Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries

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

Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.1.27

Compilation of historical and topographical texts

Contents

Introduction: A preliminary note on the structure of the manuscript and its description: The complex history of this manuscript has posed many challenges to the understanding of the origins and evolving form of this book and its component segments. The first attempt to distinguish these segments from one another appears to have been undertaken by Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886), University Librarian 1867-1886. He identified ten units in all and added the manuscript's classmark at the beginning of each, plus an additional corresponding digit: 'Ff.1.27.1' (p. 1), 'Ff.1.27.2' (p. 41) and so forth up to '10' (see Additions for further details of these and other marks Bradshaw left in the manuscript). All coincide with the opening of a quire, Bradshaw being especially alert to their significance as units in the organisation and production of medieval books. In the most recent published description of the manuscript (2011), however, in all fifteen 'parts' were identified by its authors Paul Binski and Patrick Zutshi, and each assigned a Roman numeral, I-XV. These do not diverge from Bradshaw's codicological analysis per se, but in several instances more than one 'part' is identified within a single quire. This helpfully draws attention to the role of multiple hands in the production of some segments of this manuscript, apparently working with some co-ordination, and the accumulative way in which its contents were copied. However, the choice of terminology is potentially misleading. A 'part' more commonly refers to a distinct quire or group of quires of different date and / or place of origin to others with which it is bound, in what is usually termed a 'composite' manuscript. MS Ff.1.27 is indeed a composite. It contains quires that were made probably in Durham in the late 12th century (here Part 1) as well as others from a late 13th-century manuscript owned and probably made at Bury St Edmunds (here Part 2). The manuscript was put into this form in the 16th century and a further quire contemporary to these arrangements was added (here Part 3). (At the same time, other quires from both the Durham and the Bury manuscripts were combined into second volume, now at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge). Each of these parts comprises discrete groups of quires: Quires 1-2 and 5-15 (Part 1); Quires 3-4, 16-25 and 27-32 from Bury (Part 2); and Quire 26 the one 16th-century quire (Part 3). The segments enumerated by Bradshaw and further elaborated by the 2011 catalogue within Parts 1 and 2 are therefore more properly 'codicological units': some made by a single scribe, others involving more than one. The introduction below explains the histories and contents of these two parts in further detail, with descriptions of the material characteristics and histories particular to each given separately. For ease of reference, a table is appended here that reconciles the subdivision of the manuscript by Bradshaw and by Binski and Zutshi with the present catalogue description. Dr James Freeman | Medieval Manuscripts Specialist| Cambridge University Library

Codicological concordance

Pages Bradshaw units Collation Pages Binski and Zutshi 'parts' Collation Date Origin Parts in present description pp. 1-40 Unit 1 Quires 1-2 pp. 1-40 Part I Quires 1-2 Late 12th cent. Durham Part 1 pp. 41-72 Unit 2 Quires 3-4 pp. 41-72 Part II Quires 3-4 3rd quarter 13th cent. Bury St Edmunds Part 2 pp. 73-120 Unit 3 Quires 5-7 pp. 73-120 Part I Quires 5-7 Late 12th cent. Durham Part 1 pp. 121-130 Unit 4[a] Quire 8 pp. 121-194 Part IV Quires 8-11, 12[i-viii] Late 12th cent. Durham Part 1 pp. 131-202 Unit 4[b] Quires 9-12 pp. 195-202 Part V Quire 12[ix-xii] Late 12th cent. Durham Part 1 pp. 203-220 Unit 5 Quire 13 pp. 203-216 Part VI Quire 13[i-vii] Late 12th cent. Durham Part 1 pp. 217-220 Part VII Quire 13[viii-ix] Late 12th cent. Durham Part 1 pp. 221-236 Unit 6 Quire 14 pp. 221-236 Part VIII Quire 14 Late 12th cent. Durham Part 1 pp. 237-252 Unit 7 Quire 15 pp. 237-242 Part IX Quire 15[i-iii] Late 12th cent. Durham Part 1 pp. 243-252 Part X Quire 15[iv-viii] Late 12th cent. Durham Part 1 pp. 253-472 Unit 8[i] Quires 16-24, 25[i-ii] pp. 253-452 Part XI Quires 16-23, 24[i-v] 3rd quarter 13th cent. Bury St Edmunds Part 2 pp. 453-472 Part XII Quires 24[v-xii], 25[i-ii] 3rd quarter 13th cent. Bury St Edmunds Part 2 pp. 473-494 Unit 9 Quire 26 pp. 473-494 Part XIII Quire 26 Mid-16th cent. Part 3 pp. 495-498 Unit 8[ii] Quire 25[iii-iv] pp. 495-498 Not included Quire 25[iii-iv] 3rd quarter 13th cent. Bury St Edmunds Part 2 pp. 499-642 Unit 10 Quires 27-32 pp. 499-636 Part XIV Quires 27-31, 32[i-ix] 3rd quarter 13th cent. Bury St Edmunds Part 2 pp. 638-642 Part XV Quire 32[x-xii] 3rd quarter 13th cent. (14th-cent additions) Bury St Edmunds Part 2 Part 1: pp. 1-40, 73-252: Units 1, 3-7 (Bradshaw) / 'Parts' I, III-X (Binski and Zutshi) Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.1.27, Part 1, is a compilation of the late twelfth century, containing, amongst other texts, Gildas's De excidio Britanniae (pp. 1-14), the Historia Brittonum attributed to Nennius (pp. 14-40), an anonymous life of St. Cuthbert (pp. 195-202), and the collected works of Gille of Limerick (pp. 237-242), a twelfth-century Irish bishop. Probably conceived as a compendium of historical material, the manuscript shows a considerable interest in Irish and Northumbrian history, as suggested by its inclusion of Simeon of Durham's Historia Dunelmensis Ecclesiae (pp. 122-194), Aethelwulf's De abbatibus (pp. 203-215), and the Old English poem known as 'Durham' (p. 202). The complex provenance of the manuscript, which was once bound with Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 66, has been much disputed by scholars. Once thought to have originated at the scriptorium of the Cistercian Abbey at Sawley in Lancashire, the most recent analysis has suggested an origin at Durham Cathedral Priory, thus placing Durham as an important twelfth-century centre for the copying and transmission of historical material (Dumville (1998)). At some point in its history, probably under its ownership by Matthew Parker (1504-1575), the original manuscript was divided into two: MS Ff.1.27 Part 1 was bound with the latter half of a thirteenth-century manuscript from Bury St. Edmunds (here Part 2), and Corpus MS 66 with the first half of that Bury manuscript (itself now bound separately as MS 66a). Many of the manuscript's constituent texts are highly significant within their respective traditions of transmission and textual history. The copy of the Historia Brittonum is a rare recension of the text that explicitly ascribes the work to Nennius, and is thought to have been copied from the first witness of the Nennian Historia in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 139. The manuscript's copy of Simeon of Durham's Historia is likewise one of the first to name him as its author - a feature that does not even appear in the two earliest manuscript witnesses of the text (Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.II.6 and London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A.v). The manuscript's copy of the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto has been identified as the second oldest copy in existence (Johnson South (2002)), and, uniquely, is followed in the same hand by the latest extant poem in regular Old English metre known to exist, the vernacular poem 'Durham', which describes the fame of the city and its most famous inhabitants, from the 'famous writer Bede' to the 'gracious, blessed [saint] Cuthbert'. Though written by several hands, the appearance of the manuscript's various texts are pleasingly coordinated, each written in two columns, structured by red rubrics and decorated with alternating red and green initials. Some initials, such as those to the opening of Gildas's De excidio on p. 2 and Simeon of Durham's Historia Dunelmensis on p. 123, are finely executed, characterised respectively by intricate foliage and arabesque motifs. A particular highlight of the manuscript's illumination occurs on p. 238, which contains a fully coloured 'Imago ecclesiae' illustrating Gille of Limerick's De statu ecclesie. Based on a Gothic architectural frame, with arching reminiscent of stained glass window designs or layered wall arcading, the image illustrates episcopal and secular church hierarchy, together with the orders of society descending from the emperor and kings. It is probably the earliest 'Gothic' illumination in English. Perhaps the most codicologically complex codex in the University's collection, MS Ff.1.27 is a highly significant witness to the evolution of several textual traditions, and for the dissemination of historical material about the British, Irish and Hiberno-Saxon past. Compiled at the very transition between the late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman periods, the manuscript shows contemporaries coming to grips with the rich literary legacy of some eight hundred years of historical writing in the British Isles, marshalled here into a diverse compendium that attests to the wealth of historical scholarship in twelfth-century Durham. Part 2: pp. 41-72, 253-472, 499-636: Units 2, 8[i], 9-10 (Bradshaw) / 'Parts' II, XI-XII, XIV (Binski and Zutshi) Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.1.27, Part 2, is a compilation of the third quarter of the 13th century, containing a selection of historical texts including Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hiberniae (pp. 253-355), an anonymous Life of St. Patrick (pp. 453-471), and Rhygyfarch ap Sulien's Life of St. David (pp. 618-636). Probably conceived as a compendium of historical material, the manuscript shows a particular interest in Irish history, saints' lives and mythology, and also includes a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Life of Merlin (pp. 610-618). Originating at the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, the manuscript is one half of a larger volume, split into two parts by Matthew Parker in the sixteenth century. Now bound with the twelfth-century compilation of historical texts described above, the other half of the Bury manuscript is now Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 66A, which contains material by the French chronicler Jacques de Vitry and diverse cosmological and poetic texts. Probably rearranged by its early modern owner to form a more pleasing collection of texts relating to British and Irish history, MS Ff.1.27 Part 2 also contains a sixteenth-century copy of Gerald of Wales's Itinerarium Kambriae, evidently added at the same time as Parker's restructuring of the codex. Written, in its medieval portions, in a fine example of the Gothic hand, the manuscript bears some striking, and finely executed illumination. Historiated initials, such as that of Henry II enthroned (p. 262); St Patrick preaching (p. 453) and Merlin making a prophecy (p. 610), make lavish use of gold leaf, and may be compared, in the design and the quality of the figural depictions, to contemporary illuminated Psalters, such as the thirteenth-century Carrow Psalter (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS W.34). Numerous border decorations, principally occurring in Gerald of Wales's Topographia (esp. pp. 277-344), show thematically diverse scenes, including religious images (for instance the Crucifixion on p. 318), aspects of the natural world (e.g. a whale on p. 299), and some delightfully vernacular imagery, as in the depiction of a woman embracing a goat and a lion (p. 308). Containing some fine illumination and several important texts pertaining to the history of the British Isles, the manuscript attests to the copying and transmission of historical material at Bury St. Edmunds in the high medieval period. Providing important evidence about the range of historical scholarship at the Abbey, the codex is also notable for its post-medieval history, offering an insight into Matthew Parker's management of his collection, and how sixteenth-century scholars viewed the relative importance of medieval texts. Elizabeth Wright|University of York (2015) with revisions by James Freeman

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 3: Quod britones
Form: codex
Support: Medieval leaves all parchment; one quire of paper at the end.
Extent: Codex: iii + 2 + 20 | 16 | 24 ; 5 ; 36 ; 9 ; 8 ; 8 | 110 \11/ 2 ; 72 | 12 + 1 + iii leaves. 290-295 × 195-220 mm.
Foliation:

19th-century foliation (with 20th-century additions):

1:1-20 | 2:1-16 | 3:1-24 ; 4[a]:1-5 ; 4[b]:1-36 ; 5:1-9 ; 6:10-17 ; 7:18-25 | 8:1-110 \9:1-11/ 8:111-112 ; 10:1-72 (for pp. 1-642)

Written in pencil in the top right-hand corner of the recto side of each leaf. The manuscript has been subdivided into ten sections, with the classmark of each written at the beginning by Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886). Bradshaw foliated sections 2, 4[a]-4[b] and 8-9; sections 1, 3, 5-7, 10 and the Index were foliated by one or more 20th-century hands. In most instances, the foliation restarts at the beginning of each section, however - for reasons that remain unclear - in section 4 the foliation restarts part-way through, whereas in sections 5-7 it continues without interruption. This may be explained by the manuscript's foliation being left incomplete by Henry Bradshaw, and finished later by a hand or hands that did not observe or understand his codicological divisions in the manuscript.

(Not followed in this catalogue record - see below - and see also Collation for further discussion).

Foliation:

Mid-16th-century pagination (with 20th-century additions):

a-c, c bis + i-ii + 1-40 | 41-72 | 73-120 ; 121-130 ; 131-202 ; 203-220 ; 221-236 ; 237-252 | 253-472 \473-494/ 495-498 ; 499-642 | Index: i-xii + iii + d-f

Numbering in red/orange crayon in the top right-hand corner of the recto side of each leaf (thus, odd numbers only), by Matthew Parker or one of his secretaries (see Additions and Provenance for further details). Although current scholarship takes into account Bradshaw's division of the manuscript into parts, most refer to the manuscript via this pagination sequence. For consistency and ease of cross-reference, this catalogue record does likewise, while employing the foliation given above for the index and endleaves.
Foliation:

Partial 16th-century foliation:

67-72 (for pp. 1-12) 95-157 (for pp. 95-202), 108-116 (for pp. 203-220), 158-165 (for pp. 221-236), 52-58 (for pp. 239-252)

Written in ink, in the bottom right-hand corner of the recto side of these leaves, in many instances cropped. Dumville proposes that this pre-dates Matthew Parker's ownership of the manuscript (see Provenance).
Dumville (1980), pp. 433-434
Foliation:

Medieval foliation (?14th-/15th-century):

423-438 (for pp. 41-72). 239-422 (for pp. 253-642)

Written in crayon in the top right-hand corner of the recto side of these leaves, in many instances now faded or erased or overwritten by Parkerian pagination.

Collation

  • Quire 18 (pp. 1-16)
  • Quire 212 (pp. 17-40) |
  • Quire 312 (pp. 64)
  • Quire 48-4 (pp. 65-72: 5th-8th leaves missing) ;
  • Quires 5-78 (pp. 73-120) ;
  • Quire 84+1 (pp. 121-130: 1st leaf inserted) ;
  • Quires 9-118 (pp. 131-178)
  • Quire 1212 (pp. 179-202: 5th and 8th leaves are singletons) ;
  • Quire 138+1 (pp. 203-220: 8th leaf, p. 217-218 inserted) ;
  • Quire 148 (pp. 221-236) ;
  • Quire 158 (pp. 237-252) |
  • Quires 16-2312 (pp. 253-444)
  • Quire 2412 (pp. 445-468: outer four bifolia, pp. 445-452, 461-468, formed of half sheets)
  • Quire 254 (pp. 469-472, 495-498)
  • \ Quire 2612-1 (pp. 473-494: 2nd leaf cancelled) /
  • Quires 27-3212 (pp. 499-642)

Additions

Note of the manuscript's contents, by a 16th-century hand, either one of Parker's secretaries or near-contemporary later hand, since the references are by Parkerian pagination (f. i verso). Additions made by apparently more than one hand, including that of Abraham Wheelocke (see below).

Notes towards an alphabetical index written in ink (ff. Index:i-x and iii recto), and marginal annotations and underlining written in pencil (pp. 13, 15, 25, 44, 60, 64, 254, 411, 499, 618-619, 629), by the hand of Abraham Wheelocke (c. 1593-1653) , University Librarian 1629-53. Other hands may also have made additions to the index.

Leaf signatures ('a-b' in Quires 3-4; 'a-d' in Quires 9-12; 'a-k' in Quires 16-25; 'a-f' in Quires 27-32 - m usually only the first signature), and notes on missing/cancelled leaves (pp. 72, 475), written in pencil by Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886). Bradshaw also added the manuscript's classmark, plus a further digit, at the beginning of what he considered to be ten codicological units (pp. 1, 41, 73, 121, 203, 221, 237, 253, 473 and 499).

Bradshaw also added chapter numbers ('xii-xxv, 26-94') to the margins of the Vita Sancti Patricii Episcopi, corresponding to the capitular divisions in the editions of Colgan (1647) and Bury (1903), plus a further sequence of numbers ('1-26'), conciding with the decorated initials (pp. 453-471).

?Line numbers added to part of the text of Tractatus de purgatorio Sancti Patricii, written in pencil by an unidentified hand (pp. 600-609). Does not correspond with Warnke's edition.

Quire signatures ('1-3' for Quires 5-7 and '1' for Quire 13), and '+' added to denote the first leaf in the second half of a quire, perhaps by the hand of H.L. Pink .

Binding

Full red morocco, by Douglas Cockerell and Son, April 1967 (inscription by H.L. Pink on the front pastedown).

Author and title inked onto the fore-edge by Abraham Wheelocke (c. 1593-1653) : '247. Gildas de excidio Britanniae [...]' (rest illegible).

Evidence preserved within the manuscript (endleaves bearing four friction-holes and rust stains, indicating the presence formerly of four corner-bosses and a chain-staple, a title label preserved on the front pastedown, and a portion of a legal document formerly adhered to p. 236, now f. c bis) indicates that the manuscript was previously bound in similar style to that of the binding on other manuscripts donated to the University Library by Matthew Parker (for an example, see: MS Ii.2.4). See Provenance.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Matthew Parker (1504-1575), archbishop of Canterbury : partial pagination in characteristic red/orange crayon. Parker disbound and rearranged the contents of this and another manuscript, mixing the two together and rebinding them. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 66 preserves the first half of the 12th-century manuscript found here (Part 1); Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 66A preserves the first half of the 13th-century manuscript found here (Part 2).

Presented to the University Library in 1574 by Matthew Parker (1504-1575) , archbishop of Canterbury. No. 21 in the list of 25 'Libri Scripti in pergameno' published to commemorate Parker's gift (see Early catalogues of manuscripts, up to c. 1600).

Table of contents [Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.1.27, front endleaves]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. i verso
Table of contents
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: i verso: 1. Gildas Badonicus de excidio Britannia
Explicit: i verso: 63. Galf. de Fontibus de infantia S. Edmundi

Added by a 16th-century hand, with further marginal and interlinear annotations by a further, probably 17th-century hand.

Part 1 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.1.27, pp. 1-40, 73-252]

Contents

Language(s): Latin, with a few words in Anglo-Norman

1. 1-14
De excidio Britanniae (extract) Gildas
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 1: Incipit prefatio libri queruli Sancti Gilde sapientis de excidio Britannie de calamitatibus et preuaricationibus eius ciuium ac britonum exulatione et conquestus ipsius contra reges principes et sacerdotes
Incipit: 1: In hoc libro quicquid deflendo potius quam de clamando
Explicit: 14: quippe quid celebrant ciues que non solum norunt . sed exprobrant iam in circuitu nationes||
Final rubric: 14: Explicit liber Gilde sapientis de excidio Britannie et britonum exulacione

Prologue, p. 1; list of capitulae, pp. 1-3; text pp. 4-14. Text of Book 1 only, ends on p. 14, l. 6, followed by a repetition of the capitular headings from the preface ('de situ . de contumatia . de persecutione [...] uictoria temporibus nostris dei nutu donata dicere curabo'), and a verse extract from the end of Book 1, Chapter 26 ('Historiam gylde . cormac sic per lege scriptam [...] carpitque superbos') (p. 14).

Mommsen (1894), pp. 25-41 (MS 'X')
Winterbottom (1978) (MS not cited) [translation and edition]
2. 14-40
Historia Britonum Nennius (attrib.)
Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman
Rubric: 14: Incipit prefatio Nennii Britonum historiographi in historia Britonum
Incipit: (prologue) 14: Humilis seruorum . Christi minister et seruus . Nennius dei gratia sancti elboti
Incipit: (apologia) 15: Ego Nennius sancti Elbodi discipulus aliqua excepta scribere curaui
Incipit: (capitulae) 15: De sex etatibus mundi et quot annos unaqueque tenet
Incipit: (text) 21: Brittania insula a britone filio isioconis . qui fuit filius alani de genere iaphed
Explicit: 40: iterum quamuis habitasset solus in extremis finibus cosmi
Final rubric: 40: Explicit hystoria Nennii britonum hystoriographi de prima in habitatione britonum britannice insule

Prologue and apologia, pp. 14-15; list of capitulae, pp. 15-20; 'Versus Nennii', p. 20; 'Computus', p. 20; 'De sex aetatibus mundi' texts, p. 21; text pp. 21-40. The map of the world on p. 25 includes the names of the winds in Latin and Anglo-Norman ('Solaire de est', 'Mol uent de suth', 'Galerne de west', 'Bise de nord').

CPL 1319
Mommsen (1894), pp. 126-218 (MS 'L')
Lot (1934), pp. 147-225 (MS 'L')
3. 20
Proprietates gentium: De vitiis gentium
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 20: De malis et peruersis naturis hominum
Incipit: 20: Inuidia iudeorum / Perfidia persarum
Explicit: 20: Rapacitas Normannorum / Normanni nimis sunt animosi
Mommsen (1882), pp. 389-90 (MS 'C')
4. 20
Proprietates gentium: De bonis naturis gentium
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 20: De bonis naturis gencium
Incipit: 20: Prudencia hebreorum / Stabilitas persarum
Explicit: 20: Romanus grauis / Affer semper uersipellis
Mommsen (1882), p. 390 ('Forma secunda') (MS 'C')
5. 73-116
Chronica maiora Bede
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 73: Incipit prefatio Bede presbiteri et monachi in librum de temporibus
Incipit: 73: De natura rerum et ratione temporum duos quondam stricto sermone
Explicit: 116: eternam cuncti celestium premiorum mereamur accipere palmam
Final rubric: 116: Explicit Bede presbiter . Liber de Temporibus .

Preface, pp. 73-74; abbreviated list of capitulae, p. 74; text, pp. 74-116. Chapters 66-71 of De temporum ratione.

CPL 2320
Jones (1977), pp. 463-544 (MS no. 45; not used)
6. 116
De natura rerum (extract) Bede
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 116: Naturas rerum varias labentis et eui
Explicit: 116: Qui legis astra super mente tuere deum

Quatrain only, from the beginning of the text.

CPL 1343
Jones (1975), p. 189 (MS no. 19; not used)
Tinelli (2013), p. 62 (MS not noted) (with Italian translation)
7. 116-118
De ratione computi liber (extracts) pseudo-Bede
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 116: De capite Mundi ubi sit secundum bedae ; et quanto anno seculi . natiuitas domini uel passion eius euenerit
Incipit: 117: Principium seculi et conditionis mundi secundum egyptios quibus abraham a caldeis
Explicit: 118: aliquot ante octauum kalendarium sequentium diem esse notanda

Extracts from Chapters 3 and 10.

PL 90:581B-581D, 588D-589B
Jones (1939), pp. 38-41 (MS not recorded)
8. 118-119
Chronological computation
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 118: De magno anno ex concurrentibus composito a Beda ut ostenderet diuersitatem cronicarum atque historicorum in natiuitate . et passione . resurrectioneque christi et de tractatione eiusdem magni anni
Incipit: 118: Quinquagesima ergo quarto anno . hoc est sexto decimo anno cycli tercii decenno uenalis ipsius magni cycli
Explicit: 119: scripturae etiam atque etiam anni quatuor milia centum octoginta duo

Found as accompaniment to the Historia Britonum: see, for example, Lincoln, Cathedral Library, MS 98 (ff. 106-118) and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodl. 163 (f. 243r).

9. 120
Gesta regum anglorum (extract) William of Malmesbury
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 120: De hospite mutato in asinum
Incipit: || 120: Erant in strata publica qua romam itur due anicule
Explicit: 120: et a filiis horreri fecit ; instructiorem de cetero intalibus redidit||

Two women who transformed a young man into a donkey, from Book 2.

Stubbs (1887-89), pp. 201-02, §171 (MS not cited)
Mynors et al. (1998), p. 292, §171 (MS not cited)
10. 120
Gesta regum anglorum (extract) William of Malmesbury
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 120: De capite statue loquentis
Incipit: 120: Hec aquitanici uerba ideo inserui ; ne cui mirum uideatur quod de gerberto fama dispersit
Explicit: 120: nunquam illud adamauit sacramentum ; immo sacrilegium
Final rubric: 120: Hec duo miracula sunt sumpta de historia Willelmi Malmesburiensis monachi

Gerbert's magical head: a statue that could answer 'Yes' or 'No' in response to questions, from Book 2.

Stubbs (1887-89), pp. 202-03, §172 (MS not cited)
Mynors et al. (1998), pp. 292-94, §172 (MS not cited)
11. 122-186
De exordio ecclesiae Dunelmensis Simeon of Durham
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 122: Incipit apologia symeonis monachi
Incipit: (apologia) 122: Exordium Dunelmensis ecclesie describere maiorum auctoritate iussus
Explicit: (apologia) 122: opus compendiosa breuitate poterunt scire
Rubric: 123: Incipit prefatio reuerendi symeonis monachi et precentoris ecclesie Sancti Cuthberti Dunelmi . in historia de exordio christianitatis et religionis totius northumbrie de fide et origine sancti oswaldi regis et martiris de predicationem sancti aidani episcopi
Incipit: (prefatio) 123: Regnante apud Norhthimbros christianissimo rege et postea martire oswaldo uir eximie sanctitatis aidanus
Explicit: (prefatio) 125: sed antiquum deo renouante restituit
Rubric: 131: Incipit historia sancte et suauis memorie Simeonis monachi sancti Cuthberti Dunelmi de exordio christianitatis et religionis tocius northumbrie et de exortu et processu lindisfarnensis siue dunelmensis ecclesie
Incipit: (text) 131: Gloriosi quondam regis Northimbrorum et preciosi martyris oswaldi seruentissima in christo fide
Explicit: 186: quando et tercius decimus exquo in dunelmum congregato fuerant monachi annus agebatur
Final rubric: 186: Explicit historia simeonis

List of capitulae, pp. 125-128; geneaology of West Saxon kings, p. 128 (see separate entry below); 'Series regum Northymbrensium', pp. 129-130.

Arnold (1882-1885), vol. 1, pp. 3-135 (MS 'C'); vol. 2, pp. 389-93 (MS 'C') [for pp. 129-130]
Rollason (2000), pp. 2-256, 258-264, 324-332 (MS 'Ca')
12. 128
Gesta regum anglorum (extract) William of Malmesbury
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 128: Ab hoc anglorum cronica sursum uersus usque ad adam
Explicit: 128: Wintoniam urbem populosam direptioni dedit

The genealogy of West Saxon kings, from Book 2.

Stubbs (1887-89), pp. 120-22, §§115-116, 117 (part) (MS not cited)
Mynors et al. (1998), pp. 174-76, §§115-116, 117 (part) (MS not cited)
13. 186
Charter of Εgfrid
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 186: Anno dominice incarnationis dclxxxv congregata sinodo iuxta fluuium alne
Explicit: 186: agathonis pape anno etatis regis ecgfridi . xl . regni eius autem decimo quinto

Grant of Carlisle to St Cuthbert.

Rollason (2000), p. xxv
14. 187-194
Continuation of the De exordio ecclesiae Dunelmensis
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 187: Tribus de hinc annis ecclesia uacante pastore
Explicit: 194: Capud ceolwlfi regis et postea monachi in lindispharnensi ecclesia

Copied by four hands, the first two without rubrics but with headings added and corrected by hands of the 16th / 17th century:

  • 'De Ranulpho Episcopo' (i.e. Ranulph Flambard) (pp. 187-190)
  • 'De Gaufrido Episcopo' (i.e. Ranulph's successor Geoffrey Rufus) (pp. 191-194) (including the section in Twysden headed 'De invasore tempore Willelmi secundi Episcopi' (i.e. Geoffrey's successor William Cumin), continuing here under the same heading and without a break in the text), plus further text on the episcopy of William's successor, William of St Barbara
  • 'De electione et ordinatione hugonis episcopi' (i.e. William's successor, Hugh de Puiset) (p. 194)
  • 'He reliquie in Dunelmensi continentur ecclesia' (p. 194).

Twysden (1652), cols 59-68
Arnold (1882), pp. 135-142, 161-169
Rollason (2000), pp. 266-322
15. 195-202
Historia de Sancti Cuthberto
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 195: Incipit historia de sancto Cuthberto et de commemoratione locorum regionumque eius prisce posessionis a primordio usque nunc temporis
Incipit: 195: In nomine dei summi de sancto cuthberto et de commemoratione locorum regionumque eius prisce possessionis [...]
Incipit: 195: In prima sua iuuentute quando sanctis cuthbertus erat uigilans super pecora domini sui
Explicit: 202: et totum exercitum beato confessori commendans abiit
Arnold (1885), pp. 196-212
16. 202
'Durham' poem
Language(s): Old English
Rubric: 202: De situ dunelmi et de sanctorum reliquiis que ibidem continetur carmen compositum
Incipit: 202 Is ðeos burch breome geond breontenrice
Explicit: 202 midd ðene drihnes ƿer domes bideð
Arnold (1885), pp. 221-222
Grein and Wülcker (1881-98), vol. 1, p. 389
Dobbie (1942), pp. xliii-xlv, 27 (MS 'C')
Ker (1957), p. 12, no. 14
Howlett (1994), p. 489
Howlett (1998), p. 279
17. 203-215
De abbatibus Aethelwulf
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 203: Incipit prefatio ethilwlfi lindisfarnensis ecclesie monachi ad ecgbertum lindisfarnensem episcopum de abbatibus eiusdem ecclesie
Incipit: (preface) 203: Amicorum praestantissimo atque dilectissimo sacerdoti
Incipit: (prologue) 203: Sume pater placidos modulatis uota poete
Incipit: (text) 203: Cum te sancta manus prestantem reddidit Anglis
Explicit: 215: Inferni uinclis . uerberibusque priuans
Final rubric: 215: Explicit liber Aedilwlfi lindisfarnensis ecclesie monachi de abbatibus et miraculis eiusdem ecclesie
Arnold (1882), pp. 265-94 (MS 'C')
Campbell (1967), MS 'C' (with translation)
18. 215-216
De regibus et regnis et episcopatibus totius Angliae
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 215: Incipit de regibus et regnis et episcopatibus tocius Anglie
Incipit: 215: Dominabantur reges cantuaritarum proprie in cantia
Explicit: 216: tempora ordinationum sedilia sua agnoscant
19. 217-218
Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (extract) Quid daemones in monte Bebii fecerint Alexander of Canterbury
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 217: Miraculum inauditum de quodam die tempestuoso . de tribus militibus de cineribus. de auibus . et de monte bebio
Incipit: 217: Nuper autem postquam normanni eandem sibi subiugauerant terram
Explicit: 218: ne post hanc uitam ad talia uel peiora loca perueniat

One of the 'Miracula', ch. 36. Title 'Visiones' added by a hand of the 16th / 17th century.

Southern and Schmitt (1969), pp. 230-33 (MS not cited; see p. 29)
20. 218-219
Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (extract) De Stephano rapto et eius presbitero Alexander of Canterbury
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 218: Miraculum de stephano a demonibus rapto in monte bebio
Incipit: 218: Vir quidam boni testimonii eustachius nomine
Explicit: 219: et tam crudelis plaga rapine cessauit

One of the 'Miracula', ch. 35. Title 'Visiones' added by a hand of the 16th / 17th century.

Southern and Schmitt (1969), pp. 227-30 (MS not cited; see p. 29).
21. 219
Vision relating to Henry I
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 219: Miraculum terrificum de primo henrico anglorum rege filio willelmi
Incipit: 219: Anno ab incarnatione domini [1141] cuidam beccensi fratri de rege hec uisio non tacenda facta narratur
Explicit: 219: uel legeret anime regis orationis munus impenderet

The vision of a monk from Bec, in which Henry I is sent into Hell each morning and rescued by the prayers of monks each evening. Unique to this manuscript.

Southern (1962), p. 155
22. 219-220
Vision of the sacrament of the altar by a monk of Savigny ?Peter the Venerable
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 219: Uisio cuiusdam monachi sauigniensis
Incipit: 219: Quoniam de uisionibus studio pennam aptare
Explicit: 220: sed semper humilem semper socialem et sine querela et nota conuersantem

Tentatively attributed to Peter the Venerable (see Constable). Title 'Visiones' added by a hand of the 16th / 17th century.

Constable (1956), pp. 113-14 (MS not noted)
23. 220
Vision of the sacrament of the altar by a monk of Savigny on a different day ?Peter the Venerable
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 220: Idem in eodem monasterio sed sie atlera cum similiter diuino fungetur officio
Explicit: 220: de manu inimicorum nostrorum liberati sine timore seruiamus ille fat . Amen .

Tentatively attributed to Peter the Venerable (see Constable). Title 'Visiones' added by a hand of the 16th / 17th century.

Constable (1956), pp. 114 (MS not noted)
24. 221-236
De moderno et antiquo statu ecclesiae Hagustaldensis et de pontificibus eiusdem ecclesie Richard of Hexham
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 221: Incipit prologus operis sequentis
Incipit: (prologue) 221: Generali nomine regio northanymbrorum tempore regum uocabatur
Rubric: 223: Incipit quedam breuis annotatio bone memorie Ricardi prioris hagustaldensis ecclesie . de moderno et antiquo statu eiusdem ecclesie et de pontificibus eiusdem ecclesie
Incipit: (text) 223: Est in northanhymbrorum prouincia haud procul a tina fluminem ad austrum sita uilla
Explicit: (text) 236: que ibi poni debuerantur in ripa ipsius cruces posite sunt

Attributed in the opening rubric to Ricardus, prior of Hexham. List of capitulae, pp. 222-223; Book Two, p. 231. Final rubric illegible. The removal of an adhered strip of parchment (now located at the front of the manuscript, as f. c bis) revealed a further four lines in the bottom margin. According to Raine (p. 36 fn. q.), the first part (to 'conseruat') 'is almost identical with one describing the same thing in the chronicle ascribed to Simeon of Durham (Twysden. col. 101 [Arnold (1885], p. 33]). It is evident that the whole passage in that chronicle, relating to Acca, although it is plainly an interpolation, is independent of this work of Richard, and also of an earlier date. Richard, judging from this chapter, seems certainly to have had it before him.'

Raine (1864), vol. 1, pp. 1-62 (MS used)
25. 237-242
De statu ecclesiae Gilbert of Limerick
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 237: Incipit prologus Gille episcopi lumnicenses de usu ecclesiastico
Incipit: (prologue) 237: Episcopis presbiteris totius hibernie ; infimus presulum Gille lumnicensis in christo salutem
Rubric: 239: Gileberuis lunicensis episcopus de statu ecclesie
Incipit: (text) 239: Imago generalis ecclesie supre notata
Explicit: (text) 242: ut semper martirio probatus \paratus/ probetur
PL 159:997-1004
Kenney (1929), no. 651
Fleming (2001), pp. 143-63 (MS 'F') (with translation)
26. 243-245
Kings of Britain
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 243: Eneas . Rex latinorum primus . iii . annis
Explicit: 245: Cadwaladrus
27. 246-247
Kings of Israel and Juda
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 246: Beda . Prima etas ab adam usque ad noe continens annos iuxta hebraicam
Explicit: 247: et uocauit ioachim
28. 248
Kings of Persia and Chaldea
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 248: Εt post tranim(?) . Si ponimus iechoniam in fine precedentis
Explicit: 248: et reliquam parte templi perficeret
29. 249-252
De regibus Francorum
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 249: Incipit compendiosum cronicum de regibus francorum
Incipit: 249: Francos lingua attica ualentinianus inperator a feritate et duritia
Explicit: 252: Obiit autem anno incarnationis domini [1137]
Final rubric: 252: Explicit de Regibus francie
30. 252
Kings of England
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 252: Incipit de Regibus anglie
Incipit: 252: Ine regnauit annis . xxxvii .
Explicit: 252: Villelmus filius eius . xiii . annis exceptis . vi . ebdomadibus . henricus frater eius . xxx .

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 3: Quod britones
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 20 | [...] 24 ; 5 ; 36 ; 9 ; 8 ; 8 [...] leaves. 290 × 200-220 mm.

Collation

18 | [...] | 312 48-4 (5th-8th missing) ; 5-78 ; 84+1 (1st leaf inserted) ; 9-118 1212 138+1 (8th inserted) 148 ; 158

Occasional bifolium signatures, in the form of horizontal strike marks in leadpoint on the recto or verso side of leaves in the first half of the quire (see Quires 7, 9-10).

Layout

225-240 × 155-165 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and line. Two columns. 36 lines to the page (except pp. 251-252, 40-41 lines), written above top line.

Hand(s)

Written by several main hands in gothic script of the 12th century, to which further, minor hands have made roughly contemporary additions [references to 'Parts' enumerated by Binski and Zutshi (2011)]:

  • Pages 1-40 (Gildas and Nennius), perhaps with a change of hand at p. 37 [B/Z I]
  • Pages 73-120 (Bede, pseudo-Bede and extracts from William of Malmesbury) [B/Z III], perhaps the same hand also responsible for pp. 123-186 (Simeon of Durham) [B/Z IV]
  • Pages 195-202 (Life of St Cuthbert and 'Durham' poem) [B/Z V]
  • Pages 203-215 (Aethelwulf) [B/Z VI]
  • Pages 221-236 (Richard of Hexham) [B/Z VIII]
The rest have been copied by several other hands, either adding texts into blank spaces, or filling the remainder of a quire or even a whole quire with shorter texts (pp. 122, 186-194, 215-220, 237-252). See Fleming (2001), p. 127, for analysis of the copying of pp. 237-242.

Decoration

The description that follows focuses first on major decoration, divided according to the 'Parts' enumerated by Binski and Zutshi (2009), followed by description of minor decoration across the late 12th-century manuscript as a whole (here Part 1).

Initial 'B' (15 lines), with vine and foliate infill, in light blue, green and orange, on burnished gold ground (p. 3). A further initial 'B' of the same size and in similar palette, by a different artist, with empty/white vine and coloured foliate infill on coloured ground, with powdered gold panels in the body of the letter (p. 21) [B/Z I].

'T-O' map in green, blue and red, showing the division of the earth by three sons of Noah, the provinces in each, and the names of winds in Latin and Anglo-Norman (p. 25) [B/Z I].

Arabesque initials 'P' and 'A' (11 lines), in red, green and light blue (pp. 73 and 76) [B/Z III].

Arabesque initials (8-21 lines), in green, red, light blue and tan (pp. 123, 131 and 132) [B/Z IV].

6-line foliage initial, in green and red (p. 187) [B/Z IV].

Light blue initial 'I', with red and green arabesque endings, occupying most of the length of the page (p. 195) [B/Z V].

Arabesque initials (7 lines), in green, red and light blue (pp. 203 and 221) [B/Z VI and VIII].

Imago ecclesiae, in red, blue, green and gold, illustrating Gilbert of Limerick's De statu ecclesiae (p. 238). 'This is reminiscent of Gothic layered wall arcading and represents diocesan and provincial hierarchy under the pope, with secular hierarchy and orders of society, descending via emperor and kings; above are roofs and towers' (Binski and Zutshi (2011), p. 73). 'If the current arguments about the relationship between the two parts of this manuscript are valid, this diagram was executed c. 1190 at Durham, and is in effect the earliest undeniably 'Gothic' illumination in English, and possibly European, art' (Binski, in Cambridge Illuminations (2005), p. 308). [B/Z IX].

Foliage initials (11-20 lines), in blue, rose and burnished gold (pp. 355, 362, 406, 451 and 497) [B/Z XI, XIV].

Plain initials (2-12 lines) in red, green or light blue, at chapter divisions.

Decorated signes-de-renvoi and paraph marks (e.g. pp. 3, 19, 20, 37, 131).

Binding

Formerly bound with Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 66 (see Provenance in main record and below).

History

Origin: Late 12th century or very early 13th century. ; Durham or Sawley.

Dumville dates the manuscript slightly later, to 'the very early thirteenth century', and argues for its origin in Sawley on account of scribal and textual connections to Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 139 (also made at Sawley, in his opinion), as well as the presence of similar annotation and early ownership inscriptions in that manuscript and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 66, with which MS Ff.1.27 was once bound.

However, Meehan, Norton and others have argued for MS Ff.1.27's origination at a slightly earlier date, owing to the colophon of 1188 in Corpus MS 66. Building on earlier work by Mynors, they also propose that it was made at Durham Cathedral Priory, owing to its particular contents: specifically, a genealogical chronicle and its illustrations that derive, probably directly, from Durham, Cathedral Library, MS B.II.35. The copies of the Historia Brittonum and the Life of Gildas in Durham MS B.II.35 themselves were informed by those in Corpus MS 139, whose production they likewise locate to Durham. The selection of texts is also apparently typical of the anthologising work of the historian Simeon of Durham. Furthermore, the illumination is closely related to a group of manuscripts commissioned probably in Durham by Hugh de Puiset (d. 1195), bishop of Durham. Among the manuscripts that Hugh presented to Durham after his death is one described as 'Mappa mundi': in the context, more likely a book rather than a single sheet, and referring to the geographical, cosmological and historical contents of that volume as well as to the map of the world that it contains. That book may now be Corpus MS 66, and by extension this part of MS Ff.1.27 - or these manuscripts were copied from Hugh's 'Mappa' - but these connections must remain tentative for the moment.

Mynors (1939)
Dumville (1980), p. 427
Meehan (1994)
Norton (1998)
Binski, in Cambridge Illuminations (2005), pp. 305-06.

Provenance

Sawley Abbey, Lancashire: ownership inscription ('Liber sancte Marie de salleia') in red ink, probably c. 1200 (see Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 66, p. 2).

Ker (1964), p. 177
MLGB

Part 2 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.1.27, pp. 41-72, 253-471, 497-642]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 41-64
Historia Britonum Nennius (attrib.)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 41: Incipit Gesta Brithonum a Gilda sapiente composita
Incipit: 41: A principio mundi usque ad Diluuium
Explicit: 64: quamuis habitasset solus in finibus cosmi

'[C]ommonly attributed to Nennius [...] The attribution to Gildas [as in the rubric here] belongs to a distinct recension of the text' (Sharpe).

'De sex aetatibus mundi', p. 41;

Mommsen (1894), pp. 145-46, 147-218 (MS 'L')
Lot (1934), pp. 147-225 (MS 'L')
2. 64-71
Historia anglorum (extracts) Henry of Huntingdon
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 64: Britannia igitur beatissima insulare fecunda frugibus et arboribus
Explicit: 71: quos diximus aduenientes sibi locum patefecerunt

Book 1, §§1-11.

Greenway (1996), pp. 10-30 (MS not noted) (with translation)
3. 253
Glossary of counties, territories, archbishoprics, bishoprics and archdeaconries
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 253: Hec est descriptio Hybernie secundum libros ueteres terram describentes
Incipit: 253: Legenia id est Leynester
Explicit: 253: Clokorens . I . Archidiaconum
4. 253-355
Topographia Hiberniae Giraldus Cambrensis
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 254: Introitus in recitacionum
Incipit: (introitus) 254: Consideranti mihi quam breuis et fluxa sit uita
Incipit: (preface) 262: Placuit excellencie uestre inuictissime anglorum rex
Rubric: 263: Incipit hybernice hystorie distinccio prima de situ hybernie uariaque eius natura
Incipit: (text) 263: Hybernia post britannicam insularum maxima unius contraccioris diei
Explicit: (text) 355: quicquid a tanta maiestate fuerit iniunctum
Final rubric: 355: Explicit

List of capitulae, pp. 257-262.

Dimock (1867), pp. 3-202 (MS 'F')
5. 355-452
Expugnatio Hiberniae Giraldus Cambrensis
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 355: Introitus in recitationem
Incipit: (introitus) 355: Quoniam de insule hybernice situ uariis
Rubric: 362: Incipit uaticinalis hystoria . Illustri pictauensium comiti Ricardo . Giraldus . Kambrensis
Incipit: (text) 362: A multis requisitus et multociens ut inclita nostri temporis gesta
Explicit: 452: Tradunt britones et antique referunt hystorie etcetera

List of capitulae, pp. 359-362.

Dimock (1867), pp. 207-404 (MS 'F')
Scott and Martin (1978), pp. 2-256 (MS 'F')
6. 453-471
Vita Sancti Patricii Episcopi (Vita Tertia) ?Probus
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 453: Incipit Uita Sancti Patricii Episcopi
Incipit: 453: Patricius qui vocatur et succet de genere britonum ortus fuit
Explicit: 471: Cui honor et gloria et uirtus et potestas in saecula saeculorum . Amen .

'It is said to have been written by Probus, though Pits ascribes it to Giraldus Cambrensis, probably being deceived by finding it in the volume containing the works of Giraldus Cambrensis. [...] It has also been attributed to Bede' (Hardy, p. 66). Includes in ch. 88 a Glastonbury interpolation, probably dating from the 10th/11th century (see J.B. Bury, The life of St. Patrick and his place in history (London, 1905), p. 202. Bieler rejects Hardy's attribution of the text to Probus.

Hardy (1862), no. 187
Bury (1903), MS 'C'.
Bieler (1942), no. 24; MS 33.
7. 497-498
Prophecy
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 497: Arbor fertilis a primo trunco decisa ad spacium trium jugerum
Explicit: 498: et circumdabit eam undique fluuius thamesis et rumor operis alpes transcendet
8. 499-567
Itinerarium Kambriae Giraldus Cambrensis
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: (capitulae) 499: Prima particula continet de transitu per herefordiam
Rubric: 499: Incipit itinerarium Girardi kambrensis et tam kambrie quam brithannie descriptio
Incipit: (text) 499: Quoniam ea que laudabili deuocione gesta nos ciuitur
Explicit: 567: ueritas sine ambiguo ; uita sine fine

Without the prefatory dedication. List of capitulae, p. 499; text, pp. 499-567.

Dimock (1868), pp. 12-152 (MS 'F')
9. 568-600
Tractatus de purgatorio Sancti Patricii Henry of Saltry
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 568: Incipit prefatio de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
Incipit: (prologue) 568: Patri suo in christo preoptato domino .h. abbati de sartis
Rubric: 570: Incipit de purgatorio sancti patricii
Incipit: (text) 570: Dicitur magnus sanctus patricius ; qui a primo est secundus
Explicit: 600: cuius nomen gloriosum permanet et benedictum in saecula saeculorum . Amen .
Warnke (1938), pp. 2-168 (β text; MS not used)
10. 600-609
Chronica (extracts) Sigebert of Gembloux
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 600: Excepciones de cronicis eusebii
Incipit: 600: In castello iudee emaus natus est puer perfectus
Explicit: 609: ita disparuerunt ut nec uiui nec mortui reperientur

The opening rubric describes these as extracts from the Chronicon of Eusebius of Caesarea.

11. 610-618
Prophetia Merlini
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 610: Incipit uaticinium Merlini
Incipit: 610: Sedente itaque uortegirno rege britonum super ripam exhausti stagni
Explicit: 618: Confligent uenti diro sufflamine et sonitum inter sidera conficient
12. 618-636
Vita Sancti Davidis Rhygyfarch ap Sulien
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 618: Incipit uita sancti Dauid episcopi qui patria lingua uocatur dewid que est kalends marcii
Incipit: 618: Dominus noster quamuis omnes scios ante mundi constitucionem
Explicit: 636: in terra celesti porte atrium conspecto sine fine deo locauerint qui est benedictus super omnia deus in saecula saeculorum . Amen .

Without the genealogy, mass, secreta or postcommunio.

Wade-Evans (1923), pp. 1-32 (MS not cited) (§§ 1-67) (translation)
Wade-Evans (1944), pp. 150-169 (MS not cited) (§§ 1-67)
James (1967), MS 'D4' (with translation)
13. 638-642
De infantia Sancti Edmundi Galfridus de Fontibus
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 638: Regiis excubiis a puero insistenti domino ordinguo
Explicit: 642: uir degretus albos despersit floriacensis ad laudem domini saluatoris cui est honor et gloria in saecula saeculorum . Amen .

Added by a 14th-century hand.

Thomson (1977, repr. 1998)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment (FHHF)
Extent: Codex: [...] 16 | [...] | 110 | [...] | 2 ; 72 leaves. 290 × 200 mm.

Collation

[...] | 212 | [...] | 16-2312 2412 (four outer bifolia formed of half sheets) 254 \ [...] / 27-3212

A single quire signature, 'I' (p. 276).

Catchwords (mostly cropped in ff. 253-498).

Layout

205-215 × 135-140 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and line. Two columns, 38-39 lines to the page, written below top line.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic script by several hands.

Decoration

The description that follows focuses first on major decoration, divided according to the 'Parts' enumerated by Binski and Zutshi (2009), followed by description of minor decoration across the 13th-century manuscript as a whole (here Part 2).

Bas-de-page and marginal paintings of people, trees, fish, birds and other animals tinted in blue, green, brown, red and rose [B/Z XI]. Illustrating the text of the Topographia Hiberniae (some trimmed, as on pp. 276-344). For further discussion and comparison with similar programmes of illustration in other copies of the Topographia, see Brown (2002).

  • 272: eagle (unfilled; prompt in leadpoint: 'aquila')
  • 276: crane and barnacle geese
  • 277: osprey
  • 279: swans and stork
  • 280: crow
  • 281: deer and marten
  • 282: badger and beaver
  • 283: weasel, snake and ?young weasel
  • 284: mole, frog and ?toad (margin); wolf and fox (bas-de-page)
  • 299: fish with three golden teeth found at Carlingford (accompanied by prompt in leadpoint: 'piscis magne habens . iii . dentes aurea')
  • 300: hind with golden teeth found in the forest of Durham
  • 302-304: miracle of the talking wolf and the priest in a wood on the border of Meath
  • 306: bearded woman of Limerick; the half-ox, half-man of Wicklow
  • 307: cow-deer hybrid of Chester
  • 308: the woman of Connaught embracing a goat; Johanna of Paris embracing a lion; cockerel
  • 309: St. Kevin and blackbird
  • 310: miracle of the bear submitting to the yoke of the ox it had slain at the instruction of St Ferreolus
  • 311-312: St. Colman feeding the teals; kite perching in a tree with a teal; a fox carrying off a teal (both birds protected from harm by their patron saint)
  • 313: the rats expelled from Ferns by St Yvorus; the wandering bell of Leinster (margin)
  • 314: the falcon of St. Bridget
  • 315: scribe at work, relating to the book that was miraculously written
  • 317: leaping salmon in Munster (also reported in Dublin and south Wales)
  • 318: the talking and immovable crucifix of Holy Trinity, Dublin
  • 319: the archer who claimed to have blown on St Bridget's fire; and the same drinking from a stream until he burst
  • 320: the miracle of the giant boiler stolen by Hugh Tyrell and unharmed by flames; the miraculous mill of St Fechin, where an archer violated a woman and was punished by fire throughout his body
  • 321: the planting of trees at Finglass by Abbot Chenach and a monk
  • 322: the divine punishment of the archers who tried to fell these trees
  • 330: man playing the harp
  • 331: woman playing and tuning the psaltery
  • 336: men carrying axes towards a tower (signifying their violent, impulsive natures)
  • 338: murder of a man with an axe; ritual sacrifice of a mare; a cauldron in which the mare's dismembered body is cooked
  • 339: new king of Tirconell inaugurated by standing in the broth made from the sacrificed mare, eating the contents and surrounding by others doing the same (shown eating with their hands, whereas the text describes them lapping it up with their mouths)
  • 340: two men in a coracle; lay ecclesiastic riding a horse
  • 343: bell (margin) (signifying saintly relics held in reverence); the pastoral staff known as the 'Staff of Jesus'; a mendicant friar blowing the horn of St Patrick (contrary to the text), and it being grabbed by a priest called Bernard who then attempted to blow it (bas-de-page)
  • 344: man with twisted feet (signifying the many people with physical impairments and disabilities)

Historiated initials (5-18 lines), in burnished gold on blue and rose ground or in rose and white on burnished gold ground [B/Z XI-XIV]:

  • 254: Giraldus Cambrensis writing
  • 262: Henry II enthroned and surrounded by soldiers
  • 290: an author presenting his book to Henry II
  • 322: armed inhabitants of Ireland
  • 364: Deomicius pointing to a tower
  • 453: St. Patrick preaching
  • 499: an author presenting his book to an archbishop
  • 542: St. Patrick preaching
  • 568: a bishop accompanied by monks blessing a man
  • 570: a man before a door
  • 610: a prophecy of Merlin
  • 618: St. David preaching

Initial 'A' (16 lines), filled with serpentine dragon on burnished gold ground, with an eagle perching on the top finial; and a burnished gold initial 'B' (5 lines), on blue and rose ground (p. 41) [B/Z II].

Foliage initials (5-20 lines) in blue, rose and burnished gold (pp. 355, 359, 362, 406, 451 and 497) [B/Z XI, XIV].

Flourished initials (2-8 lines), in red or blue, with contrasting infill and marginal flourishing in blue or red.

Plain initials (1 line), in red or blue.

Grotesques, human figures and hands, some emerging from letters, finely drawn in outline with some partially tinted (pp. 293, 295, 300, 324, 370, 389, 445, 447, 453).

Binding

Formerly bound with Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 66A (see Provenance in main record).

History

Origin: 3rd or 4th quarter of the 13th century (after 1283?), possibly early 14th century. ; England, perhaps Bury St Edmunds.

Binski and Zutshi date the manuscript to the third quarter of the 13th century, however Rooney notes the inclusion of a colophon dated 1283 at the end of the the Tractatus de sphaera of Johannes Sacrobosco, written by the same hand as the accompanying text, suggesting a slightly later date of production of part or all of the manuscript. Brown proposes the early 14th century, owing to certain features of its decoration and script, such as the inclusion of human heads as penwork extensions. Owned by, and usually considered to have been made at, Bury St Edmunds.

Brown (2002), p. 39
Rooney (2005), p. 181 n. 74
Binski and Zutshi (2011)

Provenance

The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds : table of contents entitled 'Liber de communitate monachorum sancti Edmundi in quo subscripta continentur', and characteristic press-mark ('J.90') (see Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 66A, p. 116).

Ker (1964), p. 16
MLGB

Part 3: mid-16th-century additions [Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.1.27, pp. 473-494]

Contents

1. 473-491
Descriptio Kambriae Giraldus Cambrensis
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 473: Huberto Cantuariensis Archiepiscopo Giraldus Cambrensis Archidiaconus
Incipit: 473: Ille ego qui quondam Hibernicam topographiam cum abditis suis
Explicit: 491: quicquid de ampliori contingat pro hoc terrarum angulo respondebit

A sixteenth-century copy of the text, copied onto a quire that was inserted into the manuscript, probably for Matthew Parker (see Introduction and Provenance). Rubric 'Descriptio Cambriae' added to the top margin by a hand of the same period (p. 473).

Dimock (1868), pp. 153-227 (MS 'F')
2. 493-494
Retractiones Giraldus Cambrensis
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 493: Tractatum retractionum et cathalogum librorum diligentia Giraldi compositorum in calce libelli de Cambriae descriptione digne duximus adiiciendum
Incipit: 493: Quoniam itaque cunctorum habere notitiam vt ait imperator
Explicit: 494: pro omnibus suis imminente gregis periculo et necessitatis articulo non formidat
Brewer (1861), pp. 425-27 (MS not cited)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment (disposition uncertain)
Extent: Codex: 11 leaves. 290 × 200 mm.

Collation

2612-1 (2nd leaf cancelled)

Layout

240-255 × 155-180 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, mostly frame only: frame and line on first page of text (p. 473) and on pp. 493-494, as part of separate page preparation. Two columns, 36-48 lines to the page, written above top line.

Hand(s)

Pages 473-491 written by a single hand in secretary, with a combination of bastard secretary and humanistic cursive used as display scripts for headings and opening words.

Pages 493-494 written by a single hand in humanistic cursive.

History

Origin: Mid-16th century (not after 1574). ; England.

Added to the manuscript probably as part of the re-arrangements undertaken by Matthew Parker, and certainly before the manuscript was donated to Cambridge University Library (cf. Parkerian pagination) (see Provenance in main record).

Index and related notes [Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.1.27, rear endleaves]

Contents

1. Index: i recto-x recto
Index
Language(s): Latin

Added by Abraham Wheelocke (see Additions).

2. iii recto
Further entries for the preceding index
Language(s): Latin

Added by Abraham Wheelocke (see Additions).

Additional Information

Record Sources

This catalogue entry draws on an unpublished description of the manuscript composed between 1926 and 1930 by M.R. James (1862-1936) , now held in the University Archives (UA ULIB 7/3/74).

Availability

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Custodial History

Recorded in the inventory of the University Library compiled in 1583 by John Frickley (now UA CUR 31.1(10). No. 427 in the edition of that inventory: E. S. Leedham-Green and David McKitterick, 'A Catalogue of Cambridge University Library, 1583', in Books and Collectors, 1200-1700: Essays Presented to Andrew Watson, ed. by James P. Carley and Colin G. C. Tite, The British Library Studies in the History of the Book (London: British Library, 1997), pp. 153–245.
Recorded as no. 247 in Thomas James, Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1600).
The manuscript was loaned to J.B. Bury in Dublin, for the purpose of his editing the text of the Vita Sancti Patricii Episcopi (pp. 453-471). See: Bury (1903), p. 224.
The manuscript was displayed as part of the exhibition Richard Löwenherz: König, Ritter, Gefangener (Speyer, Historisches Museum der Pfalz, 17 September 2-17-15 April 2018) (pp. 262-263).

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    Historiæ Anglicanæ scriptores X, Twysden, Roger (London, 1652) Giraldi Cambrensis opera: <hi rend="italics">De rebus a se gestis, libri III</hi>, <hi rend="italics">Invectionum libellus</hi>, <hi rend="italics">Symbolum electorum</hi> Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi scriptores, or, Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, (London, 1, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1861) The Priory of Hexham, its chroniclers, endowments, and annals Surtees Society, Raine, James (Durham, 1, Andrews, 1864) Giraldi Cambrensis opera: <hi rend="italics">Topographia Hibernica</hi> et <hi rend="italics">Expugnatio Hibernica</hi> Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi scriptores, (London, 5, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867) Giraldi Cambrensis opera: <hi rend="italics">Itinerarium Kambriae</hi> et <hi rend="italics">Descriptio Kambriae</hi> Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi scriptores, (London, 6, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1868) Symeonis monachi opera omnia Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores, (London, Longman, 1882) Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie, 1. 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