Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries

A catalogue of Western manuscripts and papyri at Cambridge University Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum and selected Cambridge colleges

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405

Charters, Letters, Bulls, Liturgical Texts, Poetry in Latin, Anglo-Norman and Old French

Contents

Introduction: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405 (hereafter CCCC MS 405) is a complex composite manuscript formed from several originally separate booklets, some of which exhibit signs of originating from the same source, or having been brought together relatively soon after their creation, due to the appearance of annotations by the same scribe in more than one part. With the exception of the parchment and paper endleaves (ff. a, i, ii, b), the majority of the present codex was owned by (and probably brought together by) the community of the Knights Hospitaller of St John of Jerusalem at Waterford in Ireland by the middle of the fourteenth century at the latest. The medieval sections of the manuscript date from the 13th and 14th centuries and contain a wide variety of textual material, including liturgical forms, charters and legal customs, calendars, poems, and treatises on virtue and vice. The manuscript contains texts in both Latin and variants of medieval French, with linguistic divisions largely conforming to the genres of the texts, i.e., legal and liturgical material in Latin, and poems in medieval French. Although CCCC MS 405 is a composite volume - and one that has suffered evident losses, particularly in the latter part of the codex - it is apparent that at least two scribes worked on more than one part of the manuscript. CCCC MS 405 'Scribe 1' writes a heavy textualis with long horizontal serifs and wedges on his ascenders and seems to have been responsible for ff. 3v-5v, 43r-92r, 127r-230v. CCCC MS 405 'Scribe 2' writes a neat late protogothic / early textualis and was responsible for ff. 8v-10r, 125r-127r and ff. 231r-245r. This detail about the recurring scribes does not seem to have been discussed in scholarship before, and would benefit from further research in order to better understand the complex construction and use of this volume. CCCC MS 405 became part of the Parker Library collection through the bequest of Archbishop Matthew Parker, a former Master of the College who amassed a large collection of manuscripts in the latter years of his life. MS 405 bears evidence of the interest of Parker and his circle in the book: folio ii recto contains a selective list of the contents of the volume on an inserted paper leaf in a 16th-century hand found in several other Parker Library manuscripts with no prior shared provenance, indicating that the list was added by Parker or one of his circle while making a study of the manuscripts collected for Parker's research on the history of Christianity and ecclesiastical practices in the British Isles. Dr Sarah Gilbert| Project Cataloguer | Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 2r: libertatibus et inmunitatibus
Form: codex
Support: All medieval leaves parchment. One 16th century parchment endleaf (f. i), one 16th century paper endleaf (f. ii), and two modern paper endleaves (ff. a and b), one at each end of the volume.
Extent: Codex: i + 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 108 | 106 | 16 | 5 + i leaves. 215 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation sequence added in the second half of the 20th century or the first quarter of the 21st century.

Folios a + i | ii | 1-10 | 11-16 | 17-124 | 125-230 | 231-246 | 247-251 + b

Foliated in pencil in the upper outer corner of each recto. The modern paper endleaves at each end of the volume are foliated as folios 'a' and 'b', the first parchment endleaf is foliated as folio 'i', the second parchment endleaf is foliated as folio 'ii' and the main Hindu-Arabic numeral sequence runs from ff. 1-251.

Foliation:

Pagination sequence added in the 16th century, before 1575. This pagination sequence is no longer in use.

Pages 1-501 (for ff. i, 1-250). Folios ii and 251 unpaginated in this sequence.

Paginated in orange crayon in Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper outer corner of each recto; the orange crayon pagination is a typical sign of the use of the book by Archbishop Matthew Parker and his circle.

Collation

A composite manuscript arranged as follows:

  • One modern paper endleaf (f. a) +
  • One early 16th century parchment endleaf (f. i) |
  • One 16th century paper endleaf (f. ii) |
  • Quire 110 (ff. 1-10) |
  • Quire 26 (ff. 11-16) |
  • Quire 312 (ff. 17-28)
  • Quire 412+2 (ff. 29-42; 2 leaves added after the 7th leaf)
  • Quires 5-1012 (ff. 43-114)
  • Quire 118+1+1 (ff. 115-124; two singletons pasted together and then a quire of 8 leaves) |
  • Quire 1210 (ff. 125-134)
  • Quires 13-2012 (ff. 135-230) |
  • Quires 21-228 (ff. 231-246) |
  • Quire 23five (ff. 247-251; original quire structure undetermined, original first leaf certainly gone, five leaves remain) +
  • One modern paper endleaf (f. b)

One modern paper endleaf + one medieval parchment endleaf | one 16th century paper endleaf | 110 | 26 | 312 410+2 (2 leaves added after the 7th leaf) 5-1012 118+1+1 | 1210 13-2012 | 21-228 | 23five + one modern paper endleaf

No leaf signatures common to the entire volume.

Most quires have late medieval quire signatures written in faint grey-brown ?crayon in Roman numerals in the lower outer corner of the first recto of each quire, and it is possible more of this sequence has been lost to abrasion and/or trimming. The medieval signature sequence is as follows:

  • Quire 4: iiii
  • Quire 5: u
  • Quire 6: ui
  • Quire 7 (faint): uii
  • Quire 8: uiii
  • Quire 9: ix
  • Quire 10: x
  • Quire 11 (partially trimmed away): xi
  • Quire 12: xii
  • Quire 13: xiii
  • Quire 15: xv
  • Quire 16: xvi
  • Quire 17: xvii
  • Quire 18: xviii
  • Quire 19: xix
  • Quire 20: xx

 No catchwords common to the entire volume.

Additions

Quire signatures in the bottom right-hand corner of the recto side of the first leaf of most quires, written in pencil by hands of the 19th/20th century (not always visible but apparently corresponding with the collation formula given here).

Binding

Rebound by J.P. Gray and Son in 1954. Fully bound in light brown leather over wood boards. Five raised bands on spine (not photographed), each decorated with a single fillet at their upper and lower perimeter that extends over the joints and taper toward each other to a point finished with a dot on the front and rear covers. Approximate binding dimensions (L x W x H): 235 x 160 x 50 mm.

Paper pastedowns pasted over the turn ins, both blank. One paper flyleaf at each end of the volume, ff. a and b. A note about the 1954 rebinding is written in ink on f. a recto: 'Rebound by John P. Gray of Green St. (Pilgrim Trust grant) 22. xii . 1954' and signed 'J.P.T.B.', i.e. John Patrick Tuer Bury (1908-1987), historian and fellow of Corpus Christi College. Folio a recto also bears a College stamp in black ink ('Corpus Christi College Cambridge') and the M. R. James Catalogue number for volume written in blank ink, ('MS 405').

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned by Matthew Parker (1504-1575) , archbishop of Canterbury. A pagination sequence in the orange-red crayon characteristic of Parker and his circle is present throughout the volume (apart from f. ii, a leaf added by Parker or one of his circle) indicating that all Parts of the present codex were together by the time it was studied by Parker and his circle.

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

Part 1: Legal document [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405, folio i]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. i verso
Legal document
Language(s): Latin and Middle English

Fragment of a legal document, now cut down from its original size and probably used as a pastedown in a former binding.

Partial notarial mark (notary signature) present in the upper outer corner of the leaf. The notarial mark is incomplete but appears to be the mark of John Stoberd, who acted as notary for Richard Fox (b. 1447 or 1448, d. 1528), founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and at various times Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester. John Stoberd acted as notary for Fox, when Fox admitted Thomas Cisson as Master of Baliol College, Oxford in 1511. The document admitting Cisson to the position of Master of Bailiol is now Oxford, Balliol College, Archives, MS D.3.3 and Stoberd's notarial mark can be seen in the lower portion of the document.

The text is badly damaged but mentions an Abbot Richard in connection with the location Chale: this may refer to Richard Kennock who was rector of the parish church of Chale in the Isle of Wight c. 1516.

Physical Description

Form: sheet
Support: Parchment.
Extent: Fragment: 1 leaf.

Collation

One parchment leaf (f. i)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

Folio i was originally a much larger document, and appears to have been trimmed for reuse as a pastedown in a former binding. Much of the text has been lost to trimming.

Layout

Ruled in single-column format, in leadpoint, frame only. The leaf has been significantly trimmed for reuse as binding waste and the original dimensions and number of lines cannot be determined.

Hand(s)

Written in an early 16th century secretary hand by public notary John Stoberd. Single-compartment minuscule a. Looped ascenders on most bs and ls. Minuscule h is tilted, has a looped ascender, and the 'leg' stroke is elongated, tilted back towards the ascender, and terminates in a flicked foot.

Decoration

Portion of a notarial mark belonging to John Stoberd present in the upper outer corner of f. i verso.

Binding

Folio i was probably used as a pastedown in a former binding as there is adhesive residue on f. i recto.

History

Origin: Probably first quarter of the 16th century. ; England.

Date of production based on the presence of the notarial mark of John Stoberd, who was active as a notary public in the first quarter of the 16th century. Place of production assigned based on palaeographical features, and names and places described in the text.

Part 2: Parkerian list of the contents of the volume [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405, f. ii]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. ii recto
List of the contents of the volume
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| Contenta in hoc Libro pag: 502 . | 3 . 251. Epistole summorum pontificum ad fratres de hierusalum in hibernia | 5 Charta Edwardi | 8 Prophetie marlini gallice | 12 De sex aetatibus seculi(?) | 18 De vita christiana . etc . | 23 Kalendarium 35 De festo corporis[sic] christi et aliis festis | 190 Carta de libertatibus de waterforde | 195 Ordinationes in dicta civitate gallice | 232 Consuitudinis ferie eiusdem civitat | 236 Constitutiones ville de Bristol | 239 Carta ville de Drogheda | 243 Carta ville de Hauerfforde | 245 Annales quidam | 255 rithmi gallice de diuersis rebus 463 . De rebus quibusdam theologiis Gallice

This list of the contents of the volume was probably added by Archbishop Matthew Parker or one of his circle as this is one of several manuscripts in the Parker collection, each of differing provenance, but all bearing a list of the contents of the volume in this hand (see for example, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MSS 105, f. iii verso and 385, f. i verso). The numbers at the start of each lemma refer to the Parkerian pagination sequence added to the volume, but now no longer in use.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: 16th century paper, no watermark visible.
Extent: Codex: 1 leaf.

Collation

One paper leaf (f. ii)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

In fair condition, although the leaf exhibits signs of previous liquid damage, particulary on the verso.

Layout

Informally written with no ruling visible.

Hand(s)

Written in an informal and idiosyncratic secretary hand, perhaps influenced by humanist training in Greek minuscule. Minusucle h is particularly unusual, the ascender frequently does not meet the baseline, and the hook and the minim stroke for the 'leg' of the h frequently drops below the line or joins the next letter in an informal ligature. Minuscule r when written separately from its proximate letters resembles a minuscule Greek ξ (xi). Majuscule C resembles a circle divided into quarters with the circumference around the upper left quarter erased. This hand belongs to Archbishop Matthew Parker or one of his research circle.

Decoration

No significant decoration in this Part.

Additions

The number '405' in pencil (the M. R. James, Catalogue number for this volume) on folio ii recto.

The former classmark 'G.4' in ink (the William Stanley Catalogus number for this volume) on folio ii recto.

History

Origin: 16th century. ; England.

Date and place of production based on palaeographical features, and similarity to other selective lists of the contents of volumes collected by Archbishop Matthew Parker and annotated by Parker and his circle.

Part 3: Miscellaneous records and texts (M.R. James Part I) [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405, ff. 1-10]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 1r
Bull of Pope Alexander IV to the Knights Hospitallers of Ireland written 21 May 1255 Pope Alexander IV
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 1r ⟨A⟩lexander Episcopus seruus seruorum dei dilectis filiis
Explicit: 1r Dati Auagine .xii. kl . Iunii pontificatus nostri .anno primo. Sequitur tenor secunde bulle

The Bull describes jurisdictional authority in relation to the Knights Hospitallers in Ireland.

2. 1r
Bull of Pope Alexander IV to the Knights Hospitallers of Ireland written 5 February 1259 Pope Alexander IV
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 1r ⟨A⟩lexander Episcopus seruus seruorum dei dilectis filiis
Explicit: 1v Dati Auagine Nono februari Pontificatus nostri .anno quinto
3. 1v-2r
Bull of Pope Alexander IV to the Knights Hospitallers of Ireland written 20 February 1256 Pope Alexander IV
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 1v ⟨A⟩lexander Episcopus seruus seruorum dei dilectis filiis
Explicit: 2r Dati Laterran .x.kl. marcii Pontificatus nostri .anno secundo

The Bull concerns excommunication, suspension, and interdict.

4. 2r-2v
Letter of Edward I regarding the Knights Hospitallers of Ireland written 26 November 1281 Edward I, King of England
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 2r ⟨E⟩dwardus dei gratia Rex Anglorum Dominus Hiberniae et Dux Aquitaniae uicecomiti Waterfordi salutem
Explicit: 2v .xxvi. die Nouembris Anno regni nostri decimo
5. 2v-3r
Bull of Pope John XXII written 17 March 1317 Pope John XXII
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 2v Iohannes Episcopus seruus seruorum dei dilectiis filiis
Explicit: 3r Dati Auinion xvj kal Aprilis pontificatus nostri Anno PRIMO

The Bull concerns the transfer of the property of the Knights Templar to the Knights Hospitaller.

6. 3v-5v
The Prophecies of the Six Kings to Follow John (Prophecies of Merlin)
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Rubric: 3v La prophecie merlin
6.1. 3v
Prologue to the The Prophecies of the Six Kings to Follow John (Prophecies of Merlin)
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Incipit: 3v Ci comencent akuns des prophetiez et des merueilles que merlyn dit en son tens de engletterre et des Rois
Explicit: 3v il serunt bons et malueys . moles et durez
6.2. 3v-5v
Main text of The Prophecies of the Six Kings to Follow John (Prophecies of Merlin)
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Incipit: 3v Vn aignel vendrahors de wyncestre que auera blanche lange et leures ueritables
Explicit: 5v et si finirount les heirs dengleterre hors de lur heritage
Final rubric: 5v Explicit prophecia merlini

Also in Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.1.1, ff. 120r-121v and in nine other manuscripts: see Dean and Boulton, no. 18 for further information.

See Wilkins, pp. 110-111 for a discussion of this text.

R.J. Dean, and M.B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), no. 18
Edited (not from this MS) in R. Taylor, The Political Prophecy in England (New York, 1911), pp. 157-164.
Edition of the 4th, 5th and 6th prophecies partly based on this MS in T.M. Smallwood, 'The Prophecy of the Six Kings', Speculum 60.3 (1985), pp. 571-592. CCCC MS 405 is 'MS A' in Smallwood's edition.
N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993)
7. 5v-6v
De Temporibus [Anglo-Norman] Bede
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Rubric: 5v Ici comence le numbre de Adam taunt ke al incarnacioun iesu crist si cum de souz est escrit
Incipit: 5v Adam auoit C.cxxx aunz quant il engendra seth . et seth auoit cent e v. aunz quant il engendra Enos
Explicit: 6v le sist age du mund quant il nasqui de la virgine marie en le auesprement du mund a ky seit honurs e pussaunce saunz fyn
Final rubric: 6v Amen

This is a translation of Bede, De temporibus, chs 16-22 into Anglo-Norman.

N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 111
8. 6v-7r
List of Kings of England from Aethelwulf of Wessex to Edward II
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Incipit: 6v Ly Reys Athewlter regna .xviij. aunz
Explicit: 7r Puis Edward soun fuiz qe auoit Regne quant ceste date fu fete xviij aunz

'Athewlter' probably refers to King Aethelwulf - King Aethelwulf of Wessex reigned for 18 years and was followed by an Aethelbald (or 'Athelbaud' as he is described in this manuscript).

Smallwood, in his discussion of the The Prophecies of the Six Kings to Follow John offered a general description of the Anglo-Norman texts on ff. 3v-10v and suggested that this regnal list must have been copied c. 1325/26, i.e., in the 18th regnal year of the reign of Edward II. Edward II is the final king in the regnal list, and in the list, Edward is said to have reigned for 18 years. King Edward II reigned for 20 years (1307-1327), but a scribe writing in the reign of Edward II would have only been able to state the duration of Edward's reign at the time of writing, e.g., 18 years which places the date of the composition of the regnal list c. 1325/1326.

Edition of the 4th, 5th and 6th prophecies partly based on this MS in T.M. Smallwood, 'The Prophecy of the Six Kings', Speculum 60.3 (1985), pp. 571-592. CCCC MS 405 is 'MS A' in Smallwood's edition.
N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 111-112
9. 7r
Medical charm for a wound
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| Sicut longeus Ebreus lancia fixit latus domini nostri Ihesu Christi nec diu sanguinauit nec rancerlauit nec tumuit nec putreuit . nec doluit nec temppestatem[sic] ardor habuit et Ita plaga ista nec sanguinet neque Rancerlet neque tumeat neque doleat neque pruterat neque temppestatem[sic] ardoris habeat In nomine patris et fillis spiritu sancti amen

10. 7r-7v
List of moonrise times by month
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| Mem. Luna ianuarii inmedia[sic] nocte actenditur . Luna ffebruarii inter mediam noctem et gallicantum accenditur . Luna martii in media nocte accenditur . Luna . Luna aprilii in gallicantu[sic] accenditur . Luna Iulii in media accenditur . Luna augusti inter medium diem et nonam . Luna septembris in hora nona accendit[sic] Luna octobris inter horam nonam(?) et Wesperat Luna nouembris in uespero accendit Luna dessembris inter Wesperum et me⟨dia⟩ noctem

11. 7v
Charm for keeping rodents away from harvested crops
Language(s): Anglo-Norman and Latin
Incipit: 7v Ditez treis pater nostres ou le noun du pere e le fiuz e le seint espiritez e puis parnetz treis peres de creye e escrivetz le pere e le fiuz e le seint espiritez e Dunk ditez deux Reys de tout le mound .
Explicit: 7v habundancia per eum qui uenturus et seculum per ignem
Final rubric: 7v AMEN
N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 112
12. 7v-8r
Text on the Perilous Days
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Incipit: 7v Le meystres ky controuerunt lart numbrerunt le malures e le perylous iours qe sent e⟨n⟩ le an . E ke en vn de ces jours nestra ne viuera mye lengement
Explicit: 8r per le mardi peril de frist per mekurdy peril depeple . per Ioedy morine de femmes per vendredy perile de bestes per samadi mornie des oyseus .
R.J. Dean, and M.B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), no. 379
N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 112
This text, but not this MS discussed in P. Meyer, 'Bribes de littérature anglo-normande', Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur 7 (1866) pp. 37-57. esp. pp. 47-51
13. 8r
A text instructing readers on the interpretation of dreams
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Rubric: 8r Ky vout sauer la syngnifiaunce de sounges il deit dire ces .iii. salmes al comencement ou bone devocioun . Miserere mei deus , deus . miseriatur , Et Deprofundus . Et quant illes auera dit ; si prendra vn sauter si gardera en le sauter . E la prime lettre que il troue de la part senestre taunz purueaunce la sygnifiaunce de son songe trouera . en comensement sy troue . A
Incipit: 8r . A. Sygnefie Longe vye ou pouste
Explicit: 8r . T . crouse de courage on garniscement . V. mortel haunge sy guysie
R.J. Dean, and M.B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), no. 385
Edited from this MS in W. Suchier 'Altfranzösische Traumbücher' Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur LXVII (1957), pp. 129-167, esp. pp. 162-163
Edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 112-113
14. 8v
De uita christiana
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 8v De uita christiana ad cuius obseruanciam quilibet christianus obligatur
Incipit: 8v Qui dicit se in christo manere ; debet sicut ille ambulauit
Explicit: Et ore illo sacrilego atque polluto quo fuerat paulo aut falsa locutus aut turpia preces fundit ad dominum quasi nichil sibi mali conscius . Versus . Inuenies ueniam ueniens orare mariam
Final rubric: 8v Non transit tute qui preterit absque salute
15. 8v-9r
Text on penitence
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 8v O frater si uis scire quis est uere penitens
Incipit: 8v Hic respice diligenter . Verus penitens est ; qui semper est in dolore et labore per peccatis et dolet de preteritis peccaris et laborat de futuris cauendis
Explicit: 9r Si ego uerus uis penitens esse ; cessa a peccato et noli amplius peccare quam inanis est penitentia quam sequens coinquinat culpa
16. 9r
Text on law and wisdom
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 9r De lege et sapiencia
Incipit: 9r Si tu frater velis scire omnem legem disce pauca verba que sequntur
Explicit: 9r dilige proximum et memorare nouissima tua et in eternum non peccabis
17. 9r
Two prayers to Mary the mother of Jesus
Language(s): Latin
17.1. 9r
Prayer
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 9r Oratio de beata maria
Incipit: 9r O maria dei genitrix gloriosa
Explicit: 9r Fac me dignum te uidere et uidendo te gaudere in perhenni gloria
Final rubric: 9r Amen
17.2. 9r
Prayer
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 9r Benedicatur . hora qua deus homo natus est et illa gloriosa uirgo de qua natus est
Explicit: 9r et impleatur desiderium meum in bonum
Final rubric: 9r Amen
18. 9r
The names of the archangels
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| Experimentum probatum . Cum mane leuaueris michaelem habe in mente et letum diem habebis . Gabrielem cum tonat et non nocebit tibi . Vrielem contra aduersarium tuum et non timebis vinces . Raphaelem et thobiam cum panem aut potum acceperis et omnia tibi habundabunt . Ragnelem cum iter arriperis nichil timebis . Barachielem cum in Indicus veneris et omnia quecumque volueris explicabis . Pantasseronem cum in communis veneris et omnis contra(?) te . Gaudebunt . Vrielem et Thobielem cum ad principem vel ad seniorem veneris et sine periculo ibis

Edited and discussed in Paolo Tomea, 'Appunti sulla venerazione agli angeli extrabiblici nel Medioevo occidentale. I nomina archangelorum e l'enigmatica fortuna di Pantasaron', Analecta Bollandiana 135 (2017) pp. 27-62, esp. pp. 46-53
19. 9r
Note about the birth of King Edward II of England
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: 'Die martis in festi Sancti Marci ewangaliste anno domini .mo. cclxxxiiijto. natus fuit Edwardus filius Regis Edwardi apud Carnaruam ante horam terciam secundum Jacobum donati

King Edward II was born 25 April 1284 in Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Wales

20. 9v-10r
Amuletic charm incorporating the Letter of Jesus to King Abgar
Language(s): Anglo-Norman with Latin liturgical excerpts
Incipit: 9v Seynt leon apostoile de Rome escrit ceste lettre e dit ky vnkys le lirra ia cel iour ne estout detur sun enimi
Explicit: 10r in dei nomine securus ambulabit
Final rubric: 10r Explicit epistola quam dominum nostrum Ihesum Christum manum[sic] scriptam misit ad abagarem Regem qui eum videre desiderabit[sic] + Ihesus + Nazarenus + Rex + Iudeorum + Miserere mei +

The opening lines of the text in this manuscript attribute it to a Pope Saint Leo ('Seynt leon apostoile de Rome', but as five Popes with the papal name Leo have been canonised (I, II, III, IV, and IX), it is unclear which Pope Leo is meant in the text). The closing lines of the text however, describe the text as a copy of the letter of Jesus to King Abgar of Edessa. The text is usually descibed in modern scholarship as an apocryphal letter of Jesus to King Abgar.

The text suggests that people suffering from illnesses 'si homme seyt malade' should wear the letter around their neck 'pendet set bref autour sonn cole' in order to achieve relief from their symptoms.

The text contains a formula of address, where a person performing the charm asks for help on behalf of another person, and in this letter, the intended recipient of the benefit of the charm is named in the text as 'William', 'assistunt hinc famulo tuo +Willelmo+ hoc scriptum portanti'; no further information is known about the identity of this William.

21. 10v
Poem in English and Latin
Language(s): Middle English and Latin

Full transcription:| Quem fortuna leuis miserum facit esse beatum | Sit[sic] fortunatum degradat hora breuis | Of noman liche makeȝ hap in a stound many Riche | Hym can he so fette weryt fyrst hym fond sone sette | Est res exempli confusa superbia Templi| Ilk wisman takeȝ forbysne wat pride maket| Of wylum templeis wyh helde non cyre til hem pres.|

NIMEV 2641
DIMEV 4194
22. 10v
Poem in English
Language(s): Middle English

Full transcription: | Heyl god ye schilde modyr holy kyng bere milde| Hefne yat inkepyng haȝ an world vit outyn hondyng | Chaungon hys ryhte oon kynde sosone michte Yat dede nere synne schuld chyld conseyne vyt ynne | Als sune schene , smyt your glas wer nis ysenne| Wyt outyn tene wemles kar child maydyn clene

NIMEV 1047
DIMEV 1714
23. 10v
Poem in English
Language(s): Middle English

Full transcription: | Al vnder sunne catel is wyt swynk her yvounne| Ay kept wyt drede so ful nap yat ye ne schode| And left vit sourwe van deȝ comyt after amorwe

NIMEV 228.8
DIMEV 400
24. 10v
Geographical notes
Language(s): Latin with Irish placenames

Full transcription:| i. Alban super aquam | .i. nauis. Curranth . alban . ar . lyn | i plenus De famylia . alban intro . | Lactu Dem muntyr . alban . Jn.| Curranth ar alban lyn alban muntyr de laan. Jn-S| Lagenia continet xxxia | Conactia continet xxxa | Mydya continet xviiia | Ultonya continet xxxva | Memonya continet lxx | Qualibet Candreda continet .xxx. villatas et quelibet villata potest sustinere ccctas vaccas in pasturis et vacce sit diuidantur in quatuor armenta. nullam illarum appropinquabit ad aliam. Item quolibet villa habet octo carucatur terre

The first four lines are bracketed by a note 'Vnde versus Ibernum'. The 6th-10th lines are bracketed by the words 'Quinque partes hibernye' to the left and 'Cantres' to the right.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 2r: liberatibus et inmunitatibus
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 10 leaves.

Collation

One quire: Quire 110 (ff. 1-10)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

In good condition.

Layout

150 × 100 mm. Folios 1r-3r ruled in ink, frame and lines. Ruled in single-column format, typically 29 lines to the page and written below top line.

160 × 95 mm. Folios 1r-3r ruled in ink, frame and lines. Ruled in single-column format, typically 30 lines to the page and written below top line.

Hand(s)

Folios 1r-2v and note in lower margin of f. 9r written in Cursiva Antiquior with some documentary and chancery features. Double-compartment minuscule a. Looped ascender on minuscule d. Ascenders for b, h, l, not always completed with a closed loop, but often terminated in a large hook extending from the tip of a clubbed ascender. Long macron abbreviation strokes. Feet on minims. Strong contrast between heavy ascenders and narrow general text.

Folios 2v-3r written in anglicana.

Folios 3v-5v written in an informal northern Textualis libraria by CCCC MS 405 'Scribe 1' who also seems to be responsible for the text on ff. 43r-92r and 127r-230v. Double-compartment minuscule a. Feet on minims. Sloping backed d. This scribe uses both deeply forked and long flat horizontal serifs on most ascenders.

Folios 5v-8r and f. 10v written in anglicana. Written in a hand similar to that of the scribe who wrote ff. 1r-2v, but with frequent use of long forked ascenders on b, h, and l.

Folios 8v-10r written in a neat northern Textualis libraria by 'Scribe 2' who also seems to be responsible for ff. 125r-127r and 231r-245r. Double-compartment minuscule a. Feet on minims. Sloping backed d. Ascenders usually terminated in small forked or ~ -shaped serifs. This scribe has a 'neater' aspect than the scribe that copied ff. 3v-5v.

Decoration

Unfilled space for a decorative initial 'A' on f. 1r.

Rubrication (red only) and red paraph marks ff. 3v-5v

History

Origin: Second quarter of the 14th century, perhaps c. 1325/1326. ; Probably Ireland

As noted by Smallwood, the regnal list on ff. 6v-7r was probably copied c. 1325/26, since Edward II, the last ruler to be named, is given a regnal duration of 18 years. i.e., in the 18th regnal year of the reign of Edward II.

Place of production based on Irish place names described in the text and the connection of this volume to the Knights Hospitaller community of St John of Jerusalem at Waterford in Ireland.

Part 4: Kalendar (M.R. James Part II) [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405, ff. 11-16]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 11r-16v
Calendar
Language(s): Latin
1.1. 11r
January
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 5. simeonis monachi| 7. cleri diaconi et confessoris| 9. iudoci translatio | 11. columbe uirginis| 30. balthildis regine |

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue
1.2. 11v
February
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 1. brigide uirginis | 3. uuarburge uirginis| 4. auentini episcopi| 17. fintani clonenachi|

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue
1.3. 12r
March
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 1. dauid episcopi et confessoris| 2. ceaddi confessoris| 5. kerani confessoris| 8. senani confessoris| 13. mochemoc confessoris| 17. patricii episcopi| 18. eadmundi regis et martyris | 19. lactani confessoris| 20. guthberti episcopi| 24. moctai confessoris

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue
1.4. 12v
April
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 5. herinis uirginis| 7. finani confessoris| 15. ruadani confessoris| 18. lasreani abbatis| 19. ealphegii episcopi| 22. \Obitus petri filii Johannis Le poer Anno domini mo ccco xxvij/| 30. ronani confessoris

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue
1.5. 13r
May
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 13. muti presbyteri| 14. karthagii episcopi et confessoris| 16. brendini abbatis| 18. medani et domnani confessorum| 19. dunstani

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue
1.6. 13v
June
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 3. comgeni episcopi et confessoris| 9. columbe confessoris| 10. censurii episcopi | 17. moling confessoris| 23. etheldride uirguinis[sic]| 25. moluoc confessoris| 27. benigni confessoris|

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue
1.7. 14r
July
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 2. suithuni| 3. tome translatio| 4. \finbarri episcopi et confessoris/| 8. brocani confessoris| 13. musiloc confessoris| 15. suithuni episcopi| 17. kenelmi regis et martyris| 18. eadburge uirginis| 24. Declani episcopi et confessoris| 29. \olaui regis et martyris/

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue
1.8. 14v
August
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 4. mulo confessoris| 5. osualdi regis et martyris| 8. cirani martyris| 12. larriani confessoris| 13. memodoc confessoris| 14. factne confessoris>lb/> 19. mocte confessoris| 25. micheani confessoris

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue
1.9. 15r
September
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 2. Sanctorum confessorum inpiensi et lomnani et colmani| 3. \Meiccnisse confessoris Diaconi Martyris/| 4. ultani confessoris| 5. bertini abbatis et confessoris| 6. columbe uirguinis[sic]| 9. ciarani confessoris et abbatis| 10. finneani et ateluoldi confessoris| 12. eilbe episcopi et confessoris| 13. degani episcopi et confessoris| 20. signi episcopi et confessoris| 23. adanni confessoris| 24. Conceptio Sancti Iohannis baptiste| 25. barre confessoris| 26. colmani abbatis et confessoris| 28. experini martyris

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue
1.10. 15v
October
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 4. mansi et mansiani et cipriani Martyrorum| 11. cammabe confessoris| 12. mobi confessoris| 13. comgani confessoris| 16. colmani et regula confessorum| 17. etheldride uirguinis[sic]| 21. munne confessoris| 23. dalnachi confessoris| 27. Sanctorum confessorum ercani abbani odrani

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue
1.11. 16r
November
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 3. corcunutani episcopi| 4. bristani episcopi et confessoris| 5. colmani confessoris| 7. uuldeboldi episcopi confessoris| 10. edani confessoris| 12. cummini confessoris| 14. colmani et garbani confessorum| 15. machin confessoris| 16. macudis episcopi et confessoris| 20. eadmundi regis et martyris| 29. brendini confessoris

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue
1.12. 16v
December
Language(s): Latin

Notable commemorations:| 2. birini| 5. crispine uirguinis[sic]| 9. cipriani abbatis| 12. finneani abbatis| 18. flannani confessoris| 19. samthinne uirginis| 24. mucho confessoris

Reproduced with minor corrections from M.R. James, Catalogue

The calendar contains a poem (a line per page) on the Dies egypti, full transcription:| Prima dies mensis et septimus truncat ij [sic for ut] ensis | Quarta subut[sic] mortem prosternit tertia fortem | Primus mandentem dirumpit quarta bibentem | Denus[sic] et undenus[sic] est mortis uulnere plenus | Tertius occidit et viius ora relidit | Denus[sic] pallesit quindenus federa nescit | Tredecimus mactat(?) iuli denus[sic] labefereat(?) | Prima necat fortem perdiditque secunda cohortem | Tercia cum dena clamat sis integra uena | Tertius et denus est sicut mors alienus | Scorpius est quintus et tertius est necetinctus | Septimus exsanguis uirosus denus ut angis

See M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in Corpus Christi College Cambridge, II (1912), no. 405

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 12r: Primus mandentem dirumpit
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 6 leaves.

Collation

One quire of 6 leaves: Quire 26 (ff. 11-16)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

In good condition.

Layout

195 × 105 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and lines. Typical medieval calendar mise-en-page, typically 33-35 lines to the page and written above top line.

Hand(s)

The majority of the calendar is written in a neat protogothic minuscule with soem textualis features. Limited 'biting' of letters. Double-compartment minuscule a. Mix of sloping- and straight-backed d. Minuscule y is usually undotted. Feet on minims and descenders. There are later additions in several hands.

Decoration

Sketch of an (untonsured) male head and torso; the man is wearing a robe and holding a book in an outstretched hand on f. 12r

Flourished 'KL' ciphers on each page in red or green, or both colours in combination.

Additions

History

Origin: Probably last quarter of the 12th century or first half of the 13th century. ; Probably Ireland

Date of production based on palaeographical features. Place of production based on the significant number of Irish saints commemorated in the calendar.

Part 5 - Liturgical material (M.R. James Parts III and IV) [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405, ff. 17-124]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 17r-93v
Lessons and Offices supplementary to a Breviary
Language(s): Latin
1.1. 17r-35v, 38r-38v
Lessons and office for Corpus Christi and octave
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 17r feria vta post festum sancte trinitatis fiat festum corporis christi
Incipit: 17r Sacerdos ineternum cristus dominus secundum ordinem melchisedech panem et uinum optulit
Explicit: 38v et sanguinis tui temporalis perceptio prefigurat . Qui uiuis

The text ends abruptly on f. 35v and begins again on f. 38r

1.2. 36r-36v
Lauda Syon
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 36r Lauda syon saluatorem lauda ducem et pastorem in ymnis et canticis
Explicit: 36v ibi commensales coheredes et sodales fac sanctorum ciuium
Final rubric: 36v Amen

In a different ?later hand than the main liturgical material.

1.3. 36v
Benedictions
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 36v Benedictiones

Nine benedictions.

In a different ?later hand than the main liturgical material.

1.4. 37r
Antiphon and Hymn for Compline
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 37r Ad completorium antiphona
Incipit: 37r Ego sum panis uiuus
Explicit: 37r et sanguis meus vere est potus alleluia alleluia Nunc dimittis

In a different ?later hand than the main liturgical material.

Folio 37v blank.

1.5. 38v-46v
Lessons and liturgical material for Saint Brigit
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 38v In festiuitate sancte brigide uirginis non martyris
Incipit: 38v Hec est uirgo prudens
Explicit: 46v hodie precescam(?) . P . Benedictis
Final rubric: 46v et R . viuus virginis

Includes a hymn, 'Phebi diem fert orbita' and nine lessons.

1.6. 47r-51v
Liturgical forms for Saint Anthony
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 47r De sancto antonio
Incipit: 47r Iustum deduxit
Explicit: 51v Fidelis seruus et prudens quem constituit dominus super familiam suam

Includes a hymn, 'Urbs beata ierusalem dicta pacis'.

1.7. 60r
Liturgical forms for the nativity of Saint Patrick
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 51v In natali sancti patricii . archi episcopi
Incipit: 51v Ecce sacerdos magnus
Explicit: 60r Deus qui populo tuo

The final three lines on f. 51v are in another hand and are partially written over an erasure.

Includes a hymn, 'Ecce fulget clarissima patricii sollempnitas in qua carne deposita felix transcendit sidera

1.8. 64v
Liturgical forms for Saint Martin
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 60r Sancti martini episcopi et confessoris
Incipit: 60r O beatum uirum qui totis inscribus diligebat
Explicit: 64v Sacerdos dei martine pastor egregie ora pro nobis ad dominum
1.9. 64v-72v
Liturgical forms for Saint Barmedinus
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 64v Sancti Barrmedini episcopi et confessoris
Incipit: 64v Iustum deduxit
Explicit: 72v benedictum spiritum emisit et sic cum christo mundo quieuit ab isto
Final rubric: 72v Explicit uita beati barrmedini

According to Richard Sharpe, Saint Barmedinus is: 'a saint derived from the place-name Kilbarrymedan, Cell Bairre Mittíne, a local manifestation of St Finnbarr reflecting perhaps the local devotion of a compiler from Co. Waterford'.

The first lection begins: 'Anno ab incarnacione dominum nostrum ihesum christum milesimo.cco.viiio.viio. Idus augusti presidenti[sic] sedi apostolice domino innocentio papa quarto ; cathedesensis ecclesie obtinente uenerabili episcopo dauid'.

R. Sharpe, 'The Milieux of the Later Collections', Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: An Introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (Oxford, 1991; online edn, Oxford Academic, 3 Oct. 2011), doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198215820.003.0013
1.10. 72v-79v
Liturgical forms for Saint Katherine
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 72v Incipit uitam[sic] sancte katerine uirginis et martiris
Incipit: 72v O mater nostra
Explicit: 79v et ierusalem filias thalamo gaudes regio conuincta dei filio
Final rubric: 79v Explicit uita beate katerine uirginis

The first lection begins: 'Maxentius imperator anno regni sui tricessimo quinto residens in civitate Alexandrinorum'

1.11. 79v-83r
Liturgical forms for the exaltation of the holy cross
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 79v In exaltacione sancte crucis
Incipit: 79v Dulce lignum
Explicit: 83r O crux splendidor
1.12. 83r-92r
Liturgical forms for Saint Tigernach
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 83r Hic incipit hystoria sancti Tihernaci archiepiscopi et confessoris
Incipit: 83r Iustum deduxerit
Explicit: 92r et regno cum angelis celi contamur
Final rubric: 92r Amen

Includes two hymns, f. 83r: 'Tyhernach igne gratie amans superna querere direxit ad spem' and f. 91v: 'Adest dies celebris sancti tyhernaci'.

The first lection begins: 'Uenerabilis presul tyhernachus regali natalium prerogatiua et nobili parentum stemate natus'.

This text is accompanied by copious marginal annotations.

R. Sharpe, 'The Milieux of the Later Collections', Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: An Introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (Oxford, 1991; online edn, Oxford Academic, 3 Oct. 2011), doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198215820.003.0013
1.13. 92v-93r
Liturgical forms for Easter
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 92v Incipit officium de passione christi compositum a domino papa Iohannem qui indulsit cuilibet dicenti semel in die pro qualibet hora et pro qualibet uice vnum annum indulgencie de penitenciis sibi imulcis(?) dummodo sit penitens et confessus
Incipit: 92v Patris sapiencia ueritas diuina
Explicit: 93r sic laborum[sic] consonans consors sim corone
Final rubric: 93r AMEN

In a different hand to the other liturgical material.

2. 92r
Medical recipe
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Incipit: 92r ⟨P⟩ernez iij. ponyez grandis e playnes de ysope
Explicit: 92r dil fois

In a different hand to the liturgical material.

Folios 93v-94r blank.

3. 94v-97r
Confirmation Charter for the Liberties of Waterford
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 94v Transcriptum Carte de libertatibus Waterfford
Incipit: 94v Edwardus etc . Archiepiscopis . . Episcopis etc . Inspeximus cartam confirmacionis celebris memorie domini E
Explicit: 97r Hiis testibus etc . Dat per manum nostram apud Wodestok .xii. die April . Anno . regni . nostri . quarto

The dating clause states that this charter was witnessed in the fourth year of the reign of King Edward II (i.e., 1311) at 'Wodestok', almost certainly Woodstock Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.

4. 97r-100v
Borough Customs of Waterford
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 97r Prouisiones . ordinate per commune consilium . ciuitatis Waterfordie
Explicit: 100v Item quod vigilator presentet omnes defaltas coram Balliuis si quas inuenerit
Edited in Gearóid Mac Niocaill, Na Buirgeisi XII-XV aois 2 vols. (1964), I.3-59
5. 101r-115r
Laws of Waterford
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Rubric: 101r Ches sont les leys e les usages de la Chite de Waterfford les queus chascun Chiteseyn doit bien garder et saluement sans blemure ; Car il sont establi par ancien tans ;
Incipit: 101r In primes si vn chitesein fiert vn forei per ont il est mort
Explicit: 115r on en sa garde . chelui qui le fiere serra comaunde ala presonne e hors de la presonne . trouera boine seinte de faire les amendes a chelui quil feri soulom coe qe le trespas amounte . E estre amercie greuousement
Partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 113
6. 115v-116r
Customs of Waterford
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 115v Consuetudines ferie ciuitatis Waterfford que incipit . et durat per nouem dies
Incipit: 115v Item qualibus carecta anii integra . et unius hominis
Explicit: 116r vbicumque vendatur

List of trade taxes and fines

Edited in Gearóid Mac Niocaill, Na Buirgeisi XII-XV aois 2 vols. (1964), I.3-59
7. 116r-116v
Customs for butchery
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 116r Consuetudines in stallis carnificum
Incipit: 116r quolibet mercatores extraneo ducente carcosium boni et vel vacce
Explicit: 116v Ita quod ille qui tenet stallum carnificum ad firmam inuenient stalles pro predicans consuetudines etc .

List of trade taxes and fines

Edited in Gearóid Mac Niocaill, Na Buirgeisi XII-XV aois 2 vols. (1964), I.3-59
8. 116v-117r
Customs of Waterford
Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman
Rubric: 116v De congregacione habenda octo dies ante festum Sancti Michaelis quolibet anno
Incipit: 116v Prouisum fuit et ordinatum in Ecclesia Sancti trinitatis Waterfford die Sancti Mathie apostoli anno regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis edwardi vicesimo
Explicit: 117r pardoun auoir ne nul relees puis qil soit ateyite(?)

The dating clause indicates that the customs were drafted on, 'die Sancti Mathie apostoli anno regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis edwardi vicesimo' i.e., 21 September 1326, St Matthew's day in the 20th year of the reign of Edward II.

Edited in Gearóid Mac Niocaill, Na Buirgeisi XII-XV aois 2 vols. (1964), I.3-59
Partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 113
9. 117v-119r
Customs of Bristol
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 117v Constituciones ville Bristoll
Incipit: 117v Burgenses ville Bristoll petunt sibi concedi et confirmari omnes libertates suas per cartas Regum
Explicit: 119r Si vero ista predicta bona extraneorum statim soluatur precium
10. 119r-121r
Two Charters for Drogheda
Language(s): Latin
10.1. 119r-120r
Charter for Drogheda
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 119r Incipit carta ville de Drogheda
Incipit: 119r Henricus dei gratia Rex Anglorum
Explicit: 120r Hiis testibus etc Datum anno Regni nostri xiii

Issued by King Henry II of England in the 13th year of his reign i.e., 1229.

10.2. 120r-121r
Charter for Drogheda
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 120r Edwardus dei gratia etc
Explicit: 121r fuerunt temporibus predictis

No date of issue.

11. 121r-121v
Charter for Haverford
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 121r Incipit carta ville de hauerfford
Incipit: 121r Edwardus dei gratia Rex Anglie dominus hibernie et dux aquitanie Archiepiscopis episcopis abbatibus prioribus Comitibus Baronibus Iusticiariis vicicomitibus[sic] prepositis ministris et omnibus Balliuis et fidelibus suis Salutem
Explicit: 121v Datum per manum nostram apud hereford primo die Nouembri Anno Regni nostri decimo nono

Probably issued in 1291 as one of the witnesses to the charter, John de Tregoz, died c. 1300, making King Edward I (r. 20 November 1272 – 7 July 1307) the only King Edward for whom John de Tregoz could have witnessed the 19th year of their reign.

12. 122r-123r
Chronological notes from the birth of Jesus to 1308
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 122r Anni a constitucione mundi vsque ad incarnacionem Christi fluxerant quinque milia . Centum Nonaginta . et Nouem
Explicit: 123r Anno domini mo ccco decimo quinto Edwardus bruys intrauit hiberniam | Anno domini mo ccco decimo octauo idem ewardus bruys interfectus fuit in festo Sancti Kalixti pape(?)

The latest year for which events are recorded in this list is 1308.

As noted by M.R. James in his Catalogue, 'A good many entries (especially later) refer to events in Ireland'.

13. 123v-124v
Medical recipes in Anglo-Norman
Language(s): Anglo-Norman and Latin
Incipit: 123v Pur la tusse . Pernez[sic] Rascine de Grenois .i. hertestonke . e de matefeloun e herbe Jon . pehiete[sic] .i. ynsere . ambrese bugle . E de chascun vn poignee iii poignes de sinel de choys e licoriz .j. quarter e fetes bien turbler en cyorter
Explicit: 124v Pur sannke estauncher . Faire potage e⟨...⟩ era bien seur vn baunke sist e sun saynt fitz en sun deuaunt tient Sayncte est la dame . e saynt len faunt si verraiment estaunche coe sannke . dites trois foitz . et iiii . pater noster . et Aue

Medical recipes and extracts from medical treatises with descriptive labels in the outer margins. The recipe collection contaisn treatments for coughs, fevers, wounds, bleeding, and diarrhoea in humans, and stomach problems in horses.

Partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 114

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 18r: pinguedinem
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 108 leaves.

Collation

There is a significant change of handwriting style and page layout between f. 93r and f. 94v (ff. 93v-94r blank), but the change in hand and mise-en-page occurs because of a change of scribes in the middle of Quire 9, and not because ff. 94-124 derive from an originally separate manuscript source. The quires in Part 5 are arranged as follows:

  • Quire 312 (ff. 17-28)
  • Quire 412+2 (ff. 29-42; 2 leaves added after the 7th leaf)
  • Quires 5-1012 (ff. 43-114)
  • Quire 118+1+1 (ff. 115-124; two singletons pasted together and then a quire of 8 leaves)

Medieval alphabetical leaf signatures in brown crayon in the lower margins of the rectos in the first half of Quire 7 (ff. 67r-78v) marked with designations a-f . Medieval Roman numeral leaf signatures in brown crayon in the lower margins of the rectos in the first half of Quire 8 (ff. 79r-90v) marked with the designations i-uj.

Quires are numbered in grey-brown crayon in Roman numerals in the lower outer corner of the recto of most quires in this Part as follows: Quire 4 = iiii; Quire 5 = v etc. This signature sequence appears in the volume for the first time in this Part, but continues into other Parts.

Catchwords in text-ink in the lower margin of the last verso of Quires 3-9. Some catchwords enclosed in decorative frames, e.g., a detailed fish frame in red ink on f. 54v.

Condition

In good condition. Medieval sewn repair on f. 40, thread still present in leaf.

Layout

145 × 105 mm. Layout for ff. 17r-93r: ruled in leadpoint, frame and lines. Ruled in single-column format, typically 24 lines to the page and written below top line.

150 × 105 mm. Layout for ff. 94v-124v: ruled faintly in leadpoint, frame and lines. Ruled in single-column format, typically 24-27 lines to the page and written below top line.

Hand(s)

Folios 17r-35v and 38r-42v written in a somewhat rounded northern textualis libraria. Double-compartment minuscule a. Sloping-backed-d. Caroline-s in initial position at the beginning of clauses, as the terminal form, and for proper nouns, but long-s with small shoulder used in most initial, and all medial positions. Small wedges on ascenders.

Folios 36r-37r written in a narrow northern textualis libraria. Double-compartment minuscule a. Sloping-backed-d. Caroline-s in initial position at the beginning of clauses, as the terminal form, and for proper nouns, but long-s used in most initial, and all medial positions. Dotted-y.

Folios 43r-92r written by CCCC MS 405 'Scribe 1' in a northern textualis libraria, of less rounded aspect than the work by the scribe of ff. 17r-35v and 38r-42v. Lower limb of g barely drops below the base line. Long flat ascenders on ll ligatures. Thick wedges in the upper portion of most of the ascenders of b, h, and l. Small shoulder-bump on long-s. Crossed-z. This scribe also seems to be responsible for ff. 3v-5v and 127r-230v.

Medical recipe on f. 92r written in anglicana. Double-compartment minuscule a. Frequent use of forked ascenders on b, h, and l. Minuscule g resembles the hindu-arabic numeral 8. Dotted y.

Folios 92v-93r written in a northern textualis semi formata. Double-compartment minuscule a. Sloping-backed-d. Wedged ascenders on b, h, and l. Some 'biting' of letter forms. Attempts at diamond-feet on minims.

Folios 94v-124v written in anglicana with some secretary features. Double-compartment a. Forked ascenders on b, h, and l. Caroline s in initial and terminal positions, and long-s sometimes on the line and sometimes below in medial positions.

Decoration

Flourished initials in red and blue in various styles, e.g., blue initial with 'labrynthine' florushing in red on f. 25r, puzzle initial on f. 30r.

Plain initials in red or blue in a 'Lombardic' style at the minor divisions of the text.

Rubrication (red only) at the major and minor divisions of the text and for the letters and sigla indicating the speaker of and the progress through the liturgical form.

Marginal doodle (of a flourished letter 'A'?) in red and black in the lower margin of f. 80v

Additions

Marginal 'highlights' in Parkerian red crayon against several passages of text e.g., ff. 28v, 30v etc.

History

Origin: 14th century. ; Probably Ireland.

Date of production based on palaeographical features and dates referred to in the text. Place of production based on significant number of references to Irish places and persons.

Part 6 - (M.R. James Part V) [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405, ff. 125-230]

Contents

Language(s): Anglo-Norman and Latin

1. 125r-127r
Bull of Pope Boniface VIII confirming the Rule of the Knights Hospitallers by Raymond du Puy Pope Boniface VIII
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 125r Bonifacius Episcopus seruus seruorum dei
Explicit: 127r Datum lateran . vii . Idus aprilis pontificatus nostri anno sexto .

The bull was issued 'vii . Idus aprilis pontificatus nostri anno sexto', i.e., 7 April 1300.

2. 127r-154v
The Anglo-Norman translation of the 'Rule' of the Knights Hospitaller Raymond du Puy
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Incipit: 127r Al tens zezar le premerain | Ke empereur fu romain | E al tens antiochi | Ke fu prince de sus lui | Eu une esueske en la cite| Ke ierusalem est a pele| Par soun dreit mu(?) quant fu nez| Melchiazar fu apelez| Cist fu pro dome de sa lay| Fors tant cum il fist une desray| Quant del sepulcre seint dauid| Besans et uestemens fors rauid|
Explicit: 154v Tuz nus eime deu par sa grace| AmeN ameN e deu le fasce| E par sa pite| Nus doint uiure en uerite| Bein uiure e bein murir| Ceo seit deshore nostre desir| E tel seit nostre entente| Ke deu nus otriet la grant rente| La quele ia ne poet descretre| Par len seignement de nostre mestre

Also in the former Phillipps MS 8336, now London, British Library, MS Add. 46919

The text of the poem (based on the version in London, British Library, MS Add. 46919 is discussed in W.H. Robinson, The Famous Fourteenth Century Composite Volume Containing Eighty separate texts (of which no less than forty-five are unique) including the autograph manuscript of the lyrics of an otherwise unknown early fourteenth century English poet, he earliest manuscript of the first treatise on hunting written by an Englishman, etc (London, 1950).

Edited and discussed in K. Sinclair, The Hospitallers' "Riwle", Anglo-Norman Text Society XLII (1984)
Discussed and partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 114-115
R.J. Dean, and M.B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), no. 714
3. 155r-158r
Poem on the Joys of the Virgin Mary and Litany of Saints
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Incipit: 155r Aue seinte marie mere al creatur| Reine des angles plaine de dusur| Aue esteile de meir de grant resplendisur| Eschele de parais saluz de pecheur| Aue seinte marie la uerge al rai iesse|
Explicit: 158r E si requer les uirgines e cele duce flurs| Requerez ma dame ke ele ma sait succurs| Gloriuse raine eez de mai merci| Pur amur Ihesu crist ducement vus pri| Qui cum patre et filio uiuit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum AmeN

The text of the poem (based on the version in London, British Library, MS Add. 46919) is discussed in W.H. Robinson, The Famous Fourteenth Century Composite Volume Containing Eighty separate texts (of which no less than forty-five are unique) including the autograph manuscript of the lyrics of an otherwise unknown early fourteenth century English poet, he earliest manuscript of the first treatise on hunting written by an Englishman, etc (London, 1950).

See K.V. Sinclair, 'Anglo-Norman at Waterford: The Mute Testimony of MS Cambridge C.C.C. 405', in Medieval French Textual Studies in Memory of T.B.W. Reid, ed. by I. Short, Anglo-Norman Text Society: Occasional Publication Series, 1 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1984), pp. 219–238, esp. p. 229 for a discussion of whether the Litany of Saints should be treated as a separate text in this manuscript.
Discussed and partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 115-116
R.J. Dean, and M.B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), no. 740
4. 158r-170v
Distichs of Cato translated into Anglo-Norman by Elias of Winchester Cato, Marcus Porcius
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Incipit: 158r-158v Ki uout sauer la faitement| Ke catun a sun fiz aprent| Si en latin nel set entendre| Ici le pot en rumaunz aprendre| Cum helis de guyncestre| Ki deu mette a sa destre| Lat translate si fatemente| Dit catun al cumencemente| Cum ieo ma apacuy mut plusurs| Greuement a folaer es murs
Explicit: 170v Ceo fit la breuent de mun ententement| Ken la raisun ioius deus vers sulement| Kil translata len entent tut autresy| Duz helyes dunt deus ait mercy
Final rubric: 170v Explicit liber catonis

'Helis de guyncestre' (line 6) is now usually known in Anglophone scholarship as Helis of Winchester or Elias of Winchester.

Discussed and partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 116
R.J. Dean, and M.B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), no. 254
5. 171r-183v
Sermon on loving and fearing God, and the Last Judgement in verse
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
5.1. 171r-178r
Sermon on loving and fearing God, and the Last Judgement in verse
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Incipit: 171r Chescun deit estre ame| Par la mesure de sa bounte| Chescun uaut taunt cum il eime| Si cum seint pol uus enseigne| Il dist si il eust chescun ben| Si il ne eust amur ne serreit ren| Kar ne eist home taunt de uirtuz | Si il ne eist amur trescut est uuz
Explicit: 178r Ausi cum par mi ta nus| Lalme od deu nad pour nus| Kar tost aueroit pour parfite| Ki ben pensat de mort subite|
5.2. 178r-183v
Sermon on loving and fearing God, and the Last Judgement in verse
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Incipit: 178r Ore escutez del iugement| Dount pour uent ensement| Ceo est a iour de iuise| Kaunt serra estreite iustise | Iur de graunt amerte| Iur de graunt cheitiuete
Explicit: 183v Prium deu omnipotent| Ke cel e tere fist de nent| Ke sa ioie nus otrie| Od lui en la pardurable uie| La nus meine la douce marie . amN[sic]|

Treated as two texts (ff. 171r-178r and 178r-183v by M. R. James, and one text (ff. 171r-183v) by Dean and Boulton.

Edited partly from this MS in P. Meyer, 'Notice du ms. Rawlinson Poetry 241 (Oxford)', Romania XXIX (1900), pp. 9-21
Discussed and partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 117-118
R.J. Dean, and M.B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), no. 636
6. 183v-196v
Verse-Sermon on the Fall, the Harrowing of Hell, and the Passion
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Rubric: 183v De passione christi
Incipit: 183v-184r Deu omnipotent| Ke al comencement| Creat cel e tere| Nus seit cumfort| E doint deuaunt la mort| Verrai penaunce fere|
Explicit: 196v Il est issi escrit| Ke li apostle dist| Ke solum sun poer| Pur deu uoudra suffrir| E peine od li partir| \E od li purra regner/ Aitel regne nus meine| Ke pur nus suffir peine| Iesu le tresduz| Pur le amur de sa amie| La pucele marie| AmeN diez tuz
Edited partly from this MS in W. Suchier, Zwei altfranzosische Reimpredigten mit Benutzung der Ausgabe Hermann Suchier, neu herausgegeben von W. Suchier (Halle, 1949), pp. 123-144
K. V. Sinclair, 'Anglo-Norman at Waterford: The Mute Testimony of MS Cambridge C.C.C. 405', in Medieval French Textual Studies in Memory of T.B.W. Reid, ed. by I. Short, Anglo-Norman Text Society: Occasional Publication Series, 1 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1984), pp. 219–38, esp. 231
Discussed and partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 118
R.J. Dean, and M.B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), no. 599
7. 196v-212r
On the divisions of the world Perot de Garbelei
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Rubric: 196v Hic incipiunt diuisiones mundi
Incipit: 196v-197r Un liure de haut eure| Ki descrist et deskeure| Les choses de ceo mund| E les gens ki i sunt| A ie en cunte troue| Meint bon clert ben funde| E de clergi eslit | Ferment preisent ceste liure | E founde de clergie | Ki le lisent ou manie | Kar tute est en latin | Del chef derk en la fin | Plusurs clers dient ben | Ke nul pour nule ren | Taunt ne sauereit de lettre . | Ne purreit mie mettre | En romance ne rimer | Tant ne sauereit limer | Pur ceo sen est par fei | Perot de garbelei | Entremis pur auer | Le gre e le uoler | E de clers e de lais| Kar requide ke unke mes | Ne fu fet tel romanz
Explicit: 212r Ore awm acumplies | Del mund les treis parties | Dist vus auum leuement | Tut le establement | Del mund e queus i est | Grant preu e grant conquest | Receuire il purrount | Cil ki ben entendrount |
Edited by O.H. Prior in Cambridge Anglo-Norman Texts, ed. by J.P. Strachey, H.J. Chaytor, O.H. Prior (Cambridge, 1924), pp. 34-62
K.V. Sinclair, 'Anglo-Norman at Waterford: The Mute Testimony of MS Cambridge C.C.C. 405', in Medieval French Textual Studies in Memory of T.B.W. Reid, ed. by I. Short, Anglo-Norman Text Society: Occasional Publication Series, 1 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1984), pp. 219–38, esp. 232
Discussed and partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 119
R.J. Dean, and M.B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), no. 330
8. 212r-228r
Lucidaire (incomplete text) Gillebert de Cambres
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Rubric: 212r Hic incipit de anticristo
Incipit: 212r Meistre beneit seies tu | Ben me as de tut resun rendu | Mes de antecrist de maundasse | Mult uolenters mestre si ie osase |
Explicit: 228r Kar il ne uoudrunt preu doner | As pours dens pur eus lauer | Lur male vie ne lur peche | Dunt il esteient einz lier | Beneit seit ki cist liure fist | E ensement celi ki le escrist |
K.V. Sinclair, 'Anglo-Norman at Waterford: The Mute Testimony of MS Cambridge C.C.C. 405', in Medieval French Textual Studies in Memory of T.B.W. Reid, ed. by I. Short, Anglo-Norman Text Society: Occasional Publication Series, 1 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1984), pp. 219–38, esp. 232
Discussed and partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 119-120
9. 228r-230v
Vision de Saint Paul [Old French] Adam de Ross
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Rubric: 228r Hic incipit visio sancti pauli
Incipit: 228r Seignurs freres or escotez | Vus ki estes a deu nomez | Aidez mai a translater | La visiun sein pol le ber | Dampne deu par sa dousur | E par la sue grant amur | Out merci e memorie | Del almes ki furent en purgatorie |
Explicit: 230v Sein michel li ad ceo dit | Ami kar deu aueient en despit | Lur chastete vnc ne garderent | Ne dampne deu plein iur ne amerent Vnc ne chiurent parent ||

Text ends abruptly. Catchwords 'plus ke autre' in the lower margin of f. 230v, the last extant leaf of the text in this manuscript indicating that the scribe copied more of (or intended to copy more of) the poem.

Also in London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian A.vii, ff. 34r-38v and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr. 19525, ff. 12v-15r .

K.V. Sinclair, 'Anglo-Norman at Waterford: The Mute Testimony of MS Cambridge C.C.C. 405', in Medieval French Textual Studies in Memory of T. B. W. Reid, ed. by I. Short, Anglo-Norman Text Society: Occasional Publication Series, 1 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1984), pp. 219–38, esp. 233
Discussed and partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 120
R.J. Dean, and M.B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London, 1999), no. 553

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 126r: tibus ceciderit in lapsum carnis
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 106 leaves.

Collation

  • Quire 1210 (ff. 125-134)
  • Quires 13-2012 (ff. 135-230)

No leaf singatures particular to this Part.

Quire numbers, in Roman numerals, written in plummet in the lower right-hand corner of the first recto of some quires.

Catchwords at the end of each Quire in the Part.

Condition

In good condition.

Layout

150 × 110 mm. Layout for ff. 125r-127r: Ruled in ink, frame and lines. Ruled in single-column format, typically 31 lines to the page and written below top line.

160 × 120 mm. Layout for ff. 127r - 230v: Ruled in ink, frame and lines. Mise-en-page for medieval verse, typically 30 lines to the page (verse lines 55-65mm wide) and written below top line.

Hand(s)

Folios 125r-127r ln. 15 written in a neat textualis by CCCC MS 405 'Scribe 2' who also seems to be responsible for the text on ff. 8v-10r and ff. 231r-245r. 'Scribe 2' writes a prose introduction in Latin to the Anglo-Norman poetry that follows in the hand of 'Scribe 1'.

Folios 127r ln 16 written by CCCC MS 405 'Scribe 1', the scribe of ff. 3v-5v and 43r-92r. 'Scribe 1' copies the Anglo-Norman poetry that follows a prose introduction in Latin written by 'Scribe 2'

Decoration

Large 'puzzle' initial 'A' on f. 127r in red and blue at the head of the first poem in the Part.

Plain initial 'B' in a 'Lombardic' style in red on f. 125r, and at the start of each new poem after the first.

Initials at the beginning of sentences and minor divisions of the text touched with red througout the Part.

History

Origin: 14th century. ; ?Ireland or ?England.

Part 7 - Treatise on the Virtues and Vices (M.R. James Part V) [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405, ff. 231-246]

Contents

Language(s): Anglo-Norman

11. 231r-246r
Treatise on Virtues (incomplete)
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Incipit: 231r Talent mestoit pris ke jeo recontasse de philosophes len seygnement de cel clergie ke est apele moralitez ; que en plusurs uolumes est enspandue
Explicit: 246v Gard tey de conseiller . e bien te puruoy de home loer ke ||

Text ends abruptly. Folio 246v blank.

Discussed and partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 121

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 232r: est en quarire departie
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH).
Extent: Codex: 16 leaves.

Collation

Two quires of 8 leaves:

  • Quires 21-228 (ff. 231-246)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

Catchword in the lower inner corner of f. 238v.

Condition

In good condition.

Layout

150 × 110 mm. Ruled in crayon, frame and lines. Ruled in single-column format, frame consistently ruled, lines occasionally ruled. Irregular number of lines per page in this Part, min lines = 22, max lines = 32.

Hand(s)

Written in northern textualis libraria by CCCC MS 405 'Scribe 2', who also seems to be the scribe of ff. 8v-10r and 125r-127r.

Decoration

Initials in 'Lombardic' style in red and occasionally blue at the major and minor divisions of the text.

Majuscule letters at the beginning of sentences touched with red.

Additions

The word 'Careforde' in the lower margin of f. 243v in the typical location for catchwords, but 'Careforde' is not the first word of f. 244r, nor is f. 243v at the end of a quire.

History

Origin: Probably 14th century. ; Probably Ireland.

Date of production based on palaeographical features. Place of production based on Irish origins of other Parts of this manuscript.

Part 8 (M.R. James Part VI) [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405, ff. 247-251]

Contents

Language(s): Latin and Medieval French

1. 247v-248v
Letters patent of King Edward III regarding Ireland granted 1332/1333 Edward III, King of England
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 247v Edwardus dei gratia . Rex Anglie dominus hibernie et dux aquitanie
Explicit: 248v Teste me ipso apud Croydon . tercio die marcii . Anno regni regis quinto
2. 248v-249v
Representation of towns to the justice and state council of Ireland
Language(s): Medieval French
Incipit: 248v A vous Sire Iustice dirlande e an counseulle mon seygneur le Roy
Explicit: 249v le fey e la pees sour ...(?) forfaitre
Discussed and partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 122
3. 250r
Charter for Waterford granted by King Edward III in 1330/1331 Edward III, King of England
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 250r Edwardus dei gratia etcetera Omnibus ad quos presentes litere peruenerint salutem
Explicit: 250r Teste me ipso apud Westminster .xvmo. die . Ianuarii . Anno regis nostri quarto . per peticionem de consilio
4.
Grant to Johannis de ?Calwodeleye by Prior Walter and the Knights Hospitallers of Ireland
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 250v Vniuersis sancte matris(?) ecclesie filiis ad quos presens scriptum peruenerit ffrater walterus de Emirus(?) prior fratrum hospitalis Ierusalem in hibernia salutem . Nouerit vniuersitas vestra nos de communi consilio fratrum tocius caputili nostri in hibernia concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse Iohanni de Calwodeleye totam terram nostram de Dromconan.
Explicit: 250v in festo sancti micheli hiis testibus fratre laurentius . fratre stephano capellanis . fratre dauid de castellis . fratre nicholo de mai⟨nce⟩stre . fratre walter de lyndisheye . fratre rogero clerio . fratre Ad⟨em⟩ de sand⟨ime⟩ . et aliis

The grant is undated. It is possible that the 'Walter de Emirus' mentioned in the text may be the former prior of the Hospitallers in Kilmainham, Dublin, better known as Walter de Aqua / Walter Dewyas / Walter de Ewyas. The Registrum de Kilmainham (now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 501 ) contains a copy of a grant on ff. 61rv of a 'Frater Walterus de Ewyas' who seems to have been Grand Prior of the hospitallers in Ireland for an unknown duration during the first quarter of the 14th century. The grant in MS Rawlinson B 501 has a witness list which includes some of the same people who witnessed the grant in CCCC MS 405 including 'fratre Laurencio ... fratre Dauid de Castello ... fratre Waltero de Lindeseya, fratre Rogero clerico, fratre Ada de Suandime ...'.

The land referred to in the grant, 'Dromconan', probably refers to Drom Conáin / Drumcannon in County Waterford, Ireland.

5. 251r
Indulgences of Pope John XXII John XXII, Pope
Language(s): Latin with phrases in Middle English and Medieval French
Incipit: 251r Dominus papa Iohannes . Vicessimus secundus volens diuinium cultum ampliare et mentes fidelium
Explicit: 251r quil oient uomer ala messe ihesus ou maria .xx iors de pardoun ++

Dated 'Anno domini .mo.ccco.xviio' (1317).

Concludes with blessings and indulgence durations in Medieval French and Middle English.

The Middle English phrase is briefly discussed in IMEP 20, no. C3
Discussed and partially edited in N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993), p. 122
6. 251r
Verses on the temperaments from the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 251r Sanguineus| Largus amans hilaris Ridens Rubeique coloris | Cantans carnasus satis audax atque benignus| Flematicus| Hic somplnolentus piger insputamine multus| Est ebes hinc sensis pinguis facies color albus | Colericus| E(?)rsutus fallax irascens prodigus audax | Hastutus gracilis siccus croceique coloris | Malencolicus| Inuidus et tristis cupidus dextraque tenati | Non est expers fraudis timidus nigrique coloris

Full transcription. See also:

WIC 10131
eTK 0811N
7. 251v
Part of a Homily for the Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: || 251v non imperium mundi tenente qui secundus imperator de romanis fuit
Explicit: 251v erit tibi gaudium magnum et exultatio . et multi in natiuitate eius gaudebunt

Followed by responses ending in the words 'Elizabeth zacharie', now badly rubbed and very difficult to read.

8. 251v
Prayer to St Anthony of Padua
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: | O preclarum mundi iubar stella vespertina predicator uoto(?) martyr te decet laus bina per te nostra re(?)stauretur antoni ruina ...(?) ℞ Et lingua eius etc .| Ecclesiam tuam deus b⟨eati⟩ antonii confessoris tui commemorem(?) uotiua letificet ut spiritualibus semper muniatur auxiliis et gaudiis perfrui mereatur(?) eternis Per christum dominum nostrum AMEN

Text unclear due to abrasion of the leaf.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 248r: commodo Regis viderint faciendum
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 5 leaves.

Collation

Quire 23five (ff. 247-251; original quire structure undertermined, five leaves remain)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

In fair condition. The bottom quarter of folio 250 has been trimmed away with no obvious loss of text. Folio 251 (in particular the verso) is badly rubbed, perhaps due to former use as a pastedown, and some of the text is now very difficult to read.

Layout

160 × 110 mm. Folios 247v-250r ruled in light brown ink, frame and lines. Ruled in single-column format, typically 26 lines to the page, fewer lines on f. 250 due to trimming of the leaf. Folio 250v informally written.

175 × 115 mm. Folio 251r ruled in leadpoint, frame and lines. Ruled in single-column format, frame and lines, 34 lines to the page.

165 × 115 mm. Folio 251v: no ruling visible due to damage to leaf. Two formal scribal stints by different scribes, 20 lines above, 6 lines below.

Hand(s)

Folios 247v-250v written in a chancery hand in an anglicana style.

Folio 251 written in northern textualis libraria by three different scribes.

Decoration

Large plain initial 'I' in red on f. 251v.

Additions

Folio 247r: A note in ink in a medieval hand, 'pro effus sangui⟨ni⟩s item'.

Binding

Folio 251 perhaps used as a pastedown in a former binding as their is adhesive residue and significant loss of text due to rubbing (or peeling) on the verso.

History

Origin: 14th century, in or after 1332. ; ?Ireland or ?England.

Date and place of production based on palaeographical features. The Letters Patent of King Edward III on ff. 247v-248v are dated to the fifth year of Edward's reign (i.e., 1332/1333), so the copy must have been made after that date.

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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. 405; N. Wilkins, Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1993). Images and a description of the manuscript are also available on the Parker Library website: Corpus Christi College, MS 405.

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Custodial History

Recorded as no. 70 in Thomas James, Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis (1600).
Recorded as no. 1347 / no. 70 in Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, in unum collecti, cum indice alphabetico (c. 1697).
Recorded as 'G.4' in William Stanley, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Collegii Corporis Christi in Cantabrigia: Quos legauit Matthaeus Parkerus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis (1722) (see f. ii recto).
Recorded as no. 405 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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