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R.5.40

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Shelfmark R.5.40
Manuscript Title

William of Malmesbury, Gesta pontificum Anglorum etc
Alternative Title

Willelmus Malmesburiensis etc
James Number 728
Century 13th14th
Physical Description

Mostly in double columns of 43 lines, but after that in several hands.
Provenance

Neville [Nevile], Thomas (c. 1548–1615), college head and dean of Canterbury From York? On f.1 at bottom is (xvi):
Liber Johan̅is Armytagi. On this same leaf are xvth cent. copies of Bury and Ely documents, and on the next is an old table of contents cut at the top. On the third, which is reversed, is a title (xv) in a large hand:
liber ecclesie metropolitane beati petri ebor. Augustini de uerbis domini et apostoli. Ex dono magri Johannis Neuton Thesaurarii eiusdem. [He was Master of Peterhouse (1381-95) and gave the MSS numbered 45, 162, 167 in James' Peterhouse Catalogue to that College.]
Religious House York, Cathedral Church
Donor Neville [Nevile], Thomas (c. 1548–1615), College Head and Dean of Canterbury
Size (cm) 26.5 x 21
Folio 85 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

a4 | l12-412 58 || 64 (wants 4 blank) || 78 88 (wants 7, 8 blank) || 98.
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.5.40/manifest.json
Online Since 12/01/2022

Contents

On the fly-leaf are copies of two documents (xv).

1. Notandum est quod cum dominus Beodricus dominus villule que nunc dicitur villa S. Edmundi S. Edmundum heredem suum constituerat supradictus . Rex Edwardus donum suum carta confirmauit. A short charter of Edward follows and then one of Canute, and one of Edward the Confessor confirming the 9 and half hundreds. A heading is cut off at the top,
beginning Vocat Des vos...

2. Carta R. H. de libertatibus de Ely.
To Hugh (Northwold) Bishop of Ely and the Priory, confirming their jurisdiction in the six hundreds.
The old Table (xiv, xv) cut off at top is on f.3b.
Willelmus de gestis pontificum anglorum.
Vita S. Edmundi.
Transcriptum Testamentorum xii filiorum Jacob.
Interpretaciones hebraicorum nominum.
Johannes de deo de penitencia.
De purgatorio patricii.
Narraciones de v(i)tis patrum.
Tractatus de officiis diuinis.
Notabilia text.
? Ciluodarium.
Tractatus de confessione.
Processus inter regem Anglie et Simonem de monteforti.
This is written over an earlier copy in pencil.
A later title below
Willus Malmesburiensis de gestis pontificum anglorum.

I. f.1 Inc. prologus libri primi Willelmi de gestis pontificum anglorum
Prima sedes episcoporum
-sequitur ordine. Expl. prol.
de archiepiscopis Cantuarie.
Cantuarie sedit primus Augustinus.
The first hand ends in lib. iv. (De Thoreneia)
heremiticam excercere ibi uitam.
A late xvth cent. hand continues, and ends over the page
lucifluum iubar invexit.
Expl. lib. de gest. angl. pontif.
A blank leaf follows.
In the Rolls edition, p.xxiii, Mr Hamilton describes this MS. as "neatly but incorrectly written."

II. In a minute hand of cent. xiii, with copious additions on both margins in the same hand.
f.58 Vita S. Edmundi Cantuariensis
Beatus Eadmundus Cant. Archiep. ex piis parentibus [honestis et christianis parentibus above line] Abbendonie genitus extitit.
Ends f.60b
aperte patet qualiter spiritus in eius sanctissimi gleba corporis habitauerit.
Never printed in full. See Dom Wilfrid Ward's Life of St Edmund of Canterbury, p.397 and Errata.

III. f.61 Testamenta duodecim patriarcharum. Cent. xiii, xiv early
42 lines to a page.
Transcriptum testamenti ruben, etc.
In the lower margin (xv) is
Anna tribus Joachim Cleophe salomeque marias etc.
On the following leaves are many other proverbial scribbles.
On f.63a
V. idus octobris sanctorum Nigasii quirini funiculi m̅r̅. Eodem die obiit Wills de shire. Rector ecclesie beate marie de stannygelane lond. litera dominicali tunc F. A. d. millesimo tricentesimo tricesimo vjto.
Ends f.73b
usque ad diem exitus eorum de terra egipti.
Below is (xiv) fol. 13. prec. 4. d.
On f.74a in a hand of early xiv
Hec abscondita et celata fuerunt per longa tempora
-ad honorem dei in lucem proruperunt.
f.74b (only a slip) blank.

IV. f.75 Processus inter regem et Simonem de Monteforti
Cent. xiv, 41 lines to a page.
Excellentissimo domino suo Regi Angl. Domino Hibernie et Dux Aquit. Barones et alii fideles.
H. dei gracia Rex angl. etc. Simoni de Monteforti etc.
Superuentu prospero qui nuper ut deo placuit.
f.76 Forma pacis inter H. Regem Ang. et Barones (1263)

V. f.77 A tous iceuxs que ceste lettre verrount ou orront. N. Salutz en dieu. Sets forth that he had rebelled against King Edward, had been captured, and now swears fealty to him
Done a Eilwyk (11 July, 6 Edw. II?).
f.77b Treaty between Charles fuitz au Roy de France, Comte de Valoys etc. and Esmoun frere du Roy d'Engleterre
Ending with a list of witnesses.
Mons. Robert de Wateuill, Mons. Olyuer de Ingham et Mons. Robert de Ettringham.
A touz crestiens quels qil soient qui ceste lettre verront ou orront. Mestre Miles de Grece et les aultres mestres de Astronomie demorant en Grece et en Hermonie.
f.78b Predicts misfortunes in 1317
Ends with a story of a Hermit at Narbonne.

VI. Inquisicio facta coram Roberto Malet et Gilberto Rouby apud London die Martis prox. ante test. S. Ruffini?
f.79 Anno regni Regis Edwardi tricesimo primo per breue domini Regis super statu et aduocacione hospitatis S. Egidij leprosorum extra london per Radulfum de (blank) Thom. de Stanes etc.
Ends f.80b.

Bibliography

Burton, D. W., '1264: some new documents', Historical Research, 66 (1993), 317-28

Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964)

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