Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries

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Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 204/110

Vetus liber archidiaconi eliensis

Contents

Introduction: Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 204/110 (hereafter MS 204/110) is a composite manuscript with the complexities of its production and use visible through every page of the small volume. MS 204/110 is now better known as the Vetus liber archidiaconi eliensis (The Old Book of the Archdeacons of Ely) and consists of various records and administrative notes of the archdeacons of Ely and members of their administrative office from the 13th to the 16th centuries, with the majority of the volume originating in the 13th century and being continually added to by subsequent scribes. Although the volume is now in an attractive binding, probably added in the 17th century, the frequently stained and damaged leaves and the small format of the quires are testament to the former administrative use of the gatherings within. MS 204/110 was given to Gonville and Caius as part of the bequest of William Moore (1590-1659) a manuscript collector and former fellow of Gonville and Caius College (c. 1615-1647). Moore resigned or was ejected from his fellowship in 1647, but by 1653 he had been appointed University Librarian and he remained in that position until his death in 1659, at which time, his personal book collection passed to his former College. Unfortunately, little is known about where Moore obtained the majority of his manuscripts and so their provenance can only be inferred through indirect evidence (see Pouzet 2017). In the case of MS 204/110, the book was presumably the property of the archdeacons from its creation in the 13th century, but whether it passed to Moore as a direct purchase from the diocese of Ely, or whether it passed through private ownership in the late 16th and early 17th centuries before finding its way into Moore's collection is unclear. MS 204/110 is full of the names of individuals who are otherwise unknown to the historical record, but one former user of the book may have been Rowland Taylor who was executed as a Protestant martyr in Aldham Common, near Hadleigh in Suffolk in 1555. There is a signature on p. 1, 'Rolandus Tayler officialis' in ink in a hastily written 16th century hand - Feltoe and Minns in their generally masterful edition of MS 204/110 noted the Rowland Taylor annotation, but did not consider the Rowland Taylor who was martyred in 1555 to be a credible candidate for identification with this annotation as they dated the hand to the 15th century, and apparently did not know of Taylor's role in the diocese of Ely. J. S. Craig wrote about Taylor's life and career and brought to light Taylor's appointment as an official of the archdeacon of Ely from c. 1539, but did not know of MS 204/110. Taken together, the signature on p. 1 and Craig's work that independently shows Taylor's role within the diocese, it is strongly probable that the signature on p. 1 is that of Rowland Taylor, the Protestant reformer and preacher who was executed in 1555. Much of the content of MS 204/110 is administrative in nature and one of the largest sequences of records, from pp. 55-125 concerns the inventories of churches and chapels within the Ely deaneries, their rents owed, and whether they were to be appropriated from other jurisdictions. The core of the inventories was begun by the earliest group of scribes who worked on the volume (the 'A Group' as assigned by Feltoe and Minns) who worked c. 1277-1278 to c. 1284, and then these inventories and parish records were constantly updated by members of the office of the archdeacon as new surveys were done and new administrative arrangements were applied to the parishes. In addition to all of the administrative records, there is a medical recipe on p. 42, containing a version of the recipe for eye problems supposedly created for King Edward I by Nicholas de Tyngewick. There is another version of the recipe in another Curious Cures manuscript,  Cambridge, St John's College, MS E.6, 'Thomas Betson's Notebook', f. 107r, ln. 9 seq , although in the St John's manuscript, the recipe is incorrectly stated to have been developed for King Edward III by de Tyngewick. Master Nicholas de Tyngewick is a relatively well-attested figure, who is known to have taken care of King Edward I when he became sick while staying at Lanercost Priory in 1306. Other than the discrepancy over which King Edward the recipe was developed for, the versions in MS 204/110 and Cambridge, St John's College MS E.6 are remarkably similar, and list the majority of their plants and the processing methods in the same order, which shows that there was good stability in the transmission of even ephemeral medical recipes (i.e., not ones that belonged to the big Salernitan receptaria) in late medieval England, as the MS 204/110 version of the recipe was probably copied in the late 14th century, and the St John's College version dates from the early 16th century. Dr Sarah Gilbert| Project Cataloguer| Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries References:
Venn/ACAD MR606W2
Venn/ACAD TLR529R
ODNB DOI: 10.1093/ref:odnb/19152
ODNB DOI: 10.1093/ref:odnb/27079
Cambridgeshire Record Office, archdeaconry of Ely will register, I, I 529-44, ff. 58v, 69v
C. L. Feltoe, and E. H. Minns, eds., Vetus Liber Archidiaconi Eliensis, Cambridge Antiquarian Society XLVIII(Cambridge, 1917), esp. pp. xxxii-xxxvi, 1-2 and 208-209
C. H. Talbot, and E. A. Hammond, The Medical Practitioners in Medieval England : A Biographical Register (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965)
J. S. Craig, 'Reformers, conflict, and revisionism: the Reformation in sixteenth-century Hadleigh', The Historical Journal 42.1 (1999), pp. 1-23 and esp., n. 48 on the Ely Will Register, demonstrating Taylor's official connection with Ely.
J.-P. Pouzet, 'Towards Reconstructing Manuscript-Collecting in 17th-c. Cambridge: Observations on William Moore’s Catalogue and Some Manuscripts', Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes / Etudes Médiévales Anglaises, 91.1 (2017), 55–70, DOI: 10.3406/bamed.2017.1189

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: All medieval leaves are parchment
Extent: Codex: 2 + 1 | 63 | 5 | 45 + 2 leaves. 175 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

?16th-century pagination

[i]-[iv] + 1-2 | 3-128 | 129-138 | 139-228 + [v]-[viii]

Paginated in light brown ink in a ?16th century hand in the upper outer corner of each recto. In order to produce a functional TEI-XML catalogue record, the paper endleaves were assigned page designations [i]-[iv] and [v]-[viii], and these designations are enclosed in [square brackets] throughout the record.
Foliation:

?Late 15th- or ?early 16th-foliation

1-11 13 12 14-21 for the present pp. 3-43

Foliated in dark ink in a ?late 15th or ?early 16th century hand in the centre of the lower margin of each recto of the present pp. 3-43. The folio designations no longer appear in the correct sequence and 'f. 13' (the present pp. 25-26) appears before 'f. 12' (the present pp. 27-28).

Collation

This is a composite manuscript with a complex codicological presentation and the collation cannot be established with absolute certainty due to the informal establishment of the volume, the loss of several leaves, and the tightness of the present binding. The structure of the volume appears to be as follows:

  • Parchment endleaf (pp. 1-2) |
  • Parchment endleaf (pp. 3-4 3-4) +
  • Quire 14 (pp. 5-12)
  • Quire 28-1 + 1 (pp. 13-28: original 8th leaf missing, the current 7th leaf is a singleton and was originally a replacement 8th leaf, but was taken down and incorrectly remounted so that it is now the 7th leaf in the quire)
  • Quire 36 (pp. 29-40)
  • Quire 4?4-1 (pp. 41-46: 3 leaves remain)
  • Quire 54 (pp. 47-54)
  • Quire 66 (pp. 55-66)
  • Quire 7?10 (pp. 67-84: 9 leaves remain)
  • Quire 88 (pp. 85-100)
  • Quire 98 (pp. 101-116)
  • Quire 106 (pp. 117-128) |
  • Quire 116-1 (pp. 129-138: 6th leaf lost) |
  • Quire 12?10-4 (pp. 139-150: stubs visible for original first and second leaf, original 9th and 10th leaves also gone)
  • Quire 132 (pp. 151-154)
  • Quire 1410 (pp. 155-174)
  • Quire 154 (pp. 175-182)
  • Quire 16?6-1 (pp. 183-192: 5 leaves remain)
  • Quire 178 (pp. 193-208)
  • Quire 186 (pp. 209-220)
  • Quire 194 (pp. 221-228)

Two parchment endleaves + 14 28-1 + 1 (original 8th leaf missing, the 7th a singleton and incorrectly remounted before the 8th) 36 4?4-1 54 66 7?10 88 98 106 116-1 (6th lost) 12?10-4 132 1410 154 16?6-1 178 186 194

No medieval leaf signatures common to the entire volume.

No quire signatures common to the entire volume.

No catchwords common to the entire volume.

Hand(s)

Due to the accumulative, vade mecum nature of the booklets in the volume, several of the hands in this manuscript appear in several Parts of the manuscript. Feltoe and Minns produced an inventory of the main scribes and assigned them to six roughly chronological groups (A-F) and their inventory of the hands is summarised below. The 'A Group' are the original hands which wrote the Inventories of churches and made brief mention of quasi-parochial chapels of Newton, Coton and Steeple Morden; Feltoe and Minns determined that the 'A Group' were probably active c. 1277-1278 and before 1284 at the latest due to the combinations of events referred to in their stints. The 'B Group' as determined by Feltoe and Minns denotes 'the first layer of additions between the compiling of the lists c. 1278 and the appearance of Ralph de Fodringhey's dated entries in 1304'. According to Feltoe and Minns, stints by the 'B Group' includes the Inventories of Howes and Benwich chapels and other chapels including Linton, Kneesworth, Royston, Redreth, Emneth, Whittlesey St Andrew, Benwick and March, as well as most of the notes about summonses. The 'C Group' were determined by Feltoe and Minns to be the group of scribes connected with Ralph de Foderinghey's activities c. 1304-1316. The 'D Group' as determined by Feltoe and Minns is small, just two scribes, and Feltoe and Minns suggest the possibility that the 'D Group' is actually just one scribe with a rather loose and careless aspect. The 'D Group' always follows work by Scribe C2 and was probably active around and shortly after 1320 as it mentions Thomas de Abinton as Vicar of St Botolph's Cambridge who succeeded to that role c. 1320. The 'E Group' as determined by Feltoe and Minns consists of two scribes seemingly active in the middle of the 14th century before 1351. According to Feltoe and Minns it is 'very hard to draw the line' between the 'E' and 'F' Groups. The 'F Group' consists of the final group of scribes working on the manuscript who had probably ceased their activities by 1401 at the latest. Readers of this record are encouraged to consult Feltoe and Minns, esp. pp xxxiii-xxxvi for further information.

Scribe A1 is the 'main hand' of the Inventories of churches found on pp. 55-125. Scribe A1 must have been working before 1284 at the latest as he copied a note about St Peter extra portam (now St Mary the Less) as belonging to St John's Hospital and not to Peterhouse, under whose jurisdiction it fell after 1284.

Scribe A2 is an untidy hand responsible for the entry on Barton p. 95.

Scribe A3 is responsible for pp. 117-122.

Scribe A4 is responsible for the entry on Wilburton and Chatteris on p. 123 which mentions the Visitation of 1278.

Scribe A5 is responsible for the entry on Whittlesey St Mary on p. 124.

Scribe A° is responsible for p. 46. Scribe A°'s work is badly damaged through rubbing, and Feltoe and Minns caution that Scribe A° might actually be a hand belonging to Group B.

Scribe B1 occurs over erasures on pp. 80-84, 106 123, and 124. Scribe B1 also seems to be responsible for entries on 'fresh' surfaces on p. 100, and the beginning of the list of chapelries on p. 52.

Scribe B2 is responsible for entries on pp. 123 and 125. Feltoe and Minns describe Scribe B2 as the 'most characteristic [of the B group]'.

Scribe B3 'may be more than one hand' according to Feltoe and Minns and 'generally presents the first additions made to a list, but follows B1 and B2'. An example of Scribe B3's work appears in the text for Linton

Scribe B4 has 'a rather ornamental hand of rare occurence' according to Feltoe and Minns. Scribe B4 occurs on p. 58, 89 and 102.

Scribe C1 is respobsible for entries dated during Ralph de Fodringhey's activities and copied notes on Tydd on p. 108 and Wendy p. 101 dated to 1304 and 1305 respectively.

Scribe C2 is present throughout the Inventories and includes dates from 1304-1311; according to Feltoe and Minns, the hand 'varies a great deal'.

Scribe D1 is present throughout the Inventories and always follows Scribe C2. According to Feltoe and Minns, Scribe D1 is capable of writing with an 'elaborate' and a 'careless' aspect, although Feltoe and Minns go on to say that the two forms may in fact reflect the work of two different scribes. Scribe D1 was probably active around and shortly after 1320 as it mentions Thomas de Abinton as Vicar of St Botolph's Cambridge who succeeded to that role c. 1320.

Scribe D2 is 'the most ambitious hand in the book, though very uneven [...], but it can be recognised by a curious yellow ink and the spelling spalterium'. Feltoe and Minns say that D2's hand 'recalls the hand in which the Advocates' names are entered in 1306 p. 43, but the dates hardly allow of an identification'.

Scribe D3 is not a designation assigned by Feltoe and Minns, but their survey of the hands in Gonville and Caius MS 204/110 includes a reference in the 'D Group' discussion to 'the mention of T. de Pateshall at Granchester (1324-1331), p. 95, [...] made in a hand which does not recur.'

Scribe E1, according to Feltoe and Minns, 'also uses bright yellow ink' and is 'only concerned with appropriations and procurations, Cambridge All SS. ad Castrum, St Sepulchre, St Michael, St Mary, St Peter extra portam, Abington Great and Little, Barrington and Trumpington. The latter gives 1344 as a terminus post quem. It does not give the appropriation of Whaddon in 1351 or Litlington in 1358.

Scribe E2 is 'a curious back-sloping hand' that records the appropriation of Litlington to Clare Hall and a fair number of additions. Feltoe and Minns think that Scribe E2 also seems to recur in some of the model letters from the official on pp. 185-191.

Scribe F1 has a 'coarse' hand according to Feltoe and Minns.

Scribe F2 has a 'light' hand according to Feltoe and Minns and 'seems to have copied the Constitution on p. 128, perhaps the memorandum dated 1386 on p. 127.'

Scribe F3 has a 'cursive' hand according to Feltoe and Minns.

Scribe F4 occurs on p. 64 and the entries on pp. 127-128 dated 1383 and 1389.

Scribe F5 supplies 'the appropriations of Long Stanton All SS. (p. 86) in 1380 and Pampisford dated 1387 (p. 79).

Binding

?17th-century binding. Rebacked. Fully bound in leather over wood boards with matching blind-tooled decoration to front and rear covers. A decorative roll of alternate ovals and maltese crosses present at the perimeter of the boards. A narrow dotted single-fillet frame with Oxford corners inset from the perimeter of the boards by c. 15 mm and enclosing a large centre panel. The centre panel is filled with concentric frames formed with an arcaded roll (c. 8mm wide) with a stylised fleur-de-lis motif in each arcade; the concentric arcade-rolls continue inward until a small rectangular inner panel of c. 20x80mm (w x h) remains at the centre of the cover. A small ?daisy fleuron impressed at each corner of the small inner panel.

The rear cover is damaged with a number of small straight and lunate marks and gouges, perhaps indicating chained storage at an earlier time.

Four raised bands on the spine. Spine is capped at head and tail, and no head or tail tabs or bands are visible. A title for the the volume tooled in gold on the spine: 'VETUS LIBER ELIENSIS'. Two small printed paper labels fixed to the spine '204' in black and '110' in red for the present shelfmark.

The cover leather over the head, fore, and tail edges of the boards decorated with a gilded geometric roll (not photographed).

Paper pastedowns pasted over the turn ins. The front pastedown contains a Gonville and Caius College bookplate, the rear pastedown is blank.

There are two paper endleaves at each end of the volume, pp. [i]-[iv] and [v]-[viii]. Page [iv] contains a note in ink in an ?18th century hand describing the contents of the volume.

There is no information available about when the volume was rebacked.

Evidence of a former binding present in the form of rust staining and damage in the centre of the outer margin of pp. 1-2; this type of damage is typically caused by a metal fastening across the fore edge of the volume.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned by William Moore (1590-1659) , manuscript collector and former fellow of Gonville and Caius College (c. 1615-1647). The manuscript appears in Moore's catalogue of his collection as 'A 27' with the following description: | '1. Liber Archidiaconatus Eliensis in pergamena in quo continentur multa ad Academiam Cantabrig. Spectantia | 2. Statuta Synodalia au£toritate Episco. Eliensis | 3. Compositio inter Episcop Eliensem et Acad. Cantabrigiensem 1276 | 4. Taxatio Parochiarum Dioces. Eliens. | 5. Iuramentum Commissio et Mag. Glomeriae | 6. Tenor Laudi Lati per Archiep. Catuar inter Episcop. Eliens. et Archidiaconum'

Given to Gonville and Caius c. 1659 by William Moore . Moore resigned or was ejected from his fellowship in 1647, but by 1653 he had been appointed University Librarian and he remained in that position until his death in 1659. Moore died in 1659 and left his personal collection of c. 150 manuscripts to Gonville and Caius.

For further information about Moore see:

Venn/ACAD MR606W2 (or Venn, I. 192)
ODNB DOI: 10.1093/ref:odnb/19152

Part 1: Fragment of an account roll [Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 204/110, pp. 1-2]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1-2
Domestic accounts and expenses
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 1 Elemosina
Explicit: 2 Canes

Part of a roll of domestic expenses. Page 1 is upside-down. Both sides of the leaf badly rubbed and mostly illegible.

A paper label with the number '204' for part of the present shelfmark written in ink in a ?17th century hand fixed to p. 1 with an adhesive

See Feltoe and Minns, pp. 1-2

Physical Description

Form: roll
Support: Parchment
Extent: Fragment of a roll, now bound as an endleaf. 1 leaf. 173 × 103 mm.

Collation

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

In poor condition, very rubbed and dirty; most of the text is now very difficult to read. The leaf has been remounted on a paper guard strip.

Layout

173 × 103 mm. No ruling visible. The leaf is cut down from a larger roll and the text extends to the limits of the leaf.

Hand(s)

Written in a 14th-century anglicana hand.

Decoration

No notable decorative elements in this Part

Additions

On p. 1 the words 'Blomf.1727. Extr', this is a reference to some extracts made from the volume by the antiquarian Francis Blomefield (d. 1752) who obtained a BA from Gonville and Caius in 1727 and made a series of extracts from this manuscript into some of his personal notebooks. The extracts are likely to be among  Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gough Camb. 48-50

On p. 1, the words 'Rolandus Tayler officialis' in ink in a 16th century hand. It is very likely that the 'Rolandus Tayler' who signed his name is the the Rowland Taylor who was executed as a Protestant martyr in 1555. Taylor was ordained exorcist and acolyte in 1528, and was an Official of the archdeacon of Ely from c. 1539 (see Craig, 1999).

Feltoe and Minns first deciphered the Rowland Taylor annotation, but did not consider the Rowland Taylor who was martyred in 1555 to be a credible candidate for identification with this annotation as they dated the hand to the 15th century, and apparently did not know of Taylor's role in the diocese of Ely.

ODNB DOI: 10.1093/ref:odnb/27079
Venn/ACAD TLR529R
See Feltoe and Minns, pp. 1-2 and 208-209
Cambridgeshire Record Office, archdeaconry of Ely will register, I, I 529-44, ff. 58v, 69v
J. S. Craig, 'Reformers, conflict, and revisionism: the Reformation in sixteenth-century Hadleigh', The Historical Journal 42.1 (1999), pp. 1-23 and esp., n. 48 on the Ely Will Register, demonstrating Taylor's official connection with Ely.

History

Origin: Probably 14th century. ; England, probably Ely.

Part 2: Miscellaneous documents and texts [Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 204/110, pp. 3-128]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

5
Note on heresies
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 5 Hereses interime : scismata tu destrue : firma pacis federa . Amen
Incipit: 5 Nota . Quoniam repertum est in ecclesia Sarum
Explicit: 5 Et nouit quod iste indulgencie duplicantur quadragesima
Final rubric: 5 hereses interime scismata tu de

According to Feltoe and Minns, this text was written in a late 15th century hand.

'Ihesus maria' written in the upper margin by the scribe of the rest of the text on p. 5.

The text on p. 5 is struck through.

Page 6 blank.

Additions in a ?17th century italic hand in upper and lower margin:| [Upper margin] in iure ciuili| [Lower margin, upside down] O utinam tunc cum Lacedemona classe petebat

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 3
7-10
Ordinance of Babraham
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 7 Hec est ordinacio inter dominum Iohannem de Scalarijs de Badburham ex parte una . Et Iohannem dauid ex altera in tribus scriptis in modum . Cirographi confecta . de quibus vna pars remanet penes dominum de scalariis , altera pars penes dominum . Henricum priorem de angleseye . tercia pars penes dominum . Johannem david
Explicit: 10 presenti scripto sigillum suum vna cum sigillis predictorum apposuit

A Draft version of this text also appears on pp. 25-26.

Babraham is a village in Cambridgeshire, England.

Written in a neat 15th century English textualis libraria.

Title 'Badburham' written in the upper margin of 7 in a cursiva hand.

Page 11 blank.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 4-6
12
Expenses for Swavesey and Dry Drayton
Language(s): Middle English with rubric in Latin
Rubric: 12 Expense et soluciones pro Swavesey et drydrayton per priorem Cartusiensem
Incipit: 12 In primis for ye ferme of ye oarsibage of Swavesey and for Rent of Drydrayton at Candilmess and Exaltacion of ye holy crosse
Explicit: 12 Item for ye decay of a mese at ye Crose iijs iiijd
Final rubric: 12 prior cartusiensis iuxta Coventriam

Written in a late 15th century English cursiva.

Swavesey and Dry Drayton are villages in Cambridgeshire, England.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 6
13
Chronological accountingnotes
Language(s): Latin

There are dates in the first, second, and fifth notes, 1452, 1453, and 1454 respectively.

Notes recorded in late 15th century English cursiva of varying formality by at least six different scribes.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 6-7
14-16
Constitucio Octoboni de concubinariis
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 14 Constitucio Octoboni De concubinariis
Incipit: 14 Qam indecorum sit et puritati christiane contrarium pollutis manibus labijs et manibus sacra contingere uel laudem offerre munditis aut seipsum fedatum luxuris maculis in templo domini presentare
Explicit: 16 in ipsum latam efficaciter exequatur donec ad penitentiam redeat salutarem

Written in a 15th century English cursiva.

Followed by a note in another 15th century English cursiva hand on p. 16: 'Istud capitulum debet legi et declarari in omni generali capitulo presbiteris ibidem comparentibus et eodem die debent videri litere ordinum et presbiteri debent prestare iuramentum obediencie domino Archidiacono et eius ministris presbiteri vero non comparentes debent suspendi a celebracione divinorum

Edited (not from this MS) in Constitutiones Legatinae Sive Legitimae Regionis Anglicanae D. Othonis, et D. Othoboni, Cardinalium & Sedis Romanae in Anglia legatorum (Oxford, 1679), pp. 92-95
17
Statuta regis que dicuntur articuli cleri
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 17 Statuta Regis que dicuntur Articuli cleri
Incipit: 17 Rex omnibus ad quos etc Salutem Sciatis quod dudum temporibus
Explicit: 17 per prelatos et clerum regni nostri ||

Text ends abruptly.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 7
18
Notes on the papacies of Pius II and Callixtus III
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: | Anno domini millesimo ccccmo lxiijco indiccione xija pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri pape Pii secundi Anno sexto xxiijco die octobris| Sexto die mensis Augisti anno domini Mo ccccmo lviijo obijt pape Calistus tertius Et decimo Nono . die eiusdem mensis electus erat pape Pius secundus in papam'

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 7
19-23
Constitucio pro questoribus et procuratoribus de Acon
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 19 Constitucio pro questoribus et procuratoribus de Acon
Incipit: 19 Cum recolende memorie dominus henricus chichely
Explicit: 22-23 quam id quod in redula praesentibus annexa in vulgari conscripta vel aliquorum de confratribus nostris literis seriosius continetur ||
Printed (not from this MS) in Wilkins, Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae, a synodo verolamiensi A.D. CCCC XLVI. ad londinensem A.D. M DCCXVII. Accedunt constitutiones et alia ad historiam Ecclesiae Anglicanae spectantia, 3 vols (London, 1737), vol. III, p. 557
23-24
Notes reconciling calendar years to the papal term of Pius II
Language(s): Latin

Dates in the notes fall between 1460-1463.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 8
25-26
Ordinance of Babraham
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 25 Hec est ordinacio inter dominum Iohannem de Scalariis de Badburham ex parte una et Iohannem dauid ex altera in tribus scriptis in modum cirographi confecta de quibus vna pars remanet penes dominum Iohannem de scalariis , altera pars penes dominum Henricum priorem de angleseye . tercia pars penes dominum Iohannem david
Explicit: 10 presenti scripto sigillum suum vna cum sigillis predicorum apposuit

Final version of this text also appears on pp. 7-10.

Babraham is a villiage in Cambridgeshire, England.

Written in a 15th century English cursiva.

Palimpsest text, written over a washed or scraped leaf of an account roll similar in appearance to pp. 1-2.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 4-6
27
Note on a chantry at Borough Green
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| 'Clasula cantarie annunciacionis beate marie virginis de Burgh pro episcopo Eliensi et archidiacono'

Feltoe and Minns determined that this note referred to a chantry founded in 1445 in the south side of the chancel at Borough Green by the D Burgh family. See Feltoe and Minns p. 215 for more information.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 9, and discussed p. 215.
28
Notes reconciling calendar years to the papal term of Callixtus III
Language(s): Latin

Dates in the notes fall between 1456-1457.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 9
28
Notes of transactions
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| 'M Io Combe in villa de Westham per quinque millaria citra london | M Ric Sokburn xxij die fe⟨bruarii⟩ Tho Morgan procuratorem suum curia archidiaconi(?)'

Written in fifteenth century English cursiva by two scribes.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 9, and discussed p. 215
29-40
Statuta synodalia
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 29 [A]d honorem domini nostri ihesu christi et sancte matris et ⟨sancte⟩ ecclesie et profectum animarum
Explicit: 40 sed ab eo pro uoluntate superioris reuocetur sicut in sacro canone est expressum
Final rubric: 40 Expliciunt statuta synodalia

Written in an early 14th century English textualis libraria, with an idiosyncratic retro-flicked tail on long s.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 9-16, and discussed pp. 215-220
40
Ecclesiastical note
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: | [Rectores] autem Ecclesiarum siue vicariis siue capellani fue⟨rint⟩ qui decimas propter formidinem hominum siue propter fauo⟨rem⟩ dei timore postposito

Feltoe and Minns note that this is part of the Constitution, a larger part of which is present in this MS on p. 192

According to Feltoe and Minns, this note is written in a 'C' group hand.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 16, and see also pp. 179-180 and notes.
40
Inventory of the chapel at Howes, Cambridgeshire
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| Capella de houwes .j. missale .j. calix et .j. uestimentum due tuallie benedicte et due fiole et j. turribulum et .j. super altare

Howes is a former hamlet in Cambridgeshire near presentday Girton.

According to Feltoe and Minns, this note is written in a 'B' group hand.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 16 and discussed pp. 220-221
40
Two partial ecclesiastical notes
Language(s): Latin

According to Feltoe and Minns, these notes may be in the hand of Scribe E2.

The opening words of both notes have been lost due to rubbing.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 16
41
Inventory of the chapel at Benwick, Cambridgeshire
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: | Benewyc . ornamenta capelle .j. missale .j. gradale[sic] .j. antiphonarium .j. legenda .j. manuale .j. psalterium .j. troperium . duo paria vestimentorum unus calix unum duo frontalia . duo tuallie . due phiole . due cruces . lucerna . turibulum . pixis ad eucharistiam . velum quadragesimale .j. superpellicum .j. rochetta

Written in a 15th century English cursiva.

This inventory appears again in almost identical form in this MS on p. 124, the version of the inventory on p. 41 has one fewer frontal (the number on p. 41 has been altered from unum to duo), and one fewer surplice than the list on p. 124

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 16
41
Poem in Latin
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| Muscas et mures febres fratres quoque fures| In mundo plures deus hos confundere cures| Musca mouet mentem facit herum flectere flere| Vix vadit in ventrem nisi vertat viscera vere| Sic fratres fatui dominos dominant dominanti| ac incensati famulos frangunt infatuati| vnde ad ephesios(?) legatur fratres nolumos vos | Si carmelite veniant dic omnibus ite | si predicatores stent foras ante(?) fores | si sint minores hiis nullos ergo datores | nec augustinis hos cede tere minis | pauper vexatus peregrans puer et ceteratus(?) | prengans vagantes non peccant bis comedentes

According to Feltoe and Minns this poem was copied by an 'F Group' scribe.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 16-17
Walther, CMAPL II/2, no. 15792
Lines 12-13 are similar to Walther, CMAPL I, no. 14409
41
Prognostic text
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| In anno iij dies sunt et iij noctes in quibus si quis genitus fuerit sine dubio corpus eius integrum manet vsque in diem iudicij s⟨cilicet⟩ vj Kalend aprilis primus dies augusti et iij Kalend ffebruarii et est mirabile misterium Et isti sunt dies pre aliis obseruandi s⟨cilicet⟩ .viij. Kalend aprilis primus dies augusti et iijius Kalend decembris . Qui in hiis diebus hominem vel puerum inciderit tercia die morietur . Et si quis in predictis diebus natus fuerit mala morte morietur

According to Feltoe and Minns, this text may have been copied by Scribe F5

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 17
41
Poem ?to prevent fevers
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| versus| Quarto vel quinto Junii de parte kalendas| dextra cum leua faciens sic quolibet anno| non visum perdes nec febris flagra timebis

A similar text present in Yale, Beinecke Library, MS Takamiya 46, f. 1v, ll. 10-13 .

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 17
42
Extract from a letter advocating for people to be able to make their wills without interference or pressure to make particular bequests
Language(s): Latin

This text seems to be part of a letter composed by Ralph de Fodringhey, archdeacon of Ely c. 1288-1316, advocating for people whether they are freemen, villeins, unfree or any other status ('liberos ascripticios servos vel alios') to be able to make their wills without interference or pressure to make particular bequests.

The text is followed by words in a late 14th century hand, 'Est mea mens mota pro te speciosa'.

According to Feltoe and Minns this text is copied in a 'C Group' hand.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 17
42
Medical recipe
Language(s): Latin

For all ailments of the eyes. Full transcription: | Est quedam aqua nobilis pro omni vicio oculorum que quidem aqua . Dominus Rex Edwardus pater utebatur(?) per consilium magistri Nicholai de Tyngewyco et aliorum medicorum peritissimorum . R . T . herbarum feniculi rute(?) eufrasie . veruene . Tormentille betonice rubre(?) rostri porcinisowethistil gallatriciioculus christi ipiechekynmete pimpernelle rubre(?) donie pionie filaginis foliorum vitis apii ...(?) nie(?) caprifolijwodebynde . ana . prima die trite ponantur(?) in albo secunda die in urina pueri masculi(?) et vir⟨ginis⟩ tercia die in lacte mulieris Quarta die in bono . et tunc postea distillentur in aqua. Hinc(?) custodiatur in vase vitreo quia est aquarum nobilissima pro omni causa

According to Feltoe and Minns this text may have been copied by Scribe F1.

Another version of this recipe in  Cambridge, St John's College, MS E.6, 'Thomas Betson's Notebook', f. 107r, ln. 9 seq . The Cambridge, St John's College, MS E.6 version of the recipe is transcribed in J. Adams, and S. Forbes (eds.), The Syon Abbey Herbal: The Last Monastic Herbal in England, c. AD 1517: From St. John’s College, Cambridge Manuscript 109 (E.6) (London: AMCD, 2015), p. 279. Adams and Forbes read the initial of the medical practitioner's name in the St John's College MS as a 'W' and expanded the name as 'Willelmi', but the initial in Cambridge, St John's College MS E.6 is 'N' and should be expanded to 'Nicholai, in agreement with the name in Gonville and Caius MS 204/110. A Nicholas de Tyngewick (Tingewick) was a royal physician to King Edward I and provided significant treatment when the king was taken ill at Lanercost Priory in 1306; Tyngewick was later associated with the royal court of King Edward II - see C. H. Talbot, and E. A. Hammond, The Medical Practitioners in Medieval England : A Biographical Register (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965).

Similar recipe in  Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.8.12, f. i (front pastedown) .

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 17-18
43
List of names of advocates dated 1280
Language(s): Latin

Feltoe and Minns suggest this note was copied in a 'B Group' hand.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 24
43
List of names of advocates and ?proctors dated 1306
Language(s): Latin

Feltoe and Minns suggest this note was copied in a 'C Group' hand, perhaps by Scribe C2.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 24
44
Note for costs associated with the installation of priors at Angelsey, Barnwell and Thorney Abbeys
Language(s): Latin

Feltoe and Minns suggest that the note is in a 14th century cursive, perhaps written by a 'C Group' scribe.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 24
44
Note about the selection of an advocate dated 1349
Language(s): Latin

Written in the yellow ink of a 'D group' or 'E group' scribe.

The note mentions a 'Magister Iacobus de Cotenham', who was selected to be sent as an advocatorum iuratorum on the Friday after the feast of Saint James the Apostle [25 July] 1349, i.e., 31 July 1349.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 24
44
Note about the selection of a proctor dated 1351
Language(s): Latin

The note mentions a 'Magister Simon Dayngree', who was selected to be sent as an procurator on the Monday after the Epiphany 1351, i.e., 10 January 1351.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 25
44
Fees for wills
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 44 Declaracio constitucionis adeo quorundam
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 25
45-46
Inventories of church properties
Language(s): Latin

Text on p. 46 badly damaged due to rubbing.

According to Feltoe and Minns the inventory on p. 46 was written by Scribe A°, and then the back of the leaf was used later by an 'F Group' scribe to add supplemental information.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 29-31
47
Notes on the Itinerary of the Archbishop Kilwardby's Visitation to to the Diocese of Ely winter 1277/1278
Language(s): Latin

This page probably once followed the text on what is now p. 183.

According to Feltoe and Minns, this text was copied by a 'B Group' scribe with 15th century additions.

Followed by a note possibly in the hand of Scribe F2 according to Feltoe and Minns: 'Nota quod duplex est beatitudo anime, una obiectiua alia subiectiua . obiectiua non potest augmentari quia fruicio obiectia al' sic '

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 19-20
48-50
Statement of the jurisdiction of the Archdeacon of Ely and the Chancellor of Cambridge University made c. 1276
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 48 Vniuersis christi fidelibus presentes literas inspecturis . Hufo dei gratia Elyensis episcopis salutem in domino
Explicit: 50 Ita quod si necessarium fuerit superiorum auxilium in hiis de quibus ecclesia iudicat ad nos uel ad Officialem nostrum recurssus habeatur . Salva nobis et successoribus nostris potestate addendi detrahendi corrigendi imitandi uel minuendi inposterum sicut nobis et ipsis visum fuerit expedire . Data et acta Anno Domini .mo.cco.lxxmo sexto apud Dunham in octabis beati michelis
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns pp. 20-23
51
Notes about the proper process for consanguinity enquiries
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 51 In computatione graduum de parentela interrogentur testes a stipite computando gradus ex utroque latere
Explicit: 51 de gradibus habentes se pro consanguinensis

Feltoe and Minns suggest that this may be in the same hand that coped the text on pp. 48-50

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns p. 25
51
Note on a transaction
Language(s): Latin

Feltoe and Minns suggest that this note was possibly copied by a 'D Group' scribe.

This note on p. 51 is badly rubbed, but mentions a 'magistri Iohannis Grays' the rector of the church at Balsham in Cambridgeshire and a 'dominum Willelmum De capellanum'

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns p. 25
51
Notes on an incest dispute
Language(s): Latin

Feltoe and Minns suggest that this note may be in the hand of Scribe E2.

Full transcription of the notes on p. 51:| Simon de Kynnwell cum Agnete uxore de Kynnwell fratris sui pro incesto

Followed by a name 'Margareta Brusse de Pelham

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns p. 25
51
Notes on an adultery dispute
Language(s): Latin

Feltoe and Minns suggest that this note may be in the hand of Scribe E2.

Full transcription of the note on p. 51:| Cantebr⟨igie⟩ apud segehall| Matheus de Gayton cum Lora West uxore Rogeri Prest de Pyncote pro adulterio

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns p. 25
51
Poem about the duties of those that serve a bishop
Language(s): Latin

According to Feltoe and Minns, the poem is in a late 14th century hand.

Full transcription: | Qui facit incestum deflorans ac homicida | Sacrilegus patrum percussor sic sodomita | Transgressor voti periurus sortilegusque | Et mentita fides , faciens incendia prolis | Oppressor blasfemus hereticus omnis adulter | Ponitificem super hiis omnis deuotus adibit | Isti sunt casus seruandi episcopo (this line in outer margin)

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns p. 26
WIC 15482 (see also 9170)
52
Annual rents due from various chapels in the diocese of Ely
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 52 Redditus annus[sic] debitus de capellis in dyocesi

According the Feltoe and Minns, the beginning of the list was copied by Scribe B1, and then various later scribes added to the list between c. 1280 and c. 1380 in any available space on the leaf.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns p. 26
52-53
Anathema
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 52 Sentencia generalis vniuersalis ecclesie ter in anno
Incipit: 52 Ex autoritate dei patris omnipotentis et filii et spiritus sancti et omnium sanctorum dei et sanctie dei ecclesie , excommunicamus dampnamus anathematizamus et a liminibus sancte matris ecclesie sequestramus pacis rengni perturbatores . Iura . libertates . et consuetudines ecclesiasticas auferentes . et bonorum . ecclesie raptores et omnes ecclesie dei libertatibus per vim violentiam adhibendo resistentes
Explicit: 53 et sicut extinguntur hee lucerne , ita extinguantur anime eorum in inferno cum diabolo et angelis eius nisi resipiscant et ad satisfaccionem et emendacionem condingnam veniant
Final rubric: 53 fiat . fiat . fiat amen . Psalmus . Deus vlcionem etc.

Written in a late 13th century hand.

The main text is followed by a note that Feltoe and Minns suggest might be in the hand of Scribe F3: | Cum redit october indicco fit noua semper| Quatuor atque tribus hiis est prelata diebus| and then another note in a late 14th century hand: | Amen dico vobis super omnia bona sua

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns pp. 27-28
54
Dues from deaneries
Language(s): Latin

The leaf has suffered significant damage due to rubbing. A transcription of what can still be read is printed in Feltoe and Minns who suggest that the accounts may have been copied by the same scribe who copied p. 126.

Fully transcribd in Feltoe and Minns p. 28
55-62
Inventories for Churches and Chapels in the Cambridge Deaneries
Language(s): Latin
55
Saint Radegund's

Page 55: 'Ecclesia omnium sanctorum In Iudaismo taxatur xl.s. appropriata est monialibus sancte Radegundis'

55
Saint Michael's

Page 55: 'Ecclesia sancti michaelis'

56
Saint Mary's

Page 56: 'Ecclesia sancte marie'

56
Saint John's

Page 56: 'Ecclesia sancte Iohannis in melnestrete'

57
Saint Edward's

Page 57: 'Ecclesia sancti Edwardi'

57
Holy Trinity

Page 57: 'Ecclesia sancte trinitatis'

58
Saint Andrew's

Page 58: 'Ecclesia sancti Andree'

58
Saint Benedict's

Page 58: 'Ecclesia sancti Benedicti'

59
Saint Botolph's

Page 59: 'Ecclesia sancti Botulphi'

59
Saint Peter's Outside the Gate

Page 59: 'Ecclesia sancti petri extra portam'

This church is now Little St Mary's in Cambridge

60
Ditton Church

Page 60: 'Ecclesia de Ditton'

60
Horningsea Church

Page 60: 'Ecclesia de Horningesea'

61
Teveresham Church

Page 61: 'Ecclesia de Theveresham'

61
St Vigor's, Fulbourn

Page 61: 'Ecclesia sancti Vigorum[sic] de fulburn'

62
All Saints, Fulbourn

Page 62: 'Ecclesia omnium sanctorum de fulburn'

62
Hinton Church

Page 62: 'Ecclesia de Hinton'

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 32-45.
63-79
Inventories of Churches and Chapels in Camps Deaneries
Language(s): Latin
63
Stowe Church

Page 63: 'Ecclesia de Stowe'

63
Saint Cyriac and Saint Julitta's, Swaffham Prior

Page 63: 'Ecclesia sancti Cirici de swafham prioris'

64
Saint Mary's, Swaffham Prior

Page 64: 'Swafham prioris sancte marie'

64
Saint Mary's, Swaffham Bulbeck

Page 64: 'Ecclesia sancte marie de swafham monialum'

65
Bottisham Church

Page 65: 'Ecclesia de Boteksham'

65
Little Wilbraham Church

Page 65: 'Ecclesia de Wilburham parua'

66
Great Wilbraham Church

Page 66: 'Ecclesia de Wilburham magna'

66
Dullingham Church

Page 66: 'Ecclesia de Dullingham'

67
Stetchworth Church

Page 67: 'Ecclesia de Stencheworth'

67
Burrough Green Church

Page 67: 'Ecclesia de Borw'

68
Westley Waterless Church

Page 68: 'Ecclesia de Westle'

68
Brinkley Church

Page 68: 'Ecclesia de Brikele'

69
Carlton Church

Page 69: 'Ecclesia de Carlton'

69
Horseheath Church

Page 69: 'Ecclesia de Horseth'

70
Shudy Camps Church

Page 70: 'Ecclesia de Sodecaump'

70
Castle Camps Church

Page 70: 'Ecclesia de Magna Caumpes'

71
Bartlow Church

Page 71: 'Ecclesia de Berkelawe'

71
West Wickham Church

Page 71: 'Ecclesia de Wykham'

72
West Wratting Church

Page 72: 'Ecclesia de Wrattinge'

72
Weston Colville Church

Page 72: 'Ecclesia de Weston'

73
Willingham Church

Page 73: 'Ecclesia de Willingham'

73
Balsham Church

Page 73: 'Ecclesia de Balsham'

74
Linton Church

Page 74: 'Ecclesia de Linton'

74
Hildersham Church

Page 74: 'Ecclesia de Hildresham'

74-75
Linton Chapel

Page 74: 'Capella de Linton'

Additional information at the bottom of p. 75

75
Great Abington Church

Page 75: 'Ecclesia de Abiton magna'

75
Little Abington Church

Page 75: 'Ecclesia de Abiton parua'

76
Babraham Church

Page 76: 'Ecclesia de Badburham'

76
Whittlesford Church

Page 76: 'Ecclesia de Witlesford'

77
St John's Church, Duxford

Page 77: 'Ecclesia de Dok sancti Iohannis'

77
St Peter's Church, Duxford

Page 77: 'Ecclesia sancti petri de Duk'

78
Ickleton Church

Page 78: 'Ecclesia de Ikelington'

78
Hinxton Church

Page 78: 'Ecclesia de Hengeston'

79
Pampisford Church

Page 79: 'Ecclesia de Pamp⟨esworth⟩'

79
Sawston Church

Page 79: 'Ecclesia de Sauston'

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 46-73
80-87
Inventories for Churches and Chapels in Chesterton Deaneries
Language(s): Latin
80
Chesterton Church

Page 80: 'Ecclesia de Cestreton'

80
Middleton Church

Page 80: 'Ecclesia de Middelton'

80
Waterbeach Church

Page 80: 'Ecclesia de Watirbeche'

81
Landbeach Church

Page 81: 'Ecclesia de Landbeche'

81
Cottenham Church

Page 81: 'Ecclesia de Cotenham'

82
Impington Church

Page 82: 'Ecclesia de Empyton'

82
St Andrew's Church, Histon

Page 82: 'Ecclesia sancto Andree de Histon'

83
St Etheldreda's Church, Histon

Page 83: 'Ecclesia sancte Etheldrede de Hyston'

83
Girton Church

Page 83: 'Ecclesia de Gretton'

84
Houghton Church

Page 84: 'Ecclesia de Hokyton'

There are two entries for Houghton Church on p. 84, the uppermost is struck out.

84
Houghton Church

Page 84: 'Ecclesia de Hokiton'

There are two entries for Houghton Church on p. 84, the uppermost is struck out.

85
Rampton Church

Page 85: 'Ecclesia de Rampton'

85
Willingham Church

Page 85: 'Ecclesia de Wyuelingham'

85
Over Church

Page 85: 'Ecclesia de Ouere'

86
All Saints Church, Stanton

Page 86: 'Ecclesia de Stanton omnium Sanctorum'

86
Saint Michael's Church, Stanton

Page 86: 'Ecclesia sancti Michaelis de Stanton'

87
Dry Drayton Church

Page 87: 'Ecclesia de Drayton'

87
Madingley Church

Page 87: 'Ecclesia de Maddingele'

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 74-87
88-98
Inventories for Chruches and Chapels in Barton Deaneries
Language(s): Latin
88
Stapleford Church

Page 88: 'Ecclesia de Stapilford'

88
Great Shelford Church

Page 88: 'Selford magna'

89
Little Shelford Church

Page 89: 'Selford parua'

89
Thriplow Church

Page 89: 'Trippelawe'

90
Fowlmere Church

Page 90: 'Fulmere'

90
Fowlmere Church

Page 90: 'Fulmere'

90
Newton Church

Page 90: 'Neuton'

A 'Neuton' also appears on p. 108

91
Hauxton Church

Page 91: 'Haukeston'

91
Trumpington Church

Page 91: 'Trumpiton'

92
?Harlton Church

Page 92: 'Hardleston'

92
Foxton Church

Page 92: 'Foxton'

93
Shepreth Church

Page 93: 'Seperethe'

93
Malton Church

Page 93: 'Malketon'

94
Barrington Church

Page 94: 'Barinton'

94
Haslingfield Church

Page 94: 'Haslingfeud'

Further information added at the bottom of p. 95

95
Barton Church

Page 95: 'Berton'

95
Grantchester Church

Page 95: 'Grantesete'

96
Coton Church

Page 96: 'Cotes'

96
Comberton Church

Page 96: 'Ecclesia de Cumberton'

97
Wimpole Church

Page 97: 'Ecclesia de Winepol'

97
Arrington Church

Page 97: 'Ecclesia de Arington'

98
Orwell Church

Page 98: 'Ecclesia de Orwell'

98
Harlton Church

Page 98: 'Ecclesia de Harleton'

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 86-105
99-105
Inventories for Churches and Chapels in Shingay Deaneries
Language(s): Latin
99
Croydon Church

Page 99: 'Ecclesia de Crauden'

99
East Hatley Church

Page 99: 'Ecclesia de Esthattele'

100
Tadlow Church

Page 100: 'Ecclesia de Tadelawe'

100
Clopton Church

Page 100: 'Ecclesia de Clopton'

100
Kneesworth Chapel

Page 100: 'Capella de Knesworth'

101
Shingay Church

Page 101: 'Ecclesia de Seneg⟨ey⟩'

101
Wendy Church

Page 101: 'Ecclesia de Wendeye'

102
Whaddon Church

Page 102: 'Ecclesia de Waddon'

102
Meldreth Church

Page 102: 'Ecclesia de Melreth'

103
Bassingbourn Church

Page 103: 'Ecclesia de Bassingbourn'

103
Hospital, Royston

Page 103: 'Hospitale de cruce Roys'

103
Abington Pigotts Church

Page 103: 'Ecclesia de Abbington'

103
Steeple Morden Chapel

Page 103: 'Capella de stepe mordon'

104
Guilden Morden Church

Page 104: 'Ecclesia de Geltimordon'

104
Ruddery End Chapel

Page 104: 'Redreth capella'

104
Steeple Morden Church

Page 104: 'Ecclesia de Stepimordon'

105
Litlington Church

Page 105: 'Ecclesia de Litlington'

105
Melbourn Church

Page 105: 'Ecclesia de Meldeb⟨urne⟩'

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 104-115
106-108
Inventories of Churches and Chapels in Wisbech Deaneries
Language(s): Latin
106
Elm Church

Page 106: 'Ecclesia de Elm'

106
Emneth Chapel

Page 106: 'Capella de Enymeth'

107
Wisbech Church

Page 107: 'Ecclesia de Wysebeche'

107
Leverington Church

Page 107: 'Leverington'

108
Newton Church

Page 108: 'Neuton'

A 'Neuton' also appears on p. 90

108
?Tydd St Giles Church

Page 108: 'Tid'

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 116-121
109-121
Inventories for Churches and Chapels in Bourn Deaneries
Language(s): Latin
109
Little Eversden Church

Page 109: 'Ecclesia de Eueresden parua'

109
Great Eversden Church

Page 109: 'Ecclesia de Eueresden magna'

110
Toft Church

Page 110: 'Toft'

110
Hardwick Church

Page 110: 'Herdwik'

111
Caldecote Church

Page 111: 'Caldecote'

111
Kingston Church

Page 111: 'Kingeston'

112
Bourn Church

Page 112: 'Brunne'

112
Caxton Church

Page 112: 'Caxton'

113
?Longstowe Church

Page 113: 'Stowe'

113
Hatley Church

Page 113: 'Hattele'

114
Gamlingay Church

Page 114: 'Gamelingay'

114
Gransden Church

Page 114: 'Granteden'

115
Croxton Church

Page 115: 'Croxton'

115
Graveley Church

Page 115: 'Gravele'

116
Papworth St Agnes Church

Page 116: 'Pappeworth Agnes'

116
Papworth Everard

Page 116: 'Pappeworth Everard'

117
Eltisley

Page 117: 'Eltisley'

117
Knapwell

Page 117: 'Knappewell'

118
Elsworth

Page 118: 'Ellesworth'

118
Conington

Page 118: 'Conington'

119
?Fen Drayton

Page 119: 'Draiton'

119
Little Childerley

Page 119: 'Childerle parua'

120
Great Childerley

Page 120: 'Childerle magna'

120
Lolworth

Page 120: 'Lolleworth'

121
Boxworth Church

Page 121: 'Ecclesia de Bok⟨esworth⟩'

121
Swavesey Church

Page 121: 'Ecclesia de Swaues⟨ey⟩'

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 122-141
122-125
Inventories for Ely Deaneries
Language(s): Latin
122
Littleport Church

Page 121: 'Ecclesia de Littleport'

122
St Mary's Church, Ely

Page 121: 'Ecclesia beate Marie de Ely'

123
Wilburton Church

Page 123: 'Ecclesia de Wilburton'

123
Chatteris Church

Page 123: 'Chateriz'

124
Saint Mary's Church, Whittlesey

Page 124: 'Ecclesia sancte Marie de Wytles⟨ey⟩'

124
Saint Andrew's Church, Whittlesey

Page 124: 'Ecclesia sancti Andree'

124
Benwick Chapel

Page 124: 'capelle de Benewyc'

125
Witcham Church

Page 125: 'Wycham'

125
March Chapel

Page 125: 'Capella de Merch'

125
Doddington Church

Page 125: 'Ecclesia de Doddington'

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 140-147
125-126
Procurations
Language(s): Latin
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 148
127
Oath of Master of Glomery
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 127 Iuramentum quod prestabit magister Glomerye Archdiacono Eliensi et eius ministris in collacione scolarum
Incipit: 127 Tu iurabis obedienciam Archidiacono ecclesie Eliensis et eius ministris nec aliquid contra iurisdiccionem archidiaconalem per te uel per alium attemptabis uel iuxta posse permittes attemptari
Explicit: 127 Hec omnia promittis te fideliter obseruaturum sic deus te[sic] ad⟨iuuet⟩ et secundet(?)
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 149
127-128
Memoranda concerning Masters of Glomerye active c. 1379-1389
Language(s): Latin

Memoranda dated between c. 1379-1389, in the hands of Scribes F2 and F4 according to Feltoe and Minns.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 149-150

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 5: Jhesus maria
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 63 leaves.

Collation

  • Parchment endleaf (pp. 3-4 3-4) +
  • Quire 14 (pp. 5-12)
  • Quire 28-1 + 1 (pp. 13-28; original 8th leaf missing, the current 7th leaf is a singleton and was originally a replacement 8th leaf, but was taken down and incorrectly remounted so that it is now the 7th leaf in the quire)
  • Quire 36 (pp. 29-40)
  • Quire 4?4-1 (pp. 41-46; 3 leaves remain)
  • Quire 54 (pp. 47-54)
  • Quire 66 (pp. 55-66)
  • Quire 7?10 (pp. 67-84; 9 leaves remain)
  • Quires 8-98 (pp. 85-116)
  • Quire 106 (pp. 117-128)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

In fair condition. Some text illegible due to abrasion and staining.

Layout

Most pages are unruled, but where ruling is present (e.g., p. 119, frame and lines, leadpoint) it is not part of a significant programme of layout standardisation. Leaves have varying numbers of lines and varying 'text block' sizes due to the substantial number of scribes who added notes to the quire booklets.

Hand(s)

See general description of hands adapted from Feltoe and Minns above. Notes about individual scribes are recorded against each msItem, and identifications made by Feltoe and Minns are described as such.

Decoration

Sketch of a ?tonsured head in profile facing left in upper margin of p. 99.

Additions

Page 3: Note in ink in a 16th century hand, 'Iste liber pertinet ad archdiaconum Eliensis Cum Gaudio magno et honore'.

Page 3: A note twice in ink in ?16th century hands, 'To have ye copie of Thomas Hammondis wyll of Whaddoni'. Whaddon is probably the village of that name in Cambridgeshire.

Page 3: Note in ink in a ?17th century hand, 'Liber Archidiaconatus Eliensis'

Page 4: miscellanous annotations in every orientation in ink in several hands, including the following

  • The name Richard Kyllyngworth several times. This may be the Richard Killingworth who died c. 1586 and who owned Balsham Place Manor in Cambridgeshire and several other manors in East Anglia; Venn has several members of the University of Cambridge in the late 16th and early 17th centuries with the surname 'Killingworth' who originated from Cambridgeshire villages.
  • The personal or place name 'Kymbolton' several times. There is a Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire to which this note may refer
  • A note, 'demonium habet'
  • A note, perhaps belonging with 'demonium habet', 'rumpetur turma malorum'
  • The personal or place name 'Lumley'
  • 'Cantebr Brune et Shynge|Episcopatus'
  • A date 'Anno domini mcccclijdo indiccione prima pont⟨ificatus⟩ Nicholai pape vto ao vjto littera dominicalis g', i.e., the year 1452
  • Constitutio procuratorum vto die mensis Iulij ao domini mcclij(?) M. R. Makrell(?) in legibus licentiatus constituit M. Euery(?) et Baker procuratores suos coniunctim et diuisim cum omnibus clericis(?) cum clamiis substinendis et reassumendis etc
  • A name upside-down, 'Simon Gylbard de Cotenham' - Cottenham is a village in Cambridgeshire.

Page 50: The name 'Thomas Bank' or 'Thomas Banke' in a late 15th or early 16th century hand.

History

Origin: Fourth quarter of the 13th century, with further additions throughout the 14th and 15th centuries. ; England, probably within the medieval diocese of Ely.

The oldest texts in this Part were written in the final quarter of the 13th century, and the leaves were added to throughout the 14th and 15th century by multiple scribes.

Provenance

Owned and used by members of the office of the Archdeacon of Ely between the 13th and 15th centuries.

Part 3: Medieval calendar [Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 204/110, pp. 129-138]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

129-138
Calendar
Language(s): Latin

Leaves from a manuscript calendar arranged a month-per-page; the final page, and thus the final two months (November and December) missing.

Late 12th or early 13th century calendar with frequent additions in 13th, 14th, and 15th century hands.

The word 'pape' (Pope) in commemorations struck through with brown ink, e.g., p. 131 'Gregorij pape' for Pope Gregory's commemmoration on 12 March.

Some feasts erased, see e.g., p. 132 on the lines for the 9th and 10th of April

Note on the Battle of Agincourt (25 October 1415) added to the lower margin of p. 138 in an English cursiva hand, now very faint, full transcription: | 'Bellum de Agincourt fuit in die Crispini et Crispiniani in Picardia per Henricum quintum Regem Anglie Anno domini mmo ccccmo xvto in die veneris'

Poem on the 'Egyptian days' added with a line-per-month around the 'KL' cipher on each page, the full poem as follows:| Prima dies iani . septenaque detur inani| Quarta refutatur febrim . quam terna sequatur | Prima necat martis . simul huius quarta fit artis| Denus undenus est mortis vulnere plenus | Tercius occidit et septimus ora relidit| Denus et ipse furit . quindenus iunius urit | Ter decimus nutat iulii . decimusque salutat | Prima dat augustum . de fine secunda perustum | Tercia Septembris et denus fert mala membris | Terna subit latebras . octobris dena tenebras

Notable additions to the calendar discussed in M. R. James, Catalogue Vol. I, no. 204, pp. 236-237
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 151-160

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 131: Prima necat Martis simul huius quarta fit artis
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH).
Extent: Codex: 5 leaves.

Collation

A damaged quire, probably 6 leaves originally, the last now missing:

  • Quire 116-1 (pp. 129-138; 6th leaf lost)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

In fair condition. Leaves in this Part have minor dirt and stains, but most text is legible. The title 'Pape' has been struck out with ink on most calendar entries for the commemorative feasts of the various former Popes. Leaves have been trimmed with minor losses to decoration and annotation, see e.g., upper edge of p. 136.

Layout

155 × 105 mm. Standard calendar layout of one-month-per-page with columns left to right for golden numbers, dominical letters, Roman calendar reckoning, and commemorative feasts.

Hand(s)

The original core of the calendar is written in a northern textalis libraria, and there are additions in several 13th=15th century hands.

Decoration

Flourished initials in the 'Arabesque' style with stylised floral and foliate flourishes in red or blue ink for the 'KL' in the upper register of each calendar page.

Calendar headings, dominical letters, Roman calendar reckoning, and particular feasts and astronomical events written in red or blue ink.

History

Origin: Late 12th century or in the 13th century. ; England, probably at Barnwell Priory.

Date given for original calendar entries, to which later additions have been made. Place of production based on palaeographical features and commemorative feasts. M. R. James suggested that the calendar could perhaps be localised to Barnwell on the eastern edge of Cambridge as the calendar entry for 28 August (p. 136) is for the commemmoration of 'Augustini patris nostri', (Augustine, our Father) and Barnwell was one of the most prominent Augustinian houses within the Diocese of Ely.

M. R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Gonville and Caius College, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1917), vol I, no. 204
N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3, 2nd edn (London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1964), see p. 7, 'Barnwell'

Part 4: Miscellaneous documents and texts [Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 204/110, pp. 139-228 ]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

139-140
Notes on fees for proving wills
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 139 Adeo quorundam etc Statimus vt pro probacione vel insinuacione testamentorum quorumcumque nichil per Episcopos seu alias ordinarios capiatur omnio
Explicit: 140 Quam conta facientes incurrere volumus ipso facto

In light brown ink in a 15th century hand.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 161
143
Commemorative note
Language(s): Latin and Early Modern English

Full transcription:| Pasca no strum im mo latur | Jem hart of Bere thomas chirtin of | bere robart besun of norforche | francsus[sic] bosun of norforche

In an unusual 16th century hand with irregular word division.

Page 144 blank.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 162
145
Notes on procedures for making wills
Language(s): Early modern english

In a 16th century hand.

Pages 146-169 blank except for two short notes on p. 158 and 163 described in additions below.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 162
169
List of fees in the archdeacon's court in 1520
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 169 1520 feoda accipienda in curia Archdiaconi Eliensis

Pages 170-171 blank.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 163
172
Note on the range of the Durham episcopal lands
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: Terra cuthberti qui non spoliare verentur esse queant certi quod morte mala morientur

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 163
172
Note on the admission of John Deye to the office of proctor in the diocese of Ely 22 September 1571
Language(s): Latin
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 163
172
Two lines of wisdom poetry ('When in Rome ...')
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| Cum veneris romae romano vivito more | Cum veneris alibi vivito more loci | More usually written with the opening words 'cum fueris romae'

172
List of towns exempt from the ?jurisdiction of the archdeacon
Language(s): Latin
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 163
173-174
Records of admissions of chaplains and proctors
Language(s): Latin

In several hands 15th and 16th century hands.

Admissions in the years 1502, 1509, 1573 on p. 173, and 1486, 1487, 1488, 1498 on p. 174.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 164-165
175-176
Oath of advocates and proctors
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 175 Sponte suscipiant iuramentum etc
Incipit: 175 Articuli super quibus jurabunt aduocati et procuratores consistorii Archidiaconi Eliensis in eorum admissione
Explicit: 176 quod in preiudicium iurisdiccionis archidiaconalis seu Curie aut Consistorij predicti tendere poterit vel iactuaram

The majority of the oath is written in a neat 15th century bookhand, possibly c. 1429, as it appears to have been copied by the same scribe who added a record of the admission of three proctors in 1429 to the lower half of p. 176

Rubric added to p. 175 in a 16th century hand.

Additional oath clause added to the lower margin of p. 175 in a 16th century hand.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 165-166
176-178
Records of the admissions of proctors
Language(s): Latin

The record of the proctoral admission of Paul Green, Thomas Stacy and John Flagett added to the lower half of p. 176 is dated 1429 and appears to be by the same scribe who copied the oath of advocates and proctors on pp. 175-176

Proctoral admissions in the years 1429, 1437, 1466, 1475, 1481 and 1482.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 166-167
179-181
Ordination of the chapel at Great Shelford
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 179 Ordinacio capelle de Schelforth magna | Cantar⟨ia⟩ Sancti stephani vocata Grendon
Incipit: 179 Hec est ordinacio capelle domini Johannis le Moyne
Explicit: 181 Et ad maiorem securitatem et eorum peticionem , magister Nicholaus Archidiaconus Eliensis penes quem una pars istius scripti cyrograffati remanet signum suum , cum signis predictorum Johannis et Nicholai cuilibet parti cyrograpffi duxit appondendum

Great Shelford is a village in Cambridgeshire.

Main text written in a 14th century hand. Rubric added in another ?later hand.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 168-170
181
Note about the foundation of the diocese of Ely in 1110 by King Henry I
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription:| Anno domini millesimo CX no [sic] Rex Henricus primus fecit sedem episcopalem apud Ely institutens ibi Herueum nuper Bangorensem presulem ac quia in hoc partem Lincoln⟨ensis⟩ diocesis detruncauerat conferendo pagu⟨m⟩ Cantebr⟨igie⟩ sedi Eliensi ideo contulit Episcopo Lincoln⟨ensis⟩ villam suam regiam de Spaldwyke

The note states that the Diocese of Ely was founded in 1110, but the diocese of Ely is generally understood to have been founded in 1109.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 170.
182
Part of a note about political discontent in 1387 in the reign of King Richard II
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: | Prima(?) discordia inter dominos Angliae anno domini millesimo cccmo lxxxvijmo | Ragenhill Ie

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 170.
182
Short verse in Middle English
Language(s): Middle English

Full transcription: | Wyrk wissely quod Werkecouth | Me mouyth most m. quod | In hope is helpe quod | The last two lines joined with a bracket labelled with 'Werkcouth'

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 170.
182
Poem in Latin
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: | Quatuor ex istis penis cruciatur adulter | Aut erit hic pauper , aut hic subito morietur | Aut habet(?) insaniam per quam debet carcere trudi | Aut aliquod membrum casu vel vulnere perdet |

Followed by a line of text by the same scribe, but perhaps not part of the poem: 'Ad romam rex j tibi marcas largior xj'.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 170.
183
Notes on the Itinerary of the Archbishop Kilwardby's Visitation to to the Diocese of Ely winter 1277/1278
Language(s): Latin

This page probably once preceeded the text on what is now pp. 47-48

According to Feltoe and Minns, this text was copied by a 'B Group' scribe.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns p. 19
184
Letter from Archbishop Kilwardby to the Diocese of Ely informing the Diocese of an official Visitation later that year (1277)
Language(s): Latin

According to Feltoe and Minns, this text was copied by a 'B Group' scribe.

This page probably once preceeded the text on what is now pp. 47-48

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns p. 18
184
Musical motif on 4-line stave
Language(s): Latin

15th century hand

Musical motif written in neumes on 4-line stave for the lyric 'Fuit homo missus a deo cui nomen Iohannes erat'. The music and text are repeated below in a more 'current' hand.

This page probably once preceeded the text on what is now pp. 47-48

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns p. 18
185-191
Copies of Letters
Language(s): Latin
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 171-179
192
Statute On Tithes
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 192 Statutum Archiepiscopi Cantuarie
Incipit: 192 Quoniam propter diuersas consuetudines in petendo decimas per diuersas ecclesias
Explicit: 192 quod exigant decimam et de ||

Feltoe and Minns state that Lyndwood's Provinciale gives this as a 1305 Statute of Robert Winchelsey (c. 1240 - c. 1313)

Printed (not from this MS) Gulielmo Lyndwood, Provinciale (Oxford, 1679), Lib. III, Tit. 16, pp. 191-197
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 179-180 and see also p. 277
193-207
Laudum archiepiscopi
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 193 Tenor laudi per archiepiscopum Cantuariensem inter Episcopum Eliensem et archidiaconum Eliensem sequitur in scriptura subsequenti
Incipit: 193 Vniuersis sancte matris ecclesiie filiis ad quos presentes litere peruenerint Thomas permissione diuina archiepiscopus tocius Anglie primus et apolstolice sedis legatus salutem in auctore salutis
Explicit: 207 et in hanc publicam formam redegi signoque et nomine meis solitis et consuetis vna cum appensione sigilli dicti reuerendissimi patris ac de mandato eiusdem signaui rogatus in fidem et testimonium omnium premissorum

Date-clause on p. 204, 'sub anno domini millesimo cccco primo', i.e., 1401

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 180-196
207
Notes on major and minor crimes
Language(s): Latin
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 196
207
Oath of Glomery c. 1405
Language(s): Latin
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 196
207
Oath of Glomery c. 1428
Language(s): Latin
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 196
208
Extract from the Liber Cosmographie (1405) John de Foxton
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 208 Gaudia . Justorum . Minuit . commocio . Zeli
Explicit: 208 Iesum nouit Enok et iuuat agmina christi

Similar excerpts found in  Cambridge, Jesus College, MS Q.G.25, f. 42r with the same calendrical mnemonic following the extract.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 197
208
Calendrical mnemonic
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: | M. mars pascha petit Aprilis contintent alpha| Marcius ascendit aprilis flectit ab alto

Also in  Cambridge, Jesus College, MS Q.G.25, f. 42r , with the lines reversed, and following similar extracts from the Liber cosmographie of John de Foxton

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 197
208
Mnemonic about types of evidence
Language(s): Latin

Begins 'Auditus visus persona'

In the same hand as the next item.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 197
208
Gnomic verse
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: 'dixi dum dixi quantum vixi tibi dixi'

In the same hand as the previous item.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 197
208
Administrative arrangements for Bassingbourn c. 1415
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 208 Pateat(?) vniuersis per presentes me .J.W. Officialem domini archidiaconi Eliensis ac p⟨ensionum⟩ et denariorum eiusdem
Explicit: 208 Datum Cantebrigie ijdo die Maii anno domini mo ccccxjo (?)

Bassingbourn is a village in Cambridgeshire, England.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 197
209-215
Administrative arrangments for the Chapel at Histon
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 209 Nota de capella de hyston
Incipit: 209 Nouerint vniversi christi fideles presentes literas inspecturi vel audituri quod hec est conuencio facta inter dominum philippum de coleuil filium henrici de coleuile ex vna parte et dominum petrum de gretton capellanum ex altera videlicet quod predictus philippus pro salute anime suae
Explicit: 214-215 Et ad maiorem securitatem et eorum peticionem magister R de Walpol archidiaconus Eliensis penes quem vna pars istius scripti cirographati remanet signum suum vna cum signis predictorum domini philippi et petri cuilibet parti istius cirographi duxerunt apponend⟨um⟩ hiis testibus domino Roberto de Insula de Rampton, domino Petro de Chavent de Impiton militibus Roberto de bokesworth Jacobo de Hyston Galfrido filio Barner de eadem Thoma le Freman de gretton Gilberto le Knit de bech Simone le Waleys de cotenham Johanne de bradfeld de eadem Rogero Giffard de hoketon Henrico de Merch de Impinton, et multis aliis

Rubric added in the upper margin in a different ?later hand

Feltoe and Minns date this text to the mid-15th century.

Histon is a village in Cambridgeshire, England

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 198-201
215
Calendrical notes
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: | Mutacio Anni Nicholai pape fit in crastino sancti Edwardi Regis videlicet decimo nono die mensis marcij | Mutacio indiccionis fit octo kalendas octobris | Mutacio Anni Domini fit in ffesto Annunciacionis Dominice

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 202
215
Annalistic notes for 1455
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: | xxiiijto die marcij anno domini L quinte(?) obiit pape Nicholas Vte | Et octavo die Aprilis Anno L quinte(?) Kalixtus 3us creatus est papa

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 202
216
Commissio Glomerie
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 216 Commissio Glomerie
Incipit: 216 Nb legum docor Archidiaconus Eliensis dilecto in christo A. B. salutem in auctore salutis
Explicit: 216 presentibus ad meum beneplacitum duntaxat duraturis In cuius rei testimonium etc Datum sub sigillo officialis etc

According to Feltoe and Minns this text was copied in the late 15th century.

Rubric added in upper margin by a different scribe

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 202
217
Tax calculations for Haddenham and Wilburton with calculations for revenues from various general sources
Language(s): Latin

According to Feltoe and Minns this text was copied in the 16th century.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 202
218
Fragment of the arrangements for the appropriation of the church in Chesterton
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: | Appropriacio ecclesie de Chesterton | Thomas permissione divina Eliensis Episcopus vniversis Christi fidelibus presentes literas indentatas visuris salutem gratiam et benedictionem Ad vniversitatis vestre noticiam deduci volumus per presentes Cum nuper ecclesia

The text ends abruptly. A longer version of this text can be found on pp. 224-226

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 203
218
Papal calendrical information for 1459
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: | Anno domini mo ccccmo lixo Indiccione octava Pontificatu domini nostri pape Pii secundi anno 2o mensis ffebruarii die xa

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 203
218
Record of a transaction
Language(s): Latin

Page 218, full transcription: | Nicliolaus Andrew of seynt Albon gen(?) sub priore Iohanne Bernard firmarius de everesden magna soluit Thome B iijs xd xxj die lunii.

'Everesden magna' is Great Great Eversden in Cambridgeshire

The note of the transaction seems to include the name of a medical practitioner, a 'firmarius' by the name of John Bernard.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 203
219
Papal and regnal calendrical information for 1458 to 1459
Language(s): Latin

Page 219, full transcription: | Anno domini millesimo cccco lviijo indiccione septima pontificatu sanctissimi patris domini nostri domini Pii diuina prouidencia pape secundo Anno primo mensis Octobris die tercia| Anno domini mo cccco lviijo indiccione vija pontificatu sanctissimi patris domini Pii pape secundi die xiiija Octobris | Et vjto die Augusti anno domini etc lviijo obiit papa Calistus 3us et xixo die Augusti electus erat papa Pius secundus ...(?) | Indiccione 7ma pontificatu domini pape Pii secundi anno secundo xixo die Augusti anno domini etc lixo | Anno domini lixo . primo . die Septembris anno regni regis h⟨enrici⟩ viti xxxviijo

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 203
220
Note of an admission to the position of Master of Glomerie in 1452
Language(s): Latin

Page 220, full transcription: | Memorandum quod magister Johannes newton in artibus magister prestitit iuramentum magistro Rogero Radcliff in legibus licenciato officiali domini Archidiaconi Eliensis quod incipit Tu iurabis etc tempore admissionis sue in magistrum Glomerie coram Thoma Bury notario publico et Johanne Huthum apparitore etc vjo die mensis novembris Anno domini millesimo cccclijdo in Registro domini Archidiaconi etc | Followed by a fragment of an additional memorandum: | Memorandum quod magister Robertus Stewkyn

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 203
220
Papal calendrical information for 1458
Language(s): Latin

Page 220, full transcription: | Anno domini millesimo cccc lviijo nono indiccione septima pontificatu domini nostri pape Pii secundi anno primo mensis vo (?) die Ianuarii xiija litera dominicalis G

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 203
221
Records of admissions to diocesan roles in 1480 and 1490
Language(s): Latin
Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 204
222-224
Ordinance of Shengey
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 222 Ordinacio facta per dominum Episcopum Eliensem in materia questionis pendentis inter preceptorem de Shengey et Archidiaconum Eliensem pro denariis sancti Petri
Incipit: 222 Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis Ad quos presentes litere peruenerint Thomas permissione diuina Eliensis episcopus Salutem gratiam et benedictionem
Explicit: 223-224 In quorum omnium et singulorum testimonium atque fidem presentes literas nostras sigillo nostro ac sigillo communi dictorum prioris ⟨et⟩ fratrum necnon sigillorum dictorum preceptorum et archidiaconi predictorum appensione mandavimus et fecimus communiri predictam que composicionem realem esse volumus et decernimus per presentes Datum in hospicio nostro de Holborne xxmo die mensis Julii anno domini proximo supradicto etc.

According to Feltoe and Minns, this text was written in the late 15th century.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns pp. 204-205
224-226
Appropriation of Chesterton c. 1450
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 224 Appropriacio ecclesie de Chesterton
Incipit: 224 Thomas permissione divina Eliensis Episcopus vniversis christi fidelibus presentes literas indentatas visuris salutem gratiam et benedictionem Ad vniversitatis vestre noticiam deduci volumus per presentes Cum nuper ecclesia parochialis de Chesterton
Explicit: 225-226 Et nos magister Johannes Stokes archidiaconis Eliensis ac custos et scolares dicti collegii siue aule Regie sigilla nostra apposuimus Datum Cantebr⟨igio⟩ xxiijo die Mensis Maij anno doinini mlmo ccccmo quinquagesimo

The opening words of this text can also be found above on p. 218

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, pp. 206-207
226
Oath of obedience
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 226 Iuramentum obediencie de capellano admittendo ad beneficia faciendum domino Archidiacono Eliensi
Explicit: 226 Admitto Et nos decernimus te admittend⟨um⟩ fore in corporalem possessionem ecclesie tue etc

According to Feltoe and Minns, this text was added in the early 16th century.

Notary mark and name 'John Chapman' in an empty space at the bottom of p. 226.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 207
228
Note of the death of John Alcock in 1500
Language(s): Latin

Page 228, full transcription: | Obitus Ioannis Alcoke diuina gratia Episcopi Eliensis primo die mensis Octobris Anno domini millesimo quingentesimo apud Wyschbech et Anno gracie(?)

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 207
228
Record of the drafting of the will of Thomas Alcock in 1500
Language(s): Latin

Page 228, full transcription: | Willelmus Stevynson testamentorum scriba venerabilis viri domini Thome Alcoke ad tunc Archidiaconi Eliensis Anno domini millesimo quingentesimo

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 207
228
Note of the admission of Robert Smyth to the role of proctor in 1501
Language(s): Latin

Page 228, full transcription: | M⟨emoran⟩d⟨um⟩ quod xiiijo die mensis Ianuarii Anno domini millesimo quingentesimo primo Willelmus Raynor de ffoxton constituit M. Robertum Smyth in procuratorem generalem cum omnibus auctoritatibus(?) necessariis et potestatibus substituendi et promisit de rato sub ypotheca omnium bonorum etc

Note that the text is badly rubbed and stained and legibility is impeded.

Fully transcribed in Feltoe and Minns, p. 207

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Page 143: Pasca no strum[sic]
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 45 leaves.

Collation

  • Quire 12?10-4 (pp. 139-150; stubs visible for original first and second leaf, original 9th and 10th also gone)
  • Quire 132 (pp. 151-154)
  • Quire 1410 (pp. 155-174)
  • Quire 154 (pp. 175-182)
  • Quire 16?6-1 (pp. 183-192; 5 leaves remain)
  • Quire 178 (pp. 193-208)
  • Quire 186 (pp. 209-220)
  • Quire 194 (pp. 221-228)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

In fair condition. Some text illegible due to abrasion and staining.

Layout

Leaves are typically written in single-column format, often to the extreme outer edge of the leaf. Leaves have varying numbers of lines and varying 'text block' sizes due to the substantial number of scribes who added notes to the quire booklets. Some of the leaves in Quire 14 (pages 174) are frame-ruled, but the leaves have been used for informal annotations rather than ruled and used for substantial texts.

Hand(s)

See general description of hands adapted from Feltoe and Minns above. Notes about individual scribes are recorded against each msItem, and identifications made by Feltoe and Minns are described as such.

Decoration

Notarial mark without name or initials on p. 182. Possible notary signature in erasure underneath the mark. In addition to the main mark, there are further sketches and partial attempts at the mark on the leaf, not all in the same hand or ink.

Two sketches of hooded medieval male busts (facing R) in hoods on p. 182.

Additions

Page 142: the name 'Jhon Skyl' in ink in a very loose medieval cursive hand.

Page 142: a note in Latin 'pasca nostrum immolatus est Cristus' in ink.

Page 142: five-line music stave with notes drawn in a 'u' shape, no clear melodic pattern discernable

Page 158: note in ink - 'nouerint Vniuersi per presentes me Wyllhelmum Soustons'

Page 163: note in ink in a ?16th century hand - 'John King est uerus possessor huius libri'

Page 172: the names 'Jhon Skyll' and 'Francis Salparwyk' in ink

Page 226: the name 'John Chapman' and a notarial mark in ink, perhaps the scribe of the oath of obedience above

Page 227: annotation in ink - 'inhibitus 5 Septembris 1546'

Page 228: name in ink in a humanist minuscule written upside down relative to the orientation of the codex - 'Thomas Smythe'.

Page 228: name in ink in a humanist minuscule written upside down relative to the orientation of the codex - 'Chapman'.

Page 228: annotation in ink in a humanist minuscule written upside down relative to the orientation of the codex - 'Homo est animal rationale'.

History

Origin: Fourth quarter of the 13th century, with additions made throughout the 14th and 15th centuries. ; England, probably within the medieval diocese of Ely.

The oldest texts in this Part were written in the final quarter of the 13th century, and the leaves were added to throughout the 14th and 15th century by multiple scribes. Place of production based on names and places mentioned within the texts.

Provenance

Owned and used by members of the office of the Archdeacon of Ely between the 13th and 15th centuries.

Additional Information

Record Sources

This catalogue record draws extensively on C. L. Feltoe and E. H. Minns (eds.), Vetus Liber Archidiaconi Eliensis, Cambridge Antiquarian Society 48 (Cambridge, 1917) and also M. R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Gonville and Caius College, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1917)

Availability

Visitors to Gonville and Caius College who wish to consult Special Collections material are required to apply to the Library in advance of their visit. For information on eligibility and admission procedures see: Gonville and Caius College: Library Information)

Custodial History

Recorded in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697) as no. 1091.

Bibliography

    Vetus liber archidiaconi Eliensis Cambridge Antiquarian Society, (Cambridge, 48, 1917) Medieval libraries of Great Britain: a list of surviving books Royal Historical Society guides and handbooks, Ker, N.R. (London, Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1964) Reformers, conflict, and revisionism: the Reformation in sixteenth-century Hadleigh Reformers, conflict, and revisionism The Historical Journal, Craig, John (42, 1, 1-23, 1999, https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0018246X98008255/type/journal_article) Towards Reconstructing Manuscript-Collecting in 17th-c. Cambridge: Observations on William Moore's Catalogue and Some Manuscripts Towards Reconstructing Manuscript-Collecting in 17th-c. Cambridge Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes / Etudes Médiévales Anglaises, Pouzet, Jean-Pascal (91, 1, 55-70, 2017, https://www.persee.fr/doc/bamed_0240-8805_2017_num_91_1_1189)

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