The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.4.43
Manuscript Title

Peter of Ickham, Chronicle of the Kings of England

Alternative Title

Petrus de Ickham etc

James Number 1273
Century 15th
Physical Description

47 lines to a page. In two rather current hands. Rough drawings.

Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. Marked F. 15. No. 275.

Second Folio quam triduana id est euerwyk
Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 31 x 22.5
Folio 98 + 4 ff.
Binding Old binding of white skin over boards: clasps gone
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

2 flyleaves. 18 (+ 2 slips)-48 510 64 (1 canc.) | 78 (7*)-128 134. 2 flyleaves.

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.4.43/manifest.json
Online Since 06/01/2020

Contents

The flyleaves are parts of 3 leaves of a large xivth cent. theological MS.

I. Headed in a late hand Petrus de Ykham.
f.1 Prefacio in opusculum subscriptum de gestis anglorum
Non solum audiendis scripture sacre uerbis
-et saxonibus cesserunt.
f.2b Cronice de gestis ac nominibus regum britonum Anglorum Saxonum et Normannorum
Iste brutus ex genere troianus.
A genealogical tree is carried down the margins of the leaves, and there are also marginal pictures of cities, and buildings on fire.
Ends f.42b with Edward IV.: apud Westmonast. sepelitur.
Then follow three leaves (one folding) of genealogical tables of Saxon, English, and Scottish kings, and dukes of Normandy.
Hardy, III.271, 313 notices Chronicles beginning with the same words (which are taken from the Preface to the Worcester Chronicle) but does not mention this copy.

II. Headed: Nic. Treuet de de VI Regibus.
Atheniensium Romanorumque res gestas.
Ends f.98 on the year 1272:
-designatum omnia penetrantem (?).
Note (by Gale?)
Desunt anni a 1272 usque ad 1307.
Also:
Hos annos habet codex Anindel: et ille quern Pead mutuo mihi dedit
and:
Vide continuationem scriptam manu Pead.
See Hardy, III.295. The MS. is not mentioned. The text has been printed thrice at least, last for the English Historical Society in 1845.

Bibliography

Hudson, A., Studies in the Transmission of Wyclif's Writings, Aldershot, 2008)

Mantello, F. A. C., 'The endleaves of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.4.43 and John Wyclif's "Responsiones ad argumenta cuiusdam emuli veritatis"', Speculum 54 (1979), 100-103

Strongman, S., 'John Parker's Manuscripts: an Edition of the Lists in Lambeth Palace MS 737', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 7 (1977-80), 1-27, no. 60

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