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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 374

Chronicles

Contents

Introduction: In late medieval England, there existed two alternate but not mutually exclusive narrative structures for the writing of history. The first related the history of the world from Creation all the way through biblical history to the present day. This long-established mode is often described nowadays as 'universal history', and theological concepts informed the structuring and organisation of these works. For example, St Augustine (354-430) proposed that history was divided into six ages, mirroring the first six days of Creation, because God ordered the events of human history just as he had ordered the world in which they took place. Since God rested on the seventh day of Creation, the sixth age was to be the final age of human history: beginning with the birth of Christ, it would end with the Day of Judgment. These ideas were applied by Orosius (d. after 418), one of Augustine's contemporaries and collaborators, in his Historia adversos paganos. Orosius began with a geographical description of the world, before embarking on its history, establishing that his approach to history was characterised by its temporal and spatial universality: covering the entire world, across all time. This involved reconciling the histories of different nations, and the many ways that time had been counted - another feature of universal history - and built on a revised version of an earlier work, the Chronicon of Eusebius-Jerome. The ideas behind universal history came to dominate historical writing in the Christian west, with examples being composed by Isidore of Seville, Bede, Gregory of Tours, Vincent of Beauvaius, Martin of Troppau and Ranulph Higden, among others. The second approach, inspired more by classical history, traced the history of Britain from events following the fall of Troy: the flight of Aeneas to Italy following the Trojan War, the birth to Aeneas or one of his sons or grandsons of 'Brutus', and Brutus's conquest of the islands of Britain, which thereafter bore his name and were peopled by his descendants. An early version of this genealogical origin myth appears in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, which was shortly emended by a Welsh monk known as Nennius. However, it owes its wide circulation and popularity in the later medieval period to the Historia regum Britanniae, written in the early 12th century by Geoffrey of Monmouth. This in turn gave rise to the so-called 'Brut' chronicle, which existed in numerous, evolving versions, first in Anglo-Norman, then later Latin and Middle English. The focus of the contents of Corpus MS 374 is emphatically British history, yet these two conceptualisations of history lie behind them in the sources from which they are drawn. The first part of the manuscript contains a regnal chronicle from Brutus to Henry VI (concluding in 1429). This particular text is not known to exist in another copy, however it is notable that the opening passage - beginning 'Considerans historie' - is comparable to that used in chronicle rolls (see, in particular, Eton, Eton College, MS 191 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodl. Rolls 6). The second part contains an extract on British geography from the Manipulus chronicorum of Ralph Marham (d. after 1389), an Augustinian friar. The Manipulus exists in only one complete copy: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 4928 (which matching dicta probatoria confirm was the copy recorded at Cambridge University Library in 1473: see UA, Collect. Admin. 4, f. 5v). There the text is divided into five books, each subdivided into six, seven or eight 'distinctions'. The first book is an expansive description of the world; Books Two to Four cover history from Adam to the Birth of Christ; the fifth was left incomplete. Evidently, Marham was influenced by his namesake Ranulph Higden's Polychronicon, which he is known to have used as a source. The opening words of the Paris manuscript contain an acrostic that give his name - 'Frater Ranvlfus de Marham' - a similar device having been used in the Polychronicon (and other of Higden's works). The Manipulus is also accompanied by an alphabetical index, whose headwords run from Aaron to Zorobabel, thus imitating the indexes in the Polychronicon (which run from 'Aaron' to 'Uter' in the first, 'short' recension; or 'Abraham' to 'Zorobabel' in the later, 'intermediate' and 'long' recensions). The manuscript's two principal parts are evidently of separate, if more or less contemporary production: palaeographical evidence points to both having been made in England in the late 15th century. Until recently, nothing definitive was known about its ownership before it came into the possession of Matthew Parker in the 16th century. However, in 2024, Clarck Drieshen shed the first light on the book's 15th-century provenance through the identification of the motto 'Al may god amend' written on f. 69v. This is the same motto used by John Rudyng (d. 1481), archdeacon of Bedford and prebendary of Buckingham. In the absence of other, corroborative evidence, such a slender connection would have had to remain uncertain, except for the fact that it was written by the same hand as the motto found in another manuscript identified as Rudyng's in 2013: London, British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra D.iv (see f. 16r in that manuscript). This latter manuscript also contains the motto and a coat of arms - gules a crescent in the fesse-point between (or in an orle or bordue of) six scallops - that are found together in a bible Rudyng donated to the parish church of St Peter and St Paul, Buckingham (where it remains), and in an unusually elaborate memorial brass, of which fragments are still to be found in the parish church of St Andrew, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. Rudyng's will survives and among the numerous and generous gifts there are recorded several other books. Most of these, perhaps unsurprisingly, are liturgical, and were distributed between institutions and individuals. Besides the bible (which, curiously, is not mentioned), he left his psalter and processional to Buckingham; his 'best missal' for the use of the priests in the chapel of St Anne at Lincoln Cathedral; and processionals to Pershore parish church and the chapel of 'Stulston' (presumably nearby Stoulton). A portiphorium (a kind of portable breviary) went to his kinsman, Henry Rudyng, and another, 'small' one went to his chaplain, William Aleyn; both were also named as executors. All of the aforementioned will have been written in Latin, but one other is explicitly described as vernacular: a 'librum de vita beate Marie in Anglicis', which he left to John Rudyng, presumably another family member, who is mentioned elsewhere as a member of the Franciscan convent at Oxford. Unfortunately, that manuscript is not recorded among the books known to have survived from that house, but there is always the possibility that the manuscript is extant but its connection to Oxford, or Rudyng, is not known. Readers are invited to remain vigilant for the tell-tale motto. That Corpus MS 374 would not be out of place among Rudyng's books is confirmed by the contents of Cotton MS Cleopatra D.iv - an adaptation of Book Seven of the Polychronicon of Ranulph Higden - and other items in his will. It records a book of chronicles ('librum de cronicis') in a binding of red deer-skin (which could be the Cotton or Corpus manuscript) and a 'large roll with chronicles' (perhaps a genealogical roll of some sort). Rudyng gave both of these to Magister William Whitewey of Buckingham (on whom, see Emden, BRUO, p. 2042), having himself been entrusted with them by Magister John Cressy, former canon of St Stephen's at Westminster. Rudyng's motto is written in only one place in Corpus MS 374, on the last leaf of Part 1 of the manuscript. Given the cumulative evidence of Rudyng's historical interests, it would be reasonable to conclude that Rudyng owned the manuscript as a whole - but since his motto is found only in Part 1, and in the absence of evidence of when the two Parts were bound together, this must for the moment remain a speculation. Dr James Freeman|Medieval Manuscripts Specialist|Cambridge University Library Bibliography
  • John Rudyng's will: Lincolnshire Archives, DIOC/REG/22, ff. 59v-60r
  • James Freeman, The manuscript dissemination and readership of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden, c. 1330-c. 1500 (unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2013)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Codex: ii + 70 | 10 | 1 + ii leaves. 210-215 × 140-145 mm.
Foliation:

20th-century foliation (after 1912):

i-ii + 1-49, 49a, 50-69 | 70-79 | 80 + iii-iv

Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos. This foliation is followed in this catalogue record.
Foliation:

16th-century foliation pagination for Part 1:

'1'-'140' for ff. 1r-69v

Numbering in red crayon in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos by Matthew Parker (1504-1575) (see Provenance). This pagination is ignored in this catalogue record.

Collation

This catalogue regord disagrees with the collation provided by M.R. James (1912). James states that the manuscript's second part comprises a sexternion with a missing leaf, but this record considers it a quinternion and treats the manuscript's final leaf as a separate (third) part. Regarding the latter, James states that this page simply contains ‘pen trials’. A later hand has indeed copied words from the texts on this page and added a decorated initial in the manner of pen trials but the page contains three items that were written purposefully as meaningful texts.

  • Quires 1-710 (ff. 1-69) |
  • Quire 812-1 (ff. 70-80: ?11th leaf missing) |
  • A single leaf

1-710 | 810 | 1 leaf

Condition

Fragile edges and corners. Stains especially visible at the beginning and end (e.g. see ff. 1r, 69v-70r, 80v).

Additions

Quire signatures ('1-7') in the bottom right-hand corner of the recto side of the first leaf of the first seven quires, written in pencil by a hand of the 19th/20th century.

Binding

Quarter brown leather with grey-blue paper sides.

Rebound by J.P. Gray and son of Green Street, Cambridge, in March 1947 as noted in blue ink on f. i recto.

Binding height: 220mm; width: 145mm; depth: 25mm.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

'TW' (fl. 16th century) : initials inscribed in red crayon by the manuscript's subsequent owner Matthew Parker (1504-1575) (see below) in the upper margin of f. 1r. As Mildred Budny (1997, p. 248) notes (building on James (1912), p. xxii), these initials can also be found in Cambridge, Corpus Christi, MSS 260, 326, 425, and 441; Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.15; and London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 430. James suggests that they either were John Twyne (?1501-1581), schoolmaster of the grammar school at Canterbury, or Thomas Wotton (b. in or before 1521, d. 1587), sheriff of Kent, who both had dealings with Parker. M.R. James later noted the initials' presence in Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.3.1 (see Data Source(s)). Of these six manuscripts, four have Canterbury provenances: three were at Christ Church (Corpus MSS 260, 326, 441 and CUL MS Ii.3.1) and one at St Augustine's (Lambeth MS 430). The rubric 'Distingcione 7 . T primo' on f. 70v in MS 374 is not a St Augustine's pressmark, however (it seems instead to refer to textual divisions within the Manipulus cronicarum), and such a provenance was rejected by Neil Ker. Also, as Budny commented: '[T]he whole group of TW entries belong to a larger group of entries which Parker made in many books, consisting solely of names in a short form at the front, usually in red crayon. Usually these entries have been regarded as recording his sources for the books, but they probably register his intentions for distributing them instead.'

N.R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 47
Mildred Budny, Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: An Illustrated Catalogue, 2 vols (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1997), vol. 1, p. 248
B. Barker-Benfield, St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), vol. 3, p. 1823

Matthew Parker (1504-1575) , Archbishop of Canterbury: the manuscript is recorded as ‘Epitome Chronicorum - Considerans historie’ among the ‘Bookes in parchment closures as the lye on heapes’ on p. 74 of his register of books, now Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 575 [see M.R. James (1912), I, p. xxxviii]. Parker's pagination and underlining (ff. 40v, 73r) in red crayon throughout the manuscript.

Bequeathed to Corpus Christi College by Matthew Parker (1504-1575).

Part 1 [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 374, ff. 1-69]

Contents

Language(s): Latin and Middle English

1. 1r-67v
Chronicle from Brutus to 1429
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 1r [C]onsiderans historie britonum
Incipit: 1r Pictorum . Scottorum . Saxonum . Anglorum . Danorum ac Normannorum prolixitatem necnon et difficultatem
Explicit: 67v per milites Parliamenti et Comitatus regni anglie duas integras quintas decimas

The text includes a copy of the Treatise between England and France of 1420 on ff. 54v-65v; and ends with the Parliament of 1429.

2. 68v-69r
Medical recipes
Language(s): Middle English

Two recipes, for soreness in the side (‘for a sore syde’) and for morphea (‘for þe morfew’), were added by a 15th-century hand but the manuscript is not recorded in Kari Anne Rand, Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist 20 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2009).

3. 69v
Greek inscription
Language(s): Greek
Incipit: 69v εγω τον βιβλυίον εκλεπσα απο το ίρα τον υίνδε

M.R. James (1912) suggests that the inscription may have been written by Robert Talbot, prebendary of Norwich (1547-1558), and provides the following provisional translation: ‘I stole the book from the priest of Wendy or Windsor?’. A handwritten addition to the annotated copy of James (1912) that is kept at the Parker Library suggests that the Greek was copied by the same hand as the Greek inscription on f. 15r in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 379.

4. 69v
Pen trials
Language(s): Latin and English

Among the notes on this page are repetitions of Psalm 117:1 (‘Confitemini domino’), the Latin saying ‘Ego sum bonus puer quem deus amat’, and the English word ‘Ryght’.

5. 69v
Motto
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 69v Al may god amend

See Provenance for further discussion.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 2r: consuluit
Form: codex
Support: Paper, folded in octavo. Folios 1r-69v: pair of scissors ( 65 × 25 mm. ).
Extent: Codex: 70 leaves.
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 145 mm.

Collation

  • Quires 1-710 (ff. 1-69)

Catchwords in brown ink in the lower right-hand corners of the last versos of quires.

Layout

145 × 80 mm. Ruled in ink, frames only. 26-27 lines to the page, written above top line.

Hand(s)

ff. 1r-67v were copied by a single scribe in a cursive script predominantly with secretary but also with anglicana features.

The recipes added to ff. 68v-69r were copied by a single scribe in a cursive anglicana script.

Decoration

Large initials with cadels in brown ink on f. 55r with many spaces for decorated initials left unfinished throughout ff. 1r-69v.

History

Origin: Late 15th century (not after 1481). ; England.

See Provenance for justification for the terminus ante quem non of 1481.

Provenance

'Al may god amend': the motto of John Rudyng (d. 1481)John Rudyng, d. 1481, Archdeacon of Bedford, and Prebendary of Buckingham (see W. H. Kelke, 'The Destroyed and Desecrated Churches of Buckinghamshire', Records of Buckinghamshire, 1:2 (1854), pp. 58-69 (pp. 66-67) and J. Freeman, 'The manuscript dissemination and readership of the Polychronicon, c. 1330-c. 1500' (unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2013), pp. 74, 95, 131, 254-55). The motto in the present manuscript is written by the same hand as that found in an adaptation of the Polychronicon (London, British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra D.iv), where Rudyng's coat of arms is also to be found. Rudyng's ownership of this latter manuscript, as well as other such works that are recorded in his will, attest to his historical interests.

Edmund Frevylle (fl. 16th century) : owned or accessed the manuscript. His name is inscribed on f. 69v: ‘Edmund Frevylle’. He remains unidentified. A priest named ‘Edmund Frevell’ at the parish church St Christopher le Stocks in the Broad Street Ward of the City of London is recorded in the City's Chantry Cerfitifcate of 1548, see 'Chantry Certificate, 1548: City of London', in London and Middlesex Chantry Certificate, 1548, ed. by C. J. Kitching (London: London Record Society, 1980), British History Online [accessed 23 October 2024].

Part 2 [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 374, ff. 70-79]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 70r
Table of contents for the Manipulus cronicorum
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 70r 1. Anglia quomodo nomen suum habuit li. j. d. 7. c j.
Explicit: 70r 22. Anglorum leuitas facit [?] omnis vituperium id.
2. 70v-76v
Manipulus chronicorum [extract] Ralph Marham [Radulphus de Marham]
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 70v Manipulus Cronicarum
Incipit: 70v Distinxione 7. C. primo. Britannie maiori nomen primum fuit Albion ab albis rupibus circa littora maris a longe apparentibus
Explicit: 76v De hijs que sunt in occeano inter alia mirabilia quod deus creauit in aquis spectabilia quidam scribimus que sunt que sunt circa regnum Anglorum . vbi inveniuntur pisses similes monachis informa et habitu alij videntur ibi similes canibus et alij vt boues alij . ut vrsi alij velud lepores alij . ut caballi et cetera . mirabilia de quibus habet pauca narrauimus

An extract from Book One. The work ends on f. 70v in sections on miraculous creatures in the seas around Britain, followed by a verse on this subject: ‘ffluctibus occeani pontus sua litora missens. / Euomit et recipit miros quasi monstra . que pisses. / Pissis ibi canta quasi [crossed out: ‘gll’] gallus voce sonora. / Est canit et vrsus pissis . maris huius in ora’.

Stegmüller, Bibl. 7144
Sharpe, Handlist, p. 450
3. 77r
Prophecies John of Bridlington
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 77r Brydlyngton in fine libri secundi de prophetia versificata
Incipit: 77r Non est res mira summi si percutit ira / Non est in mundo diues qui dicit habundo
Explicit: 77r Judicium feciet gestorum quisque suorum / Mercedem capiet propriorum quisque laborum
4. 79v
On Pechthelm, bishop of Whithorn (from Book 5 of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum Bede
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 79v Prouintie Northanhymbrorum cui rex Ceolwolphus preest: quatuor nunc Episcopi presulatum tenent . Wilfred in Eboracensis ciuitate . Ethelwaldus in Lindisfarnensi ecclesia . Acca in Hagastaldensi . Wecthelmus in ea que candida casa uocatur . Quea nuper multiplicatis fidelium plebibus in sedem pontificatus addita . ipsum habet primum antistitem.
Rubric: 79v Ex Simeon Dunelmensis in Anno 132

Added by a 16th-century hand.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 71r: Herforthie Wallici
Form: codex
Support: Paper, folded in quarto. Folios 70-79: bull's head with six-pointed star ( 55 × 25 mm. ).
Extent: Codex: 11 leaves.
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 145 mm.

Collation

  • Quire 812-1 (ff. 70-80: ?11th leaf missing)

This catalogue regord disagrees with the collation provided by M.R. James (1912): while James states that the manuscript's second part comprises a sexternion with a missing leaf, this record considers it a quinternion and treats the manuscript's final leaf as a separate (third) part.

Layout

175 × 110 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame only. Single columns. 30 lines to the page, written above top line.

Hand(s)

ff. 70r-70r have been copied by a single scribe in a cursive script with both anglicana and secretary features.

f. 77r has been copied by a single scribe in a cursive script with both anglicana and secretary features.

Decoration

Initials highlighted in red ink throughout ff. 70r-74r.

Paraphs in red ink throughout ff. 70r-74r.

Underlining in red ink throughout ff. 70r-74r.

History

Origin: Late 15th century. ; England.

Provenance

John Lemont (fl. 15th or 16th century) : his name inscribed on f. 70r: ‘Jon [?] Lemont’.

Part 3 [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 374, f. 80]

Contents

Language(s): Latin with some Middle English

1. 80v
Legal document with reference to the sheriff of Bury St Edmunds and the constable of Acton, Suffolk
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 80v Henricus dei gracia rex anglie et frauncie et dominus hibernie [...] Suff. senescallo libertatis de Buri Sancti Edmundi ac Constabulare ville de Akton et eorum cuilibet Salutem supplicauit nobis Johannes att the Still vt cum ipse de victa sua et mortilacione membrorum suorum nec non de incendum d[...] suarum non fac nec fieri procurabit [...]

Full transcription attempted.

2. 80v
Prayer
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 80v In [te] domine speravi Non confundar in eternam In justicia tua libera me Inclina aurem tuam michi accelera vt eruas me In manus tuas domine commendo spiritum meum redemisti nos domine deus veritatis In domino confido quomo[do] dicitis mihi [...] transmigra sicut passer [...] fortem nequi[...]

The prayer consists of Psalm 30:1-6, Psalm 10:2, followed by further (unidentified) lines.

3. 80v
Legal document with reference to the sheriff of Bury St Edmunds and the constable of Acton, Suffolk
Language(s): Latin with some Middle English
Incipit: 80v Henricus dei gracia rex anglie et frauncie et dominus hibernie [...] Suff. senescallo libertatis de Buri Sancti Edmundi ac Constabulare ville de Acketon et eorum cuilibet Salutem supplicauit nobis Johannes att the Stansille cum ipse de vita sua et [mortilacione] membrorum a potfull of gynger vppon Seyn[t] Gregory [...]

Full transcription attempted.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper, but no watermark visible.
Extent: Codex: 1 fragmentary leaf. 215 × 140 mm. The leaf has been mounted so that its width matches that of other leaves in the manuscript (145mm).

Collation

  • A single leaf

Layout

165 × 130 mm. Ruled in hardpoint, frame only. Single columns. c. 23 lines to the page. It is not possible to determine whether the text is written above or below the top line.

Hand(s)

Copied by a single hand writing in a script with both anglicana and secretary features.

Decoration

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

History

Origin: 15th century. ; England.

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. 374; and an unpublished description of the manuscript composed between 1926 and 1930 by M.R. James, now held in the University Archives (UA ULIB 7/3/74). 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 Corpus Christi College, MS 374.

Availability

Visitors to Corpus Christi College who wish to consult Special Collections material are required to apply to the Parker Library in advance of their visit. For information on eligibility and admission procedures see: Parker Library: Information for Readers.

Custodial History

Recorded as no. 328 in Thomas James, Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis (1600).
Recorded as no. 1596 / no. 329 in Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, in unum collecti, cum indice alphabetico (c. 1697).
Recorded as '10-2' in William Stanley, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Collegii Corporis Christi in Cantabrigia: Quos legauit Matthaeus Parkerus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis (1722) (see f. 1r).
Recorded as no. 374 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) (see f. 1r).

Bibliography

    For a bibliography for this item maintained by Corpus Christi College Cambridge see: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 374: Zotero Bibliography

    Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis, tributa in libros duos; quorum prior continet catalogum confusum librorum manuscriptorum in illustrissimis bibliothecis, duarum florentissimarum Academiarum, Oxoniae et Cantabrigiae. Posterior, catalogum eorundem distinctum et dispositum secundum quatuor facultates, obseruato tam in nominibus, quam in operibus ipsis, alphabetico literarum ordine, James, Thomas (London, George Bishop & John Norton, 1600) Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca Collegii Corporis Christi in Cantabrigia: quos legavit Matthæus Parkerus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca Collegii Corporis Christi in Cantabrigia, Stanley, W. (London, 1722) Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum quos Collegio Corporis Christi et B. Mariæ Virginis in Academia Cantabrigiensi legavit reverendissimus Matthæus Parker, archiepiscopus Cantuariensis, (Cambridge, Typis Academicis, 1777) Political Poems and Songs Relating to English History Composed during the Period from the Accession of Edward III to That of Richard III Rolls Series, Wright, Thomas (London, 1, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, vol. I, James, M.R. (Cambridge, 1, Cambridge University Press, 1912) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge, vol. II, James, M.R. (Cambridge, 2, Cambridge University Library, 1912) Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Wilkins, Nigel E. (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 1993) Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: an Illustrated Catalogue, Budny, Mildred (Kalamazoo, MI, 1, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1997) "Darke Speech": Matthew Parker and the Reforming of History The Sixteenth Century Journal, Robinson, B. S. (29, 1061-1083, 1998) Cambridge I: Christ's College, Clare College, Corpus Christi College, Emmanuel College, Gonville and Caius College and The Fitzwilliam Museum An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c. 1509, Nichols, Ann Eljenholm (London, 1, Harvey Miller, 2008)

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