leaf, folded to form a bifolium of two leaves (pp. 235-236, 257-258)

Layout

No ruling. Text in a single column.

Hand(s)

The letter on pp. 386-387 was copied by a single hand in a cursive script with anglicana and secretary features.

The historical notes on pp. 235 and 258 are copied by William Worcestre [Worcester] [Botoner] (1415–1480x85) in a cursive script with anglicana features.

Decoration

This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.

History

Origin: ?1479. ; England.

With additions from William Worcestre's Itineraria (1478-1480).

Part 5 [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 210, pp. 243-244, [244-249], 249-250]

Contents

Language(s): Middle English and Latin

1. 243
On castles and rivers in Wales [= Part of William Worcestre's Itineraria]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 243 Castrum de Oswester edificatur per Madok Maab aliter Vahab Meredith et Rex Ricardus secundus fundauit cameram in dicto castro
Explicit: 243 Tevidiot aqua incipit in monte per dimidium miliare parochie Byghylde prope castrum de Knokelas et vaidt per dictum castrum et per [crossd out: ‘Ten’] Ludlow . Tendberye et Sulston
Harvey (1969), pp. 200-201 [edition and translation]
2. 243, 250
Endorsement of an indenture
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 243, 250 Copia indenture seruicij Roberti Kyrton cum W. Yelverton pro [sex] marcis

Full transcription.

Harvey (1969), pp. 388 [edition]
3. [244-249]
Indenture between, on the one hand, William Yelverton, William Jenney and William Worcestre as Sir John Fastolf's executors, and, on the other hand, Thomas Cager and Robert Kyrton concerning the use of lands and tenements in Southwork and elsewhere in Surrey, dated 10 February 1463/4
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 244 This indenture made be twix William Yeluerton knyght on of the executours of Sir John Fastolf knyght on of the Justice of the Kyngs Benche and William Jenney seriaunt of the lawe and William Wurcestre a nother executour of the seid Sir John Fastolf on the oo partye and Thomas Cager and Robert Kyrton on the other partye
Explicit: 249 In witnesse wherof to thes present indenture the partys a boveseyd haue seuerally putte to ther seall wretyn the .x. day of Februar the yere of the reyne of Kyng Edward the iiijth after the conquest the iijde yere

The document also mentions John Paston. Another hand has added the note: ‘authore erat vnus executorum domini Jhohannis fastolfe’.

Harvey (1969), pp. 387-388 [edition]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper. Folios 243-244, 249-250: No watermark identified.
Extent: Sheet: folded to form 2 leaves. 210 × 290 mm. The dimensions provided are for the unfolded single leaf that makes up pages [244-249]; and are measured according to this sheet's orginal orientation (the sheet has been folded and bound into the manuscript vertically).

Collation

A single sheet, folded to form a bifolium of two leaves (pp. 243-244, 249-250).

Layout

No ruling. Text written in a single column.

Hand(s)

The indenture on pp. [244-249] is copied by a single hand in a cursive script with anglicana features.

The topographical notes on p. 243 are copied by William Worcestre [Worcester] [Botoner] (1415–1480x85) in a cursive script with anglicana features.

Decoration

This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.

History

Origin: 1463/4. ; England.

With additions from William Worcestre's Itineraria (1478-1480).

Part 6 [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 210, pp. 299-300, [300-311], 311-312]

Contents

Language(s): Middle English and Latin

1. [300-311]
On the River Severn and River Dee, Wales [= Part of William Worcestre's Itineraria]
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 300 The Jnformacion of Sir Roger Kenerston of Shropshyre
Incipit: 300 Sevarn - The hede of the water of Sevarn begynneth in a hye hill called Plimlvmon and from the seid hille hit renneth down to Lanydlos and from thens to Kaersyoys
Explicit: 311 and from thens to Eyton is boote . and from thens to Chestre and so fourth to the sey

Sir Roger Kynaston (b. c. 1433-1495) was High Sheriff of Shropshire in both 1461 and 1470 and knighted after the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471, which may provide an indication of when this document was written.

The text has been annotated by Robert Talbot.

Harvey (1969), pp. 66-69 [edition and translation]
2. 312
On the foundation of Whitby Abbey and Sawley Abbey [= Part of William Worcestre's Itineraria]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 312 Alanus Percy fundator monasterij Whytby
Explicit: 312 Alanus predictus dedit monachis de Sancta Hilda feoda militum quinque

The text has been annotated by Robert Talbot.

Harvey (1969), pp. 352-353 [edition and translation]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper. Folios 299-300, 311-312: ? key.
Extent: Sheet: folded to form 2 leaves. 195 × 260 mm. The dimensions provided are for the unfolded single leaf that makes up pages [300-311]; and are measured according to this sheet's orginal orientation (the sheet has been folded and bound into the manuscript vertically).

Collation

A single sheet, folded to form a bifolium of two leaves (pp. 299-300, 311-312)

Layout

No ruling. Text written in a single colum.

Hand(s)

The descriptions of the River Severn and River Dee on pp. 300, 311 are copied by a single hand in a cursive script with anglicana features; ? perhaps an earlier copy by William Worcestre.

The notes on Whitby Abbey and Sawley Appey on p. 312 are copied by William Worcestre [Worcester] [Botoner] (1415–1480x85) in a cursive script with anglicana features.

Decoration

Two drawings in plummet of a bull: one of a bull's head and another of their complete body, on p. 330 (perhaps based a paper watermark but one that has not been observed in this manuscript).

History

Origin: c. 1460-1470. ; England.

With additions from William Worcestre's Itineraria (1478-1480)

Part 7 [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 210, pp. 313-314, 323-324]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 313
On the company at the rescue of Caen, 1434 [= Part of William Worcestre's Itineraries]
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 313 De le rescus de Cane per relacionem Thome Fastolf
Incipit: 313 Lancie - Milites: Sir John Fastolf / Math. Gogh / George Rymayd
Explicit: 313 Capiteyne de Sulse pres Richelengyan
Harvey (1969), pp. 352-355 [edition and translation]
2. 314-323
On kings and queens of Britain
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 314-323 Tocius regni huius in Britannie mox cum gaudio coronatur regnauit anno .22. Obijt in Normania apud Rothomagum et Cadamo sepelitur in abbatia Sancti Stephani quam construxerat Regina id ext vxor eius Matildis obijt apud Rothomagum et sepelitur Cadamo in abbatia Sancte Trinitatus quam construxerat
Explicit: 323 Quum cum ipse Rex Willelmus audisse eum alijs s. reg. l. bz maxime appreciat / at eam precept' obseruare etcaetera

Copied by a 15th-century hand.

Harvey (1969), pp. 389-390 [edition]
3. 324
Sketches

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper. Folios 313-314, 323-324: no watermark identified.
Extent: Sheet: folded to form 2 leaves. 295 × 210 mm. The dimensions provided are for the unfolded single leaf that makes up pages 314-323; and are measured according to this sheet's orginal orientation (unlike the previous unfolded sheets, this has been bound horizontally into the manuscript).

Collation

A single sheet, folded to form a bifolium of two leaves (ff. 313-314, 323-324)

Layout

No ruling. Text written in a single column.

Hand(s)

The chronicle notes on British kings and queens on pp. 314, 323 were copied by a single scribe working in a cursive hand with secretary features.

The text on the rescue of Caen on p. 313 was copied by William Worcestre [Worcester] [Botoner] (1415–1480x85) in a cursive script with anglicana features.

Decoration

This part of the manuscript does not contain any significant forms of decoration.

History

Origin: c. 1400-c. 1480. ; England.

With additions from William Worcestre's Itineraria (1478-1480).

Additional Information

Record Sources

This catalogue entry draws on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1912), no. 210; and Kari Anne Rand, Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist XX (Cambridge: Brewer, 2009), pp. 28-33. Images and a description of the manuscript are also available on the Parker Library website: the online catalogue entry for the item published at Parker on the Web Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 210.

Availability

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Custodial History

Recorded as no. 377 in Thomas James, Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis (1600).
Recorded as no. 1645 / no. 378 in Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, in unum collecti, cum indice alphabetico (c. 1697).
Recorded as 'Lib. al. 13' in William Stanley, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Collegii Corporis Christi in Cantabrigia: Quos legauit Matthaeus Parkerus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis (1722).
Recorded as no. 210 in James Nasmith, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum quos Collegio Corporis Christi et B. Mariae Virginis in Academia Cantabrigiensis legauit Reverendissimus in Christo Pater Matthaeus Parker, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis (1777).

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    For a bibliography for this item maintained by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge see: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 210: Zotero Bibliography

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