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            <div xml:id="CCC001" n="MS 1">
                <p>This manuscript is an English manuscript dating from c. 1425-50 containing tables on, and excerpts
                    from, the works of Gregory the Great. The manuscript also contains a copy of the <title>Liber
                        Gregorianus</title> of Garnerius of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1170), and other works pertaining to
                    Gregory's writings. CCCC MS 1 is finely decorated with a large number of initials and borders in a
                    typical English style. James noted a similarity in appearance between this manuscript and <ref
                        type="ms" target="CCC073">CCCC MS 73</ref>.</p>
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            <div xml:id="CCC002I" n="MS 2I">
                <p>This great Bible, CCCC MS 2, one of the most famous of the books in the Parker Library, is now bound
                    in three volumes (2I, 2II, 2III), although once was a single volume. 2I contains ff. 1r-121v with
                    Jerome’s Prologue and the books from Genesis to Joshua; 2II contains ff. 122r-241v with the books
                    from Judges to Isaiah; 2III contains ff. 242r-357v with the books from Jeremiah to Job. The single
                    volume thus contained the books of the Old Testament from Genesis to Job, and the second volume with
                    the remainder of the Bible has not survived. It can be identified with a Bible commissioned by
                    Hervey, the sacrist, for his brother, Talbot, prior of Bury St Edmunds Abbey, c. 1135-8, which was
                    illuminated by Master Hugo. The miniatures and some of the illuminated initials are painted on
                    separate pieces of vellum stuck to the page, and the description of the Bible in the <title>Gesta
                        Sacristarum</title> attests that master Hugo 'was unable to find any suitable calf-hide in these
                    parts' and had to purchase parchment from Ireland. Six large full-page or half-page miniatures
                    preface some of the books, whereas the others have historiated or ornamental initials. Six of the
                    large pictures have been removed from the book and are lost. It is a prime example of the very large
                    luxury Bibles made in the twelfth century for monastic houses. The artist, Master Hugo, was
                    influenced by Byzantine painting, and may have seen either illuminated manuscripts opr
                    wall-paintings, such as those of Asinou in Cyprus which most closely resemble his style. The faces
                    are modelled with shading in green and grey, and the folds are divided into sections reflecting the
                    position of the limbs. This has been called the 'damp-fold' style and influenced many other artists
                    working in England in the period c. 1140-70 at Canterbury, Winchester and elsewhere. After the
                    dissolution of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds at the Reformation the Bible eventually came into the
                    hands of Matthew Parker.</p>
            </div>

            <div xml:id="CCC002II" n="MS 2II">
                <p>This great Bible, CCCC MS 2, one of the most famous of the books in the Parker Library, is now bound
                    in three volumes (2I, 2II, 2III), although once was a single volume. 2I contains ff. 1r-121v with
                    Jerome’s Prologue and the books from Genesis to Joshua; 2II contains ff. 122r-241v with the books
                    from Judges to Isaiah; 2III contains ff. 242r-357v with the books from Jeremiah to Job. The single
                    volume thus contained the books of the Old Testament from Genesis to Job, and the second volume with
                    the remainder of the Bible has not survived. It can be identified with a Bible commissioned by
                    Hervey, the sacrist, for his brother, Talbot, prior of Bury St Edmunds Abbey, c. 1135-8, which was
                    illuminated by Master Hugo. The miniatures and some of the illuminated initials are painted on
                    separate pieces of vellum stuck to the page, and the description of the Bible in the <title>Gesta
                        Sacristarum</title> attests that master Hugo 'was unable to find any suitable calf-hide in these
                    parts' and had to purchase parchment from Ireland. Six large full-page or half-page miniatures
                    preface some of the books, whereas the others have historiated or ornamental initials. Six of the
                    large pictures have been removed from the book and are lost. It is a prime example of the very large
                    luxury Bibles made in the twelfth century for monastic houses. The artist, Master Hugo, was
                    influenced by Byzantine painting, and may have seen either illuminated manuscripts opr
                    wall-paintings, such as those of Asinou in Cyprus which most closely resemble his style. The faces
                    are modelled with shading in green and grey, and the folds are divided into sections reflecting the
                    position of the limbs. This has been called the 'damp-fold' style and influenced many other artists
                    working in England in the period c. 1140-70 at Canterbury, Winchester and elsewhere. After the
                    dissolution of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds at the Reformation the Bible eventually came into the
                    hands of Matthew Parker.</p>
            </div>

            <div xml:id="CCC002III" n="MS 2III">
                <p>This great Bible, CCCC MS 2, one of the most famous of the books in the Parker Library, is now bound
                    in three volumes (2I, 2II, 2III), although once was a single volume. 2I contains ff. 1r-121v with
                    Jerome’s Prologue and the books from Genesis to Joshua; 2II contains ff. 122r-241v with the books
                    from Judges to Isaiah; 2III contains ff. 242r-357v with the books from Jeremiah to Job. The single
                    volume thus contained the books of the Old Testament from Genesis to Job, and the second volume with
                    the remainder of the Bible has not survived. It can be identified with a Bible commissioned by
                    Hervey, the sacrist, for his brother, Talbot, prior of Bury St Edmunds Abbey, c. 1135-8, which was
                    illuminated by Master Hugo. The miniatures and some of the illuminated initials are painted on
                    separate pieces of vellum stuck to the page, and the description of the Bible in the <title>Gesta
                        Sacristarum</title> attests that master Hugo 'was unable to find any suitable calf-hide in these
                    parts' and had to purchase parchment from Ireland. Six large full-page or half-page miniatures
                    preface some of the books, whereas the others have historiated or ornamental initials. Six of the
                    large pictures have been removed from the book and are lost. It is a prime example of the very large
                    luxury Bibles made in the twelfth century for monastic houses. The artist, Master Hugo, was
                    influenced by Byzantine painting, and may have seen either illuminated manuscripts opr
                    wall-paintings, such as those of Asinou in Cyprus which most closely resemble his style. The faces
                    are modelled with shading in green and grey, and the folds are divided into sections reflecting the
                    position of the limbs. This has been called the 'damp-fold' style and influenced many other artists
                    working in England in the period c. 1140-70 at Canterbury, Winchester and elsewhere. After the
                    dissolution of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds at the Reformation the Bible eventually came into the
                    hands of Matthew Parker.</p>
            </div>


            <div xml:id="CCC003" n="MS 3">
                <p>CCCC MSS 3-4 are a two-volume Bible made for Dover Priory, a dependency of Christ Church cathedral
                    priory, Canterbury. Like the Bury Bible, <ref type="ms" target="CCC002I">CCCC MS 2</ref>, it is of
                    very large size and typical of twelfth-century luxury monastic Bibles. This first volume contains
                    the Old Testament from Genesis to the Minor Prophets. There is no firm evidence for dating, although
                    a date c. 1150 is generally accepted. The script is close to the Eadwine Psalter (Cambridge, Trinity
                    College MS R.17.1) and dated charters produced at Canterbury in the 1150s. It seems fairly certain
                    that the mother house provided its dependency, Dover Priory, with the book, although at what date it
                    came to Dover is not known. It appears first in the 1389 catalogue of their books. There are
                    historiated or decorated initials at the beginning of the biblical books, illuminated by several
                    artists working in different styles. The artists of this first volume work in a Byzantinising style,
                    but different from that of Master Hugo in the Bury Bible, <ref type="ms" target="CCC002I">CCCC MS
                        2</ref>. Although it is also a version of the 'damp-fold' style, the folds are patterned in a
                    way closer to that of Byzantine artists. This artist of the Dover Bible may have travelled to Sicily
                    and was influenced by the style of mosaics such as those of the Cappella Palatina, Palermo.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC004" n="MS 4">
                <p>This second volume of the Dover Bible contains the latter part of the Old Testament from the Book of
                    Psalms, and the whole of the New Testament, and these books have historiated or ornamental initials.
                    The artists of this volume are different from the first volume, and their work is best parallelled
                    in North French or Flemish manuscripts of the second quarter of the twelfth century - it is possible
                    that they may indeed have come from the border region of France and Flanders, and this is suggested
                    by characteristic iconography from those parts. Some of their work shows Italo-Byzantine influence,
                    but quite different in appearance to that of the first volume, and characterised by patterned linear
                    folds in the form of 'nested V's'. Figures have large faces with staring eyes and heavy dark
                    eyebrows. The two volumes of the Bible found their way into Matthew Parker's collection after the
                    dissolution of the priory at the Reformation.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC005" n="MS 5">
                <p>CCCC MS 5 is the first of a two-volume copy of the <title>Historia aurea</title> of John of Tynemouth
                    (fl. c. 1350), dating from c. 1420-40, the second volume being in <ref type="ms" target="CCC006"
                        >CCCC MS 6</ref>. This manuscript of the <title>Historia</title> contains a history of the world
                    from creation to the death of Vespasian, but also includes a description of the world based on the
                    writings of Marco Polo and the versified <title>Itinerarium Cambriae</title>. CCCC MS 5 was one of
                    several manuscripts (others include CCCC MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC006">6</ref> and <ref
                        type="ms" target="CCC007">7</ref>, BL MS Lansdowne 375 and Cambridge UL MS Ee.4.20) owned and,
                    in some cases, commissioned by William Wintershill (d. c. 1435) the almoner of the Benedictine Abbey
                    of St Albans in Hertfordshire. An inscription in this manuscript relates how Wintershill donated
                    CCCC MS 5 and its companion, now <ref type="ms" target="CCC006">CCCC MS 6</ref>, to the Abbey at his
                    death.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC006" n="MS 6">
                <p>CCCC MS 6, dating from c. 1420-40, contains the second part of John of Tynemouth's <title>Historia
                        Aurea</title> from the rule of Diocletian to the reign of Edward III, together with an anonymous
                    continuation for the years 1343-77. CCCC MS 6 was one of several manuscripts (others include CCCC
                    MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC005">5</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC007">7</ref>, BL MS
                    Lansdowne 375 and Cambridge UL MS Ee.4.20) owned and, in some cases, commissioned by William
                    Wintershill (d. c. 1435) the almoner of the Benedictine Abbey of St Albans in Hertfordshire. An
                    erased inscription in this manuscript is probably a copy of the material in <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC005">CCCC MS 5</ref> that relates how Wintershill donated the two volumes to the
                    Abbey at his death.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC007" n="MS 7">
                <p>CCCC MS 7, dating from c. 1400-25, contains the <title>Chronica maiora</title> and its continuations
                    by the St Albans chronicler Thomas Walsingham (c. 1370-c. 1422), together with an incomplete copy of
                    his <title>Gesta abbatum Sancti Albani</title> copied from London, BL MS Cotton Claudius E. IV. In
                    addition, the manuscript contains a finely illustrated copy of Walsingham's <title>Liber
                        benefactorum Sancti Albani</title> in an abridged version derived from London, BL MS Cotton Nero
                    D. VII, and the <title>Annales Ricardi II et Henrici IV</title> attributed to William Wintershill.
                    Numerous illustrations represent the benefactors, a few as full figures but mostly as busts or
                    heads. The gatherings of the manuscript are in a confused condition, the volume having been found in
                    William Wintershill's cell in St Albans Abbey after his death (c. 1435) 'in quaternis derelictum'
                    and rebound at that time or shortly afterwards.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC008" n="MS 8">
                <p>The main text in CCCC MS 8, dating to the first half of the fourteenth century, is the encyclopaedia
                    of history, <title>Speculum historiale</title>, of the Dominican, Vincent of Beauvais
                    (1189/94-1264), which is also in CCCC MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC013">13</ref>, <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC014">14</ref>. The version in this MS is close to that in Dijon, Bibliothèque
                    Municipale MS 568, dating to 1244, but omits the dedicatory letter and prologue. The back flyleaf of
                    the book, bound in at a later date, contains polyphonic music on a five-line stave, dating to the
                    middle years of the thirteenth century. The earliest English motet, 'Worldes blisce have god day,'
                    is on the recto, and an Anglo-Norman love song, 'Volez oyer le castoy', on the verso.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC009" n="MS 9">
                <p>MS 9 is one of two volumes which together constitute 'The Cotton–Corpus Legendary'; the other is
                    London, BL MS Cotton Nero E. I. CCCC MS 9 contains saints' lives pertaining to the months of
                    October, November and December, as well as a calendar which may once have been part of a separate
                    volume. The book is important because it is part of the earliest surviving multi-volume legendary
                    from England. An earlier version of the same legendary, compiled on the Continent, was in England by
                    the late tenth century, where it was extensively used by Ælfric in writing his Old English
                        <title>Lives of Saints</title>. It is therefore a very important witness to the knowledge of the
                    saints' lives in late Anglo-Saxon England, and has implications for our understanding of the
                    interactions between vernacular and Latin literature. The manuscript contains work by known
                    Worcester scribes, including one who wrote a charter for 1058. The calendar and computistical
                    material found at the start of MS 9 include a Easter tables for the years 1032-62 and 1063-94, and
                    the manuscript was probably therefore written before 1062. It contains later additions of a
                    hagiographical nature also made at Worcester.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC010" n="MS 10">
                <p>CCCC MS 10 contains a luxury copy of the <title>Decretum</title> (<title>Concordia discordantium
                        canonum</title>), a canon law collection attributed to the twelfth century jurist Gratian (fl.
                    c. 1150). It is one of a group of finely illustrated manuscripts of the text produced in northern
                    France or southern England in the last quarter of the twelfth century. The various 'causae', the
                    legal cases, have historiated and ornamental initials. There is also a full-page miniature of a man
                    standing holding a consanguinity table. Its exact provenance and how it came to be in Parker's
                    possession are unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC011" n="MS 11">
                <p>CCCC MS 11 is a twelfth-century copy of Hrabanus Maurus's ninth-century encyclopaedic text <title>De
                        rerum naturis</title>, also known as <title>De uniuerso</title>. Neil Ker rejected M. R. James's
                    suggestion that the manuscript was a product of the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury,
                    and more recent work by Schipper has stated that the manuscript is of uncertain provenance, but
                    certainly English. The manuscript has been studied very little, considered as a late copy of the
                    text and thus of lesser interest; however, it is perhaps a useful witness to a renewed interest in
                    Carolingian scholarship in twelfth-century England.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC012" n="MS 12">
                <p>This manuscript contains the Old English translation of Gregory the Great's <title>Pastoral
                        Care</title>, with the famous preface setting out Alfred the Great's educational policy. Alfred
                    arranged for translations to be made of the texts "most necessary for men to know", and this work by
                    Gregory was probably one of the earliest to be produced. The translation claims to be the work of
                    Alfred himself, although this has sometimes been challenged. MS 12 is one of only five manuscripts
                    (and a fragment) of this work surviving from Anglo-Saxon England, and probably dates from the tenth
                    century. It is not used in the standard edition by Sweet, who based his text on the two earliest
                    manuscripts. The manuscript was certainly at Worcester in the thirteenth century, when it was
                    annotated by the 'Worcester Tremulous Hand', whose glosses and marginal notes are found in several
                    other Corpus manuscripts.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC013" n="MS 13">
                <p>A luxury copy, dating from c. 1300, perhaps made in Paris, of the <title>Speculum historiale</title>,
                    Books IX-XVI, by the Dominican, Vincent of Beauvais (1189/94-c. 1264), having fine illuminated
                    initials and decorative borders. CCCC MSS 13 and <ref type="ms" target="CCC014">14</ref> are vols.
                    II and III of a three-volume set, of which volume I is Cambridge, St John's College MS B.21. It
                    belonged to St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. This is an encyclopaedia of history which was
                    extremely popular in the Middle Ages, and exists in printed copies as late as the seventeenth
                    century. </p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC014" n="MS 14">
                <p>A luxury copy, dating from c. 1300, perhaps made in Paris, of the <title>Speculum historiale</title>,
                    Books XVII-XXIV, by the Dominican, Vincent of Beauvais (1189/94-c. 1264), having fine illuminated
                    initials and decorative borders. CCCC MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC013">13</ref>, 14 are vols. II
                    and III of a three-volume set, of which volume I is Cambridge, St John's College MS B.21. It
                    belonged to St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and this volume has on the flyleaf the name of Abbot
                    Thomas as owner. This must be Thomas of Findon (1283-1310) who may himself have commissioned these
                    three volumes. This is an encyclopaedia of history which was extremely popular in the Middle Ages,
                    and exists in printed copies as late as the seventeenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC016I" n="MS 16I">
                <p>Matthew Paris OSB (c. 1200-59), a Benedictine monk of St Albans Abbey, was their official chronicler
                    who wrote chronicles covering both world history and British history. These two volumes are of his
                    most important work, the <title>Chronica maiora</title>, covering world history, but with a
                    particular emphasis on that of Britain - vol I is CCCC MS 26 and vol II is CCCC MS 16, their
                    production dating to the period c. 1240-55. Matthew was also a talented artist who was both scribe
                    and illustrator of his own chronicles. These volumes have coloured marginal drawings, and also signs
                    and heraldic shields in the borders signifying the persons and incidents in their lives, and also
                    signifying their deaths, set beside the text passages mentioning these events. Recently, in 2003,
                    the prefatory section to MS 16 (ff. i recto - v verso), containing lists and genealogies of kings, a
                    diagram of the winds, itineraries, maps, and the picture of the elephant given by Louis IX to Henry
                    III, has been bound separately as MS 16I. The part containing the chronicle text itself, ff.
                    1v-282r, has been rebound as MS 16II.</p>
            </div>

            <div xml:id="CCC016II" n="MS 16II">
                <p>Matthew Paris OSB (c. 1200-59), a Benedictine monk of St Albans Abbey, was their official chronicler
                    who wrote chronicles covering both world history and British history. These two volumes are of his
                    most important work, the <title>Chronica maiora</title>, covering world history, but with a
                    particular emphasis on that of Britain - vol I is CCCC MS 26 and vol II is CCCC MS 16, their
                    production dating to the period c. 1240-55. Matthew was also a talented artist who was both scribe
                    and illustrator of his own chronicles. These volumes have coloured marginal drawings, and also signs
                    and heraldic shields in the borders signifying the persons and incidents in their lives, and also
                    signifying their deaths, set beside the text passages mentioning these events. Recently, in 2003,
                    the prefatory section to MS 16 (ff. i recto - v verso), containing lists and genealogies of kings, a
                    diagram of the winds, itineraries, maps, and the picture of the elephant given by Louis IX to Henry
                    III, has been bound separately as MS 16I. The part containing the chronicle text itself, ff.
                    1v-282r, has been rebound as MS 16II.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC017" n="MS 17">
                <p>CCCC MS 17 is a twelfth-century volume of texts by Augustine of Hippo, and one sermon which is
                    attributed to John Chrysostom in this manuscript, but which was sometimes claimed for Augustine in
                    the Middle Ages. This sermon was included in Alain of Farfa's eighth-century Homiliary (Winter, item
                    92), and therefore circulated widely in the Middle Ages. MS 17 is not used for published editions of
                    any of the texts it contains. M. R. James suggested it might be from Norwich cathedral priory,
                    presumably because of the classmark it contains, but Neil Ker found no reason to sustain this
                    attribution.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC019" n="MS 19">
                <p>CCCC MS 19 contains a copy of Ivo of Chartres' (c. 1040-1115) <title>Decretum (in 17 parts)</title>,
                    an influential canon law collection. The version of the text in this manuscript was copied at Christ
                    Church, Canterbury in around 1130 by a scribe whose hand has also been identified in Cambridge,
                    Trinity College, MS B. 3. 4 (83), Cambridge, UL MS Ff. 3. 29, and Oxford, Bodleian MSS Lat. misc. d.
                    13 and Lat misc. d. 30. It has recently been suggested that the absence of any later canonical
                    material in this codex may indicate that it was a library copy of the <title>Decretum</title> rather
                    than a working volume. It is also one of only two manuscripts (the other being Durham Cathedral
                    Library MS B.IV.18) to preserve the 'Canterbury version' of the canons of the First Lateran Council
                    of 1123.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC020" n="MS 20">
                <p>This richly illustrated Apocalypse, CCCC MS 20, was made for Sir Henry de Cobham in the decade before
                    his death in 1339. He kneels in the historiated initial at the beginning of the book. It
                    subsequently passed to Juliana de Leybourne, Countess of Huntingdon (d. 1367) who bequeathed it to
                    St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. With no less than 106 pictures, it is one of the finest
                    fourteenth-century illustrated copies of the Apocalypse in Anglo-Norman verse, although the
                    commentary text is in Anglo-Norman prose. It is closely related in both iconography and text to
                    another Anglo-Norman Apocalypse, Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale MS 815, which is by a different
                    artist. Both manuscripts also contain the Vision of St Paul (the Journey of St Paul to Hell), in
                    Anglo-Norman verse, accompanied by illustrations. In addition, the Corpus manuscript contains the
                    English Coronation Ordo in Anglo-Norman, preceded by a frontispiece showing the crowned king in his
                    coronation vestments, flanked by the bishops. The text mentions a Prince Edward, and may be a
                    version of that used for the coronation of Edward III in 1327. The style of the illustrations
                    suggests the 1330s.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC021" n="MS 21">
                <p>CCCC MS 21 contains a high quality copy of <title>Polychronicon</title> by Ranulf Higden (d. 1364)
                    with a continuation to 1377, and was copied shortly after that date. A note in a fifteenth-century
                    hand records that the manuscript was given by 'Henry Somer' to the Hospital of St John the
                    Evangelist in Cambridge. It is sometimes assumed that this is the same man who is described as a
                    Fellow of King's Hall in the early fifteenth century. However, a case can be made for the donor to
                    have been another Henry Somer, a senior royal official who rose to be Chancellor of the Exchequer
                    (1410-39) before his death in 1450, and who expressed a desire to be buried at St John's Hospital.
                    The book passed into the possession of the newly founded St John's College in 1511, since another
                    scribble records the name of 'Shorton', presumably Robert Shorton, the first Master of St John's but
                    later Parker's predecessor as Dean of Stoke by Clare College (1529-35). A sixteenth-century note
                    adds that Somer was involved in a dispute with Corpus Christi over tithes due in Grantchester. It is
                    to be wondered how this '<title>Inimicus Collegio Corporis Christi Cantabrigiae</title>' might view
                    the acquisition of one of his books by the college.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC022" n="MS 22">
                <p>The main text in CCCC MS 22 is an encyclopaedia, the <title>Etymologiae</title> of Isidore of Seville
                    (c. 560-636), which is preceded by an index of its subject matter. The <title>Etymologiae</title> is
                    a compilation of universal knowledge in twenty books covering topics such as grammar, medicine,
                    theology and geography. Natural history is also extensively covered, and this is the subject of
                    another text in the book, a <title>Bestiary</title>, illustrated with coloured drawings of the
                    animals, birds, fish and reptiles. It is one of the oldest extant copies of an illustrated bestiary
                    made in England. The book also contains one text of a very different character, the
                        <title>Synonyma</title>, a devotional dialogue by Isidore of Seville between the sinful soul and
                    a personification of reason. Recent scholarship dates the book to c. 1150-70, but its place of
                    origin is uncertain, although possibly the North of England, perhaps Durham. There is no evidence of
                    its medieval ownership.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC023" n="MS 23">
                <p>CCCC MS 23 consists of two volumes bound together. The first is a famous illustrated manuscript of
                    works by Prudentius (fl. 384-410), most significantly his <title>Psychomachia</title>, a poem about
                    spiritual warfare between personifications of the vices and virtues. Many line drawings in coloured
                    ink illustrate events in the text. It was made in England probably in the late tenth century, and it
                    shares an artist with Bodleian Library MS Junius 11, the Junius manuscript of Old English poetry.
                    Art-historical evidence has tended to link the production of part one of CCCC MS 23 with Canterbury,
                    but a presentation inscription gives the manuscript provenance at Malmesbury, and it has also been
                    suggested that it could have been made there. In the eleventh century Old English captions were
                    added to the pictures. The second volume is a copy of Orosius, <title>Historia adversus
                        paganos</title> of 417-18, written by six scribes working at Dover in the second quarter of the
                    twelfth century. One of these scribes is also found in <ref type="ms" target="CCC462">CCCC MS
                        462</ref>. The two manuscripts were probably bound together by Parker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC024" n="MS 24">
                <p> CCCC MS 24 contains the text of <title>De causa Dei contra Pelagium</title> of Thomas Bradwardine
                    (c. 1300-49). The provenance of this volume is very well attested. An inscription states that the
                    book was given to the Benedictine cathedral priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Worcester by John
                    de Prestone of Somerset, a monk of the same institution, in 1348. The same notice also records
                    threats of divine punishment for anyone who erased the inscription or caused the book to be
                    alienated from the church ('quem titulum quicumque fraudulenter deleuerit librumque ab ecclesia
                    eadem alienauerit Deleat eum deus de libro uite et anathemate feriatur'). A second note states that
                    the volume was given to Parker by 'D. A.' in December 1567.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC025" n="MS 25">
                <p>This manuscript comprises a collection of letters and tracts attributed to Cyprian (d. 258). However,
                    the attribution of some of these texts is spurious; for example, the <title>De aleatoribus</title>,
                    though undoubtedly an early text, has also been attributed to a number of other authors, including
                    Popes Victor I and Callixtus I. CCCC MS 25 is a fourteenth-century copy of the twelfth-century
                    Buildwas manuscript, Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 154, and the marginalia of the latter
                    manuscript has been incorporated into the former.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC026" n="MS 26">
                <p>Matthew Paris OSB (c. 1200-59), a Benedictine monk of St Albans Abbey, was their official chronicler
                    who wrote chronicles covering both world history and British history. These two volumes are of his
                    most important work, the <title>Chronica maiora</title>, covering world history, but with a
                    particular emphasis on that of Britain - vol I is CCCC MS 26 and vol II is <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC016">CCCC MS 16</ref>, their production dating to the period c. 1240-55. Matthew was
                    also a talented artist who was both scribe and illustrator of his own chronicles. These volumes have
                    coloured marginal drawings, and also signs and heraldic shields in the borders signifying the
                    persons and incidents in their lives, and also signifying their deaths, set beside the text passages
                    mentioning these events. Recently, in 2003, the prefatory section to MS 16 (ff. i recto - v verso),
                    containing lists and genealogies of kings, a diagram of the winds, itineraries, maps, and the
                    picture of the elephant given by Louis IX to Henry III, has been bound separately as MS 16I. The
                    part containing the chronicle text itself, ff. 1v-282r, has been rebound as MS 16II.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC027" n="MS 27">
                <p>CCCC MS 27, dating from the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, contains a copy of Zacharias of
                    Besançon's <title>De concordia evangelistarum</title>, also known as the <title>Vnum ex
                        quatuor</title>, a Gospel-harmony which also gives etymologies for Greek, Hebrew and some Latin
                    words. Zacharias, who died in 1156, was a member of the Premonstratensian abbey at Laon, and an <hi
                        rend="italic">ex libris</hi> inscription, now lost, identified CCCC MS 27 as belonging to the
                    Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary's, Leiston, Suffolk.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC028" n="MS 28">
                <p>CCCC MS 28 is a twelfth-century manuscript containing a copy of Rufinus of Aquileia's
                    late-fourth-century Latin translation of Origen's homilies on the Book of Numbers. A twelfth- or
                    possibly thirteenth-century inscription identifies the manuscript as having belonged to the
                    Benedictine abbey of St Mary's, Abingdon.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC029" n="MS 29">

                <p>CCCC MS 29 is an early thirteenth-century manuscript containing Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205),
                        <title>Genealogia historiarum(Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi)</title> (also in CCCC MSS <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC083">83</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC437">437</ref>), and Petrus Comestor (d.
                    c. 1187), <title>Historia scholastica</title>. The manuscript contains a number of illustrations,
                    including a seven-branched candlestick and a seraph, with accompanying allegorical interpretations.
                    It also features decorative initials containing grotesques.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC030" n="MS 30">
                <p>The main contents of CCCC MS 30 are commentaries on books of the Old Testament by the Augustinian
                    canon, Andrew of Saint-Victor (c. 1110-75). Although English, he entered the Parisian abbey of
                    Saint-Victor, but returned to England as abbot of Wigmore 1147-55 and again 1161-3, returning to
                    Paris for the period 1155-61. This manuscript is one of the very few which contain these
                    commentaries. In addition to Andrew's works, the book contains Bede's commentary on Proverbs and
                    Jerome's on Ecclesiastes.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC031" n="MS 31">
                <p>CCCC MS 31 is a thirteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of the Commentary on the Twelve Minor
                    Prophets by Stephen Langton (c. 1150-1228), which originally belonged to the Savigniac and
                    Cistercian abbey of St Mary's, Coggeshall, along with <ref type="ms" target="CCC089">CCCC MS
                        89</ref>. Stephen's work on the minor prophets has received little scholarly attention in
                    comparison to his sermons. The manuscript also contains a late twelfth-century fragment of the
                    pseudo-Clementine Recognitions.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC032" n="MS 32">
                <p>CCCC MS 32 contains the Gospels of Mark and Luke, and the Pauline Epistles in Latin and English with
                    some commentary. The translation and commentary are a unique Middle English version, dating to the
                    late fourteenth century from the North East Midlands. The volume, dating to c. 1400, was probably
                    composed as a Latin teaching aid and does not appear to be of Lollard derivation. The translation is
                    literal and the original author has added glosses to clarify the resultant awkward English. There
                    are marginal drawings of scenes from the Gospels by an unskilled artist.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC033" n="MS 33">
                <p>CCCC MS 33, dating to the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, is a manuscript containing the
                    Gospels of Mark and John, with extensive marginal commentary and glossing. At the end of the
                    manuscript is a copy, with commentary, of William de Montibus' (d.1213) poem beginning
                        <title>Poeniteas cito</title>. M. R. James suggested that the manuscript may originate from St
                    Albans, but Neil Ker rejected this provenance. The hand is very fine, and the manuscript contains
                    some attractive illuminated historiated and ornamental initials.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC034" n="MS 34">
                <p>CCCC MS 34 is a thirteenth-century miscellany containing works by John of Damascus, Augustine of
                    Hippo, Julian of Toledo, Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, and others. The
                    manuscript is likely to come from the Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity at Norwich,
                    and is prefaced by a list of contents in the hand of Robert Talbot, prebendary of Norwich Cathedral
                    (1547-58). There are further sixteenth-century annotations, in the hands of Parker and possibly
                    Bale.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC035" n="MS 35">
                <p>CCCC MS 35 is one of the most important among the early manuscripts of the '<title>Opuscula</title>'
                    of Thomas Aquinas OP, and has been used for collation with other manuscripts in editions of these
                    texts in the <title>Opera omnia</title> of St Thomas. The '<title>Opuscula</title>' are relatively
                    short theological tracts which were separate from his large-scale works. The dating of the MS is
                    late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, but the provenance is uncertain. M. R. James considered
                    the scribe to be English, but the decoration may be either English or French, perhaps most likely
                    English in a very French-influenced manner.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC036" n="MS 36">
                <p>This manuscript is an early fifteenth-century copy of the Lives of the Fathers (<title>Vitae
                        Patrum</title> or <title>Vitas Patrum</title>). This is a compilation of lives of hermit and
                    monk saints of Egypt, Palestine and Syria in the early centuries of the Church. The Latin version of
                    the text dates from the sixth century. Its pressmark indicates a provenance at the cathedral priory
                    of the Holy Trinity at Norwich. The manuscript is written in a characteristically English hand, and
                    there are catchwords enclosed in attractive scrolls.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC037" n="MS 37">
                <p>CCCC MS 37 is an interesting portmanteau manuscript of texts copied by various hands in the first
                    half of the fourteenth century. The overwhelming sense of the these texts is of a collection put
                    together by or for a secular figure with connections to London and Westminster. They include a
                    gazetteer of England, astrological and medical tracts, statutes and calendars of the term days of
                    the Exchequer and illustrated guides to the movement of the moon and tides. The London connection is
                    further evinced by the presence in the manuscript of unique accounts of some of the cases that came
                    before the eyre of 1321 that examined the liberties of the City. It may have been the property of
                    the Londoner John Reynham and passed from him, via a relative, to the Cistercian abbey at Boxley,
                    Kent.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC038" n="MS 38">
                <p>CCCC MS 38 is a collection of canonical <title>Tabulae</title> and Gregory IX's
                        <title>Decretals</title>, dating to the early years of the fourteenth century. It was item 1723
                    in the fifteenth-century catalogue of St Augustine's abbey, Canterbury, to which it was donated by
                    Dr Thomas Mankael after his death in c. 1329-31. Mankael was the first monk-student from St
                    Augustine's to graduate as a doctor of theology at Oxford. His personal collection of books,
                    presumably acquired during his time at Oxford in the 1320s, made up 39 entries in the St Augustine's
                    catalogue. CCCC MS 38 bears a donation inscription in which Mankael is named. A similar inscription
                    is found in London, BL MS Lansdowne 359.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC039" n="MS 39">
                <p>CCCC MS 39 is an early fourteenth-century copy of the <title>Speculum naturale</title>, the
                    encyclopaedia of natural history by Vincent of Beauvais OP (1189/94-c. 1264). M. R. James suggested
                    that the book might be from Norwich cathedral priory, but that has been rejected by subsequent
                    research.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC040" n="MS 40">
                <p>CCCC MS 40 is the earliest known text by Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) (1304-74) to be copied in
                    England in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, his <title>De remediis utriusque
                        fortunae</title>. The text is concerned with the limitations of worldly success and pleasure,
                    and the problems of misfortune and adversity. A large part of this is in the form of a dialogue
                    between joy (<title>Gaudium</title>) and adversity (<title>Dolor</title>) with reason
                        (<title>Ratio</title>). It is given a Humanist emphasis by its supposed use of a classical model
                    - the <title>De remediis fortuitorum</title>, attributed in the Middle Ages to Seneca. There is no
                    evidence for the place of production or ownership of the manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC041" n="MS 41">
                <p>MS 41 contains the Old English translation of Bede's <title>Ecclesiastical History</title>. This text
                    is one of those made as part of Alfred the Great's campaign to translate into English "those books
                    most necessary for men to know". MS 41 was written in the first half of the eleventh century
                    probably somewhere in the south of England. It has a colophon asking for readers' blessings on the
                    unnamed scribe. The manuscript is large in format, written in grand round script, and was obviously
                    intended to be a high-grade book. Already in the eleventh century advantage was taken of its wide
                    margins to add a variety of marginalia, ranging from the Old English poem <title>Solomon and
                        Saturn</title> to liturgical texts and Old English charms. Probably at least some of these
                    additions were made at Exeter: MS 41 was one of the manuscripts given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop
                    Leofric (1050-72), and still contains the bilingual donation inscription cursing anyone who removed
                    it thence. The decoration of the book consists of numerous ornated initials in brown outline and a
                    drawing of Christ crucified.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC042" n="MS 42">
                <p>MS 42 is a compilation of saints' lives made at the Benedictine priory of Dover dating to the second
                    quarter of the twelfth century. Its provenance is given by the typical Dover arrangement of two
                    classmark- and contents-inscriptions, one on the opening page and one further on in the book; the
                    classmark matches these up to an entry in the Dover catalogue of 1389 which gives the opening words
                    of the page on which the second inscription occurs. We can be fairly certain that it was originally
                    written at Dover because the same hand also occurs in another Dover manuscript, <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC462">CCCC MS 462</ref>. The manuscript contains hagiographical texts, starting with
                    the standard life of Martin of Tours, the epitome of a bishop saint. Two of the lives included are
                    of very important English saints, Edmund king and martyr and Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury. It
                    also contains an unusual collection of miracles of the Virgin Mary, and an incomplete legendary with
                    some musical notation.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC043" n="MS 43">
                <p>CCCC MS 43 contains a copy of William of Malmesbury OSB (c. 1080-1143), <title>Gesta pontificum
                        Anglorum</title>, together with a complete version of Adam of Eynsham OSB (d. after 1233)
                        <title>Visio Eadmundi monachi de Egnesham</title>. The greater part of the text is in a late
                    fourteenth-century hand, but the fifth book of the <title>Gesta pontificum</title>, together with
                    extracts from William of Malmesbury's <title>Gesta regum</title>, have been added in
                    sixteenth-century hands. Parker and his secretaries have added a number of aides mémoires to the
                    margins of the text, revealing their interest in the history of the English episcopacy. Some
                    fourteenth-century notes at the end of the manuscript, together with the script and ornament, led M.
                    R. James to believe that the manuscript had an East Anglian provenance, possibly from Norwich, but
                    its exact provenance remains unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC044" n="MS 44">
                <p>This handsome manuscript contains a <title>Pontifical</title>. On script grounds it has been
                    attributed to Canterbury, probably St Augustine's rather than Christ Church; however its text has
                    been held to show that it was made for use at Christ Church, Canterbury. The script of CCCC MS 44
                    shows it to have been written at some point during the middle two quarters of the eleventh century,
                    but a more precise dating is arguably possible given the association of the coronation ordo it
                    contains (the third recension of the second ordo) with William the Conqueror. This association is by
                    no means generally accepted. The distinctive mark on f. 3 shows that the manuscript was at Ely in
                    the later Middle Ages. It has been suggested that it might have been part of the treasure of
                    Archbishop Stigand (1052-72), with which he fled to Ely shortly before his death in 1072; clearly
                    this again depends on how one interprets the dating evidence of the manuscript's text.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC045" n="MS 45">
                <p>CCCC MS 45 contains two distinct volumes. The first volume was very probably copied in France in the
                    mid-fourteenth century and features a number of pastoral and historical works by the Dominican
                    inquisitor and scholar Bernard Gui OP (1261/2-1331) together with a handsomely illustrated
                    genealogical table of the Frankish kings. The second volume is a copy of the prose version of the
                        <title>Roman de Lancelot</title> that has been dated to c. 1250 and may have been produced in
                    England. How this manuscript came into Parker's possession is unknown, but it seems likely that he
                    was more interested in the illustrated historical material than in the Arthurian Lancelot story.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC046" n="MS 46">
                <p>CCCC MS 46 contains copies of two works by John of Salisbury (c. 1120-1180), the
                        <title>Policraticus</title> and the <title>Metalogicon</title>. The Corpus manuscript is
                    sometimes described as the author's own copy that was presented by Salisbury to Archbishop Thomas
                    Becket. Whether this was the case or not, it was certainly at the Benedictine cathedral priory of
                    the Holy Trinity, Christ Church, Canterbury in the later twelfth century and remained there until it
                    came into Parker's possession. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century editors and commentators
                    stressed the importance of the texts in this manuscript as early versions of John of Salisbury's
                    work. A more recent editor, however, has described the texts preserved in CCCC MS 46 as
                    'corrupt'.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC047" n="MS 47">
                <p>This thirteenth-century manuscript contains a copy of the <title>Distinctiones Abel</title> of Peter
                    the Chanter (d. 1197), although in some instances scholars have misidentified it as the text of the
                    same name by Andrew of Saint-Victor OSA (c. 1110-75). The manuscript contains some later additions,
                    including fifteenth-century verses.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC048" n="MS 48">
                <p>This Bible from St Albans, CCCC MS 48, dating to c. 1170, is part of a group of manuscripts produced
                    at the abbey during the abbacies of Abbot Simon (1167-83) and Abbot Warin (1183-95). Related in text
                    and decoration are two other St Albans Bibles of this period, Eton College MS 26 and Dublin, Trinity
                    College MS 51 (A.2.2). The main artist of the Corpus Bible also worked for the Abbey of St Bertin
                    and may be French in origin; he seems to have been a travelling illuminator. The book has thirteen
                    historiated initials some of them on separate pieces of vellum stuck onto the page. The version of
                    the Vulgate in this Bible has been classified by Glunz as 'Lanfranc's Scholastic Text'. The book is
                    much smaller than most twelfth-century Bibles, but is considerably larger than the small 'pocket'
                    versions which become popular in the middle years of the thirteenth century. An unusual feature of
                    the page format is a three (and occasionally four) column text.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC049" n="MS 49">
                <p>CCCC MS 49 is an English Bible which has been dated to c. 1270-80. Most English thirteenth-century
                    Bibles are somewhat larger than contemporary Parisian Bibles, as in the case of this manuscript, and
                    relatively few were made in comparison with the very large numbers from Paris. Each book of the
                    Bible has an historiated initial. The manuscript belonged to St Augustine's abbey, and its
                    illumination is related to a Psalter (Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 285) connected with Christ
                    Church, Canterbury. Another Bible (Oxford, Merton College MS 235) is also related in the style of
                    its illumination and was probably painted by the same artists. In view of the connections with St
                    Augustine's and Christ Church it is possible that the book was written and decorated in
                    Canterbury.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC050" n="MS 50">
                <p>CCCC MS 50 contains a number of works in French and Anglo-Norman copied in the late thirteenth
                    century. Among the most significant texts within it are the <title>Roman de Brut</title> of Wace
                    (after 1100-after 1174), the <title>Roman de Guy de Warewic</title>, <title>The Four Daughters of
                        God</title>, <title>Amis et Amiloun</title> and the short prose chronicle <title>Le livere des
                        reis de Britannie</title>. It also contains the unique text of the fabliau, <title>Romanz di un
                        chivaler et sa dame e un clerk</title>. The manuscript was at one time in the Benedictine abbey
                    of St Augustine, Canterbury as indicated by two library inscriptions. It has been identified as item
                    number 1516 in the Catalogue of the abbey's library drawn up in the late fifteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC051" n="MS 51">
                <p>CCCC MS 51 contains a series of chronicles including Jerome's Latin translation of Eusebius of
                    Caesarea's <title>Chronici canones</title>, the <title>Chronica</title> of Sigebert of Gembloux (c.
                    1030-1112) and the <title>Abbreuiationes Chronicorum</title> of Ralph de Diceto (d. c. 1202). In the
                    early fourteenth-century catalogue of the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury manuscripts
                    drawn up under Henry of Eastry this book is called <title>Cronica Eusebii Salomonis</title>, a
                    reference to Salomon, a monk and sub-Prior of Christ Church in 1207. Salomon has also been
                    identified as the possible compiler of a late twelfth-century collection of mnemonic verses and
                    notes on the compotus now found in London, BL MS Egerton 3314.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC052" n="MS 52">
                <p>CCCC MS 52 is a twelfth-century manuscript containing the <title>Magna glosatura</title>, or
                        <title>Glossa continua</title>, on the Pauline Epistles by Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160). The
                    text is written in a fine hand, with attractive ornamental initials. The manuscript also contains
                    some passages from Augustine, <title>De trinitate</title> and Hilary, <title>De trinitate</title> in
                    a twelfth-century hand. The flyleaves contain fifteenth- or sixteenth-century recipes in Latin and
                    English. The provenance is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC053" n="MS 53">
                <p>CCCC MS 53 contains three separate sections, a psalter, a chronicle of England and Peterborough
                    Abbey, and finally a bestiary. It is called the Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary because the
                    Psalter was adapted for the use of of that abbey, at which time the chronicle was added. The
                    Bestiary, which has been cut down to match the page size of the Psalter, was probably added to the
                    book at some later date. The dating of the Bestiary to c. 1300-10 is earlier by a decade or so than
                    that of the Psalter which is considered to be of c. 1310-20. Both are elaborately illuminated but by
                    quite different artists. The Psalter was originally intended for a patron in the diocese of Norwich
                    as evidenced by the original calendar to which Peterborough entries were added. The original patron,
                    perhaps Oliver de Wisset, was evidently connected with John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey (d. 1304),
                    whose obit is added in the original hand of the calendar. Perhaps during the production of the book
                    the patronage was taken over by Peterborough Abbey because the calendar was adapted to their use and
                    their Litany and Office of the Dead were added to the text, as was a chronicle of the abbey. It was
                    owned by the prior, Hugh de Stukeley, whose name is at the beginning of the book. The Psalter is
                    lavishly illustrated with twenty full page pictures of the Life of Christ, saints, prophets and
                    apostles preceding the Psalter text, some fully painted with gold grounds and others in coloured
                    drawing. The Psalter itself has historiated initials at the liturgical divisions, and many
                    decorative ornamental initials and borders. The artist of the fully painted pictures belongs to a
                    group of artists called the Queen Mary Psalter group after their main work, the Psalter, London, BL
                    MS Royal 2. B. VII. The Bestiary, by a different artist, who also worked on a psalter, Oxford, Jesus
                    College MS D.40, has 101 framed illustrations set in its text.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC054" n="MS 54">
                <p>CCCC MS 54 is a late twelfth-century copy of Odo of Canterbury OSB (d. c. 1200), Commentary on
                    Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers. The manuscript belonged to, and perhaps was made at, the
                    Savigniac and Cistercian abbey of St Mary's, Coggeshall (Essex). The author, originally a monk of
                    Christ Church, Canterbury, became Abbot of Battle in 1175.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC055" n="MS 55">
                <p>This manuscript, dating from the thirteenth century, contains biblical commentaries by Stephen
                    Langton (c. 1150-1228) on parts of the Old Testament. Included are commentaries on the Pentateuch,
                    and the books from Joshua through to Maccabees. It has been noted that CCCC MS 55 contains
                    substantial textual differences to other copies of the same works. The marginal notes in this
                    manuscript are of particular interest in determining the relationship between Langton's commentaries
                    and his sermons, as they seems to show the excerpting of material from the commentaries for use in
                    preaching texts. CCCC MS 55 has been identified as the manuscript mentioned in a letter to Matthew
                    Parker from Aylmer, Archdeacon of Lincoln, thus suggesting that the manuscript was in Lincoln by the
                    mid-sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC056" n="MS 56">
                <p>CCCC MS 56 is a sixteenth-century copy, made for Parker c. 1567, of Matthew Paris' <title>Historia
                        Anglorum</title> (1067-1253) and the third part of the <title>Chronica maiora</title> (1254-9)
                    with a continuation to 1273-4 which is attributed to William Rishanger. It is a direct copy of the
                    same text in Matthew's autograph copy, London, BL MS Royal 14. C. VII, a crude attempt even being
                    made to reproduce the heraldic shields found in the margins of this exemplar. The text of this
                    manuscript for the years 1253-74 was used as the basis for Parker's printed volume of the
                        <title>Historia maiora</title> published in 1570-71.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC057" n="MS 57">
                <p>CCCC MS 57 is a witness to the intellectual interests of the Benedictine Reform movement in
                    tenth-century England. It contains a collection of Benedictine texts, including the Rule, and a
                    version of Usuard's <title>Martyrologium</title> with Abingdon additions. It was written in Square
                    minuscule at the end of the tenth century or the start of the eleventh either at Canterbury, since
                    its texts are related to Canterbury manuscripts of similar material, or at Abingdon, where it has
                    certain early provenance. The additions to the Martyrology provide a large number of obits of people
                    connected with the monastery of Abingdon; unfortunately they have been badly damaged by a later
                    binder's trimming. In the eleventh century some damage to the manuscript was repaired by a scribe
                    writing an imitiation of the original Square minuscule script.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC058" n="MS 58">
                <p>CCCC MS 58 is a copy of the commentary on Ecclesiastes by Stephen Langton (c. 1150-1228), teacher,
                    theologian and archbishop of Canterbury (1207-1228). The manuscript is currently dated to the early
                    thirteenth century, and was therefore made during the lifetime of its author; the provenance is
                    unknown, but a scribal colophon locates the book to a certain 'Vallis Dei', a name common to
                    numerous religious houses in the Middle Ages. Langton's biblical commentaries have received little
                    scholarly attention compared to his sermon collections; hence CCCC MS 58 has been studied rather
                    less than other Parker Library manuscripts which contain sermons by Langton, such as <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC450">CCCC MS 450</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC459">CCCC MS 459</ref>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC059" n="MS 59">
                <p>CCCC MS 59, dating from the early fourteenth century, is a collection of texts probably designed to
                    appeal to a monastic audience's hunger for knowledge of the world beyond its walls. Among the
                    manuscript's profusion of texts and documents are the spurious <title>Letters</title> of Prester
                    John and of Alexander the Great to Aristotle, statutes, charters and papal bulls. There is a much
                    interest in chronological material, with short chronicles being accompanied by lists of popes,
                    emperors, kings and archbishops of Canterbury. The precise provenance of this manuscript is unknown,
                    though a continuation of one of the most substantial texts in the codex, <title>Chronica pontificum
                        et imperatorum</title> by Martin of Troppau OP (d. 1278), records the martyrdom of Thomas de la
                    Hale of Dover, suggesting a link to the south coast of England, possibly the Premonstratensian abbey
                    of the Virgin and St Thomas the Martyr at West Langdon, Kent.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC060" n="MS 60">
                <p>CCCC MS 60 contains a copy of the <title>Memoriale historiarum</title>, a chronicle with particular
                    emphasis on France, attributed to John of Paris (d. 1306) (or sometimes John of Saint-Victor), who
                    is also called Jean Boyvin in the description of a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century copy
                    of the same text now in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris (MS 516). The Corpus manuscript
                    is copied in a late fourteenth-century hand and is accompanied by a genealogy tracing the descent of
                    Edward III from the French royal family, presumably part of the English propaganda campaign of the
                    Hundred Years' War. Parker gave a version of the <title>Memoriale</title> to Cambridge University
                    Library (now CUL MS Ii. 2. 18) and a copy was reportedly in the library of Sir Walter Cope (c.
                    1553-1614), gentleman usher to Parker's colleague in government, William Cecil, Lord Burghley.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC061" n="MS 61">
                <p>The copy of Chaucer's <title>Troilus and Criseyde</title> in CCCC MS 61 was made c. 1415-25, long
                    after the poet's death in 1400. The poem was written at some time before 1385. This copy was planned
                    as a luxury edition to contain over ninety illustrations, but only the full-page frontispiece was
                    painted, with blank spaces left at the positions intended for the other pictures. In that
                    frontispiece Chaucer is shown reading his poem to the English court. The patron of this manuscript
                    is unknown, but it is likely to have been the prominent male figure dressed in a gold-embroidered
                    costume in the centre of the courtly group. The book belonged in 1570 to the author, Stephen Batman,
                    a chaplain of Matthew Parker, and shortly after became incorporated in the archbishop's
                    collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC062" n="MS 62">
                <p>CCCC MS 62 comprises three volumes, the first dated to the late twelfth century, or the beginning of
                    the thirteenth, the latter two dated to the twelfth century. All three volumes have a provenance at
                    the cathedral priory of St Andrew at Rochester, Kent, and appear in a list of manuscripts copied or
                    acquired by the precentor, Alexander, in or soon after 1202. The first volume contains a glossed
                    copy of the Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs. The second volume consists of a
                    selection of writings by William of Saint-Thierry, Bernard of Clairvaux, Serlo of Wilton and John of
                    Cornwall. The final volume contains Bede's Commentary on the Catholic Epistles and a letter by
                    Walter Phillips, dean of Rochester (1560).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC063" n="MS 63">
                <p>CCCC MS 63 is complicated textual compilation, comprising five separate sections. The first, which
                    includes meditative and spiritual works by Anselm of Canterbury (d. 1109), Ralph of London OSB (fl.
                    thirteenth century), and Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), was given to Christ Church,
                    Canterbury, by Thomas Stoyl, who was a monk there, 1299-1333. The second volume includes an
                    anonymous tract on the virtues and vices, and works by Bonaventure OFM (1217/21-74); the third
                    volume contains important documents and letters pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury; the fourth
                    volume is a copy of the letters of Bernard of Clairvaux OCist (1090-1153); and the final volume
                    contains a number of religious texts, including the <title>Formula vitae honestae</title> of Martin
                    of Braga (c. 515-80). These volumes are dated to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. On f. 3 is
                    a copy of the poem <title>Les neuf joies nostre dame</title>, attributed to Rutebeuf (c.
                    1245-1285).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC064" n="MS 64">
                <p>The author of this manual of theology, <title>Compendium ueritatis theologicae</title>, contained in
                    CCCC MS 64, dating to the early fifteenth century, is now known to be the Dominican, Hugo Ripelinus
                    of Strasbourg (c. 1200-68). It was part of the medieval library of the college, given by Thomas
                    Markaunt in 1439. The book was very popular in the late Middle Ages and was translated into
                    vernacular languages such as German, but never into Middle English, although many Latin copies
                    survive in English libraries. It is divided into seven books dealing with central issues of theology
                    such as the natures of God and Christ, sin and virtue, the sacraments and the last things.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC065" n="MS 65">
                <p>CCCC MS 65, dating to the twelfth century, contains a collection of homilies by a variety of
                    patristic authors such as Gregory the Great, Jerome, Bede, etc. Paul the Deacon (c. 720/30-99), a
                    scholar at the court of Charlemagne, compiled such a collection, ordered by appropriate date of the
                    Church year, which travelled widely in the Middle Ages as a useful resource for preachers. This
                    manuscript contains a version of the summer half of Paul the Deacon's collection, and was presumably
                    once accompanied by a winter volume, now lost. The manuscript contains flyleaves with musical
                    notation at the end, a rare survival of English fourteenth-century polyphony, including a four-part
                    Alleluia.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC066" n="MS 66">
                <p>MS 66, as described by M. R. James, included half of a manuscript belonging to the Cistercian abbey
                    of Sawley (Yorks.) and half of a manuscript belonging to the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds.
                    The other two halves of the Bury and Sawley manuscripts are bound together as Cambridge, UL MS Ff.
                    1. 27. However, MS 66 has since been separated into MS 66 (Sawley MS) and <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC066A">MS 66A</ref> (Bury MS). The volume now known as MS 66 contains copies of the
                        <title>Imago mundi</title> of Honorius Augustodunensis (fl. first half of twelfth century);
                    Extracts from Pliny the Elder and Solinus; the <title>Historia Anglorum</title>; <title>De statu
                        ecclesiae</title> by Gilbert of Limerick (d. 1145); Theobald of &#201;tampes's Letter to
                    Robert Bloet, Bishop of Lincoln; <title>De sex alis cherubim</title> and <title>De tribus in
                        penitentia considerandis</title> both by Clement of Llanthony OSA (d. after 1169), and a
                    treatise on confession. The <title>Imago mundi</title> and <title>De sex alis cherubim</title>
                    contain four large framed coloured drawings and a map of the world.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC066A" n="MS 66A">
                <p>MS 66, as described by M. R. James, included half of a manuscript belonging to the Cistercian abbey
                    of Sawley (Yorks.) and half of a manuscript belonging to the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds.
                    The other two halves of the Bury and Sawley manuscripts are bound together as Cambridge, UL MS Ff.
                    1. 27. However, MS 66 has since been separated into <ref type="ms" target="CCC066">MS 66</ref>
                    (Sawley MS) and MS 66A (Bury MS). MS 66A contains copies of Jacques de Vitry's <title>Historia
                        orientalis</title>; Willelmus de Rubruk's <title>Itinerarium ad partes orientales</title>;
                        <title>Itinerarium usque ad paradisum terrestrem</title>; <title>Imago mundi</title>; the letter
                    of Prester John; Johannes de Sacro Bosco, <title>Tractatus de sphaera</title>; <title>Barlaam et
                        Iosaphat</title> by pseudo-John of Damascus; the Legend of the Cross Before Christ; Seth or The
                    Holy Rood in Verse; the Childhood of Jesus; excerpts from Bede's <title>Historia
                        ecclesiastica</title> and the <title>Legenda Aurea</title>; <title>Visio Rodulfi</title>;
                        <title>De Stephano monacho cartusiensi</title> and pseudo-Methodius's Revelations. There are
                    illuminated historiated initials at the beginning of most of these texts.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC067" n="MS 67">
                <p>This manuscript contains a commentary on the Psalms which was mistakenly attributed to Remigius of
                    Auxerre (d. 908), now correctly identified as the work of Gilbert de la Porrée - also known as
                    Gilbert of Poitiers (c. 1080-1154). It is a twelfth-century manuscript, with marginalia dating from
                    the thirteenth century to the fifteenth. James suggested a Norwich provenance, although there is no
                    firm evidence for this.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC068" n="MS 68">
                <p>CCCC MS 68 is a compilation of texts, several relating to liturgical matters, written by a certain
                    Tielmann, son of Clerward, cleric of Utrecht, for Walter Crome, fellow of Gonville Hall, in 1432. In
                    the same year Tielmann also wrote for Crome MS 114/183 in Gonville and Caius College. This Tielmann
                    is not the same as the one who wrote some manuscripts now in Balliol College, Oxford. The manuscript
                    was given to Cambridge University Library by Crome in 1444 and was there in 1473. In 1567 Andrew
                    Perne, Master of Peterhouse and several times Vice-Chancellor of the University, gave it to Matthew
                    Parker, and it came to Corpus with his collection in 1575. Another part of the same manuscript, now
                    Cambridge, King's College, MS 9, was detached before Parker acquired MS 68. Among the texts included
                    are Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), <title>De ecclesiasticis officiis</title>, and William of
                    Malmesbury OSB (c. 1080-1143), <title>Abbreviatio Amalarii</title>, an abbreviation of the work of
                    Amalarius of Metz (c. 775/80-c. 850), <title>De ecclesiasticis officiis</title>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC069" n="MS 69">
                <p>CCCC MS 69, containing Gregory the Great's Forty Homilies on the Gospels, was written in Insular
                    Hybrid minuscule and decorated in typical Insular fashion with red dots, interlace, and occasional
                    animal heads. It was probably made in England south of the Humber, dating to the early part of the
                    early ninth century, and is as such a relatively late product of the Insular book-producing
                    tradition in England, which was to be greatly disrupted by Viking attacks of the middle of the ninth
                    century. The text was used by Étaix in his edition of the work, although he denigrated it as
                    containing terrible readings and fantastic spellings; but its place of origin and early date seemed
                    to him too significant for the manuscript to be ignored.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC070" n="MS 70">
                <p>CCCC MS 70 contains a number of Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet legal tracts, including the text
                    of the <title>Quadripartitus</title> and the <title>Leges Henrici Primi</title>. It was written by
                    or for Andrew Horn (c. 1275-1328) in the first quarter of the fourteenth century, probably to serve
                    as a private compilation of precedents able to inform any discussions of the customs of the City of
                    London. It is one of the manuscripts that Horn, a prominent City fishmonger and Chamberlain of
                    London (1320-28), bequeathed to the London Guildhall and was at one time almost certainly bound up
                    with the material that is now contained in <ref type="ms" target="CCC258">CCCC MS 258</ref>. This
                    provenance is neatly established by the presence within the manuscript of a drawing of a fish
                    accompanied by the words '<title>Horn mihi cognomen Andreas est mihi nomen</title>'.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC071" n="MS 71">
                <p>As an important witness to the twelfth-century interest in texts of classical Roman and late antique
                    authors, CCCC MS 71 contains Macrobius, Saturnalia, Macrobius's commentary on Cicero's Somnium
                    Scipionis, and Apuleius, Opera philosophica. The Apuleius texts belong to the third group of
                    manuscripts of these works as classified by Beaujeu. The added thirteenth-century list of contents
                    on the flyleaf is in a special form characteristic of the Abbey of St Albans. It is likely that the
                    book was made at the abbey, although there is no firm evidence it was there until the thirteenth
                    century when the contents were listed. Thomson, in his study of St Albans manuscripts, dates the
                    book to c. 1150. On the flyleaf a fifteenth-century note values the book at xx s.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC072" n="MS 72">
                <p>Although arranged according to the texts of the four Gospels, rather than arranging the specific
                    readings according to the Sundays and feast days of the year, CCCC MS 72, was intended to serve as a
                    Gospel Lectionary for the readings at Mass. It begins with a table of the Gospel readings for the
                    church year, and in the margins are the names of the days on which the appropriate passages of text
                    are to be read. The Gospel text has been compared with Bibles produced at Canterbury and Glunz
                    classifies it as 'Lanfranc's Scholastic Text'. Although M. R. James thought that it might have been
                    made at St Albans, it is now thought more likely that it was made at Christ Church cathedral priory,
                    Canterbury. It has three very large and fine illuminated ornamental initials, and many smaller ones.
                    A dating of the book to the closing years of the twelfth century, perhaps c. 1180, seems likely.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC073" n="MS 73">
                <p>CCCC MS 73, of the second quarter of the fifteenth century, is a copy of the commentaries of Nicholas
                    de Gorran OP (1232-c.1295) on Matthew, Mark, the Catholic Epistles and the Apocalypse. The opening
                    flyleaf of this manuscript is from an antiphoner and includes some music on a four-line stave. James
                    noted a similarity in appearance between this manuscript and <ref type="ms" target="CCC001">CCCC MS
                        1</ref>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC074" n="MS 74">
                <p>CCCC MS 74 contains a fourteenth-century copy of the <title>Inuentarium iuris canonici</title> of
                    Berengarius Fredoli (d. 1323), an index of subjects written as a guide to canon law. Parker acquired
                    this manuscript from Norwich Cathedral Priory and it was one of three that the priory had been
                    bequeathed by their former owner, Cardinal Adam Easton (c. 1330-97), that Parker secured (see also
                    CCCC MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC180">180</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC347">347</ref>). It
                    was almost certainly once part of the Cardinal's reputedly extensive personal library. If so, it was
                    probably among the 228 books from that source which arrived in Norwich, packed in six barrels, in
                    1407, ten years after his death in Rome.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC075" n="MS 75">
                <p>This large glossed Psalter, CCCC MS 75, dating to c. 1220, contains the commentary of Peter Lombard
                    (c. 1095-1160) completed towards the end of his life in 1158/9. This was the most read of all
                    commentaries on the psalms in the later centuries of the Middle Ages. This is a luxury copy with
                    historiated initials placed at the liturgical divisions of the psalms, even though this book was
                    intended for scholarly rather than liturgical use. The iconography of these initials is
                    characteristic of the specifically English system used in the thirteenth century, although some of
                    them, like Noah's drunkenness for psalm 51, are rarely found. M. R. James suggested that the script
                    was characteristic of the abbey of St Albans, but the study by Thomson of St Albans books of this
                    period rejects it. It might have been made in East Anglia because it is illuminated by the same
                    artists as the Psalter, London, BL MS Lansdowne 431, which was made for an Augustinian house in that
                    region, perhaps Barnwell near Cambridge.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC076" n="MS 76">
                <p>CCCC MS 76 contains an incomplete copy of <title>De institutis coenobiorum</title> of John Cassian
                    (c. 360-435) and extracts from the <title>Abbreuiationes chronicorum</title> of Ralph de Diceto (d.
                    c. 1199/1200) under the title <title>Annales de Dorobernensibus Archiepiscopis</title>. The
                        <title>Annales</title> were copied in a late twelfth-century hand which, it has been argued, may
                    be that of Diceto himself. An inscription hints that this manuscript may have been intended for
                    presentation to Hubert Walter, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1205). If so, this may explain how it
                    came to be in the possession of a later archbishop, Stephen Langton (c. 1165-1228) from whom it
                    passed to the priory of the Holy Trinity, Christ Church, Canterbury where it is recorded in the
                    early fourteenth-century library catalogue of Henry of Eastry.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC077" n="MS 77">
                <p>CCCC MS 77 contains a copy of the <title>Speculum iudiciale</title> of Willelmus Durandus the Elder
                    (c. 1237-1296). Completed in 1271 and revised twice before the author's death, the
                        <title>Speculum</title> is a manual for the proper administration and exercise of ecclesiastical
                    authority in a synthesis of the concepts underpinning Roman and canon law. The <title>Speculum
                        iudiciale</title> remained an important text for the Catholic church long after the Middle Ages,
                    with several printed editions appearing between the late-fifteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. MS
                    77 was written in the fourteenth century and an inscription establishes that it was once at the
                    Benedictine abbey of St Albans, Hertfordshire.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC078" n="MS 78">
                <p>CCCC MS 78 contains a fifteenth century copy of <title>De uiris claris</title>, the fifth book of
                    Domenico di Bandino's (d. 1413) <title>Fons memorabilium uniuersi</title>. The <title>Fons
                        memorabilium</title> is an encyclopaedia derived from a large number of classical and medieval
                    sources and <title>De uiris claris</title> is dedicated to the study of man both as a biological
                    entity and more generally, featuring a number of biographies of medieval and early renaissance
                    figures. A letter written in Florence survives as part of the binding, suggesting that the book is
                    of Italian origin, but how and when it came to Parker is uncertain.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC079" n="MS 79">
                <p>CCCC MS 79, dating from c. 1400 and c. 1410, is the most elaborate decorated Pontifical to survive
                    from medieval England. The text contains the church services particular to bishops, and is a
                    specifically English version rather than the Durandus edition of the Pontifical widely used
                    throughout Europe at this time. Its ownership can be determined from the heraldry on some of its
                    pages, and it seems to have passed through the hands of three bishops who made additions to the text
                    and illumination. The original patron of the book seems to have been Guy de Mohun, bishop of St
                    Davids (1397-1407), and it then passes first to Richard Clifford, bishop of Worcester (1401-1407)
                    and bishop of London (1407-1421) who had further illumination done, and finally to Philip Morgan,
                    bishop of Worcester (1419-1426) and bishop of Ely (1426-1435) who added a section of text. By 1489
                    the Pontifical was at St Paul's Cathedral because on ff. 1v-2 are added the texts for the ceremony
                    held there in that year of the presentation of the papal sword and cap to Henry VII by Pope Innocent
                    VIII's nuncio. Small framed miniatures and historiated initials illustrate the various pontifical
                    offices, and many pages have elaborate gilded borders and ornamental initials. The book was probably
                    made in London because its artists in their ornament and figure style derive from the illuminators
                    who made the Litlyngton Missal (Westminster Abbey MS 37) in 1383-1384.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC080" n="MS 80">
                <p>CCCC MS 80 contains Henry Lovelich's English versions of <title>The History of the Holy Grail</title>
                    and <title>Merlin</title> written c. 1450-75. The Corpus manuscript is the unique copy of these
                    texts, translated and versified from the French prose version. Lovelich was a member of the
                    Skinners' Company of London, and it seems likely that, until it came into Parker's possession, this
                    manuscript had remained in or around London. Certainly it contains a number of notes added in the
                    later fifteenth century in the hand of John Cok, a priest at the Augustinian hospital of St
                    Bartholomew at Smithfield.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC081" n="MS 81">
                <p>CCCC MS 81 is a large and handsomely decorated paper manuscript of the mid-fifteenth century, copied
                    by Demetrios Xanthopoulos, who worked in the circle of Cardinal Bessarion (1403-72). It contains
                    Homer, <title>Iliad</title>, Quintus of Smyrna, <title>Posthomerica</title> and Homer,
                        <title>Odyssey</title>. There are intermittent Homeric scholia in the hand of Demetrios
                    Chalkondyles, the scholar who supervised the production of the editio princeps of Homer in 1488;
                    some of the scholia on <title>Odyssey</title> yield new textual evidence. A circular cartouche on
                    p.1 with the name 'Theodoros' in gold letters is probably a sign of Theodore Gaza's (c.1400-1475)
                    ownership, but may have led to the belief that the book (along with CCCC MSS <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC224">224</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC248">248</ref> and six other Cambridge
                    MSS) came from Theodore of Tarsus (602-690). Notes by Parker and others suggest that the book was
                    found at Canterbury, possibly as part of the library of St Augustine's Abbey.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC082" n="MS 82">
                <p>CCCC MS 82 is a copy of c. 1425-50 of the Latin sermons on the Gospels for the Sundays of the Church
                    year by Philip Repingdon OSA (c. 1345-1424). He was initially a follower of John Wyclif, but on
                    being excommunicated for upholding Wycliffite teachings in 1382, he recanted. Subsequently in 1393
                    he became abbot of Leicester, chancellor of the University of Oxford (1400-3) and Bishop of Lincoln
                    (1405-20).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC083" n="MS 83">
                <p>The first and last two folios of CCCC MS 83 contain part of a fine, fourteenth-century, glossed copy
                    of Boethius, <title>De consolatione philosophiae</title>. The rest of the manuscript dates from the
                    early thirteenth century, probably datable to 1208-16, and contains Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205),
                        <title>Genealogia historiarum</title> (<title>Compendium ueteris testamenti</title>) (also in
                    CCCC MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC029">29</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC437">437</ref>), an
                    anonymous tract on the virtues and vices, <title>De duodecim gradibus humilitatis</title>, Alexander
                    of Ashby OSA (d. by 1213), <title>Comprehensio historiarum ueteris et noui testamenti</title>, and
                    Petrus Riga (d. 1209), <title>Aurora</title>, a late-twelfth-century verse commentary on, and
                    summary of, the Bible. The book is notable for its illustrations in tinted drawing, as in the
                    medallions containing Creation scenes and portraits of biblical figures and historical figures in
                    the first text.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC084" n="MS 84">
                <p>CCCC MS 84, dating from c. 1450, contains fifteenth-century copies of William of Mont Lauzun's (d.
                    1343), <title>Sacramentale</title> and <title>Gloss on the Constitutiones Clementinae</title>
                        (<title>Lectura super Clementinas</title>) together with a number of ecclesiastical
                    constitutions from the province of Canterbury and other material of interest to churchmen such as
                    the <title>Articuli cleri</title> of 1316 and a copy of the writ <title>Circumspecte agatis</title>.
                    Clearly it was this material relating to the history of the governance of the Church in England that
                    interested Parker about the manuscript. The provenance of the codex is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC085" n="MS 85">
                <p>CCCC MS 85 contains a fourteenth-century copy of John of Freiburg OP (c. 1250-1314), <title>Summa
                        confessorum</title>, a manual for the carrying out of the sacrament of confession. John of
                    Freiburg's work was very influential on the continent and the <title>Summa</title> played a role in
                    disseminating Thomist thought. James notes that this manuscript may be in a German hand, but beyond
                    that, its provenance remains unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC086" n="MS 86">
                <p>This manuscript is a fine twelfth-century copy of Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780-856), Commentary on
                    Matthew. It is one of very few manuscripts in the Parker Library to retain its original binding, a
                    very fine example of its time. As a result of the fragility of this binding it has only been
                    possible to image the exterior and interior of the covers and ff. 1r-4v. The provenance of the
                    manuscript is the Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx, where it was listed in a late twelfth-century
                    catalogue. As with <ref type="ms" target="CCC011">CCCC MS 11</ref>, this manuscript attests to the
                    continued influence of Carolingian scholarship in twelfth-century England.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC087" n="MS 87">
                <p>CCCC MS 87 is an early thirteenth-century copy of the commentary on Leviticus by Ralph of Flaix OSB
                    (d. 1157), in a very fine hand. M. R. James suggested that the provenance of the manuscript might be
                    Worcester, although this was rejected by Ker. James also identified this manuscript as being the
                    copy of Ralph of Flaix's commentary mentioned in an early fourteenth-century catalogue from Christ
                    Church, Canterbury, although this identification is doubtful. The unusual binding of this
                    manuscript, being of velvet with clasps and bosses, is characteristic of the 'Old Royal' library of
                    Henry VIII. As a result of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the
                    exterior and interior of the covers and ff. 1-17r and f. 136r.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC088" n="MS 88">
                <p>CCCC MS 88 contains the Commentary on Matthew of Claudius Taurinensis, bishop of Turin (d. c. 827).
                    This work has not been edited, with the exception of the epistolary preface, and some of the early
                    sections which were examined in McMenomy's unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Claudius wrote this text
                    in the early ninth century; his iconoclastic views led to his often being attacked as a heretic,
                    although he was never officially condemned. This manuscript has split scholarly opinion over its
                    origin: the most usually accepted view is that it was written on the Continent in the tenth century;
                    however it has also been suggested that it was written in England either circa 1000 or in the first
                    half of the eleventh century. It contains a flyleaf from a fifteenth-century service-book. CCCC MS
                    88 may possibly be identifiable with a manuscript seen by John Leland (d. 1552) at Sherborne Abbey
                    in the 1530s. It seems to have later belonged to the historian John Bale (1495-1563), for whom
                    Parker found work at Canterbury in his declining years.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC089" n="MS 89">
                <p>This is a thirteenth-century manuscript containing commentaries by Stephen Langton (c. 1150-1228) on
                    Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Ezra, Nehemia, and I and II Maccabees. It belongs to the category
                    of manuscripts of Langton's works described by Lacombe and Smalley as 'collections without order'.
                    As with <ref type="ms" target="CCC031">CCCC MS 31</ref>, this collection of Langton's commentaries
                    belonged to the Savigniac and Cistercian abbey of St Mary's, Coggeshall. It is one of the few books
                    in the Parker Library to retain its original binding, a fine and well-preserved example. As a result
                    of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the
                    covers and ff. 1r-9v, 234r, 235r and f. ir (back flyleaf).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC090" n="MS 90">
                <p>CCCC MS 90 contains books one to four of the <title>Doctrinale antiquitatum fidei</title> by Thomas
                    Netter of Walden OCarm (c. 1370–1430) and dates to around 1427. It has been suggested that this
                    manuscript may have been one of the books Netter gave to the London Carmelites. The work forms part
                    of Thomas Netter's refutation of Lollard teachings. Netter was, himself, a Carmelite friar who
                    served as the prior provincial of the Carmelite order in England, as confessor to both Henry V and
                    Henry VI of England, and as Henry V's envoy to King W?adis?aw of Poland and Michael Küchmeister,
                    grand master of the Teutonic knights.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC091" n="MS 91">
                <p>CCCC MS 91 contains one of only two surviving copies of the long version of the fifteenth-century
                    French romance of <title>Histoire des Seigneurs de Gavres</title> (the other being in Brussels,
                    Bibliothèque Royale MS 10238). <title>Histoire</title> was probably composed in Flanders in the
                    1450s, and the Corpus version is illustrated c. 1470-80 with a large frontispiece miniature by an
                    anonymous Flemish artist who is known to have worked on a number of other volumes for patrons with
                    connections to Edward IV. The artist has been named the Master of the Harley Froissart. This has led
                    to speculation that this manuscript may have been produced for Edward IV or possibly William, Lord
                    Hastings, c. 1475. Whoever the patron was, he was a Knight of the Garter, as evidenced by the garter
                    surrounding the now erased blank shield on f. 1r. How the codex came into Parker's possession is
                    unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC092" n="MS 92">
                <p>CCCC MS 92 contains a copy of the <title>Chronica chronicarum</title> (<title>Chronicon ex
                        chronicis</title>) of John of Worcester (d. c. 1140), from the Creation to 1131 with later,
                    anonymous, additions that take the <title>Chronica</title> up to the late thirteenth century. Once
                    attributed to Florence of Worcester (d. 1118), it is now known that, using the existing chronicles
                    of Marianus Scotus and Eadmer of Canterbury as the basis for his work, John compiled the
                        <title>Chronica</title>, adding numerous details of English history. This manuscript of the text
                    was produced at Abingdon Abbey in the third quarter of the twelfth century, but was later at
                    Peterborough Abbey, from where it presumably passed into Parker's collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC093" n="MS 93">
                <p>The Ordinal of Exeter Cathedral is preserved in two manuscripts of the fifteenth century, Exeter,
                    Cathedral Library MS 3502 and CCCC MS 93. This copy is of c. 1400-25, but some of the border
                    decoration has been added in the second half of the fifteenth century. The Ordinal contains the
                    directions for the church services for the Mass and the Divine Office. The liturgical use of Exeter
                    was an adaptation for that diocese of the Use of Sarum which from the mid-thirteenth century onwards
                    spread over most parts of England. The book also contains a Martyrology of Exeter which compares
                    with that of Exeter, Cathedral Library MS 3518. These copies of the Ordinal reveal the extent of
                    difference from Sarum. MS 93 has fine illuminated borders with the monogram WS at the main divisions
                    of the text.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC094" n="MS 94">
                <p>CCCC MS 94 contains an expanded version of the decretal collection of Ivo of Chartres (c. 1040-1116),
                        <title>Panormia</title>, known as the <title>Collectio decem partium</title> and sometimes
                    attributed to Hildebert of Lavardin (1056-1133). The manuscript was written in Canterbury in the
                    mid-twelfth century, though authorities disagree as to whether it was produced at the Benedictine
                    abbey of St Augustine, or the Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity, Christ Church. The
                    hand of the same scribe that produced this codex has been identified in CUL MS Kk.1.17, Oxford,
                    Bodleian MS e Mus. 66 and CCCC MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC270">270</ref> and <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC274">274</ref>. In the eighteenth century Nasmith recorded a fragment of a homily
                    written in uncial script as being present with the codex, but this had disappeared by the time that
                    M. R. James examined the volume. It has never been rediscovered.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC095" n="MS 95">
                <p>CCCC MS 95 contains William of Tyre (c. 1130-c. 1186), <title>Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis
                        gestarum</title>, and Arnold of Liège OP (fl. 1290-1310), <title>Alphabetum narrationum</title>,
                    both written in a fourteenth-century hand. The <title>Historia</title> is an important source for
                    the history of the early crusading movement and the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem up to 1184, written
                    by a man who, as tutor to the 'Leper King' Baldwin IV, who later appointed William as Archbishop of
                    Tyre, was well-placed to witness events. The <title>Alphabetum narrationum</title> was one of the
                    most commonly circulated exemplum collections in medieval Europe. Written in c. 1307, it contains a
                    number of stories designed for use by preachers to illustrate or enliven sermons. The provenance of
                    this manuscript is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC096" n="MS 96">
                <p>CCCC MS 96, dating to c. 1425-50, contains the text of a chronicle from the arrival in England of St
                    Augustine of Canterbury up to 1199, together with a collection of Latin versions of the Anglo-Saxon
                    law codes known as the <title>Quadripartitus</title>. The version of the
                        <title>Quadripartitus</title> is one of three (the other versions being in Manchester, John
                    Rylands University Library MS Lat. 420 and London, BL MS Additional 49366) that make up a coherent
                    tradition within the transmission of the text. The chronicle was once commonly called <title>John
                        Brompton's Chronicle</title> but is probably better described as <title>The Fitzhugh
                        Chronicle</title>, since the arms of William, 4th lord Fitzhugh (1425-1452), depicted in a
                    gilded initial, probably identify him as the first owner. Thereafter it was in the hands of John
                    Brompton (fl. 1436-c. 1464), Abbot of Jervaulx and possibly Richard, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1485).
                    John Leland (d. 1552), the antiquary, seems to have seen the volume in Jervaulx Abbey in the 1530s
                    or early 1540s, but it was recorded by the historian John Bale (1495-1563) as being in the hands of
                    Peter Osborn (d. 1592) Keeper of the Privy Purse to Edward VI and Parker's executor, from whom it
                    passed to Parker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC097" n="MS 97">
                <p> During the middle years of the sixteenth century, the Privy Council requested that the Archbishop of
                    Canterbury supply them with detailed information regarding the holders of English clerical
                    benefices; details such as their level of education, whether or not they were resident or held
                    multiple livings, and their marital status. <ref type="ms" target="CCC122">CCCC MS 122</ref> and MS
                    97 contain numerous documents relating to this inquiry, including the Privy Council's initial
                    request to Archbishop Matthew Parker, a draft version of Parker's request for information from the
                    bishops and the detailed returns he received back from the bishops (often referred to as the 'Parker
                    Certificates'). Some missing leaves from these two manuscripts, now <ref type="ms" target="CCC580A"
                        >CCCC MS 580</ref>, were discovered in the College Archives and transferred to the Parker
                    Library in 1959.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC098" n="MS 98">
                <p> CCCC MS 98 is a genealogical roll in French and Latin, illustrating the history of the Welsh and
                    English royal lines and that of the Lacy family. On the dorse of the roll appears a Latin prose
                    genealogy from Adam to Henry V. On the basis of its decoration and style, the roll has been dated to
                    c, 1470, a conclusion supported by the slightly defensive description of Edward IV (who had been
                    deposed and regained the throne in 1470-71) as 'dei gratia uerus et indubitatus Rex'. It is not
                    known how this roll came into Parker's possession.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC098A" n="MS 98A">
                <p>CCCC MS 98A is the second of three genealogical rolls in Matthew Parker's collection. It must date to
                    some time after 1453, the date of birth of Henry VI's son Edward of Westminster, an event recorded
                    on the roll. A dating has been suggested as c. 1475-1500. It is not clear whether this roll was ever
                    in Parker's possession, although it would be consistent with his interest in all aspects of British
                    history. A note in the hand of Matthew Parker's son, John, however, records what may be this roll at
                    the end of the Parker Register, the list of Parker's books in <ref type="ms" target="CCC575">CCCC MS
                        575</ref> compiled in 1574-1575.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC099" n="MS 99">
                <p>There are a handful of manuscripts in Parker's collection that attest to the Archbishop's interest in
                    alchemy, a subject of great fascination to many of his contemporaries. One such is CCCC MS 99, a
                    collection of alchemical treatises copied in the late fourteenth century. The presence of a number
                    of rough sketches of alchemical instruments and the profusion of stains that litter the manuscript
                    may reveal that at one time this was no theoretical collection, but rather a working textbook. It is
                    not known how this manuscript came into Parker's possession, though M. R. James noted that the
                    triangle inscribed on one of the flyleaves of the manuscript is a symbol often associated with
                    Parker's contemporary, John Dee (1527-1608).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC100" n="MS 100">
                <p>CCCC MS 100 contains sixteenth-century transcripts, predominantly of medieval texts. Of particular
                    interest is the transcript of Asser's <title>De rebus gestis Ælfredi regis</title> which was
                    transcribed from London, BL MS Cotton Otho A. XII, a manuscript which was destroyed by a fire in Sir
                    Robert Cotton's library in 1731. Asser (d. 909), was the bishop of Sherborne and several works
                    ascribed to him survive. His account of King Alfred is of particular importance as one of the main
                    historical sources for Alfred's reign. MS 100 also contains a copy of a Middle English tract, 'On
                    translating the Bible into English', which was published in 1530 and frequently thereafter. More
                    scholarly attention has been paid to the copy of this tract in <ref type="ms" target="CCC298">CCCC
                        MS 298</ref>, item 25.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC101" n="MS 101">
                <p>CCCC MS 101 is a collection of sixteenth-century transcripts made for Parker from manuscripts within
                    his own collection and elsewhere. The broad emphasis of the material is historical in nature, with a
                    particular interest in the history of ecclesiastical jurisdiction and relations between the crown
                    and the episcopacy. The source material ranges in date from pre-Conquest material to Henry VI's
                    injunction preventing papal legates from entering England without licence. As such this manuscript
                    is a revealing insight into why Parker collected the material that he did, since it is clear that
                    such matters were highly relevant to Parker's campaign to establish the Elizabethan reformation on
                    firm historical foundations.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC102" n="MS 102">
                <p>Matthew Parker's manuscript collection naturally reflects his interest in Reformation theology and
                    theologians and the religious debates which took place in the sixteenth century. MS 102 is one of
                    the compilations of tracts and letters Parker assembled from his collection. The volume opens with
                    several pieces relating to the public disputation held in Cambridge between the Regius Professor of
                    Divinity, Martin Bucer (1491-1551), and masters Young, Sedgewick and Perne. This material is
                    followed by a treatise by Christopher Carlile (d. c. 1588), an English clergyman and graduate of
                    Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Much of the rest of the volume relates to debates regarding the
                    sacraments and to tracts and materials relating to rebellion and sedition. The manuscript dates to
                    third quarter of the sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="ccc103" n="MS 103">
                <p>The majority of texts in this compilation in CCCC MS 103, dating to 1425-1450, relate to
                    controversies associated with and between the mendicants. They include tracts on heresies, works
                    written in the second half of the fourteenth century by and against John Wyclif and his followers,
                    the response of St Bonaventure OFM to the Parisian master William of St Amour's criticisms of the
                    friars in the secular/mendicant controversy of the 1250s, and <title>De pauperie Saluatoris</title>
                    of Richard Fitzralph (before 1300-1360) which criticises the mendicants. Some texts in the
                    compilation do not correspond to this agenda of controversy: e.g. Uthred of Boldon OSB (c.
                    1320-1397) on the Benedictine rule.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC104" n="MS 104">
                <p>Matthew Parker's manuscript collection naturally reflects his interest in Reformation theology and
                    theologians and the religious debates which took place in the sixteenth century. MS 104 is one of
                    the compilations of tracts Parker assembled from his collection. Among the tracts included in this
                    volume are gospel commentaries, an English translation of St Matthew's gospel and several sermons on
                    various topics including fortitude in suffering and the qualities of a king. The manuscript dates to
                    the third quarter of the sixteenth century. </p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC105" n="MS 105">
                <p>Matthew Parker's manuscript collection naturally reflects his interest in Reformation theology and a
                    large part of the material bound together in MS 105 reflects this interest. This volume contains a
                    copy of Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), <title>De libro Coloniensis</title> and tracts on issues
                    such as marriage to the sister of a deceased wife, the removal of images from churches and in
                    defence of the English Reformation. However this manuscript also includes evidence of other aspects
                    of Parker's career and interests. There are numerous documents and accounts relating to the uneasy
                    relations between England and Scotland at the start of Elizabeth's reign, a result of Parker's
                    involvement with Elizabeth's rule. There is also an Anglo-Saxon wordlist, a reflection of Parker's
                    interest in the church in Anglo-Saxon England. The volume also includes accounts of the coronation
                    of king Edward VI, the baptism of Elizabeth I and excerpts from the Croyland continuation of Peter
                    of Blois regarding the foundation of the University of Cambridge. The manuscript dates to the third
                    quarter of the sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC106" n="MS 106">
                <p>MS 106 contains a large collection of letters, documents and transcripts relating to the
                    administration of the University of Cambridge and the university's relationship with the town of
                    Cambridge. For the most part, this material relates to the sixteenth century but there are a few
                    copies of earlier documents. The manuscript dates to the sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC107" n="MS 107">
                <p>CCCC MS 107 is a miscellany written c. 1500, but containing one thirteenth-century quire (ff. 169-76)
                    bound in at the end. The texts contained in the volume are diverse with no apparent thematic unity.
                    Among them are Seneca's tragedies, <title>Hercules furens</title>, <title>Thyestes</title> and
                        <title>Octavia</title>, François de Meyronnes OFM (d. after 1328), <title>De
                        indulgentiis</title> and other works, an extract from Walter Map (c. 1140-1210), <title>De nugis
                        curialium</title>, extracts from Petrus Riga (d. 1209), <title>Aurora</title> (this is in the
                    thirteenth-century section) and John Duns Scotus OFM (d. 1308), <title>De perfectione
                        statuum</title>. The reason why the commissioner of the manuscript wanted such an unusual
                    collection of texts is a mystery. The annotations by Matthew Parker in various parts of the book
                    suggest that the thirteenth-century part was bound together with the c. 1500 part when the
                    manuscripts came into his collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC108" n="MS 108">
                <p>MS 108, contains a large collection of documents and letters collected by Matthew Parker (1504-1575).
                    His diverse career included serving as the dean of Stoke by Clare College; as one of Anne Boleyn's
                    chaplains and, after her fall, as one of the king's chaplains; as dean of Lincoln and prebend of
                    Corringham in Lincoln Cathedral, as master of Corpus Christi College and Vice-Chancellor of the
                    University of Cambridge; and as archbishop of Canterbury. Just as this broad career is reflected
                    across the Parker Library collection as a whole, much of it is reflected here in a microcosm of
                    letters and documents relating to Stoke by Clare College, Lincoln cathedral, Cambridge and the
                    government of England. This manuscript also contains a copy of the 'Report on the conditions of
                    Cambridge' which Parker and others compiled when the Chantries Act of December 1545 threatened the
                    University of Cambridge's financial security. The manuscript dates to the sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC109" n="MS 109">
                <p>Matthew Parker's manuscript collection naturally reflects his interest in Reformation theology and
                    theologians and the religious debates which took place in the sixteenth century. MS 109 is one of
                    the compilations of tracts and letters Parker assembled from his collection. The volume consists of
                    letters written to Matthew Parker and tracts on issues such as clerical marriage, the sacraments and
                    monastic vows. The volume also contains a copy of 'Against the opinions of the Germans' by Henry
                    VIII. The manuscript dates to the sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC110" n="MS 110">
                <p>MS 110 contains a variety of historical material transcribed by William Woddeson (Woodson) and, in
                    turn, Bodleian MS Jones 4 contains transcripts from this manuscript. There is some emphasis on
                    Winchester in the transcribed documents, but much of the material relates to English history in
                    general. There is also a Reformation tract, 'A discourse proving that priests may lawfully marry',
                    near the end of the volume. The manuscript dates to the sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC111" n="MS 111">
                <p>This large composite volume contains much important documentary material from Anglo-Saxon England, in
                    both medieval and antiquarian copies. Pp. 1-132 relate to Bath Abbey; some of this material was
                    previously bound with <ref type="ms" target="CCC140">CCCC MS 140</ref>, the Bath Old English Gospel
                    Book. This section starts with an Old English relic-list of Bath and some Old English manumissions,
                    which were written into <ref type="ms" target="CCC140">CCCC MS 140</ref> to emphasise their legal
                    and religious importance. These are followed by a short twelfth-century gospel lectionary. There is
                    also the unique manuscript of the pilgrimage of Sæwulf to Jerusalem in 1102-1103, and an important
                    post-Conquest Old English confraternity agreement between various western religious houses,
                    predominantly Chertsey, Bath, Pershore, Evesham, Winchcombe, Gloucester and Worcester, with the
                    names of some of the monks. On p. 57 starts the Bath Cartulary proper, an important twelfth-century
                    record of Bath Abbey's archives. This contains a large number of Anglo-Saxon charters, which have
                    recently been definitively edited by Susan Kelly, and more charters from the post-Conquest period
                    into the reign of Henry II. It also contains an important Domesday satellite survey, probably part
                    of the material drawn up to be used in the creation of Domesday Book proper. Pp. 139-78 constitute a
                    very important set of transcripts by Robert Talbot (c. 1505-1558) predominantly of original
                    Anglo-Saxon charters from the archives of Abingdon Abbey in the possession of Dr George Owen (d.
                    1558). These documents have since been lost making this the only witness to their text. This
                    collection was acquired early by Parker, who added some material. Pp. 187-317, which have their own
                    pagination showing that they were once a separate volume, contain another collection of
                    sixteenth-century antiquarian transcripts of medieval charters. This compilation is descended from
                    the 'Prise-Say' collection of monastic foundation charters, made by William Say at the request of
                    Sir John Prise in 1535, during the dissolution of the monasteries. This section of CCCC MS 111
                    starts with accounts of the foundations of monastic houses with a note saying it was compiled by the
                    antiquary John Stow (c. 1525-1605) in September 1566, clearly using the Prise-Say register. There
                    are also copies of charters from the Prise-Say collection (which survives in a manuscript at
                    Winchester Cathedral) and miscellaneous supplementary material from a different but related source.
                    The manuscript concludes with material largely relating to the dissolution of the monasteries.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC112" n="MS 112">
                <p>CCCC MS 112 is a manuscript that reflects Parker's interest in alchemy, a subject of great interest
                    to many of his contemporaries. The codex, written in the second half of the fifteenth century,
                    contains a number of texts attributed to Ramón Lull (1232?-1315), though in practice many of these
                    cannot be shown to have been written by him. It is illustrated by large drawings greater and smaller
                    than half-page of alchemical instruments and furnaces. Similar but much smaller drawings occur in
                    some margins. It is not known how this manuscript came to be in Parker's collection. </p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC113" n="MS 113">
                <p>Matthew Parker's manuscript collection naturally reflects his interest in Reformation theology and
                    theologians and the religious debates which took place in the sixteenth century. MS 113 is one of
                    the compilations of tracts and letters Parker assembled from his collection. About half the volume
                    consists of letters written by prominent men such as Martin Bucer (1491-1551) and Philipp
                    Melanchthon (1497-1560) and the other half consists mainly of tracts written by such men. Topics
                    addressed in these tracts and letters include issues such as the abolition of altars and clerical
                    marriage. The manuscript dates to the third quarter of the sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC114A" n="MS 114A">
                <p>MS 114, now split into two parts (MS 114A and <ref type="ms" target="CCC114B">MS 114B</ref>),
                    contains a large collection of letters written to or by Matthew Parker (1504-1575). His diverse
                    career included serving as the dean of the Suffolk college of Stoke by Clare; as one of Anne
                    Boleyn's chaplains and, after her fall, as one of the king's chaplains; as master of Corpus Christi
                    College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; and, after an enforced period of
                    seclusion during the reign of Mary, as archbishop of Canterbury. Just as this broad career is
                    reflected across the Parker Library collection as a whole, much of it is reflected here in a
                    microcosm of letters. The manuscript dates to the sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC114B" n="MS 114B">
                <p>MS 114, now split into two parts (<ref type="ms" target="CCC114A">MS 114A</ref> and MS 114B),
                    contains a large collection of letters written to or by Matthew Parker (1504-75). His diverse career
                    included serving as the dean of the Suffolk college of Stoke by Clare; as one of Anne Boleyn's
                    chaplains and, after her fall, as one of the king's chaplains; as master of Corpus Christi College
                    and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; and, after a forced period of seclusion during
                    the reign of Mary, as archbishop of Canterbury. Just as this broad career is reflected across the
                    Parker Library collection as a whole, much of it is reflected here in a microcosm of letters. The
                    manuscript dates to the sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC115" n="MS 115">
                <p>MS 115 and <ref type="ms" target="CCC126">MS 126</ref> are sixteenth-century notebooks containing
                    lectures from the four lecture series given in Canterbury by Pierre Alexandre in 1552 and 1553 at
                    the request of Cranmer who hoped to make Canterbury a centre of learning. Pierre Alexandre (b. c.
                    1498-d. 1563), who also wrote under the pseudonym Simon Alexius, was a reformation theologian who
                    came to England with Pietro Martire Vermigli (Peter Martyr) (1500-62) and came into the employ of
                    Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC116" n="MS 116">
                <p>CCCC MS 116 is the third genealogical roll now in the Parker Library collection; the others are MSS
                        <ref type="ms" target="CCC098">98</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC098A">98A</ref>.
                    Originally written c. 1469-1470, the membrane side contains a genealogy of the English kings from
                    Adam to Edward IV (d. 1483), though with a number of later additions. The dorse contains a list of
                    popes from St Peter to Benedict XII (1334-42) and of emperors from Tiberius to Frederick II (d.
                    1250). More profusely illustrated with tinted drawings of persons in the genealogy than the other
                    two rolls in the collection, it was, however, not part of Parker's bequest to the college but was
                    given by Dr Thomas Whincop (fellow 1670-1682, d. 1713) in 1682-1683.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC117" n="MS 117">
                <p>CCCC MS 117 contains a decorated version of the text of the <title>Polychronicon</title> of Ranulf
                    Higden OSB (d. 1364) copied in the last quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains a small
                    number of marginal drawings. The text of the <title>Polychronicon</title> is littered with Parker's
                    characteristic red chalk noting items of interest such as a mention of Oxford University and church
                    affairs. In addition, the manuscript contains two items of the correspondence of Anselm of
                    Canterbury copied from <ref type="ms" target="CCC135">CCCC MS 135</ref> and an account of the
                    Primatial Council at Winchester of 1 April 1076 copied from Bodleian MS Junius 121, all in a
                    sixteenth-century hand, and with an accompanying note as to the source of the texts. It is possible
                    that these items, written on paper and added to the parchment endleaves, were copied for Parker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC118" n="MS 118">
                <p>MS 118 is a collection of letters, documents and injunctions which are predominantly relevant to
                    Cambridge University. Considering Parker's association with the university, he was elected master of
                    Corpus Christi College in 1544 and then as vice-chancellor of the university in 1545 and 1548, it is
                    unsurprising to find a collection of letters and documents concerning it among his collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC119" n="MS 119">
                <p>MS 119 is predominantly a collection of letters. Most of the letters are either written to or by
                    European Reformation leaders but a few are entirely English such as the autograph letter of Edward
                    VI to Catherine Parr and the autograph letter of Anne Boleyn to her father, Sir Thomas Boleyn. The
                    volume also contains a few additional brief pieces such as a copy of Martin Bucer's will, a copy of
                    the Articles of unanimity in faith signed at Karlstadt, 1539 and also an English version of Thomas
                    Gray's Preface to the Scala Chronica (original in <ref type="ms" target="CCC133">CCCC MS
                    133</ref>).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC120" n="MS 120">
                <p>MS 120 contains a wide variety of documents including a number of visitation injunctions and
                    cathedral statutes relating to a number of cathedrals including Canterbury, Westminster, Ely,
                    Worcester, Hereford, York, and Peterborough. This collection provides a great deal of information
                    regarding the organisation of English cathedrals and the development of the Church of England in the
                    sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC121" n="MS 121">
                <p>MS 121 contains a collection of documents relating to convocations, particularly for the period
                    1547-71 with some additional material relating to sixteenth-century visitations and some earlier
                    legal materials. This collection of documents provides considerable insight into the development of
                    church doctrine in England during the Reformation period.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC122" n="MS 122">
                <p>During the middle years of the sixteenth century, the Privy Council requested that the Archbishop of
                    Canterbury supply them with detailed information regarding the holders of English clerical
                    benefices; details such as their level of education, whether or not they were resident or held
                    multiple livings, and their marital status. CCCC MS 122 and <ref type="ms" target="CCC097">MS
                        97</ref> contain numerous documents relating to this inquiry, including the Privy Council's
                    initial request to Archbishop Matthew Parker, a draft version of Parker's request for information
                    from the bishops and the detailed returns he received back from the bishops (often referred to as
                    the 'Parker Certificates'). Some missing leaves from these two manuscripts, now <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC580A">CCCC MS 580</ref>, were discovered in the College Archives and transferred to
                    the Parker Library in 1959.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC123" n="MS 123">
                <p> CCCC MS 123 is the unique collection of the <title>Epistolae</title> of Herbert of Bosham (d. c.
                    1194), Thomas Becket's secretary and author of a version of the <title>Vita Sancti Thomae
                        Cantuariensis</title>. The <title>Epistolae</title> gathered here do not represent the complete
                    version of the letters as originally conceived, since both the early and later quires have suffered
                    losses. The manuscript was copied in second half of the fourteenth century, though its long-presumed
                    provenance from the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, has been disputed by Neil
                    Ker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC124" n="MS 124">
                <p>MS 124 contains a sixteenth-century collection of extracts from the Early Christian Fathers on
                    tradition compiled by John Baret (c.1495-1563) [his name is sometimes given as Barrett or Barret].
                    Baret was first a Carmelite and later became a Reformation theologian. The Parker Library also holds
                    two further collections of theological extracts compiled by him: <ref type="ms" target="CCC413">CCCC
                        MS 413</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC428">CCCC MS 428</ref>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC125" n="MS 125">
                <p>MS 125 contains sixteenth-century copies of <title>Apologia</title> and <title>Appellatio contra
                        capitulum Coloniense</title> by Hermann von Wied, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1551) and Martin
                    Bucer's <title>Constans defensio</title>. The entire volume is probably in the hand of Martin Brem,
                    Bucer's amanuensis, who also added a dedication to Matthew Parker. Martin Bucer (1491-1551) was a
                    German Reformation theologian who moved to England in 1549 as a result of Archbishop Cranmer's
                    invitation and Bucer's refusal to accept the Augsburg Interim (the temporary agreement brokered
                    between the Catholics and Protestants at the Diet of Augsburg in 1548). Hermann von Wied was
                    Archbishop of Cologne from 1515 to 1546. Initially hostile to Luther and the reformers, he
                    eventually became sympathetic to the reformers' cause and was forced to resign his
                    archbishopric.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC126" n="MS 126">
                <p>CCCC <ref type="ms" target="CCC115">MS 115</ref> and MS 126 are sixteenth-century notebooks
                    containing lectures from the four lecture series given in Canterbury by Pierre Alexandre in 1552 and
                    1553 at the request of Cranmer who hoped to make Canterbury a centre of learning. Pierre Alexandre
                    (b. c. 1498-d. 1563), who also wrote under the pseudonym Simon Alexius, was a Reformation theologian
                    who came to England with Pietro Martire Vermigli (Peter Martyr) (1500-62) and came into the employ
                    of Cranmer</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC127" n="MS 127">
                <p>MS 127 contains a collection of sixteenth-century documents bound together due to their connections
                    with the course of the Reformation in England. Much of the material relates to Stephen Gardiner,
                    Bishop of Winchester; Owen Oglethorpe, President of Magdalene College; and other opponents to the
                    course of the English Reformation but a few items relate to the continental Reformation.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC128" n="MS 128">
                <p>MS 128 contains a collection of sixteenth-century documents bound together due to their connections
                    with Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. The volume contains a collection of accusations
                    against clergy opposed to Cranmer, accounts for the imprisonment and execution of Cranmer, Latimer
                    and Ridley in Oxford (including a request for payment of money still owing) and a biography of
                    Archbishop Cranmer.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC129" n="MS 129">
                <p>CCCC MS 129 contains thirteenth-century copies of the <title>Breuiarium ab urbe condita</title> of
                    Eutropius (fl. 363-80), the anonymous <title>Gesta Alexandri</title> (<title>Historia de Preliis
                        Alexandri Magni</title>) and Richard de Templo OSA (fl. late twelfth century),
                        <title>Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi</title>. It has been suggested, though
                    not certainly established, that the manuscript was produced in St Augustine's, Canterbury. However,
                    it was certainly at St Augustine's in the fifteenth century, where it appears in the library
                    catalogue, and was one of the manuscripts saved at the dissolution by the antiquary John Twyne (d.
                    1581). A Parkerian note in the manuscript records how Twyne sent this codex to Parker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC130" n="MS 130">
                <p>CCCC MS 130 contains a collection of pseudo-Isidorean decretals known as the <title>Collectio
                        Lanfranci</title>. It is one of two early versions of the material (the other being in
                    Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 74) probably copied from Trinity College, Cambridge MS B.16.44 which came
                    from Lanfranc's see of Bec in Normandy. The Corpus manuscript was generally believed to have been
                    produced in Canterbury in the early twelfth century, but although the date is still agreed upon, the
                    location of its production is no longer certain.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC131" n="MS 131">
                <p>CCCC MS 131 is a fourteenth-century copy of Cassiodorus (d. c. 580), <title>Expositio
                        psalmorum</title> on the first fifty psalms. His works on each of the three books of fifty
                    psalms, widely read throughout the Middle Ages, seem to have travelled as separate volumes. This
                    manuscript has not been used in any edition of this work, although M. Adriaen, the editor of the
                    Corpus Christianorum Series Latina volumes, consulted it, discarding it as textually
                    insignificant.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC132" n="MS 132">
                <p>CCCC MS 132 is a sixteenth-century volume (1525) describing the work of those commissioners charged
                    with attempting to secure the dowry of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, from her marriage to Louis
                    XII of France in 1514, cut short by his death in 1515, after which she married Charles Brandon, duke
                    of Suffolk. It seems to have been little used by scholars of her life, who have preferred to employ
                    information from the formal governmental records in both English and French archives. The end
                    flyleaves are a record from an earlier manuscript concerning the distribution of wine in the royal
                    household, and must date from the reign of Henry IV.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC133" n="MS 133">
                <p>CCCC MS 133 contains the unique copy of Sir Thomas Gray's Anglo-Norman <title>Scala Chronica</title>,
                    begun while its English author was awaiting ransom from Scottish captivity in 1355-1356 and
                    completed some time after 1363, where the account ends. The work is a uniquely valuable source for
                    the history of the troubled Anglo-Scottish border region and wider English politics of the
                    mid-fourteenth century. The unique copy in this manuscript, probably dating to c. 1400, was made not
                    long after the date of the original text's completion and, since the early fifteenth century, has
                    been bound with a late fourteenth-century copy of the <title>Algorism</title>, a verse and prose
                    treatise on mathematics in Anglo-Norman and English. The manuscript was almost certainly in the
                    hands of Gerald FitzGerard, Earl of Kildare (d. 1534) and may have come to that family from a
                    descendant of the work's original author. It was subsequently acquired by the historian John Bale
                    (1495-1563), during his brief tenure as bishop of Ossory in 1552, and probably came to Parker from
                    Bale's collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC134" n="MS 134">
                <p>The commentary on the Apocalypse by Berengaudus in CCCC MS 134 was the most popular Apocalypse
                    commentary in medieval England. Many copies of English provenance survive and excerpts from the text
                    are used in most of the English illustrated Apocalypses. This book is from the Benedictine Abbey of
                    Peterborough and can probably be identified in a list of books intended for reading in the
                    refectory. On the basis of comparison of its script with other Peterborough manuscripts the dating
                    of the book is c. 1125-1150. Berengaudus is a man of whom very little is known of his dates or where
                    he was writing. The main controversy is whether he can be identified with Berengaudus of Ferrières
                    who lived in the second half of the ninth century or another Berengaudus writing in the second half
                    of the eleventh century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC135" n="MS 135">
                <p>CCCC MS 135 is a collection of the letters of Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109) with other related
                    works. It may be the collection made by Anselm of Bury OSB (d. 1148), the saint's nephew, since it
                    has certain provenance at Bury St Edmunds. It has been suggested that it was made for the younger
                    Anselm at Canterbury, but a Bury origin seems more likely since it shares a scribe with several
                    manuscripts from Bury, including Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R. 7. 28 (scribe 2). It seems to
                    have come into the hands of the historian John Bale (1495-1563) and thence to Parker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC136" n="MS 136">
                <p>The texts in CCCC MS 136 are typical of the manuals of pastoral literature on confession, penance and
                    moral instruction which became popular following the pastoral reforms recommended by the Fourth
                    Lateran council of 1215. They were intended for the use of parish priests and confessors. Among the
                    texts it contains are: Raymond of Peñafort OP (c. 1190-1275), <title>Summa de casibus
                        poenitentiae</title>, Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), <title>Templum Domini</title> and <title>De
                        confessione</title> (<title>sermo</title> 15), and a tract on the vices. An <hi rend="italic">ex
                        libris</hi> shows that it belonged to the Augustinian abbey of Anglesey (Cambs.). The book can
                    be dated to the second half of the thirteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC137" n="MS 137">
                <p>CCCC MS 137 is a fourteenth-century manuscript which contains a miscellany of theological and
                    spiritual tracts, some containing rules for the behaviour of monks and novices, suggesting that the
                    compilation was intended for monastic use. The book belonged to the Benedictine cathedral priory of
                    Christ Church, Canterbury, and might be identifiable with a book transferred to Evesham Abbey in the
                    late fourteenth century. The last item, the homily of Origen on the lament of Mary Magdalene at the
                    tomb of Christ, was a text which Chaucer was later to translate into English.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC138" n="MS 138">
                <p>CCCC MS 138 is a portmanteau manuscript, dating to the last quarter of the fourteenth century. It
                    contains a wide variety of broadly historical material including extracts from Bede, the chronicles
                    of Matthew Paris OSB (c. 1200-59) and William of Jumièges OSB (d. 1087?), papal letters, a genealogy
                    of the kings of France and a list of the archbishops of York. Perhaps originally from Norwich
                    Cathedral Priory, MS 138 may have been one of several manuscripts now in the Parker collection that
                    was once in the possession of William Carye of Cheapside (d. 1573) and it certainly passed through
                    the hands of Robert Recorde (d. 1588), the mathematician and fellow of All Souls, Oxford, who copied
                    extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle into the margins of the early part of this manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC139" n="MS 139">
                <p>CCCC MS 139 is one of the most important post-Conquest chronicle manuscripts in the Parker Library.
                    It contains a unique version of the <title>Historia regum</title> by Simeon of Durham OSB (fl. c.
                    1090-c. 1128) and its <title>Continuation</title> by John of Hexham OSA (d. before 1209), together
                    with a number of other important texts relevant to the history of Durham, northern England and
                    Scotland. Its production has variously been ascribed to the religious houses of Fountains, Hexham,
                    Sawley and Durham, though by the sixteenth century it was almost certainly at Westminster Abbey,
                    where it was seen by the historian John Bale (1495-1563).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC140" n="MS 140">
                <p>CCCC MS 140 contains the four gospels in Old English, specifically in West-Saxon Old English, written
                    in the second half of the eleventh century at Bath Abbey in Somerset. Each of the gospels was
                    written by a different scribe in codicologically separate sections, but this was probably for speed
                    of production rather than because the gospels were originally kept separately. The scribe of Matthew
                    ended with a colophon naming himself as one Ælfric, and stating that he wrote at Bath for the
                    benefit of a certain Brihtwold. The manuscript attracted early additions, especially of documents,
                    in the manner typical of Latin gospel books, suggesting that its language gave it no lower status.
                    These include many manumissions of slaves and an agreement between the prior of Bath and some
                    townspeople. Some of MS 140 was moved by Parker into <ref type="ms" target="CCC111">CCCC MS
                        111</ref>, which contains among other things the twelfth-century Bath cartulary, presumably to
                    keep the Bath documents together; these leaves now constitute pp. 7-8 and 55-56 of <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC111">MS 111</ref>, and contain further manumissions and two lists of Bath's
                    relic-collections. These displaced pages also include a very interesting agreement of confraternity
                    between various West Country houses including Bath, dating from the time of Bishop Wulfstan II
                    (1062-1095).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC141" n="MS 141">
                <p> CCCC MS 141, dating to c. 1500, contains the catalogue of the books of the Brigittine monastery of
                    Syon. Its text has been printed twice, by Bateson and by Gillespie and Doyle. Several of the books
                    listed have been identified with extant manuscripts in various collections.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC142" n="MS 142">
                <p>CCCC MS 142, dating to the fifteenth century, is a copy of translation by Nicholas Love OCarth (d.
                    1423/4) of the pseudo-Bonaventuran <title>Meditationes uitae Christi</title>, an expansion of the
                    Gospel narrative of the life of Christ. This text in both its Latin versions and translations into
                    the vernacular was very popular throughout Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
                    Nicholas Love, a Carthusian, was prior of Mount Grace in Yorkshire. His translation of the
                    Meditationes, <title>The Mirrour of the blessyd Lyf of Christ</title>, was submitted for approval to
                    Archbishop Arundel in 1410, and the Memorandum of the licence of approval is in this manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC143" n="MS 143">
                <p>CCCC MS 143, dating to c. 1425, is a second copy of the translation by Nicholas Love OCarth of the
                    pseudo-Bonaventuran <hi rend="italic">Meditationes uitae Christi</hi>, an expansion of the Gospel
                    narrative of the life of Christ - the other is <ref type="ms" target="CCC142">CCCC MS 142</ref>.
                    This text in both its Latin versions and translations into the vernacular was very popular
                    throughout Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Nicholas Love, a Carthusian, was prior
                    of Mount Grace in Yorkshire.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC144" n="MS 144">
                <p> The <title>Corpus Glossary</title>, CCCC MS 144, written in the early ninth century, is an early
                    witness to the Old English language, and also attests to Latin learning in England at this time. It
                    contains several glossaries; most of the glosses are in Latin, but there are over 2000 in Old
                    English. It is written in a beautiful Anglo-Saxon Hybrid Minuscule, with some typically Insular
                    decoration of initials. The manuscript also has two flyleaves at the end from an Irish manuscript of
                    a treatise on grammar by Priscian (fl. c. 500) written in Gaelic National Hand, probably in the
                    twelfth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC145" n="MS 145">
                <p>CCCC MS 145 is one of the most important manuscripts of the <title>South English Legendary</title>, a
                    collection of over eighty saints' lives in Middle English compiled in the late thirteenth century.
                    This copy is of the early fourteenth century and has been used for the edition of the text. It
                    belonged to the priory of Augustinian canons at Southwick (Hampshire).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC146" n="MS 146">
                <p> This manuscript is known as the Samson Pontifical because it contains an added formula for
                    professing obedience in the presence of Samson, bishop of Worcester 1096-1112. The main part of the
                    manuscript, a Pontifical and Benedictional, was made at the Old Minster, Winchester, in the early
                    eleventh century. It contains a version of the second English coronation ordo. The manuscript had
                    moved to Worcester by the second half of the eleventh century, where it received many additions and
                    alterations. Scribes reponsible for these also worked on CCCC MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC391"
                        >391</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC009">9</ref>. Hemming of Worcester, sub-prior in the
                    time of Archbishop Wulfstan (1062-1095), also added text to CCCC MS 146.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC147" n="MS 147">
                <p>MS 147, dating to c. 1410-1430, contains the 'Later Version' of the Lollard translation of the Bible
                    into Middle English but represents an early copy of this version, written before 1430. This
                    manuscript is one of fifteen complete Wycliffite Bibles of the Later Version and one of only four
                    which include the prologue to the Bible.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC148" n="MS 148">
                <p>The single text contained is <title>Memoriale presbyterorum</title>, a treatise on sin, confession
                    and penance, intended as a manual for parish priests. Its author is probably William Doune, writing
                    it in 1337/38 while a member of the household of John Grandisson, bishop of Exeter. The text has
                    been edited and extensively discussed by Haren. Paradoxically, although intended as a text for
                    parish priests, this copy has a press mark suggesting its ownership by the Benedictine monks of
                    Norwich Cathedral Priory. The suggested dating of the book is c. 1350.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC149" n="MS 149">
                <p>CCCC MS 149 is a manuscript of the <title>Historia Iosephi de bello iudaico et excidio urbis
                        Hierosolymitanae</title>, pseudonymously attributed to the second-century historian, Hegesippus,
                    as was common in the Middle Ages. On the grounds of its script it can be dated to the first half of
                    the twelfth century. A partially erased <hi rend="italic">ex libris</hi> inscription shows that it
                    was at a foundation dedicated to St Andrew, and the Augustinian priory of Hexham has been suggested.
                    The manuscript has flyleaves from a mid-twelfth-century Italian legal manuscript. According to
                    James, fragments from the same manuscript survive in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 285,
                    and in Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 7, a manuscript which Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253) gave to
                    Bury St Edmunds in exchange for another.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC150" n="MS 150">
                <p>MS 150 is a thirteenth-century manuscript written in several hands, possibly from the abbey at
                    Swineshead, Lincolnshire. It contains a number of tracts including <title>Nouale</title> by William
                    Pore OCist (fl. mid-thirteenth century), <title>Verbum abbreuiatum</title> by Peter the Chanter (d.
                    1197), <title>De mysteriis ecclesiae</title> by John of Garland (c. 1195-1258 or after),
                        <title>Templum Domini</title> by Robert Grosseteste (c.1170-1253) and <title>De missarum
                        mysteriis</title> by Pope Innocent III (1160/1-1216) as well as a series of biblical extracts
                    and medical recipes.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC151" n="MS 151">
                <p>CCCC MS 151 contains a number of theological and ecclesiastical texts copied in a number of
                    workmanlike hands of the middle years of the fifteenth century. Among the material that can be
                    identified are the <title>Processus iudiciarius</title> of Iohannes Auerbach (fl. 1406-22), Iohannes
                    Andreae (Giovanni d'Andrea) (c. 1270-1348) <title>Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis et
                        cognationis spiritualis</title> and François de Meyronnes OFM (d. after 1328) <title>De
                        indulgentiis</title>. It also contains a tract on tithes widely attributed to Andreas Didacus de
                    Escobar (c. 1357-1427), <title>Tractatus decimarum</title> (<title>De decimis</title>). These
                    treatises contain much that would interest Parker the ecclesiastical reformer, notably Giovanni
                    d'Andrea's tract on the prohibited degrees of consanguinity, a subject that occurs not infrequently
                    in Parker's own papers in the collection. The provenance of the manuscript and how it came to be in
                    Parker's possession are unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC152" n="MS 152">
                <p>CCCC MS 152 contains two distinct sections. The first on vellum, dating from the middle years of the
                    fifteenth century, consists of the <title>Annales sex regum Angliae</title> of Nicholas Trevet OP
                    (c. 1258-c. 1334), a legal text by the canon lawyer, Iacobus de Theramo (Giacomo Palladini) (c.
                    1350-1417), <title>Consolatio peccatorum</title>, also known as the <title>Processus Belial</title>,
                    a list of English kings to Henry VI and a collection of miracles and other scriptural tales. The
                    second section is made up of a series of letters on paper between late fifteenth and early sixteenth
                    century continental religious humanists, including Robert Gaguin OTrin (d. 1501), Johannes
                    Trithemius OSB, abbot of Sponsheim (1462-1516), Mattheus Herbenus, chaplain of St Servatus,
                    Maastricht, John Paleonydorus OCarm (1433-1507) and Arnoldus Bostius OCarm (1466-99). The manuscript
                    contains material in the hand of the historian John Bale (1495-1563), and it is possible that Bale,
                    himself a former Carmelite, put the two distinct volumes together before it passed, along with other
                    manuscripts in his collection, to Parker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC153" n="MS 153">
                <p>This is a late ninth-century copy of Martianus Capella (fourth/fifth century), <title>De nuptiis
                        Philologiae et Mercurii</title>, with glossary and tenth-century additions. The manuscript is
                    Welsh, and includes many Old Welsh glosses, which were published by Whitley Stokes. The text is in a
                    variety of hands, including an attractive Caroline minuscule - an early example of the use of this
                    style in the British Isles - and thus attests to contacts between Francia and Wales in the ninth and
                    tenth centuries. The manuscript seems to have been in England early in its history and was
                    supplemented there.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC154" n="MS 154">
                <p>CCCC MS 154 contains a number of works, mostly homiletic in nature, by Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d.
                    1109), Augustine, and related authors. It was written in England in the first quarter of the
                    fourteenth century. An <hi rend="italic">ex libris</hi> inscription records that it was given to St
                    Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, by the monk John of London (fl. c. 1290-1330), and it can be
                    identified in the surviving St Augustine's catalogue.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC155" n="MS 155">
                <p>CCCC MS 155 is an early fourteenth-century manuscript containing many of the works of Anselm of
                    Canterbury OSB (d. 1109), including his <title>Proslogion</title>, <title>Monologion</title> and
                        <title>Cur Deus homo</title>. The manuscript is in a fine hand, with two illuminated historiated
                    and many ornamental initials. The initial on the first folio, in gold and colour, contains a
                    depiction of Anselm. James tentatively suggested a Norwich provenance, but this has been rejected by
                    Ker. The book has fore-edge painting of heraldic shields, and is one of the best examples of this in
                    the collection. </p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC156" n="MS 156">
                <p>The miscellany of twenty-four texts in CCCC MS 156 was originally in four separate volumes of
                    differing dates The first is a printed book of the sixteenth century containing the Collations of
                    John Cassian (c. 360-430/35). The other three sections date variously to c. 1400-1450 and c.
                    1425-1475. Several of the texts are Franciscan and Dominican and perhaps these three sections were
                    compiled for the use of mendicants. They include works on indulgences and confession by François de
                    Meyronnes OFM, Richard FitzRalph (d. 1360) and Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), and letters
                    and sermons by Robert Grossesteste (d. 1253).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC157" n="MS 157">
                <p>MS 157 contains fifteenth-century copies of tracts mainly relating to the schism which resulted from
                    the Council of Basel (1431-1449). This council attempted to assert the superiority of church
                    councils to the pope and declared Eugene IV (1383-1447, pope 1431-1447) deposed in 1440. They then
                    elected the antipope Felix V, resulting in a schism that lasted until Felix V submitted to Eugene
                    IV's successor, Nicholas V, in 1449.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC158" n="MS 158">
                <p>The text and script of CCCC MS 158, dating to c. 1450-1475, are a very good example of the sort of
                    manuscript made for English humanists of the middle years of the fifteenth century. It is a copy of
                    two works of Cicero on rhetoric. It was written in Italian-influenced humanist script by the scribe,
                    John Pacy, who also worked on Cambridge, Pembroke MS 235, which is dated 1464. M. R. James thought
                    that it came from the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, but it does not appear to be
                    listed in the catalogue. Matthew Parker, misled by the Roman form of the script, notes on f. 1 that
                    the book belonged to Theodore, the seventh-century archbishop of Canterbury. The book contains fine
                    decorative initials containing grotesques and dragons in grisaille.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC159" n="MS 159">
                <p>CCCC MS 159, dating to the first half of the fifteenth century, is a copy of Gregory the Great's
                    Forty Homilies on the Gospels, but is not significant in the textual tradition. It contains a
                    medieval price mark of thirteen shillings and four pence. It is one of the few surviving Corpus
                    manuscripts which was already in the college's collection when the Parker manuscripts arrived, as it
                    has been identified as one of the items in Thomas Markaunt's bequest of 1439, there valued at
                    fourteen shillings. Markaunt was a fellow of the college and left it 76 volumes, with detailed
                    instructions for their use including complex arrangements for lending them out among the Master and
                    Fellows. However, many of these books had been lost by the middle of the sixteenth century, and
                    others were absorbed into the Parkerian collection. James suggested that MS 159 originally came from
                    Norwich, but subsequent scholarship has shown that its classmark "B 53" is not in the right format;
                    Norwich classmarks used a lower-case Roman number after the letter.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC160" n="MS 160">
                <p>CCCC MS 160 is an early twelfth-century copy of Bede on the seven Catholic Epistles (the New
                    Testament books James, I Peter, II Peter, I John, II John, III John, and Jude, as distinct from the
                    Pauline epistles). James recorded a medieval <hi rend="italic">ex libris</hi> inscription, now lost,
                    which stated that the book was from in the refectory at Peterborough Abbey, and a thirteenth-century
                    list of refectory books there, preserved in <ref type="ms" target="CCC459">CCCC MS 459</ref>,
                    includes <title>Beda super Canonicas Epistolas</title>, to be read in the weeks before Rogationtide.
                    The manuscript also contains flyleaves from a service book with music, datable on the grounds of
                    decoration to the second quarter of the fifteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC161" n="MS 161">
                <p>CCCC MS 161 is a collection of Saints' Lives which has been dated to c.1200. The provenance of the
                    manuscript has been the subject of some debate; the Cluniac monastery at Faversham, Kent has been
                    identified as the possible place of origin, and it seems that the manuscript was later at
                    Canterbury. The majority of the Lives in the collection are of English or British saints, including
                    Aldhelm, David, Dunstan, Ithamar, Neot, and Swithun, but four Cluniac saints are also included,
                    which supports the connection with Faversham. Faversham is in the diocese of Rochester whose
                    cathedral contained the relics of the rarely mentioned Ithamar. According to Lapidge, many of the
                    vitae are somewhat abbreviated. The frontispiece depicts a bishop, and it has been suggested that
                    this may be St Dunstan.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC162" n="MS 162">
                <p>CCCC MS 162 is a collection of Old English homiles, written in the early eleventh century. Its
                    spellings, and similiarities with the script and decoration of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Bodley
                    340 and 342 and London, BL MS Royal 6. C. I, suggest that it originated somewhere in the south-east
                    of England, perhaps at Rochester or Canterbury. The texts it contains are mostly by Ælfric, but it
                    also includes some anonymous material, including sermons for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Holy
                    Week, for which Ælfric refused to provide sermon material. Parker removed some material from <ref
                        type="ms" target="CCC178">CCCC MS 178</ref>, a Worcester book, into MS 162, where it is now pp.
                    139-60. He also added a woodcut of the Crucifixion at the front of the manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC163" n="MS 163">
                <p>CCCC MS 163 contains a Pontifical of the Romano-Germanic type. It was written in the second half of
                    the eleventh century, probably at Worcester, although the Old Minster and the Nunnaminster at
                    Winchester have both also been suggested. In text it is closely related to London, BL MS Cotton
                    Vitellius E. XII, and may even have been directly copied from it. The Romano-Germanic Pontifical
                    originated in Germany in the tenth century and spread rapidly because it brought together a
                    comprehensive set of texts for performing the duties of a bishop. These two English copies seem to
                    descend from a Cologne manuscript, and it has been suggested that the line of transmission was
                    Bishop Ealdred's visit to Cologne in 1054. Ealdred, bishop of Worcester and later archbishop of
                    Canterbury, was sent by Edward the Confessor on a diplomatic mission to Henry III, probably leading
                    to the return to England of Edward the Exile in 1057, and it seems likely that he acquired a text of
                    the Romano-Germanic pontifical on this occasion. MS 163 contains four ordines for the consecration
                    of women while omitting all those for abbots and monks, and may therefore have some connection with
                    a nunnery.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC164" n="MS 164">
                <p>CCCC MS 164 contains several distinct elements, an incomplete copy of Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364)
                        <title>Polychronicon</title>, dating to the late fourteenth century, a number of works of Hugh
                    of Fouilloy OSA (d. c. 1172/3) (including <title>De columba</title>, <title>De rota
                        praelationis</title> and <title>Auicularius</title>) and a number of sermons all in various
                    thirteenth-century hands, and an early fifteenth-century <title>Biblia pauperum</title>, the
                    illustrated version of the Life of Christ parallelled by their Old Testament types. This
                        <title>Biblia pauperum</title> is illustrated by drawings and was probably made in the
                    Netherlands. It is an unusual version very iconographically close to a fully painted version,
                    London, BL MS King's 5, made in the North Netherlands c. 1400-1410. The later provenance of this
                    manuscript is partially attested by a record of the purchase of the book in 1492 by John Gunthorpe
                    (d. 1498), dean of Wells cathedral and Richard III's Keeper of the Privy Seal, from 'David Lyenel'
                    for 4s 4d. Gunthorpe donated some of his manuscripts to Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1496 and much
                    of the rest of his library was left to Wells cathedral, but exactly how this manuscript came into
                    Parker's collection is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC165" n="MS 165">
                <p>This book is a sixteenth-century paper transcript of Peter Abelard (1079-1142), <title>Sic et
                        non</title>, copied from a manuscript in Cambridge University Library. The work discusses a
                    series of apparently contradictory statements from the Bible and the Church Fathers. The text is
                    written in a clear hand and there is a note from the work of Johannes Trithemius OSB (1462-1516) on
                    one of the flyleaves.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC166" n="MS 166">
                <p>CCCC MS 166 is an manuscript written in an Italic hand, probably made in Rome in the late 1460s or
                    shortly afterwards. The first part, ff. 1-74, contains the work on peace and war by Rodrigo Sánchez
                    de Arévalo, <title>Disputatio de pace et bello</title> and his <title>Oratio ad suscipiendum iustum
                        bellum contra Turcum</title>. The rest of the book contains transcripts of letters between
                    Rodrigo and the humanists of the Roman Academy, such as Bartolomeo Platina and Pomponio Leto, during
                    the time of their imprisonment in Castel Sant'Angelo in 1468-9. Rodrigo, later to become bishop of
                    Calahorra, was the governor of Castel Sant'Angelo. It is not known how such a book came to England.
                    In the sixteenth century it was owned by Thomas Godsalve, notary public of Norwich, and in 1567 by
                    Peter Hobard of Dennington. The book is decorated with one large initial in gold with white branch
                    work, and a few smaller initials of the same type.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC167" n="MS 167">
                <p>CCCC MS 167 contains a copy of the <title>Abreviacion of Chronicles</title> of John Capgrave OESA
                    (1393-1464). The <title>Abreviacion</title> was completed c. 1462-3 and was, in some senses, an
                    anachronism; the supra-national chronicle or 'world history' having been supplanted by works
                    concentrating on national history. Capgrave's major sources were the <title>Chronicon pontificum et
                        imperatorum</title> of Martin of Troppau (d. 1278) and a lost version of the St Albans chronicle
                    of Thomas of Walsingham OSB (d. 1422). The text in the Corpus manuscript, produced c. 1500, was once
                    thought to have been a copy of the autograph version of the material in Cambridge UL MS Gg.4.12, but
                    it is now thought instead to derive from a lost author's working copy of the
                        <title>Abreviacion</title>. It is not known how this codex came to be in Parker's
                    collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC168" n="MS 168">
                <p>CCCC MS 168 contains a miscellany of sixteenth-century transcriptions of a wide variety of written
                    work including letters, speeches, prayers, poems, proverbs, historical notes, Anglo-Saxon laws and
                    more. The volume is commonly associated with Bishop Richard Cox of Ely (c.1500-81) who also served
                    as tutor and then as almoner to Henry VIII's son, Edward. As M. R. James points out, W. Stanley's
                    identification of this manuscript as Parker's 'Misc Y' is inaccurate. This volume was, in fact,
                    donated by Dr John Jegon, probably after 1600.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC169" n="MS 169">
                <p>CCCC MS 169 is a printed book containing two texts published in 1518 and 1559, but containing at the
                    beginning and end manuscript notes and verses on astronomical and other subjects.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC170" n="MS 170">
                <p>CCCC MS 170 contains an early sixteenth-century copy of the letter book of Nicholas Collys, a notary
                    who flourished during the second half of the fifteenth century and into the sixteenth century. His
                    notarial mark can be found on numerous documents including one in <ref type="ms" target="CCC108"
                        >CCCC MS 108</ref> and one in Hertford County Record Office, ASA 4. As Collys was connected to
                    the college of Stoke by Clare in Suffolk, this volume probably came to Parker's attention while he
                    was Dean there.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC171A" n="MS 171A">
                <p>CCCC MS 171, divided into two parts, A and B, since James' description in 1912, contains the
                        <title>Scotichronicon</title> by Walter Bower (1385-1449), a history of the kingdom of Scotland
                    beginning with its foundation on the arrival of Scota, daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh. This
                    chronicle was a continuation and expansion of the <title>Chronica gentis Scotorum</title> by John
                    Fordun (d. after 1363). The manuscript was written c. 1447-9 at the Augustinian abbey of Inchcolm in
                    Fife and was amended under the direction of Bower himself, abbot of Inchcolm (d. 1449). It is
                    considered to be one of the most important texts of late medieval Scottish historical writing in
                    existence and was used as the basis for the nine-volume edition of the text published under the
                    general editorship of D. E. R. Watt. There are a few coloured full and half-page drawings of major
                    narrative events such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Coronation and funeral of Alexander III.
                    It is not known how this manuscript came to be in Parker's collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC171B" n="MS 171B">
                <p>CCCC MS 171, divided into two parts, A and B, since James' description in 1912, contains Walter
                    Bower's <title>Scotichronicon</title> by Walter Bower (1385-1449), a history of the kingdom of
                    Scotland beginning with its foundation with the arrival of Scota, daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh.
                    This chronicle was a continuation and expansion of the <title>Chronica gentis Scotorum</title> by
                    John Fordun (d. after 1363). The manuscript was written c. 1447-9 at the Augustinian abbey of
                    Inchcolm in Fife and was amended under the direction of Bower himself, abbot of Inchcolm (d. 1449).
                    It is considered to be one of the most important texts of late medieval Scottish historical writing
                    in existence and was used as the basis for the nine-volume edition of the text published under the
                    general editorship of D. E. R. Watt. There are a few coloured full and half-page drawings of major
                    narrative events such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Coronation and funeal of Alexander III.
                    It is not known how this manuscript came to be in Parker's collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC172" n="MS 172">
                <p> MS 172 contains two works. The first is Martin Bucer's critique of the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.
                    Martin Bucer (1491-1551) was a reformation theologian from Alsace and a prominent figure in the
                    English reformation, becoming Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge late in
                    1549. MS 172 also contains a discussion of predestination by John Skip (d. 1552), who served as
                    Queen Anne Boleyn's almoner and as the bishop of Hereford.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC173" n="MS 173">
                <p>In CCCC MS 173 is found the Parker Chronicle, one of the most important manuscripts for our
                    understanding of Anglo-Saxon history. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the earliest history written in
                    English, seems to have originated under the impetus of Alfred the Great's educational reforms, and a
                    core set of annals was composed which were then augmented variously over the years in different
                    places. Every version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is therefore different and has its own
                    complicated transmission history. The Parker Chronicle, also known as the A-version, is the oldest
                    manuscript surviving. It was started in the late ninth century and continued into the eleventh. It
                    originated somewhere in Wessex, probably Winchester where it has mid tenth-century provenance, but
                    had moved to the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury by the end of the eleventh century.
                    Although the Chronicle is the most famous part of the manuscript, it also contains other very
                    important material. In the same section as the Chronicle there are important early texts of the Old
                    English laws of Alfred the Great and the late seventh-century laws of his distant predecessor on the
                    throne of Wessex, King Ine (d. in or after 726), as well as a list of bishops and popes. A second
                    volume was already bound with the Chronicle manuscript in the Middle Ages: this contains works by
                    the late Antique poet Sedulius (fl. first half of the fifth century), in particular his
                        <title>Carmen paschale</title>, a retelling of the gospels in bombastic Virgilian Latin verse.
                    This part of the manuscript is older than the Chronicle, probably dating to the third quarter of the
                    eighth century, and is an important witness to English scholarship before the disruption caused in
                    the ninth century by Viking attacks. It seems to have the name of Frithestan, bishop of Winchester
                    909-31, on f. 57r. The volume was greatly valued by Parker and his circle; Parker brought the list
                    of archbishops of Canterbury up to date to include own name. It was also used in the earliest
                    printed book in Old English, Parker's <title>Testimonie of Antiquitie</title>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC174" n="MS 174">
                <p>CCCC MS 174, dating to c. 1420, contains a version of the Middle English prose Brut chronicle
                    sometimes defined as the 'Common Version' to 1377. As such it represents another manuscript that
                    demonstrates Parker's interest in British history, attested by a note in his own hand referring to a
                    similar text in <ref type="ms" target="CCC182">CCCC MS 182</ref>. Another sixteenth-century hand has
                    added a note to the effect that this text served as the model for William Caxton's <title>Fructus
                        temporum</title>. The version of the text as preserved in this manuscript was used as the basis
                    for the edition of the Brut for the years 1333 to 1377 edited by F. W. D. Brie in 1908. Its
                    provenance is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC175" n="MS 175">
                <p>CCCC MS 175 contains a copy of an historical compilation called the Memoriale commonly attributed to
                    Walter of Coventry who was writing in the second half of the thirteenth century, the period in which
                    this manuscript of his text was written. In addition, the first few leaves of the manuscript are
                    taken up with a range of historical notes, extracts and genealogical tables, some relating to the
                    archdiocese of York. The manuscript was almost certainly in the hands of the Tudor poet and
                    antiquary John Leland (1506-1552), who thought it was in poor condition - '<title>Codex erat aliquot
                        locis mancus</title>'. The historian John Bale (1495-1563) saw the manuscript in Leland's
                    collection, but Parker must have acquired it some time before 1572 (possibly from the Cheapside
                    resident William Carye), since the text was used as the basis for the archbishop's
                        <title>Antiquitates</title> published in that year. The manuscript was copied many time in the
                    course of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the details it supplied about church
                    government in Angevin England being keenly studied by church historians.</p>
            </div>



            <div xml:id="CCC176" n="MS 176">
                <p>CCCC "MS" 176 consists of three printed books bound together and, although the policy of the Parker
                    on the Web project was not to image printed material, an exception was made in this instance because
                    of the particular interest of the first and last items. All three parts were printed in 1574 and
                    were edited by (or under the auspices of) Archbishop Matthew Parker from his own manuscript
                    collections. Two were printed by the famous evangelical printer John Day (d. 1584), who produced
                    Parker's most important publications, and one by John Bynneman (d. 1583), who was also patronised by
                    Parker. Part A is Parker's important <hi rend="italic">editio princeps</hi> of Asser's <title>Life
                        of Alfred</title>, containing parallel Latin and Old English material, printed in a special
                    Insular typeface. Because the only medieval manuscript of this work was completely destroyed in the
                    Cottonian fire of 1731, modern editions have had to depend on transcripts and the early printed
                    editions, most of which descend in some way from Parker's work. Parker interpolated Asser's life
                    with material from the Annals of St Neots, and thus popularised the famous story of Alfred burning
                    the cakes while hiding in the Somerset marshes. This book was an important part of the early modern
                    cult of Alfred the Great. Parts B and C are Thomas of Walsingham's <title>Historia breuis</title>,
                    and the <title>Ypodigma Neustriae</title> also often attributed to him. The latter is taken from the
                    unique surviving copy in <ref type="ms" target="CCC240">CCCC MS 240</ref>, which cannot be
                    completely digitised due to the delicate state of its early modern binding. It consists of a
                    chronicle of events in Normandy and England from 911 AD to 1416 AD and written, perhaps, as a
                    flattery to Henry V's successful conquests in France. This book is mentioned in the Parker register
                    and came to Corpus with the majority of Parker's collection. The three sections are also found bound
                    together in the Cambridge University Library copy, in the three British Library copies, and in
                    another which came into the possession of Corpus in the nineteenth century, suggesting that Parker
                    had the three texts circulated together. </p>
            </div>

            <div xml:id="CCC177" n="MS 177">
                <p>CCCC MS 177 is a miscellany of over fifty moral and other tracts copied in the second half of the
                    fifteenth century. The material ranges from the pseudo-Senecan <title>Formula uitae
                    honestae</title>, now commonly attributed to Martin of Braga (c. 515-80), a group of Aesop's
                        <title>Fables</title>, poems once attributed to Walter Map (c. 1140-1210 such as
                        <title>Disputatio inter cor et oculum</title>, and a Latin translation of Abu al-Malik ibn Ali
                    al-Ala Ibn Zuhr's <title>De regimine sanitatis</title>. Walter Map's <title>Epistola Valerii ad
                        Rufinum ne uxorem ducat</title> is accompanied in this manuscript by a <title>Commentary</title>
                    on the <title>Epistola</title> by John Ridewall OFM (d. after 1340). It has been conjectured that
                    this manuscript was once in the possession of the historian John Bale (1495-1563), from whom it may
                    have passed to Parker, but this is not certainly established.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC178" n="MS 178">
                <p>CCCC MS 178 consists of two Anglo-Saxon manuscripts bound together. The first is a collection of Old
                    English homilies, mostly by Ælfric OSB (d. c. 1010) but with some anonymous and composite material.
                    It was written in the first half of the eleventh century, probably towards the end of that period. A
                    colophon lays out the compiler's intentions: twelve sermons are given which may be preached at any
                    time, and another twelve for specific occasions; twenty-two of these are taken exactly from an
                    exemplar but two have been augmented; the sermons for specific days are by Ælfric. This colophon
                    seems more or less accurate when compared to the manuscript as it survives. It was at Worcester by
                    the end of the eleventh century, when it was annotated by the scribe Coleman, probably the chaplain
                    of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (d. 1095). Parker removed some leaves of this part of MS 178 into
                        <ref type="ms" target="CCC162">CCCC MS 162</ref>. The second Anglo-Saxon manuscript is a copy of
                    the bilingual Benedictine Rule, with each chapter in Latin followed by its translation into Old
                    English. It contains some feminine forms but seems to represent a stage in the transmission of the
                    text where it was being changed from nuns' to monks' use. It was written in the first half of the
                    eleventh century. It was certainly at Worcester, and probably already associated with the homily
                    manuscript, in the thirteenth century when both were annotated by the famous 'Worcester Tremulous
                    Hand'.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC179" n="MS 179">
                <p> This manuscript, dating from the fourth quarter of the fifteenth century, contains a copy of the
                        <title>Compendium in Iob</title> by Peter of Blois (c.1135-c.1203); excerpts from miscellaneous
                    authorities, including an exposition on the Mass by Richard the Premonstratensian (fl. late twelfth
                    century), which James mistakenly attributed to Remigius of Auxerre; <title>De probacione
                        uirginitatis beatae Mariae</title> by Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), which is his translation of
                    the second article of the Greek <title>Lexicon Suida</title>, an historical encyclopaedia of the
                    tenth century; and a copy of the Latin version of the <title>Historia trium regum</title> by John of
                    Hildesheim (d. 1375). The manuscript is written in a good, clear hand; its provenance has not been
                    identified.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC180" n="MS 180">
                <p>The <title>De pauperie Saluatoris</title> of Richard FitzRalph (d. 1360), archbishop of Armagh,
                    contained in CCCC MS 180, is a text on the poverty of the mendicants in relation to the poverty
                    taught by Christ, and the problems caused by their acquiring property and privilege. This text is
                    also in <ref type="ms" target="CCC103">CCCC MS 103</ref>. MS 180 belonged to Adam Easton OSB (c.
                    1330-97) and was probably made before 1381, perhaps at Avignon where from 1368 he had a position in
                    the papal curia, becoming a cardinal in 1381. The book later belonged to Norwich Cathedral Priory
                    where Easton had become a monk c. 1350, although he spent most of his life away from the priory at
                    Oxford University, Avignon and Rome. This book might have been made in Oxford before Adam departed
                    for Avignon.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC181" n="MS 181">
                <p>CCCC MS 181, copied in the early fourteenth century, contains the <title>Gesta Normannorum
                        ducum</title> compiled by William of Jumièges OSB (d. 1087?), Orderic Vitalis OSB (1075-c.1143)
                    and Robert de Torigni OSB (d. 1186), Torigni's distinct <title>Chronicon</title> for the years 1137
                    onwards, continued by a later author to 1259, as well as a number of shorter texts of continental,
                    particularly Norman and French, history. This codex also contains two well-known pieces of medieval
                    travel literature about the far east, Willelmus de Rubruk OFM (fl. 1248-57) <title>Itinerarium ad
                        partes orientales</title> and Iohannes de Plano Carpini (c. 1182-c. 1252) <title>Historia
                        mongolorum quos nos tartaros appellamus</title>. A shelf mark indicates that this volume is one
                    of two in Parker's collection that can be shown to have once been in the library of the Benedictine
                    Abbey of St Mary's, York (the other being <ref type="ms" target="CCC309">CCCC MS 309</ref>). How
                    this manuscript came into Parker's possession is not known.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC182" n="MS 182">
                <p>CCCC MS 182 contains an English version of the <title>Brut</title> chronicle ('Extended Version to
                    1419' (Group C)) copied in the second quarter of the fifteenth century and supplied with some
                    handsome decorative initials. As one of several chronicles of English history in the collection,
                    this volume in particular reveals Parker's efforts to collate the information provided by his other
                    sources. Notes in Parker's hand in this manuscript reveal that he compared the text of the
                        <title>Brut</title> to another copy in <ref type="ms" target="CCC174">CCCC MS 174</ref> and that
                    he cross-referenced this text with the unique copy of the <title>Scalacronica</title> also in his
                    possession (now <ref type="ms" target="CCC133">CCCC MS 133</ref>). There is no evidence of this
                    manuscript's provenance or how it came to be in Parker's collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC183" n="MS 183">
                <p>CCCC MS 183 is one of several manuscripts associated with Æthelstan, King of the English (924/5-39),
                    but the only one of these written in England in his reign. He seems to have commissioned it for
                    presentation to the community of St Cuthbert, which at this point was at Chester-le-Street in
                    Country Durham, having fled Lindisfarne to escape Viking attacks but not yet settled in its eventual
                    home at Durham. The famous presentation picture shows Æthelstan, with bowed head, presenting the
                    book to St Cuthbert himself, and is a very important example of the revival of figure art in
                    manuscript painting during Æthelstan's reign. It was written between 934 and 939, the year of
                    Æthelstan's death, by a scribe who also appears in London, BL MS Royal 7. D. XXIV, perhaps at
                    Glastonbury, but certainly somewhere in the south of England. It contains Bede's two Lives of St
                    Cuthbert, the first in prose and the second metrical, and a mass and office for Cuthbert's feast
                    day, as well as lists of popes, bishops, and kings, and a record of Æthelstan's other gifts to the
                    community. Its production can be linked to Æthelstan's political activities in the North.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC184" n="MS 184">
                <p>CCCC MS 184 contains a twelfth-century copy of Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260-c. 340) <title>Historia
                        ecclesiastica</title> in the Latin translation by Rufinus, an important source of early
                    Christian history. Although the book may have been copied at the cathedral priory of Christ Church,
                    Canterbury, not long after that it was recorded in the library catalogue of the cathedral priory of
                    St Andrew in Rochester. It was almost certainly copied from an earlier Christ Church copy of the
                    same text (<ref type="ms" target="CCC187">CCCC MS 187</ref> copied c. 1100), since both manuscripts
                    share a common omission from Book XI of the <title>Historia</title>. It is one of several
                    manuscripts from Rochester priory in Parker's collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC185" n="MS 185">
                <p>CCCC MS 185 contains a copy of Martin Bucer's <title>Consilium theologicum</title>, written in May
                    1541. Martin Bucer (1491-1551) was an influential German reformation theologian who moved to England
                    in 1549 as a result of Archbishop Cranmer's invitation and Bucer's refusal to accept the Augsburg
                    Interim (the temporary agreement brokered between the Catholics and Protestants at the Diet of
                    Augsburg in 1548).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC186" n="MS 186">
                <p>CCCC MS 186 contains thirteenth-century copies of three works of William de Montibus (d. 1213),
                        <title>Distinctiones theologicae</title>, <title>Versarius</title> and <title>Numerale</title>.
                    William de Montibus' works of pastoral theology that emphasised practical care of souls over dogma
                    were extremely influential in late medieval and early modern theology. There are no clues as to the
                    provenance of this manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC187" n="MS 187">
                <p>CCCC MS 187 contains the translation by Rufinus (c. 345-410) of Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260-c. 340),
                        <title>Historia ecclesiastica</title> and was written at the end of the eleventh century or
                    start of the twelfth. It has certain later provenance at the cathedral priory of Christ Church,
                    Canterbury and may have been written there, but since it is not in the typical Christ Church script
                    of this time, it may have been imported from elsewhere in England. At some point in the first
                    quarter of the twelfth century <ref type="ms" target="CCC184">CCCC MS 184</ref> was copied from it
                    either at or for Rochester, incorporating a textual omission from CCCC MS 187. The omission in CCCC
                    MS 187 was rectified at some point in the twelfth century, while the Rochester copy's lacuna
                    remained. This suggests that CCCC MS 187 was compared with another exemplar of the work at
                    Canterbury.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC188" n="MS 188">
                <p>CCCC MS 188 contains most of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, with a few supplementary
                    pieces also by Ælfric OSB (d. c. 1010). It probably originally contained the whole of the first
                    series, but some material has been lost. It was written in the first half of the eleventh century.
                    Because of a note it contains (recording the copying of a new homily before it was sent to Bishop
                    Æthelwold), it has been argued that this manuscript is a faithful copy of one prepared under the
                    supervision of Ælfric himself at Eynsham where he was abbot, and represents an official revision of
                    his first series of Catholic Homilies. We know that Parker received some Old English manuscripts
                    from Hereford, and it has been suggested that MS 188 was one of these, but on no very firm
                    grounds.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC189" n="MS 189">
                <p>CCCC MS 189 is made up of two volumes. The first section is a collection of documents relating to
                    Canterbury including a chronology, copies of Anglo-Saxon charters and papal letters copied in the
                    later fourteenth century but with material added to in later years down to the reign of Henry VI.
                    The second volume is one of two surviving copies of William Thorne's (fl. c. 1397)
                        <title>Chronicle</title> (to 1375) (the other copy, to 1397, being in British Library, Add. MS
                    53710). The provenance of this manuscript is well attested. It was almost certainly acquired after
                    the Dissolution from St Augustine's, Canterbury by the antiquarian John Twyne (c. 1501-81).
                    Thereafter, a note in the manuscript records how it was in the possession of Thomas Twyne
                    (1543-1613), John Twyne's son, and was given to Parker by Robert Breacher, a former monk of St
                    Augustine's and royal chaplain to Elizabeth I.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC190" n="MS 190">
                <p>CCCC MS 190 is a very complex and interesting volume, with multiple layers of additions and
                    alterations. It was made over the course of the eleventh century, with at least some parts written
                    at Exeter, where it has later provenance. At its core is a version of the collection known as
                    "Archbishop Wulfstan's Handbook", a miscellany on largely ecclesiastical matters which seems to have
                    been compiled by Wulfstan (d. 1023), archbishop of York, for use in his composition of law codes and
                    homilies. This occupies most of pp. 1-294, and has a contemporary contents list which does not,
                    however, correspond precisely to the volume's actual contents. It is in Latin, and has a number of
                    interesting additions like a text assigning penances to those who had fought at the Battle of
                    Hastings (1066). The second part of the book has many Old English texts, including translations of
                    some of the material which is found in the first part, and more ecclesiastical material of a similar
                    nature, such as law codes. The manuscript was valued by Parker for its insights into the Anglo-Saxon
                    church.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC191" n="MS 191">
                <p> CCCC MS 191 is a copy of the bilingual version of the Rule for Canons of Chrodegang of Metz (d.
                    766). It was written in the third quarter of the eleventh century at Exeter, and is probably
                    identifiable as one of the manuscripts given to Exeter by Bishop Leofric (1050-72). Leofric, who was
                    probably from Cornwall although he has an English name, was brought up in Lotharingia, where he
                    encountered Chrodegang's Rule, which sought to encourage communal life among the secular, rather
                    than monastic, clergy. Leofric introduced this rule to Exeter, which he reconstituted as a community
                    of clerics rather than monks when he moved his see there from Crediton in 1050. This manuscript was
                    used by the Parkerian circle for its Old English vocabulary and was annotated by Parker when he was
                    preparing his defence of priests' marriage.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC192" n="MS 192">
                <p>This manuscript contains a copy of the <title>Liber officialis</title> of Amalarius of Metz (d. c.
                    850), written in Brittany, at the monastery of Landévennec, in the year 952. We can identify the
                    year the manuscript was written on account of a scribal colophon, in fact the work of two scribes,
                    on f. 97v, which contains detailed chronological information from a paschal table. The colophon also
                    tells us that 'Amadeus, deacon and monk, ordered this little book to be written'. The manuscript
                    includes many interlinear glosses, some of them in Breton, which were published by Whitley Stokes.
                    At some point before the thirteenth century the manuscript arrived in England, where it has a
                    provenance at the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC193" n="MS 193">
                <p>CCCC MS 193 was written at the end of the eighth century at a centre which wrote the Corbie "ab" type
                    of pre-Caroline minuscule, perhaps Saint Médard, Soissons, where it seems to have early provenance.
                    It contains one of the oldest surviving copies of Ambrose's <title>Hexameron</title>, a commentary
                    on the six days of creation containing much interesting scientific knowledge. It is not clear when
                    it came to England, but it may have arrived in the eleventh century. In 1903 James tentatively
                    suggested it might be identifiable with an entry in Eastry's catalogue of the library of the
                    cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, but he later abandoned this identification.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC194" n="MS 194">
                <p>CCCC MS 194 is a miscellany of texts of various periods 'diuersis temporibus et a diuersis
                    scriptoribus exaratus' but mostly copied in the mid-fifteenth century. It contains a copy of Peter
                    of Blois (d. 1212), <title>De conuersione beati Pauli</title>, an extract from the
                    pseudo-Augustinian <title>De spiritu et anima</title> (<title>De creatione primi hominis</title>),
                    the profusely illustrated anonymous <title>Scala mundi</title> chronicle, Martin of Troppau OP (d.
                    1278), <title>Chronica pontificum et imperatorum</title> and <title>Compilatio de gestis Britonum et
                        Anglorum</title> of Peter of Ickham OSB (d. 1295). The <title>Scala mundi</title> contains a
                    well-known early image of Stonehenge, and the historical nature of much of the material in this
                    manuscript surely explains Parker's interest in it. A shelf mark reveals that this manuscript was
                    once in the library of the Hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate, London, though how it came to be
                    in Parker's collection is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC195" n="MS 195">
                <p>CCCC MS 195 contains a copy of Thomas Walsingham OSB (d. c. 1422), <title>Chronica maiora</title>.
                    The majority of the text was copied in the second quarter of the fifteenth century, but lacunae have
                    been filled in a sixteenth-century hand with a version of the text perhaps taken from London,
                    College of Arms MS Arundel VII. This manuscript, which was once in the hands of the historian John
                    Bale (1495-1563) before passing to Parker, was used by Parker as the basis for his edition of the
                        <title>Historia breuis</title> published in 1574.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC196" n="MS 196">
                <p>CCCC MS 196 was probably once part of the same volume as <ref type="ms" target="CCC191">CCCC MS
                        191</ref> and part of <ref type="ms" target="CCC201">CCCC MS 201</ref>; they may have been
                    separated by Parker. They were made at Exeter in the time of Bishop Leofric (1050-72). MS 196 is an
                    important manuscript of the Old English martyrology, though missing some material for December to
                    March: Kotzor used it as the base text for his edition from 19 March to 21 December. It also
                    contains the Old English <title>Vindicta saluatoris</title>, a translation of an apocryphon which
                    interprets the destruction of the Jewish Temple by Titus in A.D. 70 as motivated by his desire to
                    avenge the Crucifixion upon the Jews. Parker obtained several volumes from Exeter Cathedral, some
                    decades before the majority of its medieval manuscripts were given to the Bodleian Library in
                    1602.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC197A" n="MS 197A">
                <p>CCCC MS 197A is the second part of what was, in James' time, a single volume; the other portion,
                    containing the eighth-century Gospels, is now in <ref type="ms" target="CCC197B">CCCC MS 197B</ref>.
                    CCCC MS 197A now contains sixteenth-century transcripts of King Alfred's letter to bishop Werfrithus
                    (d. 915), the trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Ciboule's <title>Tractatus</title> and accompanying
                    documents) and material relating to the treason and death of Archbishop Scrope (c. 1350-1405). The
                    rest of the manuscript is taken up with continuations of Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364),
                        <title>Polychronicon</title> including the unique version commonly called <title>The Westminster
                        Chronicle</title> ending in 1389 and written not long after the events it describes. This part
                    of the manuscript has been given a dating of c. 1400-25. Although the various elements of CCCC MS
                    197 were clearly assembled by Parker, nothing is known of how the medieval texts came into his
                    possession.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC197B" n="MS 197B">
                <p>This manuscript constitutes the surviving portion of the 'Cotton-Corpus' Gospels; the larger part,
                    now London, BL MS Cotton Otho C. V, was badly damaged in the Cottonian fire of 1731 and only burnt
                    fragments remain. A bifolium of canon tables, probably also from this manuscript, survives as
                    London, BL MS Royal 7. C. XII, ff. 2-3. The original manuscript was a lavish Insular Gospel Book
                    with elaborate decoration; in the Corpus part the eagle symbol of St John the evangelist still
                    survives, and elaborate decorative initials incorporating a range of interlace and other ornament.
                    It belongs in a group with the Durham Gospels, the Echternach Gospels, and the Lindisfarne Gospels.
                    Both Parker and Cotton recorded on their respective parts of the original book that it was believed
                    to have been owned by St Augustine, first archbishop of Canterbury, who was sent by Pope Gregory the
                    Great to England in 597. The date of the manuscript rules this out: it seems to be from late
                    seventh- or early eighth-century Northumbria. However it is possible that this tradition arose in
                    the Middle Ages, as one of the volumes which Thomas Elmham (d. c. 1427) recorded among those revered
                    as sent from Gregory to Augustine was probably an early Insular Gospel-book of this type. The same
                    provenance was attributed anachronistically to other early Anglo-Saxon manuscripts at St
                    Augustine's, Canterbury.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC198" n="MS 198">
                <p>CCCC MS 198 is an important collection of Old English homilies, mostly by Ælfric of Eynsham OSB (c.
                    950-c. 1010). It was written in the first half of the eleventh century and received a number of
                    additions in the second half. It also contains a neumed office for St Guthlac added towards the end
                    of the eleventh century. The manuscript may have been written at Worcester; although the textual
                    associations of the main body are south-eastern, the additions appear from their spellings to be
                    from the west of England, and in the thirteenth century it was annotated by the scribe known as the
                    'Worcester Tremulous Hand'. It was Parker's fourth volume of homilies in his numeration system.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC199" n="MS 199">
                <p>CCCC MS 199 is a copy of Augustine of Hippo, <title>De trinitate</title>, made c. 1090 at Llanbadarn
                    Fawr by Ieuan ap Sulien (d. 1137). Ieuan was from a prominent literary family; his brother,
                    Rhigyfarch (d. 1099), wrote a Life of St David and succeeded his father, Sulien (d. 1091), as bishop
                    of St David's. Some of Ieuan's own verses in Latin and Welsh survive in the margins of this
                    manuscript, but unfortunately part of the Welsh verse was lost in 1953 when the manuscript was
                    rebound. The main text of this manuscript is written in a very attractive hand, with some beautiful
                    decorated initials. The flyleaf contains a ninth-century fragment of Smaragdus (fl. 809-17) in a
                    Carolingian minuscule, possibly from Rheims.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC200" n="MS 200">
                <p>The <title>De sacramento altaris</title> by Baldwin of Ford OCist, archbishop of Canterbury (d.
                    1190), contained in CCCC MS 200, was written in the period 1170-80. This copy was produced after he
                    became archbishop in 1184 because an historiated initial at the beginning of the text shows him
                    writing and wearing a mitre. The text discusses the biblical sources of the eucharist, foreshadowed
                    in the paschal lamb and manna of the Old Testament, and defined in the New Testament writings of
                    Saints Matthew, John and Paul. The book belonged to Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC201" n="MS 201">
                <p>CCCC MS 201 is a composite volume which can be divided chronologically into three parts, probably
                    first bound together by Parker. Pp. 1-7 and 161-7 are the oldest, written in the early eleventh
                    century; they contain a fragment of the Old English <title>Regularis concordia</title>, the code of
                    monastic observance, and some Old English religious poems, most notably <title>Judgement Day
                        II</title>, a translation of Bede's <title>De die iudicii</title>. The rest of the volume up to
                    p. 178 was written probably in the first half or middle of the eleventh century, and contains a
                    large number of sermons by Archbishop Wulfstan (d. 1023), as well as a collection of ecclesiastical
                    material, mostly in the vernacular. It has been interpreted as a version of Archbishop Wulfstan's
                    Handbook. It contains several law codes, predominantly the work of Wulfstan himself, the Old English
                    tract on the resting places of saints, and the Old English romance <title>Apollonius of
                    Tyre</title>. Bishop identified a scribe in this section of the book as working at the New Minster,
                    Winchester, but a Worcester or York association has also been suggested, since these were the main
                    seats of Wulfstan himself. The third part was written at Exeter in the time of Bishop Leofric
                    (1050-72) and was probably once part of <ref type="ms" target="CCC196">CCCC MS 196</ref>. It
                    contains the bilingual version of Theodulf of Orléans (d. 821), <title>Capitula</title>, a homily,
                    and part of the Martyrology of Usuard (fl. 841-58). This manuscript did not come to Corpus Christi
                    with the rest of the Corpus Parkerian collection in 1575, and is not included in the Parker
                    Register; instead it was one of the large number of books which Archbishop Parker gave to his son
                    John Parker, who played an active role in his father's circle of scholarship. It had arrived at
                    Corpus by 1600, before the later financial troubles which probably led to the majority of John
                    Parker's books travelling to Trinity College via the gift of Neville. The manuscript later acquired
                    a contents-list by the great Anglo-Saxonist Abraham Wheelock (d. 1653).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC202" n="MS 202">
                <p>Sections of CCCC MS 202 date from the late twelfth century, and others from the thirteenth. In the
                    first part of the manuscript, the thirteenth-century material includes seven lines of moral notes as
                    well as the provisions of a Church Council relating to monastic affairs. The late twelfth-century
                    material is largely Classical or Late Antique, including introductory material on Sidonius
                    Apollinaris and Fulgentius, and the florilegium of the letters of Symmachus. The second part of the
                    manuscript, possibly thirteenth century, contains a copy of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, with
                    extensive marginal and interlinear glosses.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC203" n="MS 203">
                <p>MS 203 contains <title>Postilla litteralis in nouum testamentum</title> by Nicholas of Lyre OFM
                    (1270-1340). His biblical commentaries, which also included the Old Testament, were very popular in
                    the later centuries of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. A large number of manuscript and
                    early printed copies survive. The manuscript dates to the first quarter of the fifteenth century and
                    was donated by Thomas Fawscet.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC204" n="MS 204">
                <p>CCCC MS 204 contains Stephen Langton's <title>Commentaries</title> on the Old Testament books of
                    Isaiah, Kings, Chronicles and Maccabees, though the text on Kings is incomplete, containing only the
                    moral commentary rather than the full text. Stephen Langton (c. 1150-1228) wrote numerous
                    commentaries on the books of the Old and New Testaments, and is among the most important of early
                    scholastic commentators. The manuscript was written in the thirteenth century and contains a later,
                    perhaps fourteenth-century, incomplete title list and possible shelf mark.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC205" n="MS 205">
                <p>MS 205 contains a mid-fifteenth-century copy of Flavio Biondo (1392-1463), <title>Historia ab
                        inclinatione Romanorum imperii</title> probably made in Florence, c. 1442. Although Thomas
                    James' catalogue records the presence of this manuscript in Corpus Christi by 1600, it does not
                    appear in Parker's register. The volume appears to have been intended as a gift for Thomas
                    Beckington (1390?-1465), bishop of Bath and Wells, who was a correspondent of Biondo.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC206" n="MS 206">
                <p>CCCC MS 206 is a volume of philosophical works of the type which were studied at a high level in late
                    Anglo-Saxon England. It contains texts by Boethius, Martianus Capella, Alcuin, and Aristotle.
                    Although there has been much debate about its origins, it was probably written in England in the
                    first half of the tenth century. The script is a form of Caroline minuscule with many Insular
                    abbreviations, and both North East France and Wales have also been suggested as possible places of
                    origin. It was never owned by Parker, and probably came to Corpus from the collection of Daniel
                    Rogers, d. 1581, eldest son of one of Foxe's martyrs.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC207" n="MS 207">
                <p> CCCC MS 207 contains two tracts and a collection of documents relating to heresies and was compiled
                    during the first half of the sixteenth century. The volume begins with a series of letters and
                    documents regarding the Nestorian Heresy and the council of Chalcedon (the Fourth Ecumenical
                    Council, 8 Oct.-1 Nov. 451, called due to the heresy of Eutyches). This is followed by two tracts
                    relating to the split between the Greek Orthodox church and Rome: <title>De haeresibus Grecorum de
                        processione spiritus sancti</title> by Hugo Etherianus (d. 1182) and <title>Contra Graecos de
                        processione spiritus sancti (Libri IV adversus errores Graecorum)</title> by Manuel Calecas (fl.
                    1360-, d. 1410), trans. by Ambrogio Traversari OSB (also known as Ambrosius Camaldulensis).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC208" n="MS 208">
                <p>CCCC MS 208 contains a sixteenth-century copy of a Commentary on the Epistles of St Paul to the
                    Romans written in French. The volume was never part of Matthew Parker's collection; it was donated
                    to Corpus Christi in 1588 by Henry Aldrich (Fellow 1569-79, d. 1593). A note on the endleaf records
                    that, prior to that, it had been in the possession of Antoine-Rodolphe Chevalier, a Protestant
                    refugee from France who became Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge before his death in 1572.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC209" n="MS 209">
                <p>This manuscript contains three theological works: a copy of the popular work of Peter Lombard (c.
                    1100-60), the <title>Sentences</title>, John of Damascus (c. 675-c. 749), <title>De fide
                        orthodoxa</title>, and an imperfect copy of the <title>Summa sententiarum</title> wrongly
                    attributed to Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1141). The manuscript is probably of the second half of
                    the thirteenth century, and its provenance is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC210" n="MS 210">
                <p>CCCC MS 210 contains the unique copy of William Worcester's <title>Itineraria</title>. William
                    Worcester (1415-1480/85), a servant of Sir John Fastolf, wrote the <title>Itineraria</title> in note
                    form during a series of journeys he undertook throughout southern and western England between 1478
                    and 1480, and the manuscript must date from this period. The text's eclectic mixture of local
                    history, biography and geography reflect a lively and curious mind. How this manuscript came into
                    Parker's possession is unknown, and it has been suggested that the codex was another bequest to the
                    college by Henry Aldrich (Fellow 1569-79, d. 1593) (see <ref type="ms" target="CCC208">CCCC MS
                        208</ref>). However, the presence of Parker's characteristic red chalk in the volume and the
                    existence of a partial transcript of the text in <ref type="ms" target="CCC101">CCCC MS 101</ref>
                    must refute that claim. Instead, it is probable that Parker acquired the manuscript shortly before
                    his death, after the composition of his <title>Register</title>, <ref type="ms" target="CCC575">CCCC
                        MS 575</ref>, which contains no reference to this manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC211" n="MS 211">
                <p>The <title>Pupilla oculi</title> by John de Burgo (d. after 1398) contained in CCCC MS 211, dating to
                    c. 1475, is a work of pastoral instruction for the use of parish priests. The text also occurs in
                        <ref type="ms" target="CCC255">CCCC MS 255</ref>. It derives from the <title>Oculus
                        sacerdotis</title> of William of Paull (fl. early fourteenth century). It contains an <hi
                        rend="italic">ex libris</hi> inscription recording that it was given to the parish church of
                    Albury (Surrey) by the rector, Richard Hutton in 1513. At the end of the book are early
                    sixteenth-century documents relating to Albury, Gomshall and Shere, all in Surrey.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC212" n="MS 212">
                <p>CCCC MS 212 dates from the late twelfth century. The manuscript contains sermons attributed to
                    Gibuinus of Troyes (d. c.1150) and Petrus Comestor (d. c. 1187). The manuscript is written in
                    several fine hands, and the decoration includes attractive initials and some zoo-anthropomorphic
                    figures in coloured outline. It has been suggested that, late in the Middle Ages, the manuscript may
                    have been part of the library of the Brigittine abbey of Syon in Middlesex. It is bound in an old
                    limp vellum binding. As a result of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image
                    the exterior and interior of the covers and part of the text pages, ff. 1r-152r.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC213" n="MS 213">
                <p>CCCC MS 213 is a copy of Jean Galopes, <title>Le livre doré de la vie de nostre seigneur Jesu
                        Crist</title>, made for presentation to Henry V probably c. 1420, which is depicted in a
                    miniature at the beginning of the book. The dating of the book is after 1419 when Rouen surrendered
                    to the English and Normandy came under the custody of the uncle of Henry V, Thomas Beaufort, duke of
                    Exeter, who together with the king is mentioned in the presentation inscription. The text is a
                    translation into French by Jean Galopes of the pseudo-Bonaventuran <title>Meditationes uitae
                        Christi</title>, an expanded version of the Gospel account of the life of Christ, whose Latin
                    text has been attributed to John de Caulibus OFM. Jean Galopes was dean of the collegiate church of
                    St Louis de Saulsoye in the diocese of Evreux in Normandy.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC214" n="MS 214">
                <p>CCCC MS 214 is an eleventh-century English copy of Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), <title>De consolatione
                        philosophiae</title>, a popular work in Anglo-Saxon England. It was written by the same scribe
                    as <ref type="ms" target="CCC411">CCCC MS 411</ref>. It has a large number of glosses, some in Old
                    English, and the layout of the manuscript suggests that it was always intended to receive this extra
                    material, much of which is from the glosses on Boethius by Remigius of Auxerre (c. 841-c. 908). At
                    some point the manuscript was damaged to an unusual degree by rats, necessitating the mounting of
                    the parchment in frames of paper. The manuscript was not owned by Matthew Parker; it comes from the
                    collection of Daniel Rogers, d. 1591.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC215" n="MS 215">
                <p>CCCC MS 215 and <ref type="ms" target="CCC216">CCCC MS 216</ref> are the autograph manuscripts of the
                    Postils of John Boys (1571-1625). They were originally printed in small volumes between 1609 and
                    1616 and then, after the author's death, they were reprinted as <hi rend="italic">The workes of Iohn
                        Boys Doctor in Divinitie and Deane of Canterburie</hi> (London, 1622). <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC216">MS 216</ref> equates to pages 1-456 and MS 215 equates to pages 457-988 in this
                    latter, complete edition. Images of the printed editions are available on Early English Books
                    On-Line at http://eebo.chadwyck.com. The limp vellum bindings are extremely fragile and it has not
                    been possible to image the text content, but the exterior binding has been photographed. The
                    manuscripts were donated to Corpus Christi by the author's nephew Edward Boys in 1641.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC216" n="MS 216">
                <p><ref type="ms" target="CCC215">CCCC MS 215</ref> and CCCC MS 216 are the autograph manuscripts of the
                    Postils of John Boys (1571-1625). They were originally printed in small volumes between 1609 and
                    1616 and then, after the author's death, they were reprinted as <hi rend="italic">The workes of Iohn
                        Boys Doctor in Divinitie and Deane of Canterburie</hi> (London, 1622). MS 216 equates to pages
                    1-456 and <ref type="ms" target="CCC215">MS 215</ref> equates to pages 457-988 in this latter,
                    complete edition. Images of the printed editions are available on Early English Books On-Line at
                    http://eebo.chadwyck.com. The limp vellum bindings are extremely fragile and it has not been
                    possible to image the text content, but the exterior binding has been photographed. The manuscripts
                    were donated to Corpus Christi by the author's nephew Edward Boys in 1641.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC217" n="MS 217">
                <p>CCCC MS 217 is a thirteenth-century miscellany containing sermons, exegetical texts, a partial copy
                    of the <title>Pictor in carmine</title>, and works by Peter the Chanter (d. 1197), Bede, William de
                    Montibus (d. 1213), Geoffrey de Vinsauf (d. after 1200), <title>Tria sunt (Documentum de arte
                        uersificandi)</title>, Petrus Riga (d. 1209), <title>Aurora</title>, and Alexander Nequam OSA
                    (1157-1217), <title>Corrogationes Promethei</title>. Of particular note, the copy of William de
                    Montibus, <title>Speculum poenitentis</title>, is an early and reliable one in terms of that work's
                    textual history. There is a much better version of the text of <title>Pictor in carmine</title> in
                        <ref type="ms" target="CCC300">CCCC MS 300</ref>. The unusual binding of this manuscript, being
                    of velvet, is characteristic of the ‘Old Royal’ library of Henry VIII. As a result of the fragility
                    of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the covers and part
                    of the text pages, ff. 1r-21r, 25r, 209r.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC218" n="MS 218">
                <p>Still in its original binding, CCCC MS 218, dating to the period c. 1354-75, contains the <title>Le
                        livre des seintes medicines</title> of Henry of Grosmont (c. 1310-61), first duke of Lancaster.
                    This is one of three extant copies, the other two being in Stonyhurst College 24, and Aberystwyth,
                    NLW Peniarth 388.2. It is a devotional text containing an allegory in which the sickness of the body
                    is parallelled with the sickness of the soul. Christ, as the doctor, heals the five senses from
                    infection by the seven deadly sins. The book is of particular importance to the College because
                    Henry of Lancaster played an important role in its foundation in the middle years of the fourteenth
                    century and is commemorated as one of its great benefactors.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC219" n="MS 219">
                <p>CCCC MS 219, dating from the fifteenth century, is one of only two known surviving copies of the St
                    Albans Compilation of the <title>Gesta Alexandri</title> (the other being in Cambridge, Gonville and
                    Caius College MS 154/204) thought to have been written by Ralph Gobion, abbot of St Albans
                    (1146-51). The manuscript also contains the spurious exchange of letters between Alexander the Great
                    and the eastern potentate Dindimus. The volume is one of seven that James speculated may have been
                    donated to the College by Daniel Rogers (see also MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC206">206</ref>, <ref
                        type="ms" target="CCC221">221</ref>, <ref type="ms" target="CCC229">229</ref>, <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC231">231</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC239">239</ref>) in addition to the seven
                    that can certainly be traced to that donor (MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC214">214</ref>, <ref
                        type="ms" target="CCC223">223</ref>, <ref type="ms" target="CCC224">224</ref>, <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC228">228</ref>, <ref type="ms" target="CCC230">230</ref>, <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC236">236</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC248">248</ref>). Rogers is presumably to
                    be identified with the scholar, poet, author and diplomat who rose to be clerk to Elizabeth I's
                    Privy Council in 1587 and died in 1591, and who is known to have collected a number of manuscripts
                    of an historical character. A perhaps sixteenth-century note on the last folio of the volume refers
                    to land held in Urswick, Lancashire, by the duke of Suffolk.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC220" n="MS 220">
                <p>CCCC MS 220 is a late thirteenth-century manuscript containing letters of Petrus de Vinea (c.
                    1190-1249), some of which are incomplete, and a copy of the <title>Life of St Eustace</title> (BHL
                    2760). Petrus de Vinea was a stateman and lawyer at the court of the Emperor Frederick II in
                    southern Italy and Sicily. It has been suggested that this manuscript was donated to Corpus Christi
                    College by Christopher Kaley (admitted 1636).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC221" n="MS 221">
                <p>CCCC MS 221 consists of two volumes bound together to make a collection of works on orthography by
                    Alcuin, Bede, Cassiodorus, Flavius Caper, and Agroecius. The first part, containing the works by
                    Alcuin and Bede, was probably written at a Breton centre on the Continent in the first half of the
                    tenth century. It has a few marginal notes in Tironian shorthand. The second part, which is probably
                    tenth-century, may be either Continental or English. Because Bishop thought that the first part
                    shares a scribe with Cambridge, Gonville and Caius, MS 144/194, a manuscript with certain medieval
                    provenance at St Augustine's, Canterbury, this manuscript has been associated with St Augustine's as
                    well. However, its complete lack of St Augustine's provenance marks does make that less likely. It
                    was one of the manuscripts which came to Corpus from the collection of Daniel Rogers, who acquired
                    books both in England and on his extensive travels abroad.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC222" n="MS 222">
                <p>CCCC MS 222, which originally formed one volume with <ref type="ms" target="CCC226">CCCC MS
                    226</ref>, contains two religious tracts, on the conception of Mary and the conception of Christ,
                    both of which are attributed to Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173). There are various later
                    pencil notes and additions. The manuscript belonged to Hugh of Girune (d. after 1239), a monk of
                    Christ Church, Canterbury, who donated it to that house, as attested by the inscription on f.ir,
                        <title>Liber Hugonis de Girunde de penitentia Magdalene</title>. This folio was originally the
                    title page of <ref type="CCC226">CCCC MS 226</ref>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC223" n="MS 223">
                <p>CCCC MS 223 is an example of the type of manuscript which was being imported into late Anglo-Saxon
                    England from the Continent. It contains a number of works by Prudentius (348-c. 410), including his
                    famous <title>Psychomachia</title>, as well as the unique surviving copy of a poem by John Scotus
                    Eriugena (c. 810-c. 877) to the Carolingian emperor, Charles the Bald. It was written at the abbey
                    of Saint-Vaast in Arras around the third quarter of the ninth century. By the end of the ninth
                    century it had moved to the abbey of Saint-Bertin at Saint-Omer, where some annals were added to
                    leaves at the front. In the tenth century it moved to England, and where it acquired additions and
                    glosses, some in Old English. It has been suggested that Grimbald of Saint-Bertin, who came to
                    England in the 890s at the request of King Alfred, may have brought this manuscript with him. This
                    manuscript was one of the books owned by Daniel Rogers.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC224" n="MS 224">
                <p>CCCC MS 224 contains the Gospel of St Mark in Greek, copied by George Hermonymus, perhaps in the
                    1470s when he was working in Paris. As Kalatzi has shown, it was originally part of a set of all
                    four Gospels, which was separated in the sixteenth century. The other three parts are Oxford,
                    Bodleian MS Canon.gr. 33 (Matthew), Paris, Bibliothèque nationale MS gr. 99 (Luke), and Paris,
                    Bibliothèque de l'Institut MS 536 (John). CCCC MS 224 has the same sixteenth-century French binding,
                    by Julien des Jardins, as the Bodleian manuscript. As a result of the fragility of this binding it
                    has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the covers and part of the text pages,
                    ff. ir-iiiv, 1r-25v.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC225" n="MS 225">
                <p>CCCC MS 225 contains a fifteenth-century copy of the <title>Manipulus curatorum</title>, a work of
                    pastoral care attributed to the fourteenth-century author Guido de Monte Rocherii. The manuscript
                    was never part of Matthew Parker's collection, being donated to Corpus Christi by John Gibson
                    (matriculated 1717). For this reason the manuscript does not appear in any of the catalogues before
                    Nasmith's of 1777, though a hand-written entry describing the work was added to a copy of Stanley's
                    catalogue of the collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC226" n="MS 226">
                <p>The text in CCCC MS 226 of the <title>De poenitentia sub persona Magdalenae</title> has been
                    attributed to Stephen Langton (c. 1150-1228), archbishop of Canterbury (1207-28), but also to his
                    younger brother Simon Langton (d. 1248), archdeacon of Canterbury. The book was given to the
                    cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury by the monk, Hugh of Girune OSB (d. after 1239), and
                    is listed in the early fourteenth-century catalogue of the priory's books. It originally formed a
                    single volume with <ref type="ms" target="CCC222">CCCC MS 222</ref> which contains his inscription
                    of ownership.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC228" n="MS 228">
                <p>CCCC MS 228 contains works by the poet Claudian (d. c. 404) and the philosopher and poet Bernardus
                    Silvestris (d. c. 1178). This thirteenth-century manuscript includes a very good copy of Claudian's
                        <title>De raptu Proserpinae</title>, although the text breaks off abruptly in the final book,
                    leading J. B. Hall to suggest in his edition that one or two folia have been lost from the
                    manuscript. The manuscript also contains a copy of <title>Megacosmos</title>, part of the
                        <title>Cosmographia</title>, a Platonic allegorical work by Bernardus Silvestris. The manuscript
                    was donated to Corpus Christi College by Daniel Rogers and may have had earlier connections with
                    Beauvais.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC229" n="MS 229">
                <p>CCCC MS 229 is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century manuscript, containing excerpts from Nonius
                    Marcellus, <title>De compendiosa doctrina</title>, written in early part of the fourth century. This
                    is a lexicon covering language, grammar, navigation, arms and other topics. It has been suggested
                    that this manuscript was donated to Corpus Christi College by the scholar, poet and diplomat, Daniel
                    Rogers (c. 1538-91).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC230" n="MS 230">
                <p>The copy of the <title>Thebaid</title> by the Roman poet, Statius (c. 45-c. 96), was donated to
                    Corpus Christi College by the scholar, poet and diplomat, Daniel Rogers (c. 1538-91). The manuscript
                    of the late twelfth or early thirteenth century is either French or English. It has some notations
                    in the margins. This epic poem is about the attack on the city of Thebes by the seven leaders of
                    Argos, and is a reworking of an ancient Greek epic now mostly lost. The text was of interest in the
                    Middle Ages, used as a source for the twelfth-century French romance, <title>Le Roman de
                        Thèbes</title>, and by Boccaccio and Chaucer.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC231" n="MS 231">
                <p>CCCC MS 231 contains six of the comedies of Terence (195-159 B.C.). It was written in the first half
                    of the twelfth century in Germany. It seems to have been used by Richard Bentley for his edition of
                    Terence's works and has been often referred to by subsequent scholars working on the text of the
                    comedies. The manuscript was not owned by Matthew Parker, but probably came to the college from the
                    book collection of Daniel Rogers (c. 1539-91), who presumably acquired it on his travels abroad.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC232" n="MS 232">
                <p>MS 232 contains documents relating to Thomas Markaunt and his donation of books to Corpus Christi
                    College, including his will of 1439, the Master's acceptance of the bequest, a register of the books
                    and a list of the keepers of Markaunt's bequest. It also contains lists of books given to the
                    College in 1458 by M. Tyttleshale and other books in the College Library up to 1516. The opening 11
                    folios of the manuscript are vellum and date to c. 1440 but the rest of the manuscript is on paper
                    and dates to the early years of the following century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC233" n="MS 233">
                <p>CCCC MS 233 is a compendium of grammatical, didactic and devotional works copied in a cursive hand of
                    the last quarter of the fifteenth century. Texts contained in the codex include Alanus ab Insula
                    (Alain de Lille) (c. 1128-1202), <title>Paruum doctrinale</title> (<title>Liber
                    parabolarum</title>), excerpts from the <title>Doctrinale magnum</title> of Alexander de Villa Dei
                    (c. 1170-1240), a verse treatise on grammar and William de Montibus (d. 1213), <title>Poeniteas
                        cito</title>. There are no clues as to how the manuscript, possibly a university student's
                    commonplace book, came into Parker's possession.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC234" n="MS 234">
                <p>CCCC MS 234 contains two work by Giles of Rome OESA (c. 1243-1316), the Commentary on Aristotle's
                        <title>De generatione et corruptione</title> and an incomplete version of the Commentary on
                    Aristotle's <title>De anima</title>. The manuscript is written throughout in a cursive, heavily
                    abbreviated fifteenth-century hand and nothing is known of how it came to be in Parker's
                    collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC235" n="MS 235">
                <p>This collection of Latin sermons on the Sunday gospels in CCCC MS 235, written in the fifteenth
                    century, seems to have escaped the attention of scholars, having received no study.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC236" n="MS 236">
                <p>CCCC MS 236 contains Martial's epigrams, as well as some added medieval epigrams by Hubert Walter (d.
                    1205) and others. It was written in the thirteenth century. It is one of the Corpus manuscripts
                    which contains the signature of Daniel Rogers (c. 1539-91), an Elizabethan diplomat and the son of
                    one of Foxe's martyrs. It is not known how some of Rogers' books came into the possession of Corpus
                    Christi. Like several of Rogers' books it contains a price mark.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC237" n="MS 237">
                <p>CCCC MS 237 is a copy, made in England, dating to c. 1500, of the Commentary (or Meditation) of
                    Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98) on Psalm 50 (51), <title>Miserere mei Deus</title>, and Psalm 30 (31),
                        <title>In te Domine speravi</title>. The Dominican preacher wrote this text while in prison in
                    Florence in 1498, charged with heresy, and having been found guilty was burned at the stake in that
                    year. The manuscript has on the first page a decorative illuminated border in English style.
                    Savonarola's Meditation on these two psalms was much read during the Reformation period in England,
                    although this copy antedates that time by at least thirty years.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC238" n="MS 238">
                <p>CCCC MS 238 contains the <title>Archaismus graphicus</title> of the historian and antiquary, Henry
                    Spelman (1564-1641). The manuscript was written in 1606 and donated by the author to the college in
                    1636.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC239" n="MS 239">
                <p>CCCC MS 239 is a copy of the Latin translation of Aristotle's <title>Metaphysics</title> made in
                    England and dating to the period c. 1250-75. It was perhaps given, together with several other
                    books, to Corpus Christi College by Daniel Rogers, probably the Latin scholar and diplomat who was a
                    contemporary of Matthew Parker and lived c. 1539-91. The <title>Metaphysics</title> was an important
                    text for the medieval university curriculum, and the script and ornament suggests this copy might
                    have been made in Oxford. Although now partly rebound with modern binding, part of the red skin
                    medieval binding survives, with evidence that it once had clasps, and there is some indication of
                    marks for the attachment of a chain.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC240" n="MS 240">
                <p>CCCC MS 240 is the unique fifteenth-century copy of the Latin chronicle known as the <title>Ypodigma
                        Neustriae</title> often, and probably mistakenly, attributed to Thomas Walsingham (c. 1370-c.
                    1422). The <title>Ypodigma Neustriae</title> is a chronicle of events in Normandy and England from
                    911 to 1416 and written, perhaps, as a flattery to Henry V's successful conquests in France. Its
                    dating can probably be narrowed down to c. 1419. Nothing is known of how this manuscript came to be
                    in Parker's collection, though it was, presumably, one of the many manuscripts dealing with
                    historical themes that the archbishop acquired from the monastery of St Alban, Hertfordshire which
                    had produced some of the greatest medieval English monastic chroniclers. See also <ref type="ms"
                        target="MS 176">MS 176</ref>. The book is bound in an old limp vellum binding. As a result of
                    the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the
                    covers and part of the text pages, ff. ir-iiiv, 1r-24v.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC241" n="MS 241">
                <p>CCCC MS 241 contains seventeenth-century transcriptions of six letters written by Richard Cox
                    (c.1500-1581), Bishop of Ely. The first five are to Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575), the sixth letter
                    is to Wolfgang Weidner. The first four letters and the sixth date to the 1550s but the fifth letter,
                    dated to 1559 in the MS, has been dated to sometime after 27 July 1571 based on its contents.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC242" n="MS 242">
                <p>CCCC MS 242 is a mid-sixteenth-century collection assembled by William Buckmaster (d. 1546), who
                    became the vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1529. The manuscript contains a collection of
                    documents relating to Cambridge University during the period 1528-44 and a catalogue of English
                    saints and kings. The manuscript was not a part of Archbishop Parker's collection, but was donated
                    to the college by John Jegon sometime after 1592 when he acquired it.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC243" n="MS 243">
                <p>CCCC MS 243 contains two texts, a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century copy of pseudo-Albertus Magnus'
                        <title>Lapidarium</title> and a short, anonymous astronomical tract written in a
                    fifteenth-century hand. James believed that the copy of the <title>Lapidarium</title> was in an
                    Italian hand, but this has never been conclusively demonstrated, and the provenance of this
                    manuscript and how it came to be in Parker's collection remain unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC244" n="MS 244">
                <p>CCCC MS 244 is a collection of treatises on logic written in a cursive hand of the middle years of
                    the fifteenth century, and was no doubt intended as a volume for university students. It contains a
                    number of popular late medieval texts on the nature and purpose of logic as an intellectual
                    discipline, including a version of William Heytesbury's (1313-80) <title>Tractatus
                        consequentiarum</title>, the <title>Introductiones naturalium</title> attributed to Thomas
                    Netter of Walden OCarm (d. 1430) and Martin the Englishman's <title>Objectiones
                        consequentiarum</title>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC245" n="MS 245">
                <p>CCCC MS 245 is an early sixteenth-century volume containing the New Testament in English. It has no
                    known association with Matthew Parker; but a hand-written addition to a college-owned copy of the
                    Stanley catalogue records this manuscript was donated to the college in 1745 by John Duncombe
                    (1729-86). Duncombe was an undergraduate and later Fellow of Corpus Christi who went on to combine
                    his career in the church with life as a celebrated critic and poet. Duncombe frequently contributed
                    to <title>The Gentleman's Magazine</title> under the pseudonym 'Crito' and enjoyed success with his
                    poem <title>An Evening's Contemplation in a College</title>, a burlesque of Gray's <title>Elegy in a
                        Country Churchyard</title>. Perhaps the quatrains at the end of each gospel in this manuscript
                    are Duncombe's early attempts at poetic expression.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC246" n="MS 246">
                <p>CCCC MS 246 is a small thirteenth-century Latin Bible with simple red and blue initials at the
                    beginning of each book. In France such portable Bibles were made in very large numbers in Paris
                    during the period c. 1220-80, but this one was made in England where relatively few were made. The
                    College copy of Stanley's Catalogue records CCCC MS 246 as a donation from John Duncombe. However,
                    as <ref type="ms" target="CCC245">CCCC MS 245</ref> is also listed as a donation from Duncombe,
                    James suggests that this manuscript might be the Bible donated by either William Roberts (Fellow in
                    1626) or T. Hopbury. William Roberts's donation was recorded in the Catalogue of Benefactors and T.
                    Hopbury's donation of a Bible was noted by Masters in his history of Corpus Christi College. The
                    book retains its original binding and is one of the best medieval bindings in the collection. As a
                    result of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior
                    of the front cover, the exterior of the back cover, and part of the text pages, ff. 1r-22v.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC247" n="MS 247">
                <p>CCCC MS 247 contains a thirteenth-century copy of a manual of canon law for confessors called
                        <title>Summa de casibus poenitentiae</title> (or <title>Summa de poenitentia</title>), a work
                    which greatly influenced the further development of the sacrament of penance. The tract was written
                    by Raymond of Peñafort OP (c. 1190-1275), who was a member (and briefly Master) of the Dominican
                    order and a very influential canon lawyer. The <title>Summa</title> was very widely read and
                    numerous manuscript copies exist from the last three centuries of the Middle Ages.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC248" n="MS 248">
                <p>CCCC MS 248 is a sixteenth-century miscellany of ancient Greek texts popular in the Renaissance,
                    including <title>Homerocentones</title>, Hesiod, Cebes, Theognis, pseudo-Pythagoras and Phocylides,
                    copied from printed editions. It also contains a Latin translation of the life of St Nicholas of
                    Myra. It was presented to Daniel Rogers (c. 1539-91) by Joannes Olivarius, who may himself have been
                    the scribe, in 1564.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC249" n="MS 249">
                <p>CCCC MS 249 contains a copy of the Koran, written in Arabic, possibly in the early seventeenth
                    century. This codex was never part of Parker's collection, an inscription instead stating that the
                    volume was donated to the college by Jacob (or James) Hitchcock, described as a 'gentleman of
                    Granchester'. A note in a copy of Parker's Register states that the book was procured with the help
                    of M Dobson, who may be identified with the Isaac Dobson who was a Fellow of Corpus Christi in 1628,
                    vicar of Grantchester in 1644 and who rose to be Cambridge University Librarian before his death in
                    1678.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC250" n="MS 250">
                <p>CCCC MS 250, dating from the early sixteenth century, contains one of around ten surviving
                    manuscripts of Walter of Guisborough's <title>Chronicle</title> which covers the period 1048-1305,
                    with a continuation 1305-12, probably by an anonymous Durham continuator. Walter of Guisborough (fl.
                    c.1290–c.1305) (also known as Walter 'of Hemingford' or 'of Hemingburgh') was an Augustinian canon
                    of the priory of St Mary at Guisborough. The early portion of the chronicle draws heavily on the
                    chronicle of William of Newburgh OSA (d. after 1199), the <title>Historia post Bedam</title> and
                    other northern sources. The roughly contemporary portion of the chronicle shows some similarities to
                    other Northern histories of the period but is considered to be an independent chronicle. The
                    chronicle tends to be more accurate regarding events in the north of England than in the south.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC251" n="MS 251">
                <p>CCCC MS 251 contains two chronicles: a brief abstracted roll-call of the popes from Gregory IX to
                    1370, followed by an account of English history from Brutus to the accession of Richard II with an
                    emphasis on events pertinent to the abbey at Bury St Edmunds. Both texts were written c. 1445. Even
                    though the press mark ('E.43') appears to be in error, since manuscripts at Bury St Edmunds were
                    classified by subject matter - the volume, M. R. James argued, should fall under 'C' for
                        <title>Chronica</title> - James had no doubt the manuscript was from Bury on the grounds of the
                    content which, as part of the chronicle material, includes a life of St Edmund. Also recorded in
                    this volume is a note on the round chapel at Bury St Edmunds which also appears in London, College
                    of Arms MS Arundel XXX, which was certainly written for the monks at Bury. The manuscript is
                    decorated with two historiated initials and many illuminated ornamental initials.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC252" n="MS 252">
                <p>CCCC MS 252, written in the early fourteenth century, which has an inscription of ownership by John
                    de Reynham OSB, a monk of Norwich cathedral priory, contains a compilation of texts, mainly of a
                    devotional nature. The main texts are the <title>Stimulus amoris</title>, written in the second half
                    of the thirteenth century, once ascribed to St Bonaventure OFM, but probably by James of Milan OFM
                    (fl. c. 1296), a commentary on the rule of St Benedict by Bernard Ayglier OSB (d. 1282), and a
                        <title>Life of St Helen</title> by Jocelin of Furness OCist (d. c. 1210).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC253" n="MS 253">
                <p>This twelfth-century manuscript contains copies of Augustine, <title>Confessiones</title>, and the
                    guide to Christian life for soldiers by Ferrandus, deacon of Carthage (d. 546/7). The works by
                    Augustine are in a fine hand, with exceptional illuminated initials. There is, in a twelfth-century
                    hand, a hymn to St Augustine, with music on a three-line stave. There are some late medieval
                    additions at the end of the manuscript. James suggested that CCCC MS 253 originated in Canterbury or
                    Rochester, but this was rejected by Ker and its provenance remains uncertain.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC254" n="MS 254">
                <p>CCCC MS 254 contains a thirteenth-century copy of the text of Gregory IX's Decretals
                        (<title>Decretales nouae</title>). Judging from the number of scribbled annotations that appear
                    in several different hands in the margins of the text, it would appear that a succession of canon
                    lawyers regarded this volume as their working copy of an important text for church discipline and
                    government. There is no clue as to the manuscript's provenance, though presumably Parker acquired it
                    as part of his desire to understand the origins and nature of papal and episcopal authority in
                    England in his effort to entrench the English Reformation.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC255" n="MS 255">
                <p>The <title>Pupilla oculi</title> by John de Burgo contained in CCCC MS 255 is mainly derived from
                        <title>Oculus sacerdotis</title> by William of Paull (or Pagula) (fl. early fourteenth century)
                    written in 1320-28, a manual of pastoral theology and advice, intended for parish priests. The
                        <title>Pupilla oculi</title> was probably written c. 1380-85, when for part of that time John de
                    Burgo (d. after 1398) was Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. It instructs on basic theology
                    and confessional practice.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC256" n="MS 256">
                <p>CCCC MS 256 contains two texts by Franciscan authors. The first by David of Augsburg OFM (d. 1272),
                        <title>De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione</title>, is an introduction to the
                    conventual and mystical life of a friar. The second text is the Latin version of the
                    pseudo-Bonaventuran <title>Meditationes uitae Christi</title>, written in the early fourteenth
                    century, which is found in Nicholas Love's Middle English version in <ref type="MS" target="CCC142"
                        >CCCC MSS 142</ref>, <ref type="MS" target="CCC143">143</ref>. The Latin version of this
                    expanded version of the gospel account of the Life of Christ has been attributed by some to Iohannes
                    de Caulibus OFM (fl. early fourteenth century).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC257" n="MS 257">
                <p>CCCC MS 257, dating to the last quarter of the fourteenth century, contains four texts by Robert
                    Grosseteste (d. 1253) who was Bishop of Lincoln from 1235 until his death. The first two are
                    essentially part of the same work, the <title>Dicta</title>, a collection of selected texts from his
                    sermons and lectures. In this manuscript the <title>Dicta</title> are preceded by a detailed table
                    of contents. The other two texts are on confession and pastoral matters, and are among Grosseteste's
                    extensive writings on pastoral care and the teachings of the Church. These are an example of an
                    important genre of literature which followed the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215's recommendations
                    for the reform of teaching the laity on the doctrines of the Church.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC258" n="MS 258">
                <p>CCCC MS 258 is one of two manuscripts in the Parker Collection that was once bound in a single
                    volume, the other being the material now contained in <ref type="ms" target="CCC070">CCCC MS
                        70</ref>. Both manuscripts were the property of Andrew Horn (d. 1328), fishmonger and
                    Chamberlain of London and were bequeathed by him to the Guild Hall in London, from where Parker
                    acquired them. CCCC MS 258 now contains fourteenth-century copies of the anonymous law tracts
                        <title>Speculum justiciarorum</title> and <title>Breton</title>. The <title>Speculum</title> is
                    a unique survival in this manuscript and was much criticised by F. W. Maitland as, at best, a joke
                    in poor taste, though recent attempts have been made to rehabilitate the text as an expression of
                    late thirteenth-century anxiety about the direction of legal reform under Edward I, or possibly as a
                    didactic text.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC259" n="MS 259">
                <p>CCCC MS 259 is one of several copies of the <title>Polychronicon</title> by Ranulf Higden OSB (d.
                    1364), a monk of St Werburga's Abbey, Chester, owned by Parker, and reflecting the latter's interest
                    in British history. The version of this chronicle contained in this manuscript ends in 1338 and was
                    copied not long after the last events it describes in the mid-fourteenth century. The
                        <title>Polychronicon</title> was the most widely read chronicle in late medieval England, and
                    exists in many manuscripts, other copies being <ref type="ms" target="CCC021">CCCC MSS 21</ref>,
                        <ref type="ms" target="CCC117">117</ref>, <ref type="ms" target="CCC164">164</ref>, and in
                    English translation in <ref type="ms" target="CCC354">CCCC MS 354</ref> . It has on the front
                    flyleaf a note by the historian John Bale (1495-1563), attributing the text to 'Roger of Chester', a
                    figure sometimes supposed to have written the <title>Polychronicon</title> until Higden's identity
                    was confirmed in the nineteenth century. The provenance of the manuscript is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC260" n="MS 260">
                <p>CCCC MS 260 was written towards the end of the tenth century at Christ Church, Canterbury. It
                    contains copies of important early medieval treatises on music, most significantly the <title>Musica
                        enchiriadis</title> and <title>Scholica enchiriadis</title>, which usually travelled together.
                    Both must be considered essentially anonymous, despite the fact that the <title>Musica
                        enchiriadis</title> is in this manuscript attributed to Hoger of Laon (d. 930); in the Corpus
                    catalogue James attributed them to Hucbald of Saint-Amand (d. c. 930) and Odo of Cluny OSB (c.
                    879-942) respectively. Together they provide some of the earliest evidence for polyphony, and use a
                    type of notation known as Dasian, which allows for precise pitch to be recorded. Parker wrote "TW"
                    in this manuscript, perhaps to indicate that he acquired it from John Twyne, a Canterbury
                    schoolmaster and antiquary who had worked at St Augustine's before the Dissolution; or
                    alternatively, from Thomas Wotton (c. 1521-87), nephew of Nicholas Wotton dean of Canterbury, and an
                    associate of Parker with Puritan sympathies.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC261" n="MS 261">
                <p>CCCC MS 261 contains a fifteenth-century copy of John of Gaddesden's <title>Rosa medicinae</title>, a
                    text originally written while Gaddesden was studying medicine at Merton College, Oxford, between
                    1307 and 1316 (probably c. 1313). He was the only English-educated writer on medical matters to gain
                    some recognition among the schools of mainland Europe, and it is sometimes stated that Chaucer
                    modelled his <title>Doctor of Physik</title> on Gaddesden. Whether that is the case or not, he was
                    certainly regarded as a talented physician, gaining employment within the household of Edward the
                    Black Prince, who rewarded him with a rose made of gold, perhaps in a reference to Gaddesden's most
                    well-known work.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC262" n="MS 262">
                <p>CCCC MS 262 contains a fourteenth-century copy of the <title>Historia rerum Anglicarum</title> of
                    William of Newburgh (1135/6-c. 1198). The version of the text in this manuscript was much criticized
                    by Howlett in his edition of 1884, who described it as corrupted and with many elementary copying
                    errors. Nevertheless, the text as found in this manuscript was used for collating the English
                    Historical Society's edition of 1856. This edition was in turn used by Joseph Stevenson as the basis
                    for his translation of the work that also appeared in 1856. The provenance of the manuscript is
                    unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC263" n="MS 263">
                <p>CCCC MS 263 is a thirteenth-century incomplete copy of the <title>Speculum ecclesiae</title> by the
                    theologian Honorius Augustodunensis (fl. 1106-1135 and probably d. 1151). This work is a collection
                    of sermons. Neil Ker described as dubious the provenance attributed to the manuscript, namely the
                    Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity, Christ Church, Canterbury. CCCC MS 263 has
                    received far less scholarly attention than other manuscripts of Honorius' works in the Parker
                    collection, such as the <title>Imago mundi</title> in <ref type="ms" target="CCC066">CCCC MS
                        66</ref>. Matthew Parker wrote "Canterbury" in this manuscript, suggesting that he acquired it
                    there. Christ Church, Canterbury had some copies of this text in the Middle Ages, but MS 263 does
                    not seem to appear in any of the surviving catalogues.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC264" n="MS 264">
                <p>CCCC MS 264 contains two major texts; an incomplete version of the <title>Flores historiarum</title>
                    of Roger of Wendover (d. 1236), beginning with events of Richard I's reign and continuing until
                    1234, and a copy of Bede's <title>Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum</title>. In addition, the
                    early part of the manuscript contains a number of documents relating to Norwich, such as charters
                    and records of agreements with local laymen. This manuscript, copied in the early to mid-fourteenth
                    century, was once in the possession of Simon Bozoun, Prior of Norwich cathedral priory (1344-52),
                    and an inscription to that effect survives in the manuscript. It was presumably from Norwich that
                    Parker acquired this manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC265" n="MS 265">
                <p>This manuscript is a miscellany from Worcester containing extracts from a very large number of texts,
                    mostly relating to ecclesiastical observance and penance. Pp. 1-268 constitute a version of
                    "Wulfstan's Handbook", a compilation made for the use of a confessor, and include an Old English
                    form of confession. This compilation is associated with Wulfstan the homilist (d. 1023), bishop of
                    Worcester and archbishop of York, advisor and legislator for both Æthelred the Unready and Cnut. The
                    bulk of the manuscript is eleventh-century, but it was added to into the twelfth century and beyond.
                    It also contains a twelfth-century copy of Hugh of Fleury OSB (d. 1128/35), <title>Historia
                        ecclesiastica siue Chronicon</title>, here given the attribution to Ivo which is usual in its
                    manuscript transmission. Pp. 551-4, the end flyleaves, are taken from a grand thirteenth-century
                    Pontifical written in high-grade textualis. </p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC266" n="MS 266">
                <p>CCCC MS 266 contains Letters 1–127, 131–5, 137–8, 143 of Peter of Blois (d. 1212), and was written in
                    the thirteenth century. It has been designated as one of the manuscripts of the second edition which
                    should be used as a basis for any future critical edition. Some of these letters are of major
                    significance in regard to the controversy between Henry II and Thomas Becket. The MS also includes
                    several other minor works of Peter of Blois, some of which commonly circulated with his Letters. The
                    manuscript contains the distinctive pressmark of the London Carmelites.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC267" n="MS 267">
                <p>CCCC MS 267 is a late eleventh- or early twelfth-century copy of the <title>Chronica</title> of
                    Frechulf of Lisieux (fl. 823-53); it contains only the first part, from Adam to the Incarnation. It
                    is one of the manuscripts produced at St Augustine's Abbey Canterbury after the Conquest in an
                    almost exaggeratedly English style of script. The same scribe is found in other St Augustine's
                    books, and this manuscript is identifiable in the medieval catalogue of the abbey's library. A short
                    text by Peter Damian (1007-72) was added not long after the manuscript was written. A
                    near-contemporary copy of a neumed hymn to St Mellitus, the third archbishop of Canterbury, is now
                    at the front of the book, but because it is codicologically separable it may not always have been
                    part of this manuscript. In the fifteenth century a short prophetic poem by John Thwing of
                    Bridlington OSA (d. 1379) was added at the back of the volume. The chronicle section contains fine
                    illuminated initials.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC268" n="MS 268">
                <p>CCCC MS 268, dating to c. 1450, contains a collection of Middle English devotional and mystical
                    texts. An inscription records its ownership in the fifteenth century by the Augustinian nun,
                    Elizabeth Wylby, of Campsey Priory (Suffolk). Of the texts in the book, two are anonymous, although
                    one claims to contain extracts in Middle English from Henry Suso OP (1295-1366), <title>Horologium
                        sapientiae</title>. The other texts are attributed to Walter Hilton (c. 1343-96), the Book of
                    Contemplation, in two parts. Late in his life in 1386, Walter became an Augustinian canon at
                    Thurgarton (Nottinghamshire).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC269" n="MS 269">
                <p>CCCC MS 269 is one of three manuscripts that contains the 'A' recension of the <title>Collectio
                        canonum</title> of Anselm of Lucca (written c. 1083-86) (the others being Paris, Bibliothèque
                    nationale de France MS lat. 12519 and Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana MS lat. 1363), and the only one
                    with a known English provenance. Originally dating from the twelfth century, a fifteenth-century
                    inscription records that this volume was then in the library of the Cistercian abbey of the Blessed
                    Virgin Mary at Pipewell in Northamptonshire. If it was still at Pipewell at the time of the abbey's
                    dissolution in 1538, it was fortunate to survive the looting that followed that event. Perhaps it
                    was removed together with the other fixtures and fittings of the abbey that were granted to Sir
                    William Parr, brother of Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's last wife.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC270" n="MS 270">
                <p>This Missal is written in the beautiful round script particularly associated with St Augustine's
                    Abbey, Canterbury, in the second half of the eleventh century. We know that this manuscript was
                    written after 1091 because it contains a mass for the translation of St Augustine in this year. As
                    such it shows the typical English script of the eleventh century being written well after the Norman
                    Conquest, in contrast to the spiky script written at nearby Christ Church at this time. T. A. M.
                    Bishop identified the work of some of CCCC MS 270's scribes in other manuscripts from St
                    Augustine's, Canterbury. Arguments on textual grounds that the manuscript must have been written
                    before 1100 are unconvincing in themselves, but this style of script would not be expected to have
                    lasted very long into the twelfth century. The manuscript has flyleaves written in late eleventh- or
                    twelfth-century script, containing text from Bede's <title>Historia ecclesiastica</title>. It is
                    possible that these leaves were not taken from a dismantled copy of Bede's work, but were rather
                    leaves rejected during the production of a manuscript, and if so then they may have been used in the
                    binding of MS 270 at an early date.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC271" n="MS 271">
                <p>CCCC MS 271 was in the library of St Augustine's, Canterbury, where it once comprised two separate
                    volumes that were first bound together in the fourteenth century. The first volume, containing the
                        <title>Decretales</title> of Gregory IX, was donated to the abbey by a monk of St Augustine's,
                    Martin de Totynton (fl. c. 1300), while the second part, containing the <title>Decretals</title> of
                    Boniface VIII (<title>Liber sextus</title>), was donated by one 'Abbot T.'. This is probably abbot
                    Thomas Findon (1283-1310) or possibly Thomas Poucyn (1334-43). A fourteenth-century hand has added
                    the <title>Constitutions</title> of Archbishops Langton, Boniface and Pecham to the second volume.
                    It presumably found its way into Parker's collection from St Augustine's.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC272" n="MS 272">
                <p>This manuscript is known as the 'Achadeus Psalter' because of an inscription after Psalm 150
                    recording that Count Achadeus ordered it to be made. This need not imply, however, that Achadeus
                    owned the book, or had any closer connection with it than simply paying for its materials. As well
                    as the psalms and canticles the manuscript contains Psalter collects, a litany, and prayers. The
                    litany includes mention of Pope Marinus (882-4), King Carloman (882-3), and Fulk, bishop of Rheims
                    (883-900), and has on these grounds been dated to 883/4; the mention of Bishop Fulk and of local
                    saints locates its use to Rheims. Although not necessarily made in the city itself, it seems to be
                    from that region of France. CCCC MS 272 contains extensive marginal glosses largely taken from
                    Cassiodorus' <title>Expositio psalmorum</title>. They are written in that form of English Caroline
                    minuscule which developed in the first quarter of the eleventh century and continued in use until
                    after the Norman Conquest. Consequently it seems that the manuscript was in England in the eleventh
                    century; it has been suggested that it was brought over earlier than that, perhaps even by Grimbald
                    of Saint-Bertin, who was sent to England by Fulk of Rheims in order to assist King Alfred the Great
                    with his revival of English learning. If so the manuscript must have left Rheims relatively soon
                    after it was made, as Grimbald was at Winchester by 887, and doubt has been expressed over whether a
                    manuscript sponsored by an important count would have been lightly alienated. The manuscript has
                    illumination in gold and colours and originally had large illuminated initials at the liturgical
                    divisions of the Psalter, although all save that for Psalm 97 have been cut out. The Litany has
                    elaborate arched column frames, and at the beginning of the Psalter a large B ornamental initial for
                    the first psalm from an English early thirteenth-century Psalter has been inserted. MS 272 was
                    certainly at Canterbury in the later middle ages, where parts of account rolls of Christ Church
                    Canterbury are used as its endleaves.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC273" n="MS 273">
                <p>This twelfth- or thirteenth-century manuscript, written in a beautiful hand, contains miscellaneous
                    learned theological texts, including Bernard of Clairvaux OCist (1090-1153), <title>De gratia et
                        libero arbitrio</title>, the abridgement of the <title>Sentences</title> of Peter Lombard (c.
                    1095-1160) by Gandulf of Bologna (d. after 1185), the <title>Expositio missae</title> which is part
                    of the <title>De diuinis officiis</title> of Remigius of Auxerre (d. 908), and an unidentified text
                        <title>De poenitentia</title>. The manuscript also contains a copy of the letters of Arnulf of
                    Lisieux (d. 1184) who was bishop of Lisieux 1141-81.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC274" n="MS 274">
                <p>This manuscript contains works by, or attributed to, Ambrose (c. 339-97) on the theme of virginity,
                    and on the virtues and vices. The manuscript seems to have been written at St Augustine's,
                    Canterbury, although the script, and the fine decorated initials with brightly coloured grounds, are
                    more usually associated with Christ Church. The same scribe's hand can be seen in <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC094">CCCC MS 94</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC270">CCCC MS 270</ref>. James
                    thought that the manuscript was written in the eleventh century, although recent scholars have
                    proposed a twelfth-century date, perhaps as late as 1140. The thematic concerns of the manuscript,
                    particularly the focus on chastity, might place its compilation within an ecclesiastical reform
                    context.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC275" n="MS 275">
                <p>The miscellany of tracts on various subjects in CCCC MS 275, dating to c. 1400-25, has no overall
                    thematic unity. It contains devotional texts, travel literature, legends of saints, and biblical
                    figures, and other works in diverse categories. The most important of these are: <title>Vita Adae et
                        Euae</title>; Henry of Sawtry OCist (fl. twelfth century), <title>Purgatorium Sancti
                        Patricii</title>; <title>Vita Sancti Brendani</title>; <title>The Travels of Sir John
                        Mandeville</title> attributed to Jean le Long OSB; Odoricus of Pordenone (c. 1286-1331),
                        <title>Itinerarium</title>; the letter of Iohannes presbyter ('Prester John'); Francesco
                    Petrarca (1304-74), <title>Historia Griseldis</title>; John of Hildesheim OCarm (d. 1375),
                        <title>Historia trium regum</title>; and John Grandisson (d. 1369), <title>Vita Sancti Thomae
                        Cantuariensis</title>. The book was given to the College by Thomas Markaunt (d. 1439).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC276" n="MS 276">
                <p>CCCC MS 276 is a witness to the cultural influences at work at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, in
                    the first generations after the Norman Conquest. It contains two separate volumes which have been
                    together since the twelfth century: the first was written in the late eleventh century and contains
                    the <title>Historia Romana</title>, a version of Eutropius' <title>Breuiarium ab urbe
                        condita</title> by Paul the Deacon (c. 720/30-99); the second was written circa 1100 and
                    contains the <title>De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum</title> (<title>Historia
                        Normannorum</title>) of Dudo of Saint-Quentin (c. 960-1026). Both were made at St Augustine's.
                    The first volume contains the work of two co-operating scribes, one writing an angular Norman hand,
                    the other the round exaggerated Anglo-Caroline typical of St Augustine's at this date.
                    Mont-St-Michel influence has been detected in the initials. The manuscript was owned by a certain
                    William Carye before Parker acquired it.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC277" n="MS 277">
                <p>CCCC MS 277 contains the unique surviving copy of Adam of Barking's <title>Carmen de serie sex
                        aetatum</title>, a poem narrating and commenting on biblical history. The copy in this
                    manuscript is incomplete, dealing with only four of the six ages alluded to in the title, and is
                    almost certainly Barking's (fl. twelfth century) own working copy. The Tudor antiquarian John Leland
                    (1506-52) records that he saw a copy of the same work in Sherborne Abbey in Dorset, though it has
                    been disputed that this is the same manuscript as the one now in Corpus Christi and, as a result, it
                    is not certain how this manuscript came to be in Parker's collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC278" n="MS 278">
                <p>CCCC MS 278 is a Psalter of the early fourteenth century beginning with a translation in Middle
                    English verse, followed by one in Anglo-Norman prose. The latter is a revised version of a
                    translation made in the first half of the twelfth century which exists in the so-called 'Oxford
                    Psalter', Bodleian MS Douce 320, of c. 1150. The Middle English verse translation exists in five
                    other manuscripts. The book belonged to Norwich cathedral priory.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC279" n="MS 279">
                <p>CCCC MS 279 is a significant source for the study of the development and transmission of early
                    medieval canon collections. The manuscript was written in north-west France, in the late ninth or
                    early tenth century, in a script derived from Tours. The book was in England by c. 1000 and has a
                    later medieval provenance at Worcester. The textual content of the manuscript is derived from Irish
                    and Breton sources; the contents include the only extant copy of the canons of the 'First Synod of
                    Patrick', a copy of the <title>Liber ex lege Moysi</title>, whose Irish connections are the subject
                    of some debate, and a copy of the <title>Collectio canonum Hibernensis</title>. The manuscript is
                    particularly important as a witness to the Breton, and later English, transmission of the
                        <title>Collectio</title>. There are additional glosses in Breton and Old Irish, although the
                    latter were copied into the manuscript by a Breton scribe, resulting in some orthographical
                    confusion.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC280" n="MS 280">
                <p>CCCC MS 280 contains a copy of the text of the <title>Historia Anglorum</title> of Henry of
                    Huntingdon (c. 1088-c. 1157), a chronicle written in England in the mid-twelfth century. In his
                    edition of 1879 Arnold postulated that this manuscript was once in the library of St Augustine's,
                    Canterbury, but M. R. James was unable to confirm this and Neil Ker rejected the thesis outright.
                    The text as found in this manuscript has been used in the collation of the most recent edition of
                    the text for material after 1138 by Greenway.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC281" n="MS 281">
                <p>CCCC MS 281 is a manuscript of diverse texts made up of three distinct volumes copied between the
                    twelfth and fourteenth centuries. The material contained within the codex is wide-ranging but
                    broadly historical in nature. It includes a copy of <title>Historia regum Britanniae</title> of
                    Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), an anonymous <title>Annal</title> from the birth of Christ to the
                    mid-fourteenth century, an extract from the Latin version of the account of the death of Edward II
                    attributed to Thomas de la More (fl. mid-fourteenth century) and historical documents relating to
                    King Edward I's relations with Scotland. The manuscript has sometimes been described as having once
                    been in the possession of the Benedictine abbey of St Modwenna in Burton-on-Trent, but Nasmith
                    concluded, on the basis of the text of the <title>Annals</title>, that they were written at the
                    Cluniac house of St Andrew's, Northampton.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC282" n="MS 282">
                <p><title>The Mirror</title>, contained in CCCC MS 282, is a collection of sermons, of which this
                    manuscript is a copy of the late fourteenth century, produced in Middlesex. It contains sixty
                    sermons on the Sunday gospel readings in a Middle English prose version of Robert de Gretham's
                    Anglo-Norman verse <title>Miroir</title> (<title>Evangiles des domnees</title>), written in the
                    middle of the thirteenth century. Robert was possibly an Augustinian canon.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC283" n="MS 283">
                <p>CCCC MS 283 contains a late fourteenth-century copy of <title>De regimine principum</title> by Giles
                    of Rome OESA (c. 1243-1316) as well as a twelfth-century translation of Arabic astronomical tables
                    by Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-c. 1150). There has been some dispute as to its provenance, with M. R.
                    James and more recent scholars agreeing that it may once have been at Norwich Holy Trinity cathedral
                    priory, while Neil Ker rejected this idea. A letter from John de Mowbray (1415-61), 3rd duke of
                    Norfolk, to Thomas, bishop of Norwich, is copied in a different hand onto f. 159v and presumably
                    dates originally from c. 1436-45, when Thomas Brunce served as bishop. There is a small illustration
                    of Giles of Rome on f. 1r.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC284" n="MS 284">
                <p>The main text in CCCC MS 284, dating to c. 1400-25, is the Prayers and Meditations of Anselm of
                    Canterbury OSB (d. 1109), decorated with fine illuminated initials. The remainder of the book
                    consists of a miscellany of liturgical texts: Office of the Dead, Penitential and Gradual psalms, a
                    Sarum litany, an unidentified Benedictine litany and a litany of the abbey of St Augustine's,
                    Canterbury. The book cannot be identified in the library catalogue of the abbey, and the presence of
                    its litany, given the disparate liturgical content, is not sufficient to provide any firm evidence
                    that it belonged to St Augustine's.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC285" n="MS 285">
                <p>CCCC MS 285 contains the holograph copy of the <title>Vita Henrici V regis Angliae</title> of Tito
                    Livio Frulovisi (d. after 1456), a biography of the Lancastrian king that, it has recently been
                    argued, was a reworking of the pseudo-Elmham's <title>Vita et Gesta Henrici Quinti</title>. Written
                    while Frulovisi was in England in the later 1430s, perhaps 1436-8, the manuscript was once in the
                    possession of Henry VI, though how it came to be in Parker's possession is not known. It was
                    presumably Parker who bound this fifteenth-century humanist text together, somewhat incongruously,
                    with a tenth- or early eleventh-century copy of <title>De laudibus uirginitatis</title> (<title>De
                        virginitate</title>) by Aldhelm (d. 709) to which have been added glosses in a hand identified
                    with a Worcester Cathedral scribe.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC286" n="MS 286">
                <p>CCCC MS 286 is the famous manuscript known as the St Augustine Gospels. This is a late sixth-century
                    gospelbook which has for centuries been held to have been sent by Pope Gregory the Great with
                    Augustine of Canterbury (d. 604) when he arrived to christianise the English in 597. Certainly the
                    manuscript was in Canterbury by the end of the seventh century, and various additions were made
                    there, including some tenth-century Anglo-Saxon charters written between the gospels of Matthew and
                    Mark. Whether owned by Augustine himself, it almost certainly came to England with one of the early
                    waves of Roman missionaries; on occasion it has also been associated with St Mellitus (d. 624), and
                    with Minster-in-Thanet (Kent). CCCC MS 286 is the earliest surviving Gospel Book with figure
                    illumination: although most of it has been lost, with only a picture of Luke as a scribe under an
                    arcade, and a page of gospel images in a grid. Unfortunately, only these two of the probably eight
                    full-page pictures which the book contained have survived. These images seem to have been highly
                    influential on later English art; a number of Anglo-Saxon and Romanesque manuscripts seem to owe a
                    debt to its imagery, as does a famous scene in the Bayeux Tapestry. In the later Middle Ages this
                    manuscript was probably kept on the altar at St Augustine's, Canterbury, where Thomas of Elmham
                    describes a number of manuscripts associated with Augustine being kept. Unfortunately, most of these
                    are demonstrably later than Augustine's time. Parker may have been unaware of its assocation with
                    the Gregorian mission. In recent years it has continued to play a role outside the library: since
                    the Second World War it has been used in the enthronement of archbishops of Canterbury, and in 1982
                    it was put in the place of honour between Pope John Paul II and Archbishop Robert Runcie during the
                    first papal visit to England since the Reformation.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC287" n="MS 287">
                <p>CCCC MS 287 contains a miscellaneous sixteenth-century collection of chronicles and tracts concerned
                    with Westminster and Ely. The first part consists of a copy of <title>De fundatione ecclesiae
                        Westmonasterii</title> by John Flete OSB (c.1398-1466), an important history of Westminster
                    Abbey. Then follows a history of the bishops of Ely up to 1434 with a list of their names. At the
                    end is the <title>Contra curiales et officiales clericos siue De eruditione praelatorum</title>
                    attributed to Nigel Witeker OSB (d. after 1206).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC288" n="MS 288">
                <p>The miscellany of fourteen texts in CCCC MS 288, dating to c. 1200, has no obvious unifying theme.
                    The book opens with a number of letters of Alan of Tewkesbury OSB (d. 1202), followed by an
                    anonymous liturgical tract on church offices and a tract on the Mass by Richard the
                    Premonstratensian (fl. late twelfth century). Parts of the book contain apocrypha of the New
                    Testament such as the <title>Gospel of Nicodemus</title> and the <title>De ortu beatae Mariae et
                        infantia saluatoris</title>. Other parts contain prophetic texts such as some by Hildegard of
                    Bingen OSB (1098-1179) and the <title>De initio et fine saeculi</title> (<title>Revelations</title>)
                    of pseudo-Methodius. The book belonged to N de Sandwico (Sandwich, Kent), a monk of the cathedral
                    priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, and can perhaps be identified with an item in the early
                    fourteenth-century library catalogue by Henry of Eastry.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC289" n="MS 289">
                <p>CCCC MS 289 is a twelfth-century compilation of texts on aspects of Christian doctrine. The
                    manuscript was written by two hands, both of which are very fine. The texts contained in the
                    manuscript include works by Augustine, Vigilius Thapsensis (fl. 484), Ivo of Chartres (c.
                    1040-1115), Bruno of Asti (d. 1125) and Walter of Mortagne (d. 1174). James suggested that the book
                    might be identified with a manuscript found in the early fourteenth-century catalogue of Christ
                    Church, Canterbury, compiled under Henry of Eastry (1284-1331), but this is by no means certain.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC290" n="MS 290">
                <p>CCCC MS 290 was almost certainly produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Albans, Hertfordshire, in
                    the late eleventh or early twelfth century. It contains a number of texts concerned with continental
                    history, of which the main texts are the <title>Chronicon</title> (<title>De sex aetatibus
                        mundi</title>) of Ado of Vienne (d. 875), followed by genealogies of the Frankish kings and the
                    dukes of Normandy. In the early fourteenth century the <title>Registrum Anglie</title> recorded that
                    the manuscript was still at St Albans. The flyleaves preserve deeds bearing the date 1521 and a
                    notarial mark which mentions John Dowman (or Dolman) LLD (d.1524), elected Vice-Chancellor of
                    Cambridge University in 1495.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC291" n="MS 291">
                <p>CCCC MS 291 is a compilation of material concerning the reckoning of time, written at St Augustine's,
                    Canterbury in the late eleventh or early twelfth century. The calculation of the date of Easter,
                    known as computus, is both very complex and very important to the church year; this compilation
                    explains the theoretical calculations as well as providing relevant tables. Bede's <title>De
                        temporum ratione</title>, the main text in the book, was a very popular work in the Middle Ages,
                    and remains a useful guide to computus; but there is an interesting disparity between Bede's
                    insistence that one should be able to divide by nineteen in one's head, and the table on f. 137
                    which lays out addition, subtraction and multiplication starting with 1 + 1 is 2. At the end the
                    manuscript contains a full Easter table for 1064 to 1595, a complete Dionysiac Great Paschal Cycle
                    (532 years, the product of the 19-year lunar cycle and the 28-year cycle of days of the week). The
                    book is written throughout in late Anglo-Caroline minuscule, although the decorated initials show
                    Norman influence; this gives an interesting insight into the cultural influences at work at St
                    Augustine's Abbey after the Norman Conquest.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC292" n="MS 292">
                <p>CCCC MS 292 is another codex that reflects Matthew Parker's interest in acquiring and preserving
                    manuscripts containing medieval historical texts. This codex contains thirteenth-century copies of
                    the <title>Historia regum Britanniae</title> (including Book VII, the <title>Prophetia Ambrosii
                        Merlini</title>) by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), and the <title>History of Charlemagne and
                        Roland</title> by the pseudo-Turpinus, probably written in the second quarter of the twelfth
                    century. Both texts have had lacunae supplemented in a sixteenth-century hand. In addition, this
                    manuscript preserves a number of fourteenth- and sixteenth-century copies of documents relating to
                    Edward I's claims to the overlordship of Scotland, some of which were transcribed into <ref
                        type="ms" target="CCC101">CCCC MS 101</ref>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC293" n="MS 293">
                <p>CCCC MS 293 is a copy of William Langland (c. 1325-c. 1390), <title>Piers Plowman</title>, dating to
                    c. 1425. It is of the C-text version of the work but incomplete, and contains three drawings of
                    heads by an unskilled artist.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC294" n="MS 294">
                <p>This twelfth- or thirteenth-century manuscript contains various works by Hugh of Saint-Victor (d.
                    1141), as well as texts attributed to Hildebert of Lavardin (c.1055-1133). The volume also contains
                    a loose vellum leaf of the fifteenth century containing miscellaneous texts, including Middle
                    English verses on 'the leaps of Christ'. This manuscript belonged to Richard Mabot, who graduated
                    from the University of Cambridge in 1507-8 and later became canon of Lincoln Cathedral.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC295" n="MS 295">
                <p>CCCC MS 295 reflects Parker's obvious interest in the history of the English church and the See of
                    Canterbury in particular. It contains an incomplete version of the <title>Epistolae</title>
                    (Recension III) of Thomas Becket compiled by Alan of Tewkesbury (d. 1202) together with a few
                    letters of John of Salisbury (c. 1115-80). The manuscript was copied in the early thirteenth
                    century, probably at Christ Church, Canterbury, where it has been identified in the library
                    catalogue drawn up by Henry of Eastry in the early fourteenth century. A curious inscription in a
                    late fifteenth-century hand recording that the book was the property of 'ecclesiam Blavnsom' means
                    that it cannot be certain that Parker acquired this manuscript directly from Christ Church.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC296" n="MS 296">
                <p>CCCC MS 296 contains a late fourteenth-century (after 1383) collection of Lollard tracts and sermons
                    written in Middle English. The entire collection was once ascribed to John Wyclif (d. 1384) but is
                    now believed to be the work of a number of authors. All the tracts in this volume have been
                    published by either F. D. Matthew in 1880 and 1902 (repr.1998) or Thomas Arnold in 1871.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC297" n="MS 297">
                <p>CCCC MS 297 is an interesting manuscript because of its very ordinariness. It contains a number of
                    disparate texts copied at Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire between the early thirteenth and
                    fourteenth centuries, including copies of legal material such as the <title>Statuta
                        abbreviata</title> and an account of a dispute involving the abbot of Thorney, together with
                    tracts on diplomatic practice, husbandry, medicine (both human and veterinary) and accounting. The
                    suggestion must be that this volume was one of very many created as a commonplace book either for a
                    monastic administrator or as a more general source of information useful to a monastic
                    community.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC298" n="MS 298">
                <p>CCCC MS 298 consists of four separate books bound together. The first contains a unique
                    sixteenth-century copy of the <title>Life of St Thomas Becket</title> in Middle English verse
                    written in 1497 by Laurence Wade OSB.The second part contains a collection of documents relating to
                    the history and landholdings of Canterbury and the archbishops and dates to the early sixteenth
                    century. The third part consists of an early fifteenth-century copy of the <title>Chronica
                        pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis</title> of Thomas Stubbs OP (d. 1381), with an anonymous
                    continuation and two collection of documents. The chronicle is a history of the church of York
                    covering the period 1147-1373. The fourth part contains a variety of letters, canons and excerpts
                    from longer texts written in a Parkerian hand of the sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC299" n="MS 299">
                <p>An inscription in this thirteenth-century manuscript, CCCC MS 299, identifies it as having belonged
                    to John Tille OP (d. 1410). Tille donated this manuscript to the Dominicans of London, of which
                    convent he was a member. He also donated <ref type="ms" target="CCC306">CCCC MS 306</ref> and
                    Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.2.50 to the same house. The manuscript contains the letters of
                    Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109) and of Ivo of Chartres (c. 1040-1115).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC300" n="MS 300">
                <p>The <title>Pictor in carmine</title>, contained in CCCC MS 300, is a treatise intended for painters,
                    written in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, in which events of the New Testament are
                    provided with typological parallels from the Old, all having accompanying verses. This manuscript,
                    dating from the thirteenth century, contains the long version of the text which exists in six other
                    MSS. The work has been attributed to Adam of Dore OCist, who was Abbot of Dore (Herefordshire) and
                    died at some time after 1216. The text has been edited from this manuscript by K.-A. Wirth.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC301" n="MS 301">
                <p>CCCC MS 301 contains a number of texts relating to St Augustine's, Canterbury, copied in the early
                    fourteenth century. Among the texts included in the volume are two chronicles; one describing events
                    from the arrival of Brutus in England to the accession of Henry III derived firstly from Bede, and
                    from English twelfth-century writers such as Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), William of Malmesbury
                    OSB (c. 1080-1143), Henry of Huntingdon (1084-1155) and Roger of Howden (d. c. 1201). The other
                    chronicle is based on a foreign source and covers the period from the Incarnation to 1316. In
                    addition, this manuscript contains an early fourteenth-century Anglo-Norman copy of the
                        <title>Hosebandrie</title> of Walter of Henley (d. c. 1290/1300), a treatise on estate
                    management and accounting, and a number of veterinary recipes, also in Anglo-Norman. The book was
                    donated to St Augustine's by Stephen de Hackyngton (fl. 1332). Matthew Parker no doubt valued it for
                    the light it shed on the history of Canterbury, a recurring theme in his collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC302" n="MS 302">
                <p>CCCC MS 302 is an important collection of Old English homilies, mostly by Ælfric of Eynsham (c.
                    950-c. 1010). It was written in the early twelfth century, probably in south-east England. It
                    contains late Old English spellings, and is an important witness to the use made of the Anglo-Saxon
                    homiletic tradition after the Norman Conquest. It was Parker's fifth volume of homilies in his
                    numeration system.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC303" n="MS 303">
                <p>CCCC MS 303 is an interesting witness to the fate of the Old English language after the Norman
                    Conquest led to the replacement of much of the English elite with French-speaking Normans.
                    Manuscripts of Old English homilies were still produced at least as frequently as they had been in
                    the period before the Conquest; contrary to popular misconception Old English seems to have
                    continued in use. MS 303 is a collection of Old English homilies, many of them by Ælfric of Eynsham
                    (c. 950-c. 1010), copied in the first half of the twelfth century in the south east of England,
                    probably at Rochester. An old foliation shows that several quires have been lost from the start of
                    this manuscript. Parker gave it the number 9 in his collection of homiletic manuscripts.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC304" n="MS 304">
                <p>CCCC MS 304 is a very important early copy of Juvencus, <title>Euangelia metrica</title>, a metrical
                    paraphrase of the gospels in Virgilian language composed in the fourth century by this aristocratic
                    Spanish priest. It also contains the earliest known version of some verses by Isidore of Seville (c.
                    560-636). This manuscript was written in the first half of the eighth century in Uncial script. E.
                    A. Lowe changed his mind about this manuscript between the two editions of the second volume of his
                        <title>Codices Latini Antiquiores</title>: in the first he considered it to be Spanish, in the
                    second Italian. It seems to have reached England by the tenth century, perhaps at Christ Church,
                    Canterbury or Malmesbury, and may be identifiable with an item in the Christ Church library
                    catalogue.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC305" n="MS 305">
                <p>William of Nottingham's Commentary on the Gospels, contained in CCCC MS 305, is essentially a
                    commentary on the concordance of the four Gospels and derives from works such as Zacharias of
                    Besançon (Chrysopolitanus) OPrem (fl. c. 1131-60), <title>De concordia euangelistarum</title>
                        (<title>Vnum ex quatuor</title>), which is contained in <ref type="ms" target="CCC027">CCCC MS
                        27</ref>. The book has been dated to the last quarter of the fourteenth century. This William of
                    Nottingham (d. after 1330) was provincial of the English Franciscans 1316-30 and must be
                    distinguished from another William of Nottingham (d. after 1254) also a Franciscan, to whom the
                    earlier literature ascribed this work. </p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC306" n="MS 306">
                <p>On the flyleaf there is an inscription indicating the ownership of CCCC MS 306 by the Dominican
                    convent of London via John Tille OP (d. 1410). It contains theological works and sermons of
                    Albertanus of Brescia (c. 1190-after 1250), sometimes wrongly called Albertanus of Brixen. These
                    include his <title>Ars loquendi et tacendi</title>, <title>De consolatio et consilio</title> and
                        <title>De amore et dilectione Dei</title>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC307" n="MS 307">
                <p>CCCC MS 307 consists of two manuscripts bound together, probably by Parker. The first is a copy of
                    the <title>Life of St Guthlac</title> by Felix of Crowland (fl.eighth century) written in English
                    Square minuscule, a script descended from earlier Insular minuscule. It has traditionally been dated
                    to the ninth century, but more recent palaeographical work makes a date in the early tenth much more
                    likely. It also has two acrostic poems on Guthlac, which have become corrupt in copying. The second
                    part of the manuscript is a fourteenth-century collection of works by John Waleys OFM (d. 1285), and
                    one text, the <title>De ente et essentia</title>, by Thomas Aquinas OP (1224/5-74).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC308" n="MS 308">
                <p>CCCC MS 308 comprises two volumes, both of which date from the twelfth century. The first volume
                    contains the only extant copy of the <title>Vita Sancti Ethelberti</title> by Osbert of Clare (d. in
                    or after 1158); the second contains a copy of the most popular work by Honorius Augustodunensis (d.
                    c. 1140), the <title>Elucidarius</title>, and a letter and a sermon by Ivo of Chartres (c.
                    1040-1115/16). The manuscript contains some marginalia, including a charm against toothache.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC309" n="MS 309">
                <p> This manuscript contains texts by Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), Petrus Alfonsi (1062-1110),
                    Dioscurus (d. 454), and Augustine. The texts are copied by hands of varying quality. Dating from the
                    twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, its classmark indicates a provenance at the Benedictine
                    abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary at York. The flyleaves of this manuscript comprise fragments of an
                    eleventh-century copy of Sallust's Jugurthine War; according to Lapidge, this is the only surviving
                    evidence for knowledge of this text in England before 1100.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC310" n="MS 310">
                <p>This is a late twelfth-century copy of Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (c. 1096-1141), <title>De sacramentis
                        christianae fidei</title> written c. 1134; this was one of the earliest complete theological
                    works of the Paris schools and one of Hugh's most important and influential works. CCCC MS 310 is
                    one of many surviving manuscript copies. The text is written in a fine, small hand and there are a
                    number of initials, including some fine figure and ornamental initials on gold grounds.
                    Unfortunately some of the margins of the manuscript are damaged, as it has been gnawed by mice or
                    rats.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC311" n="MS 311">
                <p>CCCC MS 311 is one of the many manuscripts in the collection that reflects Parker's interest in
                    British history. In this instance the text is a Latin prose <title>Brut</title> chronicle in a late
                    fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century hand that continues the account of events to 1437, and which
                    belongs to the family of extended versions that may have served as a textual model for the Middle
                    English 'Peculiar Version'. John Bale (1495-1563), the historian, mentions that such a text, with
                    the same incipit, was in the possession of one William Carey 'scriba' of Cheapside in the
                    mid-sixteenth century. This provenance is supported by a note on one of the flyleaves mentioning Dr
                    Edward Wotton (d.1555), a renowned physician who seems to have practiced in the Cheapside area of
                    London.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC312" n="MS 312">
                <p>CCCC MS 312 is what might be termed a "<title>Libellus Sancti Augustini</title>", a book of
                    hagiographical material concerning St Augustine of Canterbury, predominantly by Goscelin of
                    Canterbury OSB (d. after 1114), formerly a monk of St Bertin. Goscelin came to England either
                    shortly before or shortly after the Norman Conquest, later becoming a monk of St Augustine's
                    Canterbury, and had a flourishing career as a hagiographer, especially of native English saints. He
                    wrote a number of works for the translations of major Canterbury saints in 1091, including these St
                    Augustine texts. This manuscript was written in the mid-twelfth century, and includes liturgical
                    material with music. Like <ref type="ms" target="CCC050">CCCC MS 50</ref> it seems to have been
                    owned by someone called Bachon, who wrote his name in it accompanied by a little flower, before it
                    came into the hands of Parker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC313" n="MS 313">
                <p>CCCC MS 313 contains a collection of historical texts copied in a late tweflth- or early
                    thirteenth-century hand. The two major works in the manuscript are the <title>Epitoma de Tito
                        Livio</title> of Lucius Annaeus Florus (fl. c. 140), an account of Roman history, and the
                        <title>Opuscula</title> of Ralph de Diceto (d. 1199/1200), a work of history from the
                    Incarnation to his own day comprised of extracts from his own and other authors' works. Although
                    such material appealed to Parker, there is very little clues as to how this manuscript came into
                    Parker's possession apart from the name 'Byny' written in Parker's characteristic red chalk on one
                    of the flyleaves.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC314" n="MS 314">
                <p>CCCC MS 314 contains a number of texts pertaining to the mystical theology of pseudo-Dionysius,
                    including Latin translations of his works on the Celestial Hierarchy and the Divine Names. The
                    manuscript also contains commentaries on pseudo-Dionysius by Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (c. 1096-1141)
                    and Thomas Gallus (Vercellensis) OSA (d. 1246), as well as a number of other commentaries by Gallus,
                    including one on the Song of Songs. The Latin translation of pseudo-Dionysius, <title>De caelesti
                        hierarchia</title> is that by John Scotus Eriugena (9th century); the text also includes two
                    poems by Eriugena, but they are textually corrupt and were not used for Herren's edition. The
                    manuscript is of late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century date, and is from the Benedictine
                    abbey of St Augustine's, Canterbury.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC315" n="MS 315">
                <p>CCCC MS 315 contains thirteenth-century copies of texts relating to the Bible and to the history and
                    geography of the Holy Land, such as an excerpt from Bede's <title>De temporum ratione</title> and
                    his <title>De locis sanctis</title>, Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), <title>In uisionem
                        Ezechielis</title>, and Andrew of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1175), <title>Expositio hystorica in
                        librum Regum</title>. It is common for works by Bede to be found in manuscripts also containing
                    Andrew's works. Members of the Victorine school focused exclusively on the books of the Old
                    Testament, but while Richard's commentaries are allegorical, Andrew's are historical. It should be
                    noted that the text which was previously thought to be a commentary on Maccabees has now been
                    identified as Andrew's historical Dossier. Van Liere used CCCC MS 315 for his edition of the works
                    of Andrew of Saint-Victor. The manuscript also contains some notes pertaining to a journey during
                    which the writer was at Montpellier and Cologne. An <hi rend="italic">ex libris</hi> inscription
                    identifies the manuscript as having belonged to the Franciscan convent at Oxford.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC316" n="MS 316">
                <p>The ex libris inscription of this thirteenth-century manuscript gives it a provenance at the
                    Dominican convent, London. However, on f. ivr is a fragment of a deed, dated to 1515, in the name of
                    the public notary of Norwich diocese, suggesting that the manuscript may have been in Norwich in the
                    early sixteenth century. The manuscript contains Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (c. 1096-1141) on the
                    Celestial Hierarchy by pseudo-Dionysius, as well as numerous texts by Augustine, pseudo-Augustine,
                    Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), Jerome, Drogo of Laon (fl. c. 1100) and others. The final section
                    of the manuscript is the only extant copy of the first recension of Alexander of Canterbury (fl.
                    1100-1110), <title>Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi</title>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC317" n="MS 317">
                <p>CCCC MS 317 is a compilation of three volumes of religious tracts. The first volume contains the
                    synodal statutes of Eudes de Sully, Bishop of Paris (archbishop 1196-1208, d. 1208) and sermons
                    attributed to Geoffrey Babio du Louroux, archbishop of Bordeaux (archbishop 1135-58, d. 1158). The
                    second volume contains a copy of <title>De uirtutibus et uitiis</title> (chaps. 6-36) by Alcuin (c.
                    735/40-804). The third volume contains commentaries on the Pater Noster, the Ave Maria and the
                    Apostles Creed by John Waldeby (d. after 1372); two pseudo-Augustinian tracts; a tract by John
                    Deverose (d. after 1400); tables of biblical themes and theological concepts and an incomplete copy
                    of <title>Speculum ecclesiae</title> by Edmund of Abingdon (c. 1174-1240), Archbishop of Canterbury
                    (1234-1240), which varies significantly from the Forshaw edition (1973).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC318" n="MS 318">
                <p>The two parts of CCCC MS 318 may once have been separate manuscripts, but they were certainly
                    together at Rochester in the twelfth century, when a contents list and an anathema were added to the
                    volume. The first part is a twelfth-century collection of hagiography containing vitae of Edward the
                    Confessor, Anselm of Canterbury, Herluin of Bec, and the Venerable Bede. The second part is also a
                    twelfth-century collection of hagiography, but with some romance material as well: it contains texts
                    on James the apostle, Charlemagne and Roland, Bishop Turpin, Thecla, and Apollonius of Tyre. An
                    inscription says that the manuscript was given to Parker by a deacon of Rochester.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC319" n="MS 319">
                <p>There are two separate sections of different dates in CCCC MS 319. The first is an extract from
                    Petrus Comestor (d. c. 1187), <title>Historia scholastica</title>, apparently reworked by Peter of
                    Poitiers (d. 1205) as indicated in the text on f. 53. The second part of the book is the text on the
                    liturgy by Honorius Augustodunensis (fl. 1106-1135, probably d. 1151), <title>Gemma animae siue De
                        diuinis officiis</title>. The <hi rend="italic">ex libris</hi> on f. 1 has been read by Ker as
                    ownership by the Augustinian Abbey of Lessness.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC320" n="MS 320">
                <p>CCCC MS 320 consists of two volumes, probably joined by Matthew Parker, who often had otherwise
                    unrelated material bound together. The first volume contains sermons by Geoffrey Babio du Louroux,
                    archbishop of Bordeaux (1135-58), and others, copied in the twelfth century. The second is an
                    Anglo-Saxon Penitential. It contains two Penitential texts and some related material, including the
                        <title>Libellus responsionum</title> found in Bede's <title>Historia ecclesiastica</title> in
                    which Augustine of Canterbury and Gregory the Great correspond about the requirements of moral
                    behaviour for the newly converted Anglo-Saxons. There are also some miscellaneous notes on things
                    like the length of the Ark, and some added Old English material. T. A. M. Bishop linked this
                    manuscript into a network of material written at St Augustine's, Canterbury in the second half of
                    the tenth century or later.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC321" n="MS 321">
                <p>CCCC MS 321 is a fourteenth-century manuscript of Petrus Iohannis Olivi OFM (1247/8-96),
                        <title>Commentary on Matthew</title> and <title>Quaestiones</title>. The texts of these have not
                    been printed, save for extracts. The manuscript has been associated with the Benedictine abbey of
                    Ramsey, but on evidence which Ker thought insufficient. It also contains an important
                    eleventh-century fragment of an Old English dialogue about the word Alleluia, otherwise attested
                    only in BL Harley 3271, and probably based on material from the pseudo-Bedan
                        <title>Collectanea</title>. It is not clear whether Parker placed this fragment in the book, or
                    whether it was already there when he acquired it.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC322" n="MS 322">
                <p>CCCC MS 322 contains the translation of Gregory the Great's <title>Dialogues</title> made by
                    Wærferth, Bishop of Worcester in the late ninth and early tenth centuries, at the request of King
                    Alfred the Great. It is the only surviving witness to large parts of the text. It was written in the
                    second half of the eleventh century probably at Worcester, where it has later provenance. James's
                    suggestion of provenance at Bury St Edmunds, provoked by the form of the manuscript's classmark and
                    the inclusion of a similar manuscript in a Bury booklist, has been rejected by Ker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC323" n="MS 323">
                <p>Written in several hands of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, CCCC MS 323 begins with extracts
                    adapted from the <title>Legenda aurea</title> by Iacobus de Voragine OP (d. 1298), including the
                    lives of Pilate and Judas Iscariot. Then follows an anonymous treatise on the liturgical offices,
                    including an exposition on the Mass. The final text is a commentary on the seven penitential psalms
                    attributed to Pope Innocent III ( 1160/61-1216), ending imperfectly. There seems to be no thematic
                    unity between the three parts of the book.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC324" n="MS 324">
                <p>CCCC MS 324 contains a luxurious fourteenth-century copy of <title>Le Miroir des dames</title>, a
                    translation into French of the <title>Speculum dominarum</title>, a didactic text written for Jeanne
                    de Navarre (d. 1305), wife of Philip IV of France, by her confessor, Durand de Champagne OFM. The
                    manuscript is described as bearing the sign manual of Charles V of France (1338-80), and in 1411 the
                    catalogue of the French royal library recorded this manuscript as still being in the collection at
                    the Louvre palace, where it is described as 'de bonne lettre de forme' in a linen cover with two
                    gold clasps. It contains a miniature of the presentation of the book to Jeanne by her confessor, and
                    many illuminated borders and initials.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC325" n="MS 325">
                <p>CCCC MS 325, written in the fourteenth century, contains a number of elevating treatises on a range
                    of subjects, including those by Vincent of Beauvais OP (1189/94-1264) on the education of children
                    written for the French royal family, <title>De eruditione regalium filiorum</title>, and on facing
                    death, <title>Liber consolatorius ad Ludouicum regem de morte filii</title>. There is also a copy of
                    the advice of Bernard of Clairvaux OCist (1090-1153) on the interpretation of the Benedictine Rule -
                        <title>De praecepto et dispensatione</title>, and his <title>Epistola ad Robertum nepotem
                        suum</title> . The manuscript, copied in a late thirteenth or early fourteenth-century hand, was
                    certainly once in the library of the cathedral priory at Norwich, though mention of the name John de
                    Stratton on the first folio of the codex almost certainly refers to the man who was appointed prior
                    of Norwich's daughter house of St. Mary Magdalen, St. Margaret, and All Virgin Saints at King's Lynn
                    in 1325. The manuscript may have passed through the hands of the historian, John Bale (1495-1563),
                    before it passed into Parker's collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC326" n="MS 326">
                <p>CCCC MS 326 is an interesting manuscript which attests to Latin learning at the cathedral priory of
                    Christ Church, Canterbury at the end of the tenth century and the beginning of the eleventh. It
                    contains the unique text of the macaronic poem <title>Aldhelm</title>, which switches from Latin
                    (with Greek vocabulary) to Old English, phrase by phrase; but its main contents are two particularly
                    difficult Latin texts with glosses. The prose <title>De laudibus uirginitatis</title> by Aldhelm (d.
                    709), and the third book of <title>Bella Parisiacae urbis</title> by Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
                    (d. 921), were both very influential on the so-called hermeneutic style of Anglo-Latin, which arose
                    in the second half of the tenth century in association with the Benedictine Reform Movement. The
                    manuscript also contains a poem in the shape of a wheel. Provenance at Christ Church, Canterbury is
                    assured by the two surviving classmarks of that house, and the identification of this manuscript in
                    the early fourteenth-century Christ Church catalogue of Henry of Eastry OSB. An origin at the same
                    house seems certain since T. A. M. Bishop identified the scribe as one of those from his large
                    network of Canterbury manuscripts.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC327" n="MS 327">
                <p>The collection of sermons in CCCC MS 327, written in the late thirteenth century, is attributed to
                    William de Mauli (fl. thirteenth century) about whom almost nothing is known. The author's name is
                    given at the beginning of the text. The collection is entitled <title>Abjiciamus</title> and is
                    arranged as sermons according to the church year for the Temporal and the Sanctoral (ff. 1-159v).
                    The final text in the book is <title>Opusculum compilatum de libris sanctorum patrum</title>, also
                    attributed to William de Mauli.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC328" n="MS 328">
                <p>CCCC MS 328 consists of two volumes, both hagiographical in nature. The first was written circa 1100,
                    perhaps at Christ Church, Canterbury, and concerns St Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury 959-88. As
                    well as the <title>Vita</title> by Osbern of Canterbury OSB (d. 1094?), it contains a Mass of St
                    Dunstan with a neumed prosa and an extract from the Life of St Dunstan by Eadmer of Canterbury OSB
                    (d. after 1124). The second volume contains material on Cluniac saints, specifically the Lives of
                    Odo, Maiolus, and Odilo, and a Mass for Odilo. It was written in the first half of the twelfth
                    century. The two volumes were certainly together in the later Middle Ages, when an ownership
                    inscription of St Swithun's cathedral priory, Winchester with a contents list was entered on a
                    flyleaf.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC329" n="MS 329">
                <p>The provenance of CCCC MS 329 gives every appearance of being firmly established as originating from
                    the Benedictine priory of Thetford (Norfolk). Written c. 1425-50, the manuscript contains a number
                    of texts associating it with the priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary. These include a statement about
                    the authorship of John Bramis (fl. fourteenth century) of the <title>Historia regis Waldei</title>,
                    to the unique copy of the <title>History of Thetford priory</title> by Geoffrey of Rocherio OSB (d.
                    1301), both texts found in this volume. There is also an anonymous account of a miracle attending
                    the repairs carried out on the buildings of the priory. Yet, as James observed, another anonymous
                        <title>Chronicle</title> from the incarnation to the year 1399, that also appears in this
                    manuscript, takes a close interest in the affairs of the nearby priory of Augustinian canons at
                    Ixworth (Suffolk). Parker no doubt valued it for its account of church history from his home county
                    of Norfolk, but how it came into his possession is not known.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC330" n="MS 330">
                <p>CCCC MS 330 consists of two parts. Although they are appropriately associated since one contains a
                    gloss on the text found in the other, they were originally separate manuscripts. The first part,
                    written either in Normandy or in England probably in the early twelfth century, contains the
                        <title>De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii</title> by the late antique author, Martianus Capella.
                    It has an <hi rend="italic">ex libris</hi> inscription of Malmesbury abbey, and contains writing in
                    the hand of William of Malmesbury OSB (c. 1080-1143). It may have been William himself who combined
                    it with the second part, which contains a commentary on Martianus Capella probably either by Dunchad
                    (9th century) or Martin of Laon. The same text is found in <ref type="ms" n="CCC153">CCCC MS
                        153</ref>. This second part was written on the Continent in the late ninth century (although
                    Bischoff does not mention it in his catalogue of ninth-century manuscripts, which may mean he
                    thought it later), but it was probably brought to England relatively early.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC331" n="MS 331">
                <p>Most of the miscellany of texts in CCCC MS 331, written in the fifteenth century, are concerned with
                    the Eucharist. The main text is Baldwin of Ford OCist (d. 1190), <title>De sacramento
                        altaris</title> which is also contained in <ref type="ms" target="CCC200">CCCC MS 200</ref>, a
                    manuscript written contemporary with its author. Others include Lanfranc OSB (d. 1089), <title>De
                        corpore et sanguine Domini</title>, Paschasius Radbertus (c. 785-c. 860), <title>De corpore et
                        sanguine Domini</title>, and John Tissington OFM (d. c. 1395), <title>Confessio de sacramento
                        altaris</title>. The manuscript also contains sermons and letters mostly relating to the same
                    subject.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC332" n="MS 332">
                <p>CCCC MS 332 is a miscellany of religious material, largely concerned with the Virgin Mary. It
                    includes sermons, some attributed to Augustine and Jerome, and <title>De nativitate Christi</title>
                    by Ratramnus of Corbie (fl. 825-c. 870). It was written in the first quarter of the twelfth century
                    at the cathedral priory of Rochester, and contains work by a scribe identified in other Rochester
                    manuscripts. It is included in Rochester catalogues of 1122/3 and 1202.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC333" n="MS 333">
                <p>CCCC MS 333, dating to the last quarter of the fourteenth century, contains a number of treatises
                    dealing with the controversy over the poverty of Christ and the Church in the first half of the
                    fourteenth century, and was copied more or less contemporaneously with that debate. Texts in this
                    volume include Berengarius Fredoli (d. 1323), <title>Tractatus de excommunicatione</title>,
                    Bonagratia of Bergamo (c. 1265-1340), <title>Casus papales et episcopales cum explanatione
                        praedicatorum</title>, Roger Conway OFM (d. 1360), <title>Defensio religionis
                        mendicantium</title> (<title>De confessionibus contra Armachanum</title>) and Herman of Saxony
                    (or Topelstein) (fl. c. 1330-40), <title>Casus abstracti a iure</title>, a treatise on confession.
                    The provenance of this manuscript is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC334" n="MS 334">
                <p>CCCC MS 334 contains Jerome's translation of Origen's homilies on Luke. It was written in the type of
                    script known as "a-z minuscule", one of the many European pre-Caroline minuscules, probably at a
                    nunnery in Laon in the eighth century. It shares scribes with other Laon books, and has a note
                    saying that it was written by one 'Fortunatus'. It contains some fish and animal decoration very
                    typical in manuscripts of its date from northern France. There is no record of how it came into
                    Parker's hands, and no evidence that it was in England in the Middle Ages.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC335" n="MS 335">
                <p>The greater part of the material in CCCC MS 335 is concerned with Christian attitudes to Islam. It
                    contains fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century copies of texts that were the result of Peter the
                    Venerable's (c. 1092-1156) travels in Muslim Spain and which were frequently transmitted together.
                    These include Peter's own <title>Letter</title> to Bernard of Clairvaux OCist (1090-1153), Robert of
                    Ketton (d. after 1157) <title>Chronica mendosa Sarracenorum</title>, <title>De generatione
                        Mahumet</title> and <title>De doctrina Mahumet</title> sometimes attributed to Hermann of
                    Carinthia (Hermann Dalmatin, c. 1100-c. 1160), Riccoldus de Monte Crucis OP (1242-1320)
                        <title>Libellus contra legem Sarracenorum</title> and the Letter of a Saracen and Christian
                    Response, the translation by Peter of Toledo (fl. c. 1142-3) and Peter of Poitiers (c. 1130-1205) of
                    the <title>Apologia</title> (<title>Risala</title>) attributed to al-Kindi. In addition the
                    manuscript contains a number of minor texts, including an <title>Orthographia Gallica</title>,
                    medical recipes and prognostications. The manuscript was once at the cathedral priory of Ely,
                    according to an inscription at the end of the book.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC336" n="MS 336">
                <p>CCCC MS 336 dates to the first half of the fifteenth century and contains a collection of Lollard
                    sermons. This collection includes sets 2 (on the Common of the Saints), 3 (on the Proper of the
                    Saints) and 4 (on the ferial gospels) of the Wycliffite sermon cycle which is preserved in a number
                    of manuscripts.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC337" n="MS 337">
                <p>CCCC MS 337, dating to the fourteenth century, contains two main texts. The first is the <title>Liber
                        scintillarum</title> of Defensor of Ligugé (late seventh century), a florilegium of biblical and
                    patristic sayings arranged according to themes. The second is the <title>Summa Qui bene
                        praesunt</title> by Richard of Wetheringsett (fl. c. 1200-30), first recorded chancellor of
                    Cambridge University at some time between 1215 and 1232. This is a guide for preachers structured in
                    the manner of a catechism according to the Creed, the Lord's Prayer etc. It is one of the earliest
                    pastoral texts of this sort which were initiated by the reforms of the Fourth Lateran Council of
                    1215. Formerly the author of this text was thought to be William de Montibus (d. 1213). The book
                    might have belonged to the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, but that provenance is
                    doubtful.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC338" n="MS 338">
                <p>CCCC MS 338, written in a German script of the sixteenth century, contains a copy of <title>Von der
                        Herrlichkeit Christi</title> by Caspar Schwenckfeld (or Kaspar von Schwenkfeld of Ossig)
                    (1489/90-1561). Schwenckfeld was a Reformation theologian from Silesia and his writings formed the
                    bases for a Protestant group known as the Schwenkfelders.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC339" n="MS 339">
                <p>CCCC MS 339 contains two distinct volumes, the first of which has been claimed by some as the
                    autograph working copy of the <title>Chronicon de tempore regis Ricardi</title> by Richard of
                    Devizes OSB (fl. late twelfth century), a monk of Winchester, and the <title>Annales
                        Wintonienses</title>. The second volume contains a fourteenth-century copy of the
                        <title>Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum</title> by Peter of Ickham OSB (d. 1295). The
                    provenance of this manuscript is uncertain. The earlier portion of the codex may have been produced
                    at the Benedictine cathedral priory of St Peter, St Paul, and St Swithun at Winchester, around 1200,
                    while an early fifteenth-century note appended to the second volume is concerned with events in the
                    Augustinian abbey of the Blessed Virgin at Lilleshall in Shropshire. Neither of these provenances
                    have been wholly accepted The manuscript may once have been in the hands of the historian John Bale
                    (1495-1563) before it came into Parker's possession.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC340" n="MS 340">
                <p>CCCC MS 340 contains a collection of sixteenth-century papers, tracts and letters on theological
                    issues from the Reformation period including pieces by Martin Bucer (1491-1551) and Peter Martyr
                    (1500-62). There is material here relating to the course of the Reformation both in England and on
                    the Continent.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC341" n="MS 341">
                <p>CCCC MS 341 is primarily a sixteenth-century paper transcript of Eadmer of Canterbury OSB (c. 1060-
                    d. after 1124), <title>Historia nouorum in Anglia</title>, most likely copied from <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC452">CCCC MS 452</ref> while it was in the possession of Dr Henry Johns. This
                    chronicle of English history covers the period c. 1066-c. 1122. However, loose within the book are
                    two inserted fragments: one, a leaf from Eadmer, <title>Historia nouorum</title>, and the other from
                    Eadmer, <title>Vita Anselmi</title>. Both leaves date from the first half of the twelfth century,
                    and are believed to be autograph copies of Eadmer's works. Their provenance has thus been identified
                    as the Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity, Christ Church, Canterbury.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC342" n="MS 342">
                <p>CCCC MS 342 demonstrates that Matthew Parker was not solely concerned to acquire original copies of
                    manuscript material that interested him, but that he actively sought to propagate new copies of
                    texts. This manuscript contains a version of the <title>Flores historiarum</title> (<title>Annales
                        ecclesiae Roffensis</title>) with a particular emphasis on events in Rochester, sometimes
                    attributed to Edmund of Haddenham OSB (fl. c. 1300), a monk of Rochester or John of Rainham OSB (d.
                    1294), prior of Rochester. This text was copied, on Parker's instructions, directly from BL Cotton
                    Nero D.II, itself in the hands of Parker's secretary, John Joscelin (1529-1603) at the time.
                    Parker's characteristic red chalk underlining in this volume reveals his interest in the subject of
                    clerical marriage, a matter of more than public and historical interest to the Archbishop of
                    Canterbury who was, despite Queen Elizabeth I's objections, a married man.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC343" n="MS 343">
                <p>CCCC MS 343 contains fourteenth-century copies of historical material of the kind that interested
                    Parker. In this instance the texts include Ralph Niger (d. c. 1210), to whose
                        <title>Chronicum</title>, covering the period from the Creation to 1199, has been added extracts
                    from the <title>Chronicon Anglicanum</title> by Ralph of Coggeshall OCist (d. after 1224), and a
                    copy of Coggeshall's <title>Chronicon terrae sanctae et de captis a Saladino Hierosolymis</title>.
                    In addition, the manuscript contains a handful of other texts of a varied nature, including verses
                    on weights and measures, a guide to playing chess, a gospel parody (<title>Sequencia leti euuangelii
                        secundum lucrum</title>) and a short history of the dukes of Normandy from William I to John.
                    The flyleaves of the volume are made up of two leaves of a late fifteenth-century abstract version
                    of the <title>Polychronicon</title> by Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364). Nothing is known of the
                    provenance of this manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC344" n="MS 344">
                <p>This late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century manuscript contains many short tracts by, or
                    attributed to, Augustine of Hippo. It is written in two beautiful hands. James suggested that the
                    manuscript was from Norwich, although this was rejected by Ker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC345" n="MS 345">
                <p>This twelfth-century manuscript contains works by Hilary of Poitiers (c. 315-67), including <title>De
                        trinitate</title>, his important work against the Arians. The manuscript was given to Corpus
                    Christi College by Roger Flint, a graduate of the college, who served as chaplain to Charles I.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC347" n="MS 347">
                <p>Parker acquired CCCC MS 347 from Norwich cathedral priory, and it was one of three that the priory
                    had been bequeathed by their former owner, Cardinal Adam Easton OSB (c. 1330-97), that Parker
                    secured (see also <ref type="ms" target="CCC074">CCCC MSS 74</ref> and <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC180">180</ref>). It contains the 'Almanac' (<title>Tabulae almanac</title>) of
                    Profatius Iudaeus (Jacob ben Machir) (fl. 1288-1301) and other astrological material, a Norwich
                    cathedral priory calendar and the only known surviving fragment of Easton's treatise
                        <title>Expositio quorundam terminorum astrologicorum</title>. It was almost certainly once part
                    of the Cardinal's reputedly extensive personal library. If so, it was probably among the 228 books
                    from that source which arrived in Norwich, packed in six barrels, in 1407, ten years after Easton's
                    death in Rome.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC348" n="MS 348">
                <p>CCCC MS 348 is another instance of Parker not simply collecting original manuscript versions of texts
                    he regarded as important, but actually creating new copies of them. This codex contains two distinct
                    texts, one, the <title>Chronica minora</title> of Matthew Paris OSB (c. 1195-1259), is copied from
                    the version of the same text now in BL Royal 14.C.VII. The same manuscript was used as the basis for
                    a much fuller transcription now in <ref type="ms" target="CCC056">CCCC MS 56</ref>. The second text
                    in this manuscript is a transcription of a number of Anglo-Saxon law codes from Alfred to Cnut
                    copied from the version of the so-called <title>Quadripartitus</title> collection in <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC096">CCCC MS 96</ref>. Both texts reveal Parker's interest in English history, and in
                    particular in the Saxon origins of the English state and society.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC349" n="MS 349">
                <p>CCCC MS 349 contains a collection of documents relating to the Statutes of Cathedrals and to the
                    reform of Canterbury Cathedral in particular. The documents, in various hands, are all
                    sixteenth-century and relate to the reigns of both Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC350" n="MS 350">
                <p>CCCC MS 350 contains one of only two copies known to be extant of the <title>Historia maior de
                        fundatione ecclesiae Wintoniensis</title> by Thomas Rudbourne OSB (d. c. 1450), monk of
                    Winchester. The other copy, Lambeth Palace Library MS 183, is an incomplete late fifteenth-century
                    version of the text from which the edition in the Corpus manuscript is a direct copy made in the
                    sixteenth century, possibly (though not certainly) for Parker. As such, CCCC MS 350 should probably
                    join other Corpus manuscripts such as <ref type="ms" target="CCC056">56</ref>, <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC342">342</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC348">348</ref> as evidence for Parker's
                    concern not simply to acquire existing manuscripts that contained material he regarded as
                    interesting or useful, but also to make copies of them to ensure their survival.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC352" n="MS 352">
                <p>CCCC MS 352 contains Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), <title>Arithmetica</title>. It was written in the
                    middle of the tenth century at St Augustine's, Canterbury, in the script known as 'Square
                    minuscule', a Southumbrian English variety of Insular minuscule. It is quite a large format book,
                    elegantly written with large margins, and was probably always intended to contain the glosses which
                    have been added by contemporary and slightly later hands. The manuscript may have had a Welsh
                    exemplar. It has later provenance at St Augustine's, Canterbury and is included in its medieval
                    library catalogue. At some point it has lost its ending.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC353" n="MS 353">
                <p>CCCC MS 353 contains a fourteenth-century copy of the <title>Summa dictaminis</title> of Petrus de
                    Vinea (d. 1249). The <title>Summa</title>, a collection of de Vinea's letters, are broadly concerned
                    with the art of politics and, in particular, the relations between the emperor and the papacy in the
                    early and mid-thirteenth century. No doubt this was what attracted Parker to the manuscript,
                    concerned as he was with the relationship between church and state. A donation inscription records
                    that the book was given to the church at Burton by William de Swepston, possibly (though not
                    certainly) indicating that this volume was once at the Benedictine abbey of the Blessed Virgin and
                    St Modwenna at Burton on Trent.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC354" n="MS 354">
                <p>CCCC MS 354 contains a c. 1500 copy of the translation into English by John of Trevisa (c. 1342-1402)
                    of the <title>Polychronicon</title> by Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364). Described by M. R. James as 'a
                    very shabby ugly little book', this workaday copy is in marked contrast to the luxurious copy of the
                    Latin original that Parker also possessed (<ref type="ms" target="CCC021">CCCC MS 21</ref>), though
                    both reflect his interest in English history. The provenance of this manuscript is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC355" n="MS 355">
                <p>The commentaries on the Epistle to the Romans and on Genesis contained in CCCC MS 355 are by John
                    Colet (1467-1519), one of the early humanists in England, who had been to Italy and was influenced
                    by early Renaissance scholarship. The commentary on Romans originated as a lecture in Oxford given
                    in the late 1490s, and was expanded and revised, as in this manuscript copy, addressed to a young
                    man named Edmund. It heralds a departure from the still prevalent scholastic mode of exegesis. It is
                    written in humanist script by Peter Meghen (1466/7-1540), a Brabantine scribe who worked extensively
                    for the English early sixteenth-century humanists. The manuscript was probably made in the first or
                    second decades of the sixteenth century. John Colet seems first to have employed Meghen in 1505,
                    although he continued to work in England into the 1520s. Blank spaces indicate the intention to
                    include miniatures and ornamental intials, but regrettably this work was never carried out.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC356" n="MS 356">
                <p>The miscellany of texts in CCCC MS 356 are in three separate parts of various dates probably bound
                    together in the sixteenth century or later. The first, dating from the second half of the thirteenth
                    century, is the <title>Summa Qui bene praesunt</title> by Richard of Wetheringsett (fl. c. 1200-30),
                    first recorded chancellor of Cambridge University at some time between 1215 and 1232. This text is
                    also contained in <ref type="ms" target="CCC337">CCCC MS 337</ref>. The second part, also of the
                    thirteenth century, contains several texts including Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1141), <title>De
                        institutione nouiciorum</title>, the <title>De sex alis cherubim</title> by Alain of Lille (d.
                    1202), but also attributed to Clement of Llanthony OSA (d. after 1169), and treatises on baptism and
                    the mass. The third part is of the late tenth century and contains a Glossary of Latin words. In the
                    margin of f. 20r in this section is a <title>Sanctus</title> with neumes.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC357" n="MS 357">
                <p>CCCC MS 357 contains two distinct volumes. The first is a unique late fifteenth- or early
                    sixteenth-century copy of the translation into English by John Skelton (c. 1460-1529) of the Latin
                    translation by Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459) of the first five books of the <title>Bibliotheca
                        historica</title> by Diodorus Siculus (fl. 60-30 B.C.). The second is a late fourteenth-century
                    text of the sermon of Thomas Wimbledon (d. after 1388), <title>Redde racionem villacionis
                        tue</title>, preached at St Paul's Cross in 1387 or 1388. The name 'Robert Pen' inscribed in the
                    manuscript probably refers to a Gentleman of the Royal Chapel under Henry VII and Henry VIII.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC358" n="MS 358">
                <p>CCCC MS 358 contains a fourteenth-century copy of a <title>Formulary</title>, a collection intended
                    to inform clerks and notaries as to the proper form to be employed when writing letters. Because
                    they featured material copied for its form rather than its particular content, letters within such
                    collections are not necessarily a sound guide to the possible provenance of the manuscripts, though
                    it should be noted that several letters in this collection are copies of letters to or from Robert,
                    bishop of Salisbury, probably Robert Wickhampton (bishop 1271-84). The provenance of this manuscript
                    remains unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC359" n="MS 359">
                <p>CCCC MS 359 contains a fourteenth-century copy of two works by Bede the Venerable, <title>Historia
                        ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum</title> and <title>De natura rerum</title>, together with a copy
                    of <title>De obitu Baedae</title> by Cuthbert, abbot of Wearmouth-Jarrow (d. after 764). To the
                    latter has been added in a sixteenth-century hand an Anglo-Saxon passage, suggesting that Parker or
                    his contemporaries used such later Latin copies of pre-Conquest material as a way of understanding
                    Anglo-Saxon. The provenance of this manuscript is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC360" n="MS 360">
                <p>MS 360 contains a collection of sermons compiled by John Felton (d. 1434). Linguistic analysis of the
                    oldest manuscripts of this work have been used to argue that John Felton was from the north of
                    England, possibly Northumberland. He is first recorded as the vicar of Melchbourne, Bedfordshire in
                    1390 and in 1397 became the vicar of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford, where he remained for the rest of his
                    life. His sermon collection is largely a compilation of notes from the model sermons available at
                    the time. It was originally compiled in 1431, with this manuscript dating to the middle of the
                    fifteenth century. The popularity of the work is attested to by the number of surviving
                    manuscripts.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC361" n="MS 361">
                <p>CCCC MS 361 is a manuscript of Gregory the Great's <title>Pastoral Care</title> from the branch of
                    the textual tradition which is closest to that used in King Alfred the Great's translation. It was
                    written in the eleventh century, probably not in England, but has later provenance at Malmesbury
                    Abbey in Wiltshire. It contains corrections in the hand of William of Malmesbury (d. c. 1142).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC362" n="MS 362">
                <p>CCCC MS 362 contains copies written c. 1400 of the so-called <title>Statuta noua</title>, a
                    collection of statutes (or material, such as writs or letters patent, commonly regarded as statutes)
                    of the reign of Edward III. By the time that this copy of the <title>Statuta</title> was made, most
                    versions were probably copied from exemplars held by professional scribes, which means that the
                    occasional presence of a writ to a particular sheriff or official is no guide to the likely
                    provenance of the manuscript. The formal nature of the script, the spaces left for rubricated
                    capitals, the presence of chapter numbers and frequent, though inconsistent, marginal headings,
                    suggests that this book was intended as a formal copy for a practising lawyer. It was not uncommon
                    for such material to be added to in later years, and, in this manuscript, material dating from the
                    reign of Richard II has been added in a different hand.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC363" n="MS 363">
                <p>CCCC MS 363 contains a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century copy of the <title>Historia
                        Brittonum</title> commonly attributed to the figure known as Nennius. The text was described in
                    error in a later sixteenth-century note as the work of Gildas (sixth century), and this is how it
                    remains described in M. R. James' catalogue, though James himself was aware of the misattribution
                    and noted it in his description of the manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC364" n="MS 364">
                <p>CCCC MS 364 contains a collection of medical tracts by Greek, Roman and Byzantine authors copied in
                    the early thirteenth century, including Latin translations of the <title>Tegni</title> of Galen, the
                        <title>Aphorismata</title> and <title>Prognostica</title> of Hippocrates, as well as the
                        <title>Liber urinarum</title> of Theophilus and part of the <title>Liber pulsuum</title> of
                    Philaretus. The manuscript was donated to St Augustine's, Canterbury by the monk William de Elham
                    (fl. c. 1300), who gave a number of other volumes to the abbey. It was still at St Augustine's in
                    the fifteenth century, where it appears in a library catalogue and, presumably, passed from that
                    institution more or less directly into Parker's collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC365" n="MS 365">
                <p>This book, written c. 1400, contains a collection of the Latin works of Richard Rolle of Hampole (d.
                    1349). It was given to the Benedictine priory of Dover by Richard Warren and bears the library
                    pressmark of Dover. The works included are Rolle's commentaries on the Psalter, the Canticles, the
                    nine lessons (Paruum Job) of the Office of the Dead, on Psalm 20, and his tract <title>Liber de
                        amore Dei contra amatores mundi</title>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC366" n="MS 366">
                <p>This is a thirteenth-century manuscript containing the letters of Peter of Blois (d. 1212). Cohn
                    identified CCCC MS 366 as one of the 'B' group manuscripts of Peter's letters. The manuscript is
                    from the Benedictine priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Martin, at Dover, Kent, where it was
                    included in a catalogue in 1389.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC367" n="MS 367">
                <p>CCCC MS 367 consists of five small volumes bound together, probably because Parker wished to protect
                    a number of small items by placing them between covers. The first contains two chronicles, copied in
                    the fifteenth century, an epitome of the <title>Polychronicon</title> by Ranulf Higden OSB (d.
                    1364), and a chronicle attributed to Thomas Harpsfield. The second consists of a number of fragments
                    of Old English material, copied in the second half of the eleventh or the early twelfth century, and
                    probably to be associated with Worcester: they contain the <title>De temporibus anni</title> by
                    Ælfric of Eynsham OSB (d. 1010), and some homiletic fragments, now out of order. The third volume is
                    a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century copy of Robert Kilwardby OP (d. 1279), <title>De natura
                        relationis</title>. The fourth is a thirteenth-century copy of the <title>Apocalypsis
                        Goliae</title>, a satirical Latin poem sometimes associated with Walter Map (c. 1140-1210), but
                    best considered anonymous. The fifth contains an eleventh-century copy of the <title>Vita
                        breuior</title> of St Kenelm, with a short booklist which has been associated with Worcester,
                    and an Old English account of a vision had by Earl Leofric.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC368" n="MS 368">
                <p> CCCC MS 368 is a small fragmentary manuscript of the Rule of St Benedict, which has been dated to
                    the late tenth or early eleventh century. It might have been written in England or on the Continent.
                    It contains numerous Parkerian annotations in red crayon. At some point it has become bound out of
                    order.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC369" n="MS 369">
                <p>CCCC MS 369 contains a miscellany of historical texts, including genealogies of the English kings,
                    the earls of Chester and the Hastangs family and lists of castles and religious houses in Britain
                    copied at various times in the fourteenth, early fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The most
                    substantial text in this slim volume is a chronicle from the arrival of the Saxons to the reign of
                    Henry III with continuations in various hands down to 1337. This section can probably be dated c.
                    1425. The basis of the chronicle in this manuscript was identified by Hardy in the late nineteenth
                    century as being a work by John Bever (d. c. 1311) known as the <title>Brutus abbreuiato</title>.
                    The provenance of this manuscript is uncertain, with Ker demurring from James' belief that it may
                    have been from Lichfield.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC370" n="MS 370">
                <p>CCCC MS 370 is another of those manuscripts that may have been intended as light reading matter for a
                    monastic community, containing as it does the perennial favourites of material concerning Alexander
                    the Great in both the version of Julius Valerius (3rd/4th century) and the <title>Historia de
                        Preliis</title>, alongside the fictional exchange of letters between Alexander and various
                    figures in the ancient world. In addition, this codex contains an account of the Black Prince's
                    campaign during the siege of Rouen that has been much used by historians of the Hundred Years' War.
                    The presence of Bishop William Bateman's (d. 1355) <title>Injunctions</title> that resulted from his
                    visitation to the Benedictine Cathedral Priory of Holy Trinity, Norwich in 1347 has led some to
                    conclude that this manuscript was once in the library of that institution, though it lacks a press
                    mark or any other evidence to that effect.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC371" n="MS 371">
                <p>CCCC MS 371 was the personal manuscript of Eadmer of Canterbury OSB (c.1060-c.1124), a monk of Christ
                    Church, and the friend and biographer of Anselm of Canterbury. The manuscript provides the primary
                    witness for most of Eadmer's shorter writings (<title>opuscula</title>), including his major
                    hagiographical works and other letters, hymns and sermons. It also contains the sermons <title>De
                        beatitudine perennis uitae</title> and <title>De ordinatione beati Gregorii</title>, which are
                    reputedly by Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109), a view which has recently been supported by
                    Hayward.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC372" n="MS 372">
                <p>CCCC MS 372 contains a late fourteenth-century copy one of the most popular chronicles of the
                    medieval period, the <title>Chronica pontificum et imperatorum</title> by Martin of Troppau OP
                    (before 1230-1278), a history of the Roman emperors and the papacy. Martin's work was extremely
                    influential on the work of other chroniclers, including English writers, and it is not to be
                    wondered that Parker possessed more than one copy of the work (see <ref type="ms" target="CCC059"
                        >CCCC MS 59</ref>, <ref type="ms" target="CCC194">194</ref>). In addition, this manuscript
                    contains a number of later fifteenth-century additions, including a list of tithes and a royal writ,
                    which seem to indicate that this manuscript was once connected to Suffolk. Beyond that, nothing is
                    known of this manuscript's provenance or how it came to be in Parker's collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC373" n="MS 373">
                <p>CCCC MS 373 was once thought to contain a copy of Ekkehard of Aura (fl. early twelfth century),
                        <title>Imperial Chronicle</title>, a history of the Franks, ancestors of the Emperor Henry V at
                    whose request it was written. However, it is now known that the manuscript is the unique copy of an
                    anonymous chronicle, closely modelled on Ekkehard's work, but also incorporating material from the
                        <title>World Chronicle</title> (ending c.1111) of Sigebert of Gembloux (c. 1029/9-1112),
                    continued down to 1114, shortly after which date this copy was produced in Germany. It seems to be
                    by an anonymous author working in Wurzburg 1112-13. The book is illustrated by pen drawings in brown
                    and red of the enthroned kings and emperors. Recent research has suggested that the codex may have
                    been donated to the monastery at Bec by the Empress Matilda (c. 1102-67), from where it travelled to
                    Rochester, possibly being lent for copying in the late twelfth century. It may be identified with
                    the volume described as <title>Cronica Francorum i volumen</title> in Rochester library's catalogue
                    of 1202, and if so it was presumably from there that it found its way, together with many other
                    former monastic manuscripts, into Parker's collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC374" n="MS 374">
                <p>CCCC MS 374 is a small manuscript that contains an epitome of the Brut chronicle down to 1429 written
                    in an early sixteenth-century hand, and the <title>Manipulus chronicorum</title>, a description and
                    history of England said to have been drawn from 'multa et uariis autoribus' and written somewhat
                    earlier than the <title>Brut</title>. The presence of the letters 'TW' in Parker's characteristic
                    red chalk has been taken to mean that the volume came to Parker via either John Twyne (1507-81) or
                    Thomas Wotton (1521-87) and, therefore, probably from Canterbury - possibly St Augustine's. However,
                    the most recent survey of the library of St Augustine's agrees with Neil Ker's earlier rejection of
                    this provenance.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC375" n="MS 375">
                <p>CCCC MS 375 is a compilation of verse made at St Albans Abbey in the middle of the twelfth century,
                    probably for immediate presentation to Christ Church, Canterbury as a gift. It was certainly at
                    Christ Church by the early fourteenth century, when it was included in Henry of Eastry's library
                    catalogue. The flyleaf on which the classmark was recorded became detached from the rest of this
                    manuscript, and is still at Canterbury Cathedral, classmark SB B 232 final page. The main contents
                    of the manuscript are metrical saints' lives of Katherine and Ælfheah (Alphege), both written by an
                    unidentified Richard, presumably a monk of St Albans. Their composition has been associated with
                    Abbot Geoffrey de Gorron (abbot 1119-46), who is known to have been devoted to St Katherine.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC376" n="MS 376">
                <p>CCCC MS 376 contains two essays by Roger Taverner (d. 1582) addressed to Queen Elizabeth. The first,
                    and most extensive, of these essays addresses the prevention of famine in England and the second is
                    a brief discussion of coin devaluation. The author was the surveyor of the royal forests south of
                    the Trent and brother to Richard Taverner (c. 1505-75).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC377" n="MS 377">
                <p>CCCC MS 377 contains three distinct items, seemingly with no connection to each other. The first is a
                    twelfth-century Calendar which James, somewhat elliptically, described as having 'a certain German
                    flavour'. The second item, which makes up the greater part of the manuscript, is a late
                    fourteenth-century collection of English statutes (or material such as writs and letters patent
                    conventionally accorded the status of statutes). To this has been added the third item, a
                    fifteenth-century list of religious who possessed temporalities in the diocese of Ely. Nothing is
                    known of how these disparate texts came to be included in the same codex, or how it came into
                    Parker's possession, if indeed it was not he who combined them from separate codices.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC378" n="MS 378">
                <p>CCCC MS 378 is a compendium of tracts on logic, dating to c. 1475-1500, very probably put together
                    for use at Cambridge University. This manuscript contains what may be the primary, and only extant,
                    copy of William Chubbes' introduction to logic, the <title>Bene fundatum</title> (<title>Introductio
                        logices</title>). Chubbes was the first Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, from 1497 to his
                    death in 1505 and perhaps it was this Cambridge connection that interested Parker in this
                    manuscript. On ff. 74v and 75r there are drawings of various sorts of 'bodies' which seem to be
                    intended to illustrate the concepts of logic in the preceding text.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC379" n="MS 379">
                <p>CCCC MS 379 is one of the notebooks of Robert Talbot (1505/6–1558), an antiquarian best remembered
                    for his interest in Anglo-Saxon texts. It contains notes and excerpts from texts in Latin, Greek and
                    Old English from both manuscripts and early printed books as well as runic inscriptions. This
                    notebook has attracted attention both as an artefact of sixteenth-century efforts to learn Old
                    English, and due to the transcription of a large portion of the preface to Genesis by Ælfric of
                    Eynsham (d. 1010) from the now lost first folio of BL Cotton Claudius B.IV. Much of the material in
                    this notebook relates to Talbot's interest in topographical nomenclature, such as his extensive
                    notes on the British section of the <title>Itinerarii Antonini</title>. The Latin version of
                    Oppian's <title>Halieutica</title> with a brief biographical note on the author on ff. 2r-7v appears
                    to be a translation of the Greek version published in the early sixteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC380" n="MS 380">
                <p>This manuscript, CCCC MS 380, is the unique copy of Robert of Cricklade OSA (d. after 1188),
                        <title>Speculum fidei</title>, which was written after 1170. Robert was prior of St
                    Frideswide's, Oxford, and this work is in the form of a commentary on the <title>Sentences</title>
                    of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160). It has fine historiated and ornamental initials by the Simon
                    Master, an illuminator who worked for St Albans Abbey and may have been a layman. This manuscript,
                    however, is not in St Albans script and seems to have been made elsewhere. A copy of this text was
                    seen by John Leland (1506-52) at Malmesbury and M. R. James suggested this might be that book, but
                    Ker has rejected this theory.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC381" n="MS 381">
                <p>CCCC MS 381 contains a discourse on Psalm 72 by David Crum (fl. 1550); a work which has attracted
                    limited scholarly interest.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC382" n="MS 382">
                <p>The <title>De pauperie Saluatoris</title> of Richard FitzRalph (d. 1360), archbishop of Armagh,
                    contained in CCCC MS 382, is a text on the poverty of the mendicants in relation to the poverty
                    taught by Christ, and the problems caused by their acquiring property and privilege. It is also
                    found in <ref type="ms" target="CCC103">CCCC MSS 103</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC180"
                        >180</ref>. The dating of this copy has been suggested as c. 1375-1400. It belonged to St
                    Augustine's, Canterbury, and is in the fifteenth-century library catalogue of the abbey.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC383" n="MS 383">
                <p>CCCC MS 383 is a late eleventh- or early twelfth-century manuscript, possibly from St Paul's
                    Cathedral in London. It contains a very early version of the Anglo-Saxon law codes as they were
                    gathered together to form part of the textual tradition known as the <title>Quadripartitus</title>.
                    Parker was no doubt fascinated by the presence of Anglo-Saxon material in this volume, which
                    contains a number of texts unique to it, such as the <title>Gerefa</title>. The manuscript was, at
                    some stage, in the hands of Robert Talbot, prebendary of Norwich (d. 1558) and contains notes in his
                    hand as well as that of Parker's secretary, John Joscelyn (1529-1603). It has been much studied
                    throughout its history; the sixteenth-century antiquarians' notes accompany glosses dating from the
                    thirteenth century .</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC384" n="MS 384">
                <p>CCCC MS 384 contains a sixteenth-century copy of the first Epistle of St John in Arabic and Latin.
                    This manuscript was not part of Matthew Parker's bequest to Corpus Christi but instead bears a
                    donation inscription stating the donor to have been one Thomas Dag (or Day). That this manuscript is
                    missing from Thomas James' catalogue of 1600 suggests that this manuscript did not find its way into
                    the college until the early seventeenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC385" n="MS 385">
                <p>CCCC MS 385 consists of four separate volumes of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries which have
                    been bound together. The first part is a tract on the sins of monks which analyses the doubts and
                    temptations which confront a monk. Part two is written at St Albans in his own hand by Matthew Paris
                    OSB (d. 1259) and contains William of Conches (c. 1080-1154), <title>Dragmaticon</title>, with some
                    diagrams drawn by Matthew Paris. This manuscript has been used in the edition of the
                        <title>Dragmaticon</title> by Ronca. The third part, dating to c. 1400, has a Middle English
                    sermon based on Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), <title>Beniamin minor</title> and other short
                    Middle English devotional texts. The fourth part contains the apocryphal gospel, the
                        <title>Euangelium Nicodemi</title>, and some exempla and stories. Although at the beginning of
                    the first part there is an early sixteenth-century inscription of ownership of a monk of Canterbury,
                    this may be false, and the book cannot be identified in the catalogues of any of the Canterbury
                    monasteries.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC386" n="MS 386">
                <p>CCCC MS 386 is prefaced by a printed version of an English translation of the works of Terence
                    (195-159 B.C), which appears to be the only surviving copy of this edition of the text. This is
                    followed by a manuscript collection of fourteenth and fifteenth-century treatises on the various
                    disciplines of written composition and aids to producing texts. These include <title>De
                        metro</title>, a text on metre and scansion, the <title>Synonyma</title>, frequently attributed
                    to John of Garland (d. c. 1272), an incomplete version of Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille, c.
                    1128-1203) <title>Liber parabolarum</title>, and a collection of verses. The dating for this last
                    section has been suggested as c. 1475-1500.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC387" n="MS 387">
                <p>Richard Rolle of Hampole (c. 1305-49) wrote commentaries on the Psalms in both Latin and English, of
                    which CCCC MS 387 contains that in English. <ref type="ms" target="CCC365">CCCC MS 365</ref>
                    contains his Latin version. The text of the Psalms is in Latin with each verse followed by the
                    English commentary. This copy, dating from c. 1425, contains fine decoration of illuminated
                    ornamental borders and initials, and is notable for its very large size. It belonged to the
                    Augustinian Abbey of Lessness (Kent).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC388" n="MS 388">
                <p>CCCC MS 388 is a compendium of medical treatises and recipes including works attributed to
                    Hippocrates, Galen, Scelpius and 'H. Sampsonis de Clouburnel'. The contents are written in English,
                    Latin and Anglo-Norman and were copied c. 1330. As such, it throws an interesting light on the
                    creation and transmission of multi-lingual texts in later medieval England. An analysis of the
                    Middle English components of this volume suggests that it was written or copied by an author who
                    employed a linguistic style that has been localised to East Anglia in the vicinity of Ely. Other
                    than this, there are no clues as to the manuscript's provenance.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC389" n="MS 389">
                <p>CCCC MS 389 was written at St Augustine's, Canterbury in the late tenth century, and contains
                    Jerome's <title>Life of St Paul the First Hermit</title> and the <title>Life of St Guthlac</title>
                    by Felix of Crowland (eighth century). These are two very important texts for the anchoritic
                    tradition: Jerome's <title>Life of St Paul</title> provided a model both for subsequent hermits and
                    for those who wrote their <title>uitae</title>; while Guthlac was the original English hermit,
                    pursuing his vocation in the wilderness of the fens rather than in the middle-eastern desert. This
                    manuscript therefore shows an interest in the eremitical way of life at Canterbury at this time,
                    further emphasised by the marking up of the Guthlac text into nine lections to be used on his feast
                    day. It was written in late Square minuscule, the last type of Insular script to be used for Latin
                    texts in England, and contains wonderful initials of Wormald's "Type II", with interlace work and
                    grasping beast heads outlined in ink. In the second half of the eleventh century, perhaps circa
                    1070, an author portrait of St Jerome was added at the start of the manuscript in a late Anglo-Saxon
                    style. The manuscript has a St Augustine's, Canterbury classmark, but is not included in the
                    surviving catalogue.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC390" n="MS 390">
                <p>CCCC MS 390 is the kind of manuscript that always interested Parker. It contains the late twelfth- or
                    early thirteenth-century unique copy of <title>De uita Galfridi archiepiscopi</title> by Gerald of
                    Wales (1146-1226). As such, it surely appealed to Parker's interest both in the oldest manuscripts
                    and in those dealing with history in general, and ecclesiastical history in particular. The later
                    medieval provenance of this manuscript is evinced by a fifteenth-century contents list written by
                    'Morganus canonicus de Kermerden', whose name and hand appear in a number of manuscripts known to
                    have been in the library of the Augustinian priory of the Blessed Virgin and St John the Baptist at
                    Lanthony secunda, Gloucestershire.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC391" n="MS 391">
                <p>CCCC MS 391 is a portiforium, that is a Breviary, from Worcester. It contains a large variety of
                    material, including a psalter and prognostical texts. It was written at a time when the various
                    elements of the divine office were drawn together into a single book, the Breviary. This book
                    represents the text in a primitive form. In the late Middle Ages it was associated with St Oswald,
                    bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York, who died in 992. However, the calendar has Oswald's name
                    in the original hand, and the script dates the manuscript later, as was first pointed out by
                    Parker's secretary John Joscelyn (1529-1603). It is now known as the <title>Portiforium of St
                        Wulfstan</title>, after Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester 1062-95, not to be confused with Wulfstan
                    the homilist (d. 1023). It is usually dated to the late 1060s. At the beginning of the psalter there
                    is a framed tinted drawing of David harping and a large ornamental initial for the first psalm.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC392" n="MS 392">
                <p>Three separate volumes by several hands of the second half of the fifteenth century have been bound
                    together to form CCCC 392. The ten tracts in the manuscript are on various subjects, but several are
                    concerned with the virtues and vices. The first part has Boniohannes de Messana OP (fl. fourteenth
                    century), <title>Quadripartitus</title>, Petrus de Pennis OP (fl. 1395-1418), <title>Tractatus
                        contra Iudaeos nomine Thalamoth</title> (<title>Talmud</title>), and John of Fécamp,
                        <title>Confessio fidei</title> (formerly attributed to Augustine, as it is in this manuscript).
                    The second part has Simon of Hinton OP (d. after 1261), <title>Summa iuniorum</title>, a pastoral
                    manual of instruction in the manner of a catechism, but influenced by the <title>Sentences</title>
                    of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160), the <title>Speculum peccatoris</title> by the pseudo-Bernard of
                    Clairvaux, and Petrus Pictor (de Sancto Audemaro), <title>De egestate et fame</title>. The third
                    part is a collection of sermons, one of them in Middle English.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC393" n="MS 393">
                <p>CCCC MS 393 contains the <title>Historia Eliensis</title>, an account of the history of the
                    Benedictine cathedral priory of Ely written c. 1130 at Ely, with press marks and inscriptions
                    revealing that it remained there throughout the medieval period. The manuscript contains a number of
                    important hagiographical texts relating to the lives and miracles of saints associated with the
                    priory, including the unique copy of the <title>Vita et miracula Sanctae Etheldredae metrice</title>
                    by Gregory of Ely OSB (d. after 1116), and another important text describing the posthumous miracles
                    of St Etheldreda.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC394" n="MS 394">
                <p>CCCC MS 394, dating to c. 1300, is an illustrated Apocalypse, with the text and commentary in
                    Anglo-Norman prose, which was made in England. It was bequeathed in 1439 to the College by Thomas
                    Markaunt (c. 1382-1439), fellow, among 76 books. Only five of these books still remain in the
                    College Library; the others must have been dispersed at some time in the sixteenth century. The
                    illustrations are related to several other copies of the Anglo-Norman prose Apocalypse made in
                    England in the late thirteenth and first half of the fourteenth century. This copy is by a
                    relatively unskilled artist, whose coloured drawings are inferior to many of the other manuscripts
                    of this group.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC395" n="MS 395">
                <p>CCCC MS 395 is a compilation of alchemical texts copied partly in the early fifteenth century and
                    partly in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. It begins with a long text by Iohannes de
                    Rupescissa OFM (Roqetaillade, d. c. 1362 - pseudo-Ramon Lull), his <title>Liber de consideratione
                        quintae essentiae</title>. This section contains a few diagrams and coloured drawings, notably
                    two full-page (ff. 49v-50r) illustrating lunaria grass. The style of this drawing and some texts in
                    Catalan, suggest this part may have been made in Catalonia. Textual additions have been made by an
                    English scribe, and the book seems to have come to England by the second half of the fifteenth
                    century. In addition to a number of other minor alchemical tracts, the codex also contains a number
                    of works attributed to Robert Green of Welby (c. 1467-after 1544), including <title>De fama</title>,
                        <title>Quaestiones super benedicti lapidis philosophici compositione</title>,
                        <title>Secretum</title>, <title>Pulchrum somnium</title> and <title>Dialogus inter Hilardum
                        necromanticum et quendam spiritum</title>. Green's name is also inscribed on a flyleaf of the
                    MS, though it is not clear whether this was intended as a mark of ownership or as a note of the
                    authorship of the texts within the volume.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC396" n="MS 396">
                <p>CCCC MS 396 purports to be a collection of alchemical texts written by Ramón Lull (1232–1316) copied
                    in 1465. Like many such collections, the attribution of texts to Lull is spurious in many cases. The
                    book contains a few diagrams. MS 396 is one of several alchemical manuscripts in Parker's
                    collection.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC397" n="MS 397">
                <p>This manuscript consists of four volumes, the first of which is a sixteenth-century printed tract,
                        <title>De beatae uirginis conceptione</title> by Petrus de Vincentia. The remainder of the
                    manuscript, dating from the thirteenth century, includes: the <title>Distinctiones Abel</title> of
                    Peter the Chanter (d. 1197), a biblical commentary in which words are explained in alphabetical
                    order; the versified biblical paraphrase, the <title>Aurora</title> of Petrus Riga (d. 1209); and
                    the <title>Tropi</title> of William de Montibus (d. 1213), a work on technical terms of grammar,
                    logic and rhetoric in regard to biblical exegesis.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC398" n="MS 398">
                <p>The version of Aristotle's <title>Politics</title> in CCCC MS 398 is a new translation by the Italian
                    humanist Leonardo Bruni (1369-1444) commissioned by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) in
                    1433/4. It has fine illuminated ornamental borders by an English artist, and may have been written
                    by an English scribe copying the Italian manuscript of the translation sent to Humphrey from
                    Italy.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC399" n="MS 399">
                <p>CCCC MS 399 is a copy of the <title>Prognosticon futuri saeculi</title> by Julian of Toledo (c.
                    642-90) written in northern France probably in the first two thirds of the ninth century. It has
                    some marginal 'tironian notae' - the form of shorthand devised by Cicero's secretary Tiro and
                    revived in the Carolingian period. It seems to have come to England before the end of the tenth
                    century, where some very minor alterations were made to the text. In the twelfth century a decorated
                    opening title page was added. The manuscript was used by Matthew Parker or one of his secretaries,
                    who underlined some significant phrases in red crayon.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC400" n="MS 400">
                <p>MS 400 is formed from four manuscripts, the first three of which contain tracts by Gerald of Wales
                    (1146–1226). They contain an early thirteenth-century second edition of his <title>Topographia
                        Hiberniae</title> with additions from the third edition; a highly flawed sixteenth-century copy
                    of the <title>Descriptio Kambriae</title>; and early thirteenth-century copies of
                        <title>Retractationes</title>, <title>Catalogus brevior librorum suorum</title>, <title>De iure
                        et statu Meneuensis ecclesiae</title>, and <title>Verses</title>. The latter two texts in
                    particular are good versions. The final pages of the manuscript contain a late thirteenth-century
                    copy of the verses from the windows in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral which M. R. James
                    identified as the source for the copy on a roll held by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC401" n="MS 401">
                <p>CCCC MS 401 contains two texts in Arabic, Abd Allah Baydawi (d. A.H. 716), <title>Tawali' al-Anwar
                        min Matali' al-Anzar</title> and the commentary on it by Mahmud Isfahani (d. A.H. 749/50),
                        <title>Matali' al-Anzar, Sharh Tawali' al-Anwar</title>. It is one of a small handful of Arabic
                    manuscripts possessed by Parker. The greater part of the manuscript is in a sixteenth-century hand
                    but Parker wrote a note on the flyleaf indicating his belief that the codex had once belonged to
                    Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 690) and no doubt it was this misapprehension, as
                    much as Parker's interest in unusual scripts, that led him to acquire the volume. Parker's belief
                    that this manuscript was once in the possession of an early predecessor as archbishop may indicate
                    that the volume was acquired from a library in Canterbury, but beyond this, nothing is known of the
                    provenance of this manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC402" n="MS 402">
                <p><title>Ancrene Wisse</title> or <title>Ancrene Riwle</title> is a treatise on the religious life
                    intended for anchoresses or nuns, written in the first half of the thirteenth century. There is much
                    controversy as to when, where and by whom it was written, but possibly it was by a Dominican writing
                    in the West Midlands in the 1230s. Others have argued for authorship by an Augustinian canon, also
                    writing in the West Midlands in the first third of the century. CCCC MS 402, once considered to be
                    one of the earliest versions of the text, is now thought to be of the late thirteenth century. The
                    MS has recently been published in an authoritative new edition by Bella Millett, collated with
                    variants from all other MSS of the text.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC403" n="MS 403">
                <p>CCCC MS 403, in Greek, is one of the books believed in Parker's time to have come from Canterbury and
                    ultimately from Theodore of Tarsus (d. 690), archbishop of Canterbury. It is a typical late
                    fifteenth-century paper copy of the three most commonly studied plays of Euripides,
                        <title>Hecuba</title>, <title>Orestes</title> (wrongly entitled <title>Electra</title>) and
                        <title>Phoenissae</title>, with Palaeologan scholia. It is written by two hands (A: ff. 1-41v;
                    B: ff. 42-118r).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC404" n="MS 404">
                <p>CCCC MS 404, dating in part to the early fourteenth century, and in part to c. 1349-89, is a
                    miscellany of prophecy texts brought together by Henry of Kirkstead OSB (c. 1314-after 1378), monk
                    and later prior of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds; he was known formerly as Boston of Bury. The
                    prophecies include those of the Tiburtine Sibyl, Hildegard of Bingen OSB (1098-1179), tracts on the
                    Antichrist, and prophecies relating to the popes and the English kings. The prophecies of the popes,
                    in the early fourteenth-century section, are illustrated by drawings. This text must postdate
                    1304-5. Henry was responsible for the books of the abbey and drew up an inventory of them.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC405" n="MS 405">
                <p>CCCC MS 405 was formed from several manuscripts dating from the early thirteenth century and the
                    early fourteenth century. It once belonged to the Knights Hospitallers' (the Knights of the Hospital
                    of St. John of Jerusalem) temple at Kilbarry, near Waterford in Ireland and contains an Irish
                    monastic calendar, liturgical offices, a collection of texts and verses, predominantly in
                    Anglo-Norman, and numerous transcribed documents, mainly in Latin, relating to the Knights
                    Hospitallers and the borough of Waterford. The volume has been used as evidence of the wide usage of
                    Anglo-Norman in Ireland and to demonstrate the variety of tracts available to Ireland's monastic
                    communities as well as being an important source regarding the city of Waterford due to the civic
                    documents which are included in the manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC406" n="MS 406">
                <p>CCCC MS 406 contains a number of texts copied in a series of early thirteenth-century hands. Among
                    these is what is thought to be one of the earliest versions of the 'A' recension of Seneca's
                        <title>Tragoediae</title> to be copied in England. The text has been much used and discussed by
                    modern editors of Seneca's <title>Tragedies</title>. Alongside this there appears a broad variety of
                    texts typical of a monastic or university commonplace book including satirical verse, classical
                    history, cosmology and poetics. The texts include the <title>Architrenius</title> of Iohannes de
                    Alta Villa (fl. late twelfth century) and the <title>Anticlaudianus</title> of Alanus ab Insula
                    (Alain de Lille, c. 1128-1203), Joseph of Exeter (d. 1210) <title>Bellum Troianum</title>, Walter of
                    Châtillon (fl. c. 1160-90) <title>Alexandreis</title>, the first part of Bernardus Silvestris (d.
                    after 1159) <title>Cosmographia</title> (the <title>Megacosmos</title>) and Geoffrey of Vinsauf (d.
                    after 1200) <title>Poetria noua</title>. There has been some suggestion that the manuscript has an
                    Oxford provenance, but when and how this manuscript passed into Parker's possession is not
                    known.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC407" n="MS 407">
                <p>CCCC MS 407 contains two distinct types of material, but all copied in the second quarter of the
                    fourteenth century. The first is a series of travelogues including Simon Simeonis OFM (d. after
                    1322) <title>Itinerarium in terram sanctam</title>, Willelmus de Rubruk OFM (c. 1215-c. 1270)
                        <title>Itinerarium ad partes orientales</title> and the <title>Itinerarium</title> of Odoricus
                    of Pordenone (c. 1286-1331). The second type of material, written in a different hand, includes the
                    Arabic version of the <title>Secretum secretorum</title> translated by Philip of Tripoli (fl. c.
                    1243) and another broadly medical treatise, <title>De complexione humana</title>. This volume was
                    owned by, and quite probably copied for, Simon Bozoun OSB (d. 1352), prior of Norwich Cathedral
                    Priory, as revealed by an inscription on the first folio. The manuscript was almost certainly
                    acquired by Parker from Norwich.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC408" n="MS 408">
                <p>CCCC MS 408 contains a copy of John Capgrave OESA(1393–1464), <title>De illustribus Henricis</title>,
                    a historical collection established around the theme of illustrious men named Henry. It is thought
                    that this manuscript represents Capgrave's autograph version, intended for copying by scribes at the
                    Austin friars' convent at King's Lynn, and was almost certainly written in 1446-7, since it records
                    Henry VI's visit to King's Lynn in 1446 but not the death of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, in the
                    following year. On the basis of the press mark, it has been stated that the manuscript was once at
                    the Benedictine abbey at Bury St Edmunds, although this has been disputed. It has also been argued
                    that this manuscript was once in the collection of the historian, John Bale (1495-1563).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC409" n="MS 409">
                <p>CCCC MS 409 contains a copy of <title>De finibus bonorum et malorum</title> of M. Tullius Cicero
                    (106-43 B.C.). This copy of <title>De finibus</title>, Cicero's critique of Epicureanism, Stoicism,
                    and the 'Academy' of Antiochus of Ascalon, was produced in Italy in the fifteenth century and is a
                    good example of Italian humanist script. It was probably the script as much as the contents that
                    interested Parker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC410" n="MS 410">
                <p>CCCC MS 410 provides the only complete copy of Walter of Oddington OSB's (fl. 1298-1316) <title>De
                        speculatione musicae</title>, an encyclopaedic consideration of music theory written in the late
                    thirteenth or early fourteenth century. This manuscript is a compendium consisting of a c. 1425
                    volume containing Oddington's work, and a later fifteenth-century paper volume containing a treatise
                    on mensural music by the French theorist Iohannes de Muris (c. 1290-c. 1344), and an anonymous
                    English treatise on descant. It serves as a remarkable witness to the diversity of both practical
                    and theoretical treatises available to late-medieval English writers.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC411" n="MS 411">
                <p>This Psalter gives interesting evidence of relations between England and the Continent in the late
                    tenth century. It has some very Franco-Saxon decoration, but seems to have been written by the
                    English scribe also responsible for <ref type="ms" target="CCC214">CCCC MS 214</ref>, and has a
                    line-drawing of a standing man (David?) in a very English style, perhaps an early addition to
                    provide a frontispiece, in one of its Franco-Saxon frames. The Franco-Saxon style of illumination
                    draws heavily on earlier Insular decoration, particularly in its use of interlace and beast heads,
                    but was developed on the Continent rather than in any part of the original Insular homelands. This
                    manuscript probably attests to Continental influence on English book-production at Christ Church,
                    Canterbury in the late tenth century, but it has alternatively been supposed that it was made
                    abroad, perhaps at Tours, and imported early into England. English additions were made to the book
                    in the eleventh century, including a second litany and the drawing of the standing man. An early
                    modern note claims that the book, once decorated with silver gilt and jewels, was owned by two
                    archbishops of Canterbury including Thomas Becket (d. 1170). Parker does not seem to have celebrated
                    the association with this saint, whose influence on English affairs he is unlikely to have
                    considered positive.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC412" n="MS 412">
                <p>CCCC MS 412 contains not Giles of Rome OESA's <title>De regimine principum</title> but an anonymous
                    work in the same genre of guidance on royal governance, the <title>Liber de informatione
                        principum</title>, written between 1297 and 1314, perhaps for the sons of Philip the Fair. It
                    seems at least plausible. however, that Parker was just as interested in the late fifteenth-century
                    copy of the <title>Articuli cleri</title> (1316) that is attached to the beginning of the volume and
                    which deals with the question of royal and ecclesiastical jurisdiction. This is followed by a series
                    of notes bearing the name Edmund Poplay, who seems to have been confirmed as a bachelor of canon law
                    at Cambridge University in 1489, though no contemporary reference to him is known in the university
                    Grace Books. Apart from this, there is no information as to the manuscript's provenance.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC413" n="MS 413">
                <p>CCCC MS 413 contains a sixteenth-century collection of extracts from the Early Christian Fathers on
                    tradition, compiled by John Baret (c.1495-1563) [his name is sometimes given as Barrett or Barret].
                    Baret was a Carmelite and a Reformation theologian. The Parker Library also holds two further
                    collections of theological extracts compiled by him: <ref type="ms" target="CCC124">CCCC MS
                        124</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC428">CCCC MS 428</ref>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC414" n="MS 414">
                <p>CCCC MS 414 is a classic example of a medieval miscellany of historical, romantic and spiritual
                    texts. Copied in the fourteenth century, the single most substantial text in this volume is the
                        <title>Otia imperiala</title> by Gervase of Tilbury (c. 1140 -1220), an encyclopaedia of history
                    and geography. Other texts present include the <title>Historia Alexandri magni</title>, the
                        <title>Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi</title> of pseudo-Turpin (fl. second quarter of twelfth
                    century), the <title>Historia regum Britanniae</title> and <title>Prophetia Ambrosii Merlini</title>
                    of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), accounts of the siege of Troy and of Aeneas' return to Italy,
                    Walter Map (c. 1140-1210) <title>Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum</title> (also in <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC107">CCCC MSS 107</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC177">177</ref>) with the
                    commentary of John Ridewall OFM (d. after 1340), and a tract on the ancestry of Christ. James
                    postulated an East Anglian provenance on the basis of the script and decoration, but this has never
                    been confirmed. The manuscript contains a Parkerian guide to the contraction of words used by
                    medieval scribes.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC415" n="MS 415">
                <p>CCCC MS 415 contains the unique text of an author once universally known as 'The York Anonymous' but
                    now thought to have been written by a Norman ecclesiastic, probably from Rouen, and hence its modern
                    appellation as 'The Norman (or 'Rouen') Anonymous'. The manuscript, which was copied in the late
                    eleventh or early twelfth century, consists of a number of tracts which have as their broad theme
                    the relationship between the spiritual and temporal power. It has special significance because it
                    was written shortly after the Investiture Controversy; this controversy was over the power of lay
                    princes to invest and receive homage from abbots and bishops, which was forbidden by Pope Gregory
                    VII in 1075. Although frequently discussed in the literature of the history of the relationship
                    between the medieval church and state, the unique private nature of the text makes it highly
                    unlikely that the complex ideas expressed in it ever gained a wide readership.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC416" n="MS 416">
                <p>CCCC MS 416 is a twelfth-century manuscript which has a roughly contemporary contents list showing
                    that it once contained a large number of works. However, all of these are now lost except for the
                        <title>Liber officialis</title> of Amalarius of Metz (c. 780-850), a text explaining the liturgy
                    of the mass and divine office. The standard Ely cathedral priory press mark can be found in the
                    margin of f. 1 recto (see also <ref type="ms" target="CCC044">CCCC MS 44</ref>). The flyleaf
                    explains that it was given, presumably to Ely, by one William Stradesete. It later came into the
                    possession of Matthew Parker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC417" n="MS 417">
                <p>CCCC MS 417 contains the unique copy of the <title>Chronicle</title> of Canterbury cathedral priory
                    by John Stone OSB (d. c. 1480), covering the years 1415 to 1467 with an anonymous continuation to
                    1472. The main text was probably written c. 1467-72. Appended to this is an account of the
                    enthronement of Archbishop William Wareham (c. 1456-1532) in 1503. Parker no doubt wanted to add
                    this manuscript to his collection because of its associations with the see of Canterbury and of a
                    previous incumbent as archbishop, both themes that are found throughout his collection. The
                    manuscript certainly came from Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC418" n="MS 418">
                <p>CCCC MS 418 contains a collection of tracts by Martin Bucer (1491-1551), a German Reformation
                    theologian who moved to England in 1549 as a result of Archbishop Cranmer's invitation and Bucer's
                    refusal to accept the Augsburg Interim (the temporary agreement brokered between the Catholics and
                    Protestants at the Diet of Augsburg in 1548). Although mostly written by Bucer's amanuensis, Martin
                    Brem, this manuscript also contains examples of Bucer's own hand.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC419" n="MS 419">
                <p>CCCC MS 419 is an important collection of Old English homilies, many by Wulfstan of York (d. 1023).
                    It was written in the first half of the eleventh century. Pp. 1-2 of <ref type="ms" target="CCC421"
                        >CCCC MS 421</ref> were originally physically part of this manuscript, and the original part of
                        <ref type="ms" target="CCC421">CCCC MS 421</ref> was a companion volume to CCCC MS 419, partly
                    written by the same scribe. The manuscripts were together at Exeter in the time of Bishop Leofric
                    (1050-1072), where additions were made to <ref type="ms" target="CCC421">CCCC MS 421</ref>. This
                    manuscript was Parker's seventh volume of homilies in his numeration system. He added a frontispiece
                    miniature of the Entry into Jerusalem taken from the same French thirteenth-century psalter as the
                    images which he added to <ref type="ms" target="CCC452">CCCC MS 452</ref> and London, Lambeth Palace
                    Library MS 1370 (The MacDurnan Gospels).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC420" n="MS 420">
                <p>CCCC MS 420 is a compendium of astrological and astronomical tracts. Of these, Johannes Stoeffler's
                        <title>Ephemerides</title> and the translation by Peter of Abano (c. 1257-1316) into Latin of
                    Abraham ibn Ezra's astrological treatise <title>Re'shit Ho'khmah</title> - the <title>Liber
                        introductorius in iudicia astrorum qui dicitur Principium sapientiae</title> are printed
                    versions produced in Parker's lifetime. The first portion of the collection contains various
                    manuscript tracts in Latin and English copied in the sixteenth century, the first of which is the
                    preface to the <title>Prognosticatio</title> of Johannes Lichtenberger (d. 1503). The name John
                    Eston appears in two places in the volume, though he and his relationship to Parker, if any, has not
                    been identified.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC421" n="MS 421">
                <p>CCCC MS 421 is an important collection of Old English homilies, many by Ælfric of Eynsham OSB (d.
                    1010). It originated in the first half of the eleventh century as a companion volume to <ref
                        type="ms" target="CCC419">CCCC MS 419</ref>, partly written by the same scribe, and pp. 1–2 of
                    MS 421 were originally physically part <ref type="ms" target="CCC419">CCCC MS 419</ref>. Substantial
                    additions were made to MS 421 at at Exeter in the time of Bishop Leofric (1050-1072). The manuscript
                    contains an eleventh-century frontispiece drawing of the Crucifixion in the part (p. 1) which was
                    originally in <ref type="ms" target="CCC419">CCCC MS 419</ref>. MS 421 was Parker's sixth volume of
                    homilies in his numeration system.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC422" n="MS 422">
                <p>CCCC MS 422 consists of two parts, which were together by the twelfth century. The first, a
                    tenth-century volume, contains two Old English texts about the dialogue between Solomon and Saturn,
                    one in poetry (also found in <ref type="ms" target="CCC041">CCCC MS 41</ref>) and one in prose. This
                    is an example of a type of Old English wisdom literature which was influenced by Old Norse examples.
                    The second part is a Missal, known as <title>The Red Book of Darley</title> because of its later
                    provenance at the church of St Helen, Darley Dale, in the Lake District. Its Easter table suggest
                    that it was written in the 1060s, probably circa 1061. Its calendar contains rare feasts pertaining
                    to Sherborne in Dorset, and the manuscript was probably written there. It has been suggested that it
                    is associable with Ælfwold, bishop of Sherborne 1045–1062. The Missal section contains ornamental
                    initials and drawings of Christ between angels and of the Crucifixion. This manuscript was given to
                    Parker by Richard Wendesley.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC423" n="MS 423">
                <p>CCCC MS 423 is in three parts. The first is a sixteenth-century manuscript which contains a
                    collection of letters and documents regarding the University of Oxford mostly relating to the church
                    and theology, and a copy of the Ten Commandments in Middle English verse. The second and third
                    parts, of the late fifteenth century, contain a collection of material on preaching including Thomas
                    Penketh OESA (d. 1487), <title>Ars sermocinandi</title>, Simon Alcock (d. 1459), <title>De modo
                        dividendi themata</title>, and sermons by Michael of Hungary (fl. c. 1450-1500).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC424" n="MS 424">
                <p>CCCC MS 424 is comprised of a number of disparate elements, with six volumes bound together
                    containing material from different centuries. The manuscript begins with three printed pamphlets, an
                    epitome of Galen by Christopher Heyll, an account of the marriage of Philip of Spain and Mary I of
                    England and of a speech given by the Cardinal of Lorraine in 1561. The manuscript material proper is
                    a jumble of medical, astrological and spiritual treatises such as the <title>Regimen sanitatis
                        Salernitanum</title>, Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), <title>De impressionibus aeris siue De
                        prognosticatione</title> and Thomas de Frakaham OSA (fl. c. 1200) <title>Speculum spiritalis
                        amicitiae</title> copied in various hands between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. In
                    addition the codex includes an earlier twelfth-century copy of the legend of Aseneth in a Latin
                    translation from the Greek.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC425" n="MS 425">
                <p>CCCC MS 425 consists of two once-separate volumes. The first contains the unique surviving copies of
                    two hagiographical works by Gerald of Wales (1146-1226), his lives of St Remigius and St Hugh. It
                    has been suggested that the manuscript could be an autograph, and on these grounds has been located
                    to Lincoln between 1209 and 1223. The second volume is a c. 1450 copy of letters of Peter of Blois
                    (d. 1212). The two were probably combined by Matthew Parker. He added a table of contents and the
                    initials "TW" to the start of the first volume, perhaps suggesting that he acquired it from one of
                    the Twynes or from Thomas Wootton.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC426" n="MS 426">
                <p>CCCC MS 426 is formed from two manuscripts. The first, of the fifteenth century, is a copy of
                        <title>De fato et fortuna</title> by Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406). The second volume, dating
                    from c. 1475, is made up of extracts containing descriptions of the Holy Land from <title>Opus
                        maius</title> (pt. iv, sec. 5: <title>Geographia</title>) by Roger Bacon (c. 1214-c. 1292),
                        <title>The travels of Sir John Mandeville</title> (possibly by Jean le Long, d. 1388) and a
                    third, unidentified text as well as a copy of Bede's <title>De locis sanctis</title>. The tracts by
                    Bede and Roger Bacon are both incomplete, lacking their final sections. At the end of
                        <title>Mandeville's Travels</title> there is a full-page map of the Holy Land.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC427" n="MS 427">
                <p>CCCC MS 427 is a collection of chronicles in a series of fifteenth-century hands. Its contents
                    include the <title>Chronica pontificum et imperatorum</title> of Martin of Troppau OP (d. 1278),
                        <title>Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum</title> of Peter of Ickham OSB (d. 1295) with a
                    continuation to 1427, an abridgement of the <title>Historia destructionis Troiae</title>, written in
                    1287 by Guido de Columnis (not to be confused with his namesake Guido delle Colonne - d. c. 1280),
                    an abstract of Bede's <title>Historia ecclesiastica</title> and another chronicle which may be based
                    on the <title>Speculum historiale</title> of Richard of Cirencester OSB (d. 1401). This material
                    typifies Parker's interest in manuscripts of English and wider history which he employed to ensure
                    the sound historical foundations of his ideas for the future of the reformed church in England.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC428" n="MS 428">
                <p>CCCC MS 428 contains a sixteenth-century collection of extracts from the Early Christian Fathers on
                    tradition compiled by John Baret (c.1495-1563). His name is sometimes given as Barrett or Barret.
                    Baret was a Carmelite and a Reformation theologian. The Parker Library also holds two further
                    collections of theological extracts compiled by him: <ref type="ms" target="CCC413">CCCC MS
                        413</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC124">CCCC MS 124</ref>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC430" n="MS 430">
                <p>CCCC MS 430 contains three texts: Martin of Braga (c. 515-80), <title>Formula uitae honestae</title>,
                    which was often attributed to Seneca in the Middle Ages; Ferrandus (d. 546/7), deacon of Carthage,
                        <title>Ad Reginum comitem</title>, on Christian life for soldiers; and a sermon by Ambrosius
                    Autpertus (d. 784). It was written in the late ninth or very early tenth century at the abbey of
                    Saint-Amand in northern France, but was exported to England quite early, as is shown by
                    tenth-century additions it received probably at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. It probably moved
                    again before the end of the middle ages, as it seems to be identifiable with a book seen at
                    Glastonbury Abbey by John Leland (1506-72), and may be mentioned in a Glastonbury inventory of 1247.
                    It constitutes interesting evidence for the transmission of texts from the Continent to England at
                    around the time of the Benedictine Reform Movement.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC432" n="MS 432">
                <p>CCCC MS 432 contains a late thirteenth-century copy of the <title>Chronique de Reims</title> (or
                        <title>Rains</title>) a history of the third crusade written in French. This copy, whose
                    illustrations have suffered a great deal of damage, bears a versified inscription by John Skelton
                    (d. 1529), written on the occasion of the manuscript's presentation to Henry VIII, Skelton's pupil.
                    Presumably it came into Parker's possession as a result of his contact either with the Henrician or
                    Elizabethan court, but the manuscript's exact route from the royal collection into Parker's is
                    unknown. The book contains eleven illuminated miniatures and two historiated initials, all much
                    damaged.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC433" n="MS 433">
                <p>CCCC MS 433 is a manuscript containing a miscellany of texts copied in a number of hands between the
                    thirteenth and the late fifteenth centuries. Among the notable or characteristic items in this
                    volume are two Cluniac chronicles, one with much interest in affairs in the Welsh marches. The
                    volume also contains the tract <title>De miseria humanae conditionis</title> by Pope Innocent III
                    (1160/6-1219 - pope 1198-1216), the fable <title>De Mauro bubulco</title>, a version of the
                        <title>Miracula Sanctae Milburgae</title>, as well as a treatise on the sacraments and a number
                    of sermons. The Cluniac material has led to some speculation that this manuscript may be linked to
                    the Cluniac house of St Milburga at Much Wenlock, Shropshire, though this has been disputed.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC434" n="MS 434">
                <p>CCCC MS 434 opens with a dialogue between a brother and sister regarding the sister's desire to learn
                    about the Christian faith, with the result that the brother translates for her parts of the New
                    Testament. The book contains a Middle English translation of the Catholic Epistles, Epistles of
                    Paul, Acts of the Apostles, and part of St. Matthew's Gospel. The text has been edited by Anna
                    Paues, and is also in Cambridge, Selwyn Coll. 108.L.19. The manuscript dates from c. 1400.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC436" n="MS 436">
                <p>There are two apparently unconnected works in CCCC MS 436, dating from c. 1400. The first is a
                    commentary on the Apocalypse attributed in the manuscript to Hugo de Vienna, but in fact by an
                    unknown author, pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Cher, so called because his Apocalypse commentary with the
                    incipit <title>Vidit Iacob in sompnis</title> is sometimes attributed to Hugh of Saint-Cher OP (c.
                    1200-63) to whom several commentaries on that book are misattributed. The second text is a Latin
                    tract by John Wyclif (d. 1384), <title>De officio pastorali</title>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC437" n="MS 437">
                <p>CCCC MS 437 is a thirteenth-century portable Bible of small size and written in very small script,
                    probably made in northern France. The manuscript begins with a heavily abbreviated copy of Peter of
                    Poitiers (d. 1205), <title>Genealogia historiarum</title> (<title>Compendium in genealogia
                        Christi</title>), and ends with a list of themata for sermons with a listing of gospel readings
                    for the Sundays of the year.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC438" n="MS 438">
                <p>CCCC MS 438 contains two quite distinct types of text. In the first category is a thirteenth-century
                    copy of the medical treatise <title>De uiribus herbarum</title> attributed variously to Odo of Meung
                    (fl. last third of eleventh century), once considered to be by the Roman poet Aemilius Macer. The
                    rest of the manuscript is taken up with material relating to the history of England and of
                    Canterbury in particular. Thus one finds in this codex thirteenth-century copies of the <title>Gesta
                        regum</title> and <title>Actus pontificum Cantuariensis ecclesiae</title> of Gervase of
                    Canterbury OSB (d. 1210), a fifteenth-century transcript of clerical taxation records and a copy of
                    the bull of 1170 authorising the canonization of Anselm of Canterbury. The contents and other notes
                    strongly support a provenance at the Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity, Christ
                    Church, Canterbury.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC439" n="MS 439">
                <p>CCCC MS 439 consists of two volumes of the fourteenth century later bound together. The first
                    contains the <title>Compotus correctorius</title> of Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), one of three
                    tracts attributed to him on the subject of the computus, that is on the reckoning of time and dates,
                    particularly in regard to the Church year. The second volume contains three texts not thematically
                    connected: the <title>Liber scintillarum</title> of Defensor of Ligugé (late 7th century), a
                    florilegium of biblical and patristic sayings arranged according to themes, also in <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC337">CCCC MS 337</ref>; Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), <title>De ortu et obitu
                        patrum</title>; Honorius Augustodunensis (fl. first half of twelfth century),
                        <title>Elucidarius</title> (<title>Elucidarium</title>), also in <ref type="ms" target="CCC308"
                        >CCCC MS 308</ref>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC440" n="MS 440">
                <p>CCCC MS 440 is a fifteenth-century Middle English translation of the gospels with a table of the
                    gospels for Sundays. It is a copy of the later text of the Wycliffite Gospels and was dated to about
                    1430 by Forshall and Madden, but recently to c. 1420 on the basis of its ornamental decoration.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC441" n="MS 441">
                <p>CCCC MS 441, made in the middle years of the thirteenth century, is one of the best examples in the
                    Parker collection of a miscellany of short texts, thirty-four in all, which were often assembled for
                    the needs of an individual patron. In this case the texts are penitential, moral, didactic and
                    theological tracts, with some material also relating to sermons. The book belonged to Richard de
                    Weynchepe, a monk, who became prior of the Benedictine priory of Dover in 1268, but the volume seems
                    to have reverted to the library of Dover's mother house, Christ Church, Canterbury; it is listed in
                    the early fourteenth-century catalogue of Christ Church library by Henry of Eastry.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC442" n="MS 442">
                <p>This manuscript contains a miscellaneous canon law collection, made circa 1100 or in the early
                    twelfth century on the Continent, probably at Arras, Thérouanne, or somewhere in the region of North
                    France. It contains 650 canons of a miscellaneous variety, perhaps derived from a 'long version' of
                    pseudo-Isidore's Decretals. Its small size suggests that it might have been someone's personal
                    working collection. It seems to end incomplete as it stands, suggesting that there were originally
                    more than ten quires in the manuscript. Parker, or one of his circle, wrote "por" on the first page,
                    perhaps a clue to its provenance; James noted that this mark is also found in <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC323">CCCC MS 323</ref> and the second volume of <ref type="ms" target="CCC308">CCCC
                        MS 308</ref>, but neither of these has recorded provenance before Parker.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC443" n="MS 443">
                <p>CCCC MS 443 is a late fourteenth-century manuscript of the Constitutions of Peter Quivel, Bishop of
                    Exeter (from the Exeter Synod of April 1287) and his <title>Summula Confessionis</title>. Peter
                    Quivel (c.1230–1291) is also known as Peter Quinel. The <title>Summula</title> is a reworking of the
                    confessional manual, <title>De confessione</title>, by the bishop of Worcester, Walter Cantilupe (d.
                    1266). Both texts have been published by Powicke and Cheney in their <title>Councils and
                        Synods</title>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC444" n="MS 444">
                <p>CCCC MS 444 is a c. 1300-25 copy of the Middle English Genesis and Exodus, a biblical paraphrase in
                    verse written c. 1250, and derived from the <title>Historia scholastica</title> by Petrus Comestor
                    (d. c. 1187). It is considered to be in an East Midlands dialect and is the earliest English
                    paraphrase from the <title>Historia scholastica</title>. The title is misleading because the text
                    also contains paraphrases of sections of Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Numbers. The vocabulary and
                    syntax of the text has been much studied by philologists of early Middle English dialects.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC445" n="MS 445">
                <p>CCCC MS 445 contains a fourteenth-century copy of the <title>Summa dictaminis secundum stilum romanae
                        curiae</title> by Richard de Pophis (Pofi) (fl. c. 1256-71), a handbook for the writing of
                    ecclesiastical letters and documents with special reference to the form of words to be employed at
                    the conclusion of each sentence. Known as the <title>Cursus</title>, this may have originated as a
                    way to try to prevent crude forgery of papal documents, but by the time that this copy of Richard's
                    work was copied, it had become a rigid system of stylistic conventions which necessitated handbooks
                    to ensure its proper employment.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC446" n="MS 446">
                <p>CCCC MS 446 is a fifteenth-century copy of the <title>Quadrilogus de uita Sancti Thomae
                        Cantuariensis</title> by the Benedictine monk Elias of Evesham (fl. c. 1200), written in 1198-9.
                    It is the recension of the text known as the 'second' version, although confusingly recent
                    scholarship has suggested that the 'second' version is earlier than the 'first'. It was dedicated to
                    Henry de Longchamp, abbot of Crowland. This manuscript has been dated to the second quarter of the
                    fifteenth century on the grounds of its decoration. The 'Jacobus Tutyll' of the inscription on f. vi
                    recto has not been identified, and the manuscript's provenance before it came into the hands of
                    Parker is not known. Parker compared it with a manuscript owned by John Twyne (d. 1581) and made
                    notes about the omissions in MS 446 at the end.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC447" n="MS 447">
                <p>CCCC MS 447 contains an early sixteenth-century copy of the Latin translation of Plutarch (c.
                    46-127), <title>Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae</title> from Book IV of the <title>Moralia</title>.
                    James identified both the script and the parchment as being of Italian origin.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC448" n="MS 448">
                <p>CCCC MS 448 is a tenth-century manuscript, probably from Worcester, with later provenance at
                    Winchester. It illustrates the way in which Parker made use of his collections to argue some of his
                    strongly-held beliefs. Among other texts it contains a poem from a certain Prosper to his wife;
                    Parker identified this Prosper with a bishop of that name, and therefore took it as evidence for
                    married bishops in the late antique or early medieval church. He had the text printed with a
                    translation, and this is now bound into the manuscript after f. 40, where it seems to be the unique
                    surviving copy. Parker married his wife, Margaret, before it became legal for priests to marry in
                    England; there is a story that they had both long before vowed never to marry another. They had a
                    happy and fruitful marriage, and Parker never recovered from her death in 1570, five years before
                    his.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC449" n="MS 449">
                <p>CCCC MS 449 is a manuscript of the <title>Glossary</title> and <title>Grammar</title> by Ælfric of
                    Eynsham OSB (d. 1010). The original eleventh-century portion was obviously badly incomplete by the
                    time Parker acquired it, and he had the missing parts of the text supplied by one of his own
                    scribes. Ælfric's <title>Grammar</title> was one of the first instructional texts on Latin to be
                    written in a vernacular; as such it was extremely useful for early modern scholars who could use the
                    Latin material to learn Old English.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC450" n="MS 450">
                <p>CCCC MS 450 contains a miscellany of more than 100 distinct items copied in a number of hands of the
                    thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The single largest volume is a copy of the <title>Summa
                        dictaminis</title> or <title>Summa notariae</title> of John of Bologna (fl. late thirteenth
                    century). The remainder of the manuscript is taken up with a wide range of material, from the
                    satirical Golias poems to extracts from the <title>Secreta secretorum</title>, verses on the fall of
                    Troy, the spurious correspondence of Alexander the Great, and proverbs in Latin and French. In
                    addition, the codex contains a number of ecclesiastical documents and texts relating to relations
                    between the papacy and the thrones of England and France. Some of the material relates to Durham,
                    and it is commonly assumed that this establishes the provenance of the manuscript before it came
                    into Parker's possession.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC451" n="MS 451">
                <p>The miscellany of seventeen texts in CCCC MS 451, dating from the late twelfth or early thierteenth
                    century, has no apparent unifying them. They include the <title>Epistolae</title> of Hildebert of
                    Lavardin (1056-1133), theological tracts by Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1170) and Achard of
                    Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1170), the <title>De disciplina clericali</title> of Petrus Alfonsi (fl. early
                    twelfth century), the <title>Historia Apollonii regis Tyri</title> (a text originating in late
                    antiquity), and several sermons on the Virgin Mary, some by Ambrosius Autpertus, Fulbert of Chartres
                    (d. 1029) and Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109). A press mark shows the book to have been in the
                    library of the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC452" n="MS 452">
                <p>CCCC MS 452 contains the <title>Historia nouorum in Anglia</title> of Eadmer of Canterbury OSB (d.
                    after 1124), copied in the first half of the twelfth century, after 1122, at Christ Church,
                    Canterbury. It probably once formed part of what is now <ref type="ms" target="CCC371">CCCC MS
                        371</ref>, and it has been speculated that Eadmer himself may have removed the
                        <title>Historia</title> from this other contemporary collection of his works. The
                        <title>Historia</title> is an account of English history from the Conquest to 1122 and it
                    preserves a large amount of ecclesiastical history of this period that Parker and successive
                    generations of historians of the Church have found extremely useful. Presumably, Parker acquired
                    this manuscript more or less directly from Christ Church. After its acquisition a thirteenth-century
                    miniature of <title>Noli me tangere</title> was inserted, probably cut from French psalter.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC453" n="MS 453">
                <p>CCCC MS 453 contains the <title>Epistolae</title> of Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), bishop of Lincoln
                    1235-53, copied c. 1430. The letters are an invaluable source for the sometimes brutal
                    ecclesiastical politics of the first half of the thirteenth century and the relationship between the
                    papacy, national churches and the monarchy. It was surely this that made the codex of such interest
                    to Parker, for whom such issues were very far from being mere historical curiosities. This
                    manuscript served as the basis for what remains the only standard edition of Grosseteste's letters,
                    that published for the Rolls Series by Luard in 1861.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC454" n="MS 454">
                <p>CCCC MS 454 is an important copy of the so-called 'E' redaction of the Latin texts of the medieval
                    Welsh laws. Dating from the first half of the fifteenth century, the manuscript was likely compiled
                    in North Wales, possibly within the lordship of Denbigh, and is written in an ornate Gothic hand.
                    The flyleaves contain various additions and notes in Latin and Welsh, including records of cases of
                    robbery and trespass, comments on the circumstances in which a marriage could be dissolved, and
                    notes on historical events. The manuscript also has three paper leaves which contain a printed copy
                    of <title>Ban wedy i dynny</title> (1550), an important early Protestant pamphlet, in Welsh and
                    English, on married priests.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC455" n="MS 455">
                <p>The main text in CCCC MS 455 is the <title>Summa de arte praedicandi</title> of Thomas of Chobham (d.
                    after 1233), subdean of Salisbury Cathedral and also known as Thomas of Salisbury. This is a
                    treatise on preaching, and it is followed by Thomas's sermon for Palm Sunday (Sermo XXIII). At the
                    end of the manuscript there are antiphons for St Edmund the Martyr with musical notation on a
                    four-line stave, and also a few charms. The book was written in the thirteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC456" n="MS 456">
                <p>CCCC MS 456 is a late fourteenth-century manuscript that contains miscellaneous texts, some of them
                    scientific. These include Iohannes de Sacro Bosco (fl. early thirteenth century), <title>Tractatus
                        de sphaera</title>, the treatise by Richard of Bury (1281-1345) on the collection and study of
                    books, the <title>Philobiblon</title>, Alexander de Villa Dei (c. 1170-c. 1240)
                        <title>Algorismus</title>, and the Latin translation of the Arabic version of the
                        <title>Secretum secretorum</title> by Philip of Tripoli (fl. c. 1243), which is also in <ref
                        type="ms" target="CCC407">CCCC MS 407</ref>. This last work, popular in the later Middle Ages,
                    is a compilation of advice on political and ethical matters directed towards rulers. In addition,
                    there are three anonymous astronomical and mathematical treatises. Of all of these texts, it was
                    surely Richard of Bury's <title>Philobiblon</title> that attracted Parker to this manuscript, since
                    the Archbishop and the erstwhile bishop of Durham shared a love of books not simply for their
                    contents, but as objects in themselves.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC457" n="MS 457">
                <p> CCCC MS 457 is an early twelfth-century copy of the second recension of Alexander of Canterbury OSB
                    (fl. early twelfth century), <title>Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi</title>, including the
                        <title>Miracula</title>. The scholarly circle around Anselm (archbishop of Canterbury 1093-1109)
                    produced several writings which contain material derived from the archbishop's own teachings, of
                    which this is one. This manuscript was used by the editors to provide the base text for the second
                    recension. It has early provenance at Christ Church, Canterbury in the form of an erased <hi
                        rend="italic">ex libris</hi> inscription and a classmark in the early form ".AN.". It later came
                    into the hands of Matthew Parker, who rewrote some parts and provided an inscription erroneously
                    attributing the work to Eadmer of Canterbury OSB (d. after 1124).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC458" n="MS 458">
                <p>The main text in CCCC MS 458 is the <title>De providentia Dei</title> by John Chrysostom (c. 347-407)
                    in the translation by Ambrogio Traversari (Ambrose of Camaldoli) OSB Camald. (1386-1439). This is
                    followed by a sermon by John Chrysostom and the <title>Historia Griseldis</title> by Francesco
                    Petrarca (1304-74). At the end of the book is a short tract on tribulation. The manuscript was made
                    in the southern Netherlands, and the sermon by John Chrysostom has a colophon dating its writing to
                    1468. A coloured woodcut of the Doubting of Thomas has later been pasted into the book.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC459" n="MS 459">
                <p>The miscellany in CCCC MS 459, written in the thirteenth century, consists of over twenty-five tracts
                    by many authors on a diversity of subjects. These subjects include sermons, theology, the virtues
                    and vices, sin, penance and confession. The authors include Pope Innocent III (1160/1-1216) (his
                        <title>De miseria humanae conditionis</title>), Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), William de
                    Montibus (d. 1213), Thomas of Woburn OCist, Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109), Robert de Curzon (d.
                    1219) and Stephen Langton (c. 1165-1228). The book has the press mark of the Benedictine abbey of
                    Peterborough and was used for reading in the refectory.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC460" n="MS 460">
                <p>The texts by various hands in CCCC MS 460, dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, are
                    primarily aids for the study of the Bible, but with two tracts on the mass at the end. The first
                    category comprises the <title>Correctorium totius Bibliae</title> attributed to Robert Grossesteste
                    (d. 1253), the <title>Corrogationes Promethei</title> by Alexander Nequam OSA (1157-1217), and
                    Bartholomew Cotton OSB (d. 1321/2), <title>Compilationes de libro Britonis</title>, which is based
                    on William Brito OFM (fl. late thirteenth century), <title>Expositiones uocabulorum Bibliae</title>.
                    One of the commentaries on the mass is by Hugh of Saint-Cher OP (c. 1200-63). The book also has the
                        <title>Constitutiones de uita clericorum</title> by John Stratford (d. 1348), archbishop of
                    Canterbury, Ker rejects M. R. James's suggestion that the book might have come from Norwich
                    cathedral priory.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC461" n="MS 461">
                <p>The four texts by several scribes in CCCC MS 461, dating to the early thirteenth century, have no
                    apparent thematic connection. Perhaps they were originally separate volumes or pamphlets. The main
                    work in the book is the <title>Sententiarum abbreuiationes</title> of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160).
                    The others, all relatively short are <title>Exactis regibus</title> (or <title>Epitome iuris
                        ciuilis</title>), a civil law text, Richard the Premonstratensian (fl. late twelfth century),
                        <title>De canone missae</title>, sometimes attributed to John of Cornwall (d. after 1179), and
                    the <title>Speculum ecclesiae</title> by the pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA. The book also contains
                    four diagrams on ff. 34r-35v which pertain to the commentary by Bernardus Silvestris (d. c. 1178) on
                    Martianus Capella, <title>De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii</title>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC462" n="MS 462">
                <p>CCCC MS 462 was originally at Dover Priory, as is well attested by the press marks and the presence
                    of two fourteenth-century copies of documents relating to the priory - Henry I's charter of 1131 by
                    which Dover became a daughter house of Christ Church, Canterbury and Pope Innocent II's confirmation
                    of the same grant. In addition, the manuscript contains twelfth-century copies of a recapitulation
                    of the Bible from Genesis to Ruth, the <title>Constitutions</title> of Lanfranc OSB (d. 1089), an
                    index to proper nouns and Greek and Hebrew words appearing in the Old Testament and the account of
                    the martyrdom of Faith, Hope and Charity. Five major items are listed in a note on the flyleaf,
                    which demonstrates that the final text, a thirteenth-century copy of the <title>Purgatorium Sancti
                        Patricii</title> sometimes attributed to H[enry?] of Sawtry OCist (fl. twelfth century), was
                    added subsequently.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC463" n="MS 463">
                <p>CCCC MS 463 is a very small, late thirteenth-century portable Bible, perhaps made in North France.
                    However, it contains an English calendar of Sarum use, and it might have been made in England. Apart
                    from depictions of scenes of the Creation in the Genesis initial, the decoration is limited to
                    coloured initial letters.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC464" n="MS 464">
                <p>CCCC MS 464 is a fifteenth-century copy of the <title>Life</title> and <title>Miracles of St Thomas
                        Becket</title> by John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter (d. 1369). On the grounds of its decoration
                    it has been dated to the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It may once have been at Lincoln
                    Cathedral: Ker linked the partially legible inscription "de sneyd" with the Lincoln prebendary Ralph
                    Sneyd who removed books thence.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC465" n="MS 465">
                <p>Although CCCC MS 465 is frequently described as the Customary of the Benedictine Cathedral priory of
                    Norwich, the content is that of the Ordinal rather than the Customary. An Ordinal contains
                    directions for the liturgical services throughout the Church year. The dating of the main text is
                    1258-65, but the calendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory at the beginning of the book was added
                    1278-88. The pressmark of the priory is on the flyleaf, and an inscription recording it as the
                    'Ordinale fratris R. de Lok.'.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC466" n="MS 466">
                <p>CCCC MS 466 is a twelfth-century collection of medical tracts assembled at St Augustine's,
                    Canterbury. Like many such medieval collections, what constitutes a 'medical' treatise is somewhat
                    elastic, this volume including as it does the verse discussion on the properties of stones by
                    Marbod, bishop of Rennes (1035-1123), the <title>Liber lapidum</title>, a copy of the
                        <title>Somniale Danielis</title>, a guide to the interpretation of dreams, as well as more
                    conventional material such as the treatise on the humours by Vindicianus (fl. late 4th century),
                        <title>Epistula ad Pentadium</title>. Something of the codicological history of this manuscript
                    can be inferred, as the flyleaves consist of a papal document from the time of Urban VI (1378-89)
                    and a note that the volume was 'reparacione fratris laurentii lenham'. Lenham has been identified as
                    a mid-fifteenth-century figure, suggesting that this volume was rebound twice in the medieval
                    period.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC467" n="MS 467">
                <p>CCCC MS 467 is a fifteenth-century copy of the <title>Life of St Thomas Becket</title> by John
                    Grandisson (d. 1369), also found in <ref type="ms" target="CCC275">CCCC MSS 275</ref> and <ref
                        type="ms" target="CCC464">464</ref>. It has some decorated initials. The manuscript has an
                    inscription saying that it was given to Robert Hare (d. 1611) by John Swift, auditor (d. 1570). It
                    had presumably passed into the hands of Matthew Parker before 1575. Hare was a recusant - he gave
                    the famous manuscript by Thomas Elmham OSB (d. c. 1427) to Trinity Hall (MS 1) in Cambridge on
                    condition that it was returned to St Augustine's Canterbury if it was ever rebuilt - and his
                    antiquarian links with scholars such as Parker, Arthur Agarde, John Stow, etc, shed an interesting
                    light on the friendly scholarly relations which could exist between Protestants and Roman Catholics
                    at this time.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC468" n="MS 468">
                <p>The psalter in CCCC MS 468, dating to c. 1250, has parallel Latin-Greek text, although the Greek is
                    written in Latin script. It contains a calendar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ramsey and probably
                    belonged to the prior, Gregory of Huntingdon (fl. c. 1290). On the front flyleaf are the cipher
                    characters of a Greek system of numbers brought back from Greece by John of Basingstoke, archdeacon
                    of Leicester (d. 1252). The book also contains a section of verses concerned with prognostics,
                    proverbs and the world of nature.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC469" n="MS 469">
                <p>CCCC MS 469 is a late thirteenth-century manuscript containing miscellaneous texts with later
                    additions and notes down to the fifteenth century, containing what was probably a monastic
                    commonplace book compiled as an introduction or guide to matters spiritual and temporal. Thus it
                    includes the pseudonymous work attributed to Basil of Caesarea (c. 330-379), <title>Admonitio ad
                        filium spiritualem</title>, excerpts from book 12 (<title>De animalibus</title>) of Isidore of
                    Seville (d. 636), <title>Etymologiae</title>, a collection of proverbs, a French prose Brut from
                    Egbert to Edgar, extracts from the writings of Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154), and a list of English
                    kings from William I to Henry V. Doubtless it was the historical material which primarily interested
                    Parker, though how and from where he acquired this manuscript is unknown.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC470" n="MS 470">
                <p>Four separate volumes containing a variety of texts of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries have
                    been bound together as CCCC MS 470. The contents includes a Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory, an
                    Office of the Virgin, litany and prayers of uncertain use, Hildebert of Lavardin (1056-1133),
                        <title>De mysterio missae</title>, Lawrence of Durham OSB (d. 1154),
                        <title>Hypognosticon</title> (a work on salvation history covering both the Old and New
                    Testaments), and Osbert of Bawdsey (fl. mid-twelfth century), <title>De expugnatione
                        Lysbonensi</title>, the account of the expulsion of the Muslim garrison from Lisbon in 1147. The
                    book has the press mark of Norwich Cathedral Priory and must have been part of its library.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC471" n="MS 471">
                <p>CCCC MS 471, contains the unique copy of the devotional poem in Anglo-Norman by John of Howden (d.
                    1275), <title>Rossignos</title>, the manuscript dating to the late fourteenth century, some hundred
                    years after the poem's original composition. Howden's exact identity is uncertain, but he was
                    probably a royal clerk in the household of Queen Eleanor of Provence, consort of Henry III and the
                    mother of Edward I. The poem is dedicated to Eleanor and is a reworking of Howden's earlier Latin
                    work, <title>Philomena</title>. The manuscript was probably in Parker's possession by 1564, as
                    revealed by a scribbled note bearing that date. Other notes record the name of 'Franciscus
                    Aldriche', but it seems unlikely that this is the same man who attended Clare College in the 1580s
                    and rose to be Master of Sidney Sussex College in 1608.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC472" n="MS 472">
                <p>Although CCCC MS 472, made in the middle or third quarter of the fifteenth century in Oxford,
                    contains a collection of humanist texts, including one dedicated to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
                    (1390-1447), it is written in rather inelegant gothic cursive scripts, showing no influence of
                    Italian humanist scribes. Its contents includes Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), <title>De ortu et
                        obitu patrum</title>, Pietro del Monte (c. 1400-57), <title>De uitiorum inter se differentia et
                        comparatione</title> (a work on the vices and virtues, written in 1438 and dedicated to Humphrey
                    of Gloucester), Isocrates, <title>Oratio ad Demonicum</title>, works of Plutarch, Lucian, Xenophon
                    and Plato edited by the Italian humanists, and Leonardo Bruni (1369-1444),
                    <title>Isagogicon</title>. Perhaps the volume belonged to Duke Humphrey, although this is unlikely
                    as it seems to postdate his death.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC473" n="MS 473">
                <p>This small sized book, CCCC MS 473, is commonly known as <title>The Winchester Troper</title>;
                    together with Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 775 (sometimes also called by this name) it
                    attests to the musical repertory of the Old Minster Winchester in the eleventh century. It contains
                    some of the oldest polyphonic music in the West. As well as 'tropes', musical phrases which were
                    added as embellishments to the standard chant for the liturgical texts, it also contains sequences
                    and other music. It would have been used by a precentor, whose job it was to lead the music at mass
                    and the divine office. There are many signs that it comes from the Old Minster Winchester, including
                    texts for the feasts of the Winchester saints Swithhun, Æthelwold, Justus of Beauvais, Hædde (Hedda)
                    and Birinus. Datings from the script have varied from circa 1000 to the second quarter of the
                    eleventh century; the earlier dating has led people to associate this manuscript with Wulfstan of
                    Winchester OSB (fl. late tenth century), also known as Wulfstan Cantor, who was precentor of the Old
                    Minster Winchester at around that date, and who wrote saints' lives and hagiographical poetry. A
                    later dating, perhaps 1020s-1030s, now seems probable, but it is still likely that at least some of
                    the material it contains is his work. Material was added to the manuscript serially over the course
                    of the eleventh century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC474" n="MS 474">
                <p>CCCC 474, written c. 1300 in France, contains a single text, the <title>Summa de casibus
                        poenitentiae</title>, by the canon lawyer Raymond of Peñafort OP (c. 1190-1275), perhaps the
                    most popular of all medieval books on penance. The text is also in CCCC MSS <ref type="ms"
                        target="CCC136">136</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC247">247</ref>. It has six fine
                    historiated initials.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC475" n="MS 475">
                <p>CCCC MS 475 is a copy of Zacharias of Besançon OPrem, <title>De concordia euangelistarum</title>
                        (<title>Vnum ex quatuor</title>), a Gospel-harmony which also gives etymologies for Greek,
                    Hebrew and some Latin words. Zacharias, who died in 1156, was a member of the Premonstratensian
                    abbey at Laon. James proposed a date for the manuscript in the first half of the twelfth century,
                    which would represent a very early stage in the manuscript transmission of the text; however, Gerits
                    suggested that the manuscript might be as late as the thirteenth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC476" n="MS 476">
                <p>CCCC MS 476 contains a mixture of chronicle and legal material with an emphasis on London. Among the
                    more general material is the <title>Prophetia Ambrosii Merlini</title> (book 7 of Geoffrey of
                    Monmouth (d. 1154), <title>Historia regum Britanniae</title>), and a chronicle from the death of
                    Edward the Confessor to the crowning of Edward I (1274). The London material is a collection of
                    copies of charters temp. William I to Henry III, a brief account of how judicial eyres ought to be
                    carried out in London and notes on proceedings at the London eyre of 1226. Most interesting is what
                    appears to be a transcript that also appears in the London Guildhall <title>Liber Custumarum</title>
                    of an attempt by the citizens of London to be absolved of a debt of £200 to the Crown. This must
                    date the copying of this portion of the codex to after October 1313 (the date of the royal writ
                    ordering an inquiry into the matter), and possibly before July 1314 when the writ absolving the
                    sheriffs of the debt was issued but which does not appear in this manuscript.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC477" n="MS 477">
                <p>Written c. 1300, of unknown provenance, CCCC MS 477 contains three long texts: Bonaventure OFM
                    (1221-74), <title>Breuiloquium pauperis</title>, Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160), <title>Sententiarum
                        abbreuiationes</title>, and Simon Hinton OP (d. after 1261), <title>Summa iuniorum</title>. The
                    first two works are major works of scholastic theology, whereas Simon Hinton's text is essentially a
                    pastoral manual in the tradition of this genre of text which became popular after the Fourth Lateran
                    Council in 1215.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC478" n="MS 478">
                <p>The Armenian psalter, probably dating from the thirteenth century, contained in CCCC MS 478, is one
                    of the most curious items in the collection. Parker was in correspondence with Bishop Davies of St
                    David's and his collaborator, William Salesbury, regarding the language in which the text was
                    written. The list of Parker's books in the Parker Register (<ref type="MS" target="CCC575">CCCC MS
                        575</ref>) is annotated to record that it had been identified as Armenian by William Patten (d.
                    in or after 1598). Patten produced in 1570 a vocabulary and alphabet in Armenian for which he had
                    made use of this psalter. In the middle of the book are three coloured pictures of the Virgin and
                    Child, the Crucifixion, and Christ surrounded by the Evangelist symbols.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC479" n="MS 479">
                <p>The sole text in CCCC MS 479 is the <title>Expositiones uocabulorum Bibliae</title> (<title>Summa
                        Britonis</title>) by William Brito OFM (d. before 1285), followed by an index. This popular work
                    is a dictionary of the Bible. It was given to the College by Thomas Markaunt (d. 1439).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC480" n="MS 480">
                <p>CCCC MS 480 is a twelfth-century Greek manuscript containing psalms, canticles and some hymns. It
                    must have been in England as early as the thirteenth century, and was evidently much used, with
                    marginal Latin transliterations of some of the psalms, and other notes in a variety of hands, which
                    link it with the circle of Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253). It was believed in Parker's time to have
                    belonged to Theodore of Tarsus, and according to a note on f.1r is in the same hand as Cambridge
                    University Library MS Ff.1.24. It is certainly later, but may possibly have a similar
                    provenance.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC481" n="MS 481">
                <p>CCCC MS 481 is a miscellany of over forty texts, mostly short tracts. The subject matter of these is
                    mostly on moral, penitential and theological themes, but there are also <hi rend="italic"
                        >exempla</hi> and verses, some attributed to Walter Map (c. 1140-1210). The book, written in the
                    early thirteenth century, begins with four texts by Hugh of Fouilloy OSA (d. c. 1172/3). Longer
                    texts included in this diverse collection are Alcuin (c. 735/40-804), <title>De uirtutibus et
                        uitiis</title>, Alanus ab Insula (c. 1128-1202), <title>De sex alis cherubim</title>, excerpts
                    from the biblical book, Ecclesiasticus, pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, <title>Meditationes piissimae
                        de cognitione humanae conditionis</title>, the <title>Apocalypsis Goliae</title>, Odo of
                    Cheriton OCist (d. 1247), <title>Exempla de animalibus</title> (<title>Parabolae</title>) and
                    Ambrosius Autpertus (d. 784), <title>De conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum</title>.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC482" n="MS 482">
                <p>CCCC MS 482 contains a collection of English statutes (or what are commonly held to be statutes,
                    which includes such material as early writs and royal letters) copied in the late fourteenth or
                    early fifteenth century. At some stage in the manuscript's history, probably before the
                    mid-eighteenth century, it was disbound and rebound in a terribly confused order, though a later
                    index of the material contained within it allows the codex's contents to be navigated. This
                    manuscript was not part of Parker's collection; rather, it was donated to Corpus Christi by one J.
                    Moore, possibly to be identified with John Moore, a graduate of the college in 1756.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC483" n="MS 483">
                <p>CCCC MS 483 is a twelfth-century Latin Old Testament which runs from Genesis to IV Kings. Quires 1, 2
                    and 29 are fifteenth-century replacements. The script shows the book to be Italian. It contains fine
                    unpainted outline initials for many of the biblical books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC484" n="MS 484">
                <p>CCCC MS 484 is a small thirteenth-century Latin portable Bible, made in England and dating to c.
                    1270-90, which includes <title>Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum</title>. Most of the biblical
                    books have fine ornamental initials, but only seven contain figures. It is closely related in its
                    illumination to a much more elaborately decorated English Bible, Princeton, University Library,
                    Garrett 28, dating to c. 1270-80. Two letters regarding the purchase of the Bible by Rev. S. S.
                    Lewis from Mrs. Augusta Boyes in 1890 are also bound into the volume, but reveal little more
                    regarding its provenance; only that the volume was from the library of Mr. Foster of Springhead in
                    Yorkshire.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC485" n="MS 485">
                <p>CCCC MS 485 is an English Latin Bible of the middle years of the thirteenth century which includes a
                    list of books once owned by Robert of Aldsworth (fl. 1275), a monk of Gloucester. The Bible was at
                    Gloucester by the third quarter of the thirteenth century as evidenced by an inscription mentioning
                    Reginald de Haunne, abbot 1263-84. The book is decorated with ornamental and figure initials in a
                    simple style, not using gold grounds.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC486" n="MS 486">
                <p>CCCC MS 486 is a small vellum codex copied in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, said to
                    come from Mt Athos, and evidently meant for monastic use. The contents are a miscellany:
                    Ecclesiasticus (missing the first 8 chapters); a short section on the iambic metre; doctrinal
                    responses by Gregory of Nyssa (c. 330-c. 395), Dionysius of Alexandria (d. c. 264), Nicon, and
                    Peter, patriarch of Antioch as well as some anonymous extracts. The book retains its original
                    medieval binding. As a result of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image
                    the exterior and interior of the covers and part of the text pages, ff. 1r-9r.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC487" n="MS 487">
                <p>CCCC MS 487 is an eighteenth-century collection of material relating to the diocese of Ely collected
                    by the Rev. Brock Rand (d. 1753), chaplain to Bishop Green of Ely and the rector of Leverington and
                    Newton. The contents include a list of bishops of Ely up to Thomas Green (bishop 1723-38) and lists
                    of the parishes of Cambridgeshire and those parishes outside Cambridgeshire attached to the diocese
                    of Ely.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC488" n="MS 488">
                <p>CCCC MS 488 contains a copy of John Joscelyn's <title>Historiola Collegii Corporis Christi</title>
                    dated 1569. John Joscelyn (1529–1603) was Matthew Parker's Latin secretary. He proved very adept at
                    finding Old English manuscripts and at preparing them for publication. In addition to his work on
                    Old English he also wrote this history of Corpus Christi College and also a biography of Matthew
                    Parker which can also be found in the Parker Library manuscript collection (see <ref type="MS"
                        target="CCC489">CCCC MS 489</ref>).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC489" n="MS 489">
                <p>CCCC MS 489 is a sixteenth-century collection of documents including the <title>Historiola Collegii
                        Corporis Christi</title> by John Joscelyn (1529-1603) and his <title>Historiola</title> (a
                    history of Matthew Parker later re-titled <title>Matthaeus</title>), documents relating to
                    Stourbridge Fair, a list of books Archbishop Parker donated to the University Library, a list of the
                    Masters of Corpus Christi College and a copy of the College Statutes. Much of the volume consists of
                    blank pages.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC490" n="MS 490">
                <p>CCCC MS 490 was started in 1613, and contains a list of donations to the library of Corpus Christi
                    College, almost all printed books. In 1648 the volume was turned upside-down and restarted from the
                    back with a list of college plate. This is prefaced by the text of a college resolution that such a
                    list should be kept, perhaps prompted by the political troubles in England during the Civil War,
                    which made heavy inroads into the plate of many Oxbridge colleges; indeed the first 145 cups listed
                    were all sold in 1648 and 1649 according to notes signed by the Master and Bursar, and this record
                    seems to have been a way of commemorating these donations despite the college having sold the gifts
                    themselves. Meanwhile the book donations list was kept going until 1660. The list of plate is
                    decorated with many coats of arms of donors, and contains occasional further records of sales. The
                    list was kept up until circa 1743.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC491" n="MS 491">
                <p>CCCC MS 491 is the first of two volumes of the autograph notes of William Stanley (1647-1731) for his
                        <title>Catalogue</title> of the Parker Library manuscripts published in 1722. These contain the
                    descriptions of manuscripts in Stanley's classification (itself derived from the <title>Parker
                        Register</title>, <ref type="MS" target="CCC575">CCCC MS 575</ref>) for the volumes G.6 through
                    to the <title>Liber ab aliis donati</title>. Both this and its companion volume, <ref type="MS"
                        target="CCC492">CCCC MS 492</ref>, were purchased at the auction of the Thomas Phillipps
                    collection in 1898, this volume being Phillipps MS 7260.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC492" n="MS 492">
                <p>CCCC MS 492 is the second of two volumes of the autograph notes of William Stanley (1647-1731) for
                    his <title>Catalogue</title> of the Parker Library manuscripts published in 1722, containing the
                    descriptions of manuscripts in Stanley's classification (itself derived from the <title>Parker
                        Register</title>
                    <ref type="MS" target="CCC575">CCCC MS 575</ref>) for the volumes A.1 through to G.5. Both this and
                    it companion volume, <ref type="MS" target="CCC491">CCCC MS 491</ref>, were purchased at the auction
                    of the Thomas Phillipps collection in 1898, this volume being Phillipps MS 20958.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC493" n="MS 493">
                <p>CCCC MS 493 is a printed book containing a 1516 edition of the <title>Tractatus de sphaera</title> by
                    Iohannes de Sacro Bosco (fl. early thirteenth century) to which has been added an early
                    sixteenth-century manuscript tract on astronomy described as <title>Regule astronomie ex Arnoldo
                        extracte</title>. Probably, though not certainly, put together by Parker, nothing else has so
                    far been established about these seven hand-written sheets of paper.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC494" n="MS 494">
                <p>The sole text in CCCC MS 494, dating to the fifteenth century, is a unique translation in Middle
                    English of <title>La somme le roi</title>, a treatise on religious instruction compiled for Philip
                    III of France in 1279 by Laurent (or Lorens) d'Orléans OP. It was given to the College by John
                    Booth, Fellow, 1627-40. The paste downs are fragments of a French romance, the prose
                        <title>Lancelot</title>. The book retains its original medieval stamped binding. As a result of
                    the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the
                    front cover, the exterior of the back cover, and part of the text pages, ff. 49r-53v.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC496" n="MS 496">
                <p>CCCC MS 496 is a printed book containing the 1527 edition of <title>De legatione Basilii magni
                        principis Moschoviae</title> by Paulus Jovius (1483-1552). However, added to this printed
                    material, presumably by Parker, is a copy of the <title>De regimine principum</title> by Thomas
                    Hoccleve (1369?-1426?) copied by William Wilflete (d. 1470), sometime dean of Stoke by Clare College
                    and Master of Clare College, Cambridge 1436-55. In addition, there is pasted to the back inner board
                    of this manuscript part of a mid-twelfth-century service book, possibly from Worcester.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC497" n="MS 497">
                <p>CCCC MS 497 has been catalogued as a printed book, though James noted that it was in a
                    seventeenth-century Italian hand. It contains a copy of <title>De cabala sacra et de ineffabili Dei
                        nomine Tetragrammaton</title> dedicated to Philip IV of Spain and dated 1623. It is bound in a
                    handsome binding which depicts the arms of Philip in gold. This book was donated to the college by
                    Henry Flitcroft. Whether this figure is to be identified with the renowned Palladian architect of
                    the same name (d. 1769) is not certain.</p>
            </div>


            <div xml:id="CCC498" n="MS 498">
                <p>The main part of this book is a printed edition (1516) containing the Revelations of Methodius
                    (Pseudo-Methodius). Bound in at the end are leaves from two fifteenth-century manuscripts. The first
                    leaf is a poem attributed to Walter Map (c. 1140-1210). The remaining seven leaves contain the
                    Office and Mass for the reconciliation of a church or cemetery. This book belonged to Parker and is
                    in the Parker Register (<ref type="MS" n="CCC575">CCCC MS 575</ref>).</p>
            </div>


            <div xml:id="CCC499" n="MS 499">
                <p>CCCC MS 499 is a late fourteenth-century or early-fifteenth century German manuscript containing the
                    Commentary on the Song of Songs by Honorius Augustodunensis (Honorius of Autun) (fl. 1106-35),
                        <title>Historia passionis Jesu Christi</title> by Michael of Massa (Michele Beccucci de Massa)
                    OESA (c.1298-1337), a list of the Gospel readings for the year, a partial copy of the New Testament
                    and a collection of homilies. The book has its original fifteenth-century binding with metal bosses
                    and straps. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a
                    Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi
                    College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose name is in many of these
                    books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC500" n="MS 500">
                <p>CCCC MS 500, probably made in Prague, is part of the Elbing Collection brought back from the
                    abandoned Brigittine convent at what is now Elblag in Poland by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) in the
                    early 1620s and donated to Corpus Christi either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is
                    inscribed in many books of the collection. The codex, written in two late fourteenth- or early
                    fifteenth-century hands, is a miscellany manuscript of devotional and theological texts, including
                    the <title>Expositio missae</title> by Jan Isner (d. 1411), the <title>Breuiloquium pauperis</title>
                    of Bonaventure OFM (1217/21-74), the <title>De miseria humanae conditionis</title> by Pope Innocent
                    III (1160/61-1216 - pope 1198-1216), Henricus de Frimaria OESA (d. 1340), <title>Tractatus de
                        quatuor instinctibus</title>, excerpts from the <title>Revelations</title> of Birgitta of Sweden
                    (1302/3-73) and the <title>Euangelium Nicodemi</title>. The fact that Birgitta is described as a
                    saint in this version of the text must date the writing of the second portion of the book to after
                    1391, the date of her canonisation.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC501" n="MS 501">
                <p>This book is in an extremely fragile condition and it has not been possible for much of it to be
                    imaged, save for a few images of its cover and select pages. As a result of this fragility only the
                    exterior and interior of the front cover, the first gathering recto and verso foliated ff. a-l, and
                    the final page of the book with the explicit <hi>confessionale Johannis theotunici</hi>, foliated as
                    f. m, have been imaged. The paper is disintegrating and cannot be stabilised, so it has not even
                    been possible to foliate the manuscript throughout. . CCCC MS 501 was made in Bohemia, probably in
                    Prague, in the fifteenth century. It contains four texts on theological, devotional and penitential
                    subjects: a commentary on the <title>Sentences</title> of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160) by Gregory of
                    Rimini OESA (d. 1358), Pseudo-Augustine, <title>Soliloquium animae ad Deum</title>, James of Milan
                    OFM (fl. c. 1296), <title>Stimulus amoris</title>, and John of Freiburg OP (d. 1314),
                        <title>Confessionale</title>. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of
                    manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection
                    was donated to Corpus Christi College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose
                    name is in many of these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC502" n="MS 502">
                <p>This book is in an extremely fragile condition and it has not been possible for it to be imaged, save
                    for a few images of its cover and two single pages. The front cover exterior and interior, the recto
                    of the front flyleaf, f. ar, and the first leaf, f. br have been imaged. The paper is disintegrating
                    and cannot be stabilised, so it has not even been possible to foliate the manuscript throughout.
                    There is a single text in the book, the <title>Rationale diuinorum officiorum</title> by William
                    Durandus the Elder (1237-96), the long discussion of the liturgical services of the Church which was
                    very widely read in the late Middle Ages. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of
                    manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection
                    was donated to Corpus Christi College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose
                    name is in many of these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC503" n="MS 503">
                <p>MS 503, a miscellany, contains diverse material copied in the period c. 1390-1430 in both Germany and
                    Bohemia. The volume includes copies of Stephan of Roudnice’s expanded version of <title>Aureum
                        confessorum</title> by Willelmus Durandus the Elder (c. 1237-1296), a tract on penitence, the
                        <title>Apparatus Decretorum</title> by the canon lawyer Iohannes de Deo (c. 1190-1267), the
                    Statutes of Arnestus (Ernest), Archbishop of Prague (or Ernest of Pardubice (1297-1364),
                        <title>Inhibitiones sacramenti eucharistiae</title>, dated 1394, by Iohannes de Missa (Misna),
                    the Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, <title>Speculum peccatoris</title>, Peter of Poitiers
                    (c.1130-1215), <title>Genealogia historiarum</title> (illustrated with diagrams and drawings),
                        <title>Quaestiones in De anima</title> by John Buridan (1295-1358), <title>Speculum
                        historiale</title> (extract of the <title>Historia de Joseph et Aseneth</title>) by Vincent of
                    Beauvais (d. c. 1264), a map of the Holy Land, a list of Emperors and Popes, and notes on the
                    foundation of religious houses in Gdansk and Marienburg (Malbork). This volume is part of the Elbing
                    collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near
                    Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his
                    wife Mary, whose signature is in several of the books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC504" n="MS 504">
                <p>CCCC MS 504 is a fourteenth-century manuscript in two parts written probably in Prague c. 1375-80.
                    The first contains a long word list. The second part, dated by a colophon to 1378, contains the
                        <title>Liber deriuationum</title>, a dictionary attributed to the grammarian and canon lawyer,
                    Hugutio of Pisa (c. 1140/50-1210). Hugutio's <title>Deriuationes</title>, as it is sometimes called,
                    was one of the most popular books of its type in the late Middle Ages, particularly in schools. The
                    book has a contemporary binding with latch plates and traces of chain marks. This volume is part of
                    the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing
                    (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by Richard Pernham
                    (1583?-1628) or his wife, Mary, whose signature is in several of the books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC505" n="MS 505">
                <p>CCCC MS 505 contains two manuscripts bound together; one probably of the fourteenth century, made in
                    Germany, and the other of the thirteenth century, made in Italy. The first part contains a copy of
                    Heinrich of Herford (before 1326-70), <title>Catena aurea</title>. The second part includes texts on
                    medicine and law: <title>De consolatione medicinarum simplicium</title> (<title>De simplicibus
                        medicinis</title>) by Johannes Mesue (Masawaih al-Mardini), <title>Antidotarium
                    Nicholai</title>, and <title>Commentarium in Digestorum 'De diuersis regulis iuris antiqui'</title>,
                    a work of civil law by Bulgarus of Bologna (d. c. 1166). This volume is part of the Elbing
                    collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near
                    Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his
                    wife, Mary, whose signature is in several of the books..</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC506" n="MS 506">
                <p>CCCC MS 506 was written in Prague between 1393 and some time after 1399. It contains a large
                    collection of sermons by Guibert of Tournai OFM (d. 1284), extracts from the <title>Postilla
                        litteralis in uetus et nouum testamentum</title> by Nicholas of Lyre OFM (d. 1349), a
                        <title>Disputatio de censibus perpetuis</title> by Michael Blide, <hi rend="italic">doctor
                        decretorum</hi> of the University of Prague in 1399, and finally a canon law tract. The dating
                    is based on a colophon at the end of the sermons and on the text by Michael Blide. The book has a
                    contemporary binding. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts which
                    belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated to
                    Corpus Christi College by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife, Mary, whose signature is in many
                    of these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC507" n="MS 507">
                <p>CCCC MS 507, dating from the late fourteenth century, probably made in Germany, contains a collection
                    of sermons. The main part of the book contains the <title>Sermones quadragesimales</title> by
                    Iacobus de Voragine OP (d. 1298), a series of sermons for the season of Lent. It also contains
                    sermons attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux OCist (1090-1153), and Henricus de Frimaria OESA (d.
                    1340). This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a
                    Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi
                    College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose name is in many of these
                    books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC508" n="MS 508">
                <p>MS 508 is a fifteenth-century Bohemian or German manuscript containing a miscellany of theological
                    and devotional texts. These include the <title>Expositio symboli apostolorum</title> by the
                    theologian, Johannes Marienwerder (1343-1417), the anonymous <title>De quattuor cautelis
                        religiosorum</title>, the <title>Praeceptorium seu Expositio in decalogum</title> by Henricus de
                    Frimaria OESA (d. 1340), regent of the Erfurt studium of the Austin Friars, the Pseudo-Bernard of
                    Clairvaux, <title>Speculum peccatoris</title>, the <title>Stimulus amoris</title> by James of Milan
                    OFM (fl. c. 1296), and <title>De doctrina siue preparatione cordis</title> by Hugh of Saint-Cher (c.
                    1200-1263). The book is in its original binding. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a
                    group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The
                    collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628), or by his wife,
                    Mary, whose signature is in many of the books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC509" n="MS 509">
                <p>CCC MS 509, made in Germany, is a miscellany combining three volumes with texts with no obvious
                    unifying theme, containing saints’ lives of Dorothy of Montau - Dorothea of Prussia (d. 1394) and
                    Gall, tracts on penance and confession and a few sermons. The first text is the long
                        <title>Septitlilium uenerabilis dominae Dorotheae</title> by Johannes Marienwerder (1343-1417),
                    canon of the Teutonic Order at the cathedral of Marienwerder (modern Kwidzyn, Poland). The
                        <title>Confessiones</title> of Dorothea of Prussia which form part of this work are in German.
                    The next part of the book includes Henricus de Odendorp (c. 1350-99), <title>Tractatus super
                        decretalem de penitenciis et remissionibus</title>. He was professor of canon law at the
                    university of Vienna, and this is a treatise on the canon of the Fourth Lateran Council stipulating
                    annual confession. The life of St Gall in the third section is by Walahfrid Strabo (d. 849). This
                    volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine
                    convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by
                    either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose name is in many of these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC510" n="MS 510">

                <p>CCCC MS 510 is part of the Elbing Collection brought back from the abandoned Brigittine monastery at
                    what is now Elblag, near Gdansk in Poland by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) in the early 1620s and
                    donated to Corpus Christi either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is inscribed in many
                    books of the collection. This manuscript, written in Germany in a number of hands in the late
                    fourteenth century, is a collection of tracts, mostly on the Eucharist, including <title>Sermones de
                        corpore Christi</title> attributed to Thomas Aquinas OP (c. 1225-74), excerpts from Bernardus de
                    Parentinis OP (fl. early 14th century), <title>Tractatus de officio missae</title> (<title>Lilium
                        missae</title>) and John of Hildesheim OCarm (d. 1375) <title>Historia trium regum</title>, this
                    last also in CCCC MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC179">179</ref> and <ref type="ms" target="CCC275"
                        >275</ref>. The <title>Sermones</title> has a colophon saying that it was made by a scribe Paul
                    in Mergenvelt (probably Mergenfeld or Marienfeld) in 1398.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC511" n="MS 511">
                <p>CCCC MS 511 is a late thirteenth-century collection of medical tracts and recipes which M. R. James
                    considered might have been written in England. It is among the few medical manusripts in the Parker
                    Library. The volume includes Constantinus Africanus (d. 1087) <title>Viaticum</title>, the
                        <title>Anatomia uiuorum</title> by Pseudo-Galen, Giles of Corbeil (c. 1140-1224) <title>De
                        urinis</title> with the Commentary of Gilbertus Anglicus (d. c. 1250), <title>Modus
                        medendi</title> attributed to Archimatheus Salernitanus (Matthaeus de Platea - fl. mid-twelfth
                    century), a translation by Constantinus Africanus or Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-87) of <title>De
                        dietis uniuersalibus et particularibus</title> by Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman, d. c. 955),
                    an incomplete copy of John of Saint-Paul (Johannes de Sancto Paulo, fl. twelfth century or early
                    13th), <title>Breuiarium de signis morborum</title> and his <title>De simplicium medicinarum
                        uirtutibus</title>. There is also another tract entitled <title>De urinis</title> and several
                    medical recipes. Although in sequence with the collection from Elbing, there is no evidence that
                    this was part of Richard Pernham's donation, and it is not known how the book came to Corpus Christi
                    College.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC512" n="MS 512">
                <p>CCCC MS 512 is a fifteenth-century manuscript, written in Bohemia, containing a number of religious
                    tracts and papal bulls of Popes Clement VI, Urban VI, Clement VII, Boniface IX, Gregory XI, and
                    Urban VI. Among the main religious tracts are a major work by Thomas Aquinas OP (c. 1225-74),
                        <title>Quaestiones super libros sententiarum</title> (<title>Abbreuiationes</title>), Michael of
                    Massa (Michele Beccucci de Massa) OESA (c.1298-1337), <title>Historia passionis Jesu
                    Christi</title>, a commentary on Psalms attributed to Nicholas de Gorran OP (1232- c.1295),
                    pseudo-Augustine, <title>De essentia diuinitatis</title>, and excerpts from pseudo-Bernard of
                    Clairvaux, <title>Speculum peccatoris</title>. The Bohemian origin of the volume is suggested by a
                    note on the back flyleaf which has a deed relating to the parish church of Gumeyn (Brno-Komín) in
                    the diocese of Olomouc. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts which
                    belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated to
                    Corpus Christi College by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife, Mary whose signature is in many
                    of the boks.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC513" n="MS 513">
                <p>CCCC 513 contains an early fifteenth-century collection of sermons for the whole of the liturgical
                    year, probably written in Germany. Another manuscript of the collection, Munich, University Library
                    MS 2°. 127, bears the label ‘<hi rend="italic">Sermones magistri Hermanni de Lipczik</hi>’. The
                    otherwise unknown but possibly Franciscan Hermannus may be the author or the compiler of the
                    collection. The book retains its contemporary binding with straps, clasps and bosses. This volume is
                    part of the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at
                    Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk which was founded in 1458 and deserted in 1521. Almost all the Elbing
                    manuscripts contain the ownership inscription of Mary Pernham, wife of Richard Pernham (d. 1628),
                    Fellow of the college and <hi rend="italic">pastor Anglicus</hi> of St Marien church in Elbing from
                    1618-24.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC514" n="MS 514">
                <p>CCCC 514, probably written in Germany, contains a collection of sermons for the temporal by the
                    Franciscan preacher and theologian Conrad Holtnicker of Saxony (d. 1279). The collection was a
                    popular model in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and formed the basis for a well-known
                    vernacular collection, the Schwarzwälder Predigten. This volume is part of the Elbing collection, a
                    group of manuscripts associated with the Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk which
                    was founded in 1458 and deserted in 1521. Almost all the Elbing manuscripts contain the ownership
                    inscription of Mary Pernham, wife of Richard Pernham (d. 1628), Fellow of the college and <hi
                        rend="italic">pastor Anglicus</hi> of St Marien church in Elbing from 1618-24.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC515" n="MS 515">
                <p>Although recorded in the early eighteenth century by Robert Masters as being in the library of Corpus
                    Christi College amongst the Elbing manuscripts, by the time James came to catalogue the collection
                    two hundred years later the book had been lost. Possibly, like some of the other Elbing MSS it was
                    in a seriously deteriorated state and had been discarded. Masters' short notes indicate that it
                    contained Martin of Troppau OP (d. 1278), <title>Margarita decreti</title> (<title>Super
                        decreta</title>) and a document relating to the University of Paris, <title>Cartae regiae
                        concessae universitati Parisiensi</title>. If this manuscript came from Elbing the presence of
                    this second text might be explained by the documented attendance of students from Elbing at the
                    University of Paris in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC516" n="MS 516">
                <p>CCCC MS 516 contains an unfinished anonymous medical tract entitled <title>Quaestiones
                        medicinales</title>. The manuscript, either German or Bohemian, dates to the fifteenth century
                    and is part of the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent
                    at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by Richard
                    Pernham (1583?-1628) or by his wife, Mary, whose signature is in many of the books. The book retains
                    its contemporary binding.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCCD517" n="MS 517">
                <p>This book is in an extremely fragile condition and it has not been possible for it to be imaged, save
                    for the exterior of its front and back covers. The paper is disintegrating and cannot be stabilised,
                    so it has not even been possible to foliate the manuscript throughout. The manuscript, either German
                    or Bohemian, dates to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and is part of the Elbing collection; a
                    group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The
                    collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or by his wife,
                    Mary, whose signature is in many of the books. The main part of the text contains sermons attributed
                    to Thomas Aquinas OP (1224/5-74). There is also an unidentified set of <hi rend="italic"
                        >quaestiones</hi> on the <title>Sentences</title> of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160).</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC518" n="MS 518">
                <p>CCCC MS 518, made in Prague, is part of the Elbing collection brought back from the abandoned
                    Brigittine monastery at what is now Elblag near Gdansk Poland by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) in the
                    early 1620s and donated to Corpus Christi either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is
                    inscribed in many books of the collection. Like many manuscripts in this collection, this codex
                    consists of a collection of devotional and theological tracts copied in a number of late
                    fourteenth-century hands. These include extracts from the <title>Compendium ueritatis
                        theologicae</title> by Hugo Ripelinus (Hugh of Strasbourg) OP (c. 1200-68), <title>Soliloquium
                        de arra animae</title> by Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (c. 1096–1141), the <title>De occultatione
                        uitiorum sub specie uirtutum</title> and <title>Tractatus de quatuor instinctibus</title>
                    attributed to Heinrich von Friemar (Henricus de Frimaria) OESA (1250-1340), the <title>De miseria
                        humanae conditionis</title> by Innocent III (1160/61-1216), and the <title>Quaestiones
                        sentenciarum</title> by Petrus de Aquila OFM (d. 1361), a commentary on the
                        <title>Sentences</title> of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160). This last item ends with a note that
                    it was written in Prague in 1376.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC519" n="MS 519">
                <p>CCCC 519 is a Bohemian manuscript, written in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century,
                    probably originating at Charles University in Prague. It contains a <title>Tractatus de septem
                        sacramentis</title> which has been attributed to the legal and theological scholar Nicholas
                    Wigandi of Krakow, a student of Henricus Totting of Oyta (c. 1330-97), who received his doctoral
                    degree at Prague in 1387. This text is known in only one other manuscript, Budapest, University
                    Library MS 53. The next text in the manuscript is a short tract by Matthew of Krakow (1330/35-1410)
                    with an explicit signed by the scribe 'Wenczeslay Sporiczeri de Chomuthaw'. The final text is the
                        <title>De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione</title> by David of Augsburg OFM (d.
                    1272), also in <ref type="ms" target="CCC256">CCCC MS 256</ref>. This volume is part of the Elbing
                    collection, a group of manuscripts associated with the Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near
                    Gdansk which was founded in 1458 and deserted in 1521. Almost all the Elbing manuscripts contain the
                    ownership inscription of Mary Pernham, wife of Richard Pernham (d. 1628), Fellow of the college and
                        <hi rend="italic">pastor Anglicus</hi> of St Marien church in Elbing from 1618-24. The book
                    retains its original binding with an inscription providing evidence of Elbing ownership.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC520" n="MS 520">
                <p>CCCC MS 520 is a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century paper manuscript, probably made in Germany, which
                    once belonged to the Brigittine convent of Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The Elbing collection was
                    donated to Corpus Christi College by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or by his wife, Mary, whose
                    signature is in many of the books. The contents of MS 520 include the <title>De statu curiae
                        Romanae</title> by Henry of Würzburg (d. 1265), and <title>Aurora</title> by Petrus Riga (d.
                    1209), a versified version of the Bible, although in the manuscript this is mistakenly attributed to
                    Peter of Corbeil (c. 1150-1222). The final text contains extracts from the <title>Historia
                        scholastica</title> of Petrus Comestor (d. c. 1187). The manuscript also contains some notes in
                    German on the foundation of religious orders.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC521" n="MS 521">
                <p>CCCC MS 521, made in Germany, is part of the Elbing Collection brought back from the abandoned
                    Brigittine monastery at what is now Elblag in Poland by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) in the early
                    1620s and donated to Corpus Christi either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is inscribed
                    in many books of the collection. Scribal colophons allow the two volumes that make of this codex to
                    be precisely dated to 1424-5 and 1388 respectively. The first volume, of 1424-5, contains a number
                    of tracts relating to prophecy, including the earliest version of the <title>Onus mundi</title> by
                    Johannes Tortsch (c. 1400-45), and Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), <title>De meditandis
                        plagis quae circa finem mundi euenient</title>. Also in this part are extracts from the
                        <title>Vitae Patrum</title> (<title>Vitas Patrum</title>, a compilation of lives of early monk
                    and hermit saints), the <title>Revelations</title> of the pseudo-Methodius, and at the end, of local
                    significance, the synodal statutes of the Henry III, Bishop of Varmia (1373-1401), formerly in East
                    Prussia but now in Poland (Warmia). The second, earlier, volume, contains a glossed hymnal, with a
                    colophon dating its completion to 1388, and a tract on events portending the coming of plague.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC522" n="MS 522">
                <p>The binding of CCCC MS 522, although contemporary, is in a very damaged state with little remaining
                    of the boards. The book was made in Germany in the mid-fifteenth century, and contains one work, the
                        <title>Sententiae</title> by Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160). The text is decorated with many fine
                    penflourish initials. This volume is part of the Elbing collection, a group of manuscripts
                    associated with the Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk which was founded in 1458 and
                    deserted in 1521. Almost all the Elbing manuscripts contain the ownership inscription of Mary
                    Pernham, wife of Richard Pernham (1583?-1628), Fellow of the college and <hi rend="italic">pastor
                        Anglicus</hi> of St Marien church in Elbing from 1618-24. They were evidently given to the
                    college either by Richard or by Mary.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC523" n="MS 523">
                <p>This book is in an extremely fragile condition and it has not been possible for it to be imaged, save
                    for two images of its exterior front and back - the boards do not survive. The paper is
                    disintegrating and cannot be stabilised, so it has not even been possible to foliate the manuscript
                    throughout. The writing has disappeared from many of the pages. The texts included in CCCC MS 523,
                    probably made in Bohemia, are devotional and theological tracts, and a text on preaching, the
                        <title>Liber de arte predicationis</title> by Conrad Waldhauser, a preacher of Prague. Another
                    text which has been identified is the <title>De conscientia et ratione</title> of Matthew of Krakow
                    (c. 1330/35- 1410). The manuscript dates to the late fourteenth century and is part of the Elbing
                    collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near
                    Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or by
                    his wife, Mary, whose signature is in many of the books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC524" n="MS 524">
                <p>The moral and devotional tracts in CCCC MS 524 are concerned with the virtues and vices, a biblical
                    summary, the Passion of Christ, and the sacrament of the Mass. These include the <title>Summarium
                        biblicum</title> attributed to Alexander of Villa Dei (c. 1170-1240), and the <title>Passio
                        Domini</title> by Henrik Totting van Oyta (c. 1330-97). The book, made in Germany or Bohemia,
                    dating from c. 1400, belonged to the Brigittine convent of nuns at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. It
                    came to the College in the seventeenth century, donated by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628), Fellow and
                    Vicar of Stowmarket (Suffolk), or by his wife Mary, whose signature is in many of the books. The
                    Pernhams had acquired the manuscripts while Richard was acting as a minister in Germany. The first
                    text, a work on the virtues and vices, <title>Distinctiones</title>, has a colophon dating its
                    writing to the scribe John in 1404. The book has its original fifteenth-century binding with metal
                    tags and the remnants of a chain mark showing that it was once kept in a chained library.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC525" n="MS 525">
                <p>This book is in an extremely fragile condition and it has not been possible for it to be imaged, save
                    for the front exterior, the first leaf recto foliated as f. a, and the back exterior - the boards do
                    not survive. The paper is disintegrating and cannot be stabilised, so it has not even been possible
                    to foliate the manuscript throughout. CCCC MS 525, probably made in Germany or Bohemia, contains a
                    series of sermons for the church year and a penitential text, <title>Penitentiale aureum</title>, by
                    a certain Johannes Cappellanus. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts
                    which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated
                    to Corpus Christi College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose name is in
                    many of these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC526" n="MS 526">
                <p>This book is in an extremely fragile condition and it has not been possible for it to be imaged
                    completely, save for the front and back cover exteriors, and ff. 1-211v, 250v, 251r. The binding is
                    very tight in parts of the book and for some pages there has been some loss of focus in the deep
                    gutter. CCCC MS 526 is part of the Elbing Collection brought back from the abandoned Brigittine
                    monastery at what is now Eblag in Poland by Richard Pernham in the early 1620s and donated to Corpus
                    Christi either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is inscribed in many books of the
                    collection. This volume is closely dated by the presence of a scribal colophon recording the year
                    1431 in one of the items (a letter by Jan van Ruusbroec), which date the rest of the manuscript must
                    more or less share. Among the many devotional and theological texts in the manuscript are Henricus
                    Suso OP (Heinrich Seuse, 1295-1366) <title>Horologium sapientiae</title> and <title>Cursus de
                        aeterna sapientia</title>, Jan van Ruusbroec's (1293-1381) <title>De Calculo</title>
                        (<title>Tractatus de perfectione filiorum Dei</title>) and <title>De ornatu spiritualium
                        nuptiarum</title>, both in the translation of Willem Jordaens, Hugo de Balma OCarth (fl.
                    1289-1304) <title>Theologia mystica</title> (<title>De triplici uia</title>), Thomas Aquinas OP (c.
                    1225-74) <title>De perfectione spiritualis uitae</title> and the <title>De uita solitaria</title> of
                    Francesco Petrarca (1304-74). The 'kochemeister' mentioned on the back cover is possibly Michael
                    Kuchmeister (fl. 1414-22) mentioned in Elbing records.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC527" n="MS 527">
                <p>This book is in an extremely fragile condition and it has not been possible for it to be imaged, save
                    for the front and back cover exteriors, and the first gathering rectos only foliated as ff. a-l. The
                    paper is in a very poor state and cannot be stabilised, so it has not even been possible to foliate
                    the manuscript throughout. CCCC MS 527, made in the fourteenth century in Bohemia or Germany,
                    contains three texts: an alphabetical moral dictionary, a treatise on penance attributed either to
                    Thomas of Chobham (d. after 1233) or more likely to Bartholomaeus de S. Concordio Pisanus OP (d.
                    1347), and finally <title>De essentia dei</title> by pseudo-Jerome. The work on penance has a
                    colophon dating its writing to 1395. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of
                    manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection
                    was donated to Corpus Christi College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose
                    name is in many of these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC528" n="MS 528">
                <p>CCCC 528, made in Germany probably at Elbing in West Prussia, contains a set of sermons for the
                    temporal whose author identifies himself in the prologue as Nicholas Lucas, <hi rend="italic">rector
                        parochialis ecclesiae in ganszhowa</hi> (G?sawa, Poland). The collection is dedicated to
                    Wojciech Jastrz?biec, bishop of Pozna? which dates its composition to 1399-1412. The book has its
                    contemporary cover, but this has been extensively restored in the twentieth century. This volume is
                    part of the Elbing collection, a group of manuscripts associated with the Brigittine convent at
                    Elbing (Elblag, Poland) which was founded in 1458 and deserted in 1521. Almost all the Elbing
                    manuscripts contain the ownership inscription of Mary Pernham, wife of Richard Pernham (d. 1628),
                    Fellow of the college and <hi rend="italic">pastor Anglicus</hi> of St Marien church in Elbing from
                    1618-24. An inscription on the verso of the flyleaf relates to the Brigittine house at Elbing and is
                    dated 1463. This provides indisputable evidence of ownership by the convent.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC529" n="MS 529">
                <p>MS 529, consisting of four separate volumes bound together. It contains a concordance of the Passion
                    of Christ, the <title>Tractatus super Ave Maria</title> by Augustinus Triumphus de Ancona OESA
                    (1243-1328), <title>Postilla de Sanctis</title> by Matthew of Krakow (c. 1330/35-1410), the
                    Commentary on <title>Firmiter credimus</title> (<title>Summa de trinitate et fide catholica</title>)
                    by Conradus of Soltau (Zolto or Zolco), Bishop of Verden (c. 1350-1407), and the pseudo-Augustine
                        <title>De fide ad Petrum</title>. <title>Firmiter credimus</title> is also in <ref type="MS"
                        target="CCC538">CCCC MS 538</ref>. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of
                    manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection
                    was donated to Corpus Christi College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose
                    name is in many of these books. This manuscript dates to the late fourteenth or early fifteenth
                    century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC530" n="MS 530">
                <p>CCCC MS 530 contains two medical tracts: the <title>Canon medicinae</title> by Avicenna (Abu 'Ali
                    al-Husain ibn 'Abdallah Ibn Sina) translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-87), and the
                        <title>De accidenti et morbo</title> by Galen (129-99). The manuscript was written in Germany in
                    1398 and contains many ornamental initials. It has lost its binding. It is part of the Elbing
                    collection, a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near
                    Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628)
                    or his wife Mary, whose name is in many of these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC531" n="MS 531">
                <p>CCCC 531 contains a commentary on the <title>Sentences</title> of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160) by an
                    unknown author. There are occasional notes in German, and the book was probably made in Germany in
                    the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century. Only part of its cover remains. This volume is part
                    of the Elbing collection, a group of manuscripts associated with the Brigittine convent at Elbing
                    (Elblag), near Gdansk which was founded in 1458 and deserted in 1521. Almost all the Elbing
                    manuscripts contain the ownership inscription of Mary Pernham, wife of Richard Pernham (d. 1628),
                    Fellow of the college and <hi rend="italic">pastor Anglicus</hi> of St Marien church in Elbing from
                    1618-24.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC532" n="MS 532">
                <p>CCCC MS 532 is part of the Elbing collection brought back from the abandoned Brigittine monastery at
                    what is now Elblag in Poland by Richard Pernham in the early 1620s and donated to Corpus Christi
                    either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is inscribed in many books of the collection. This
                    manuscript is a large fifteenth-century collection of sermons, some attributed to Pope Innocent III
                    (1160/61-1216 - pope 1198-1216), copied in a number of hands. The original binding, badly damaged,
                    was repaired in the twentieth century.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC533" n="MS 533">
                <p>CCCC MS 533 contains a fifteenth-century copy of the Commentary on Psalms 68-150 by Nicholas de
                    Gorran OP (1232-95) who served as the prior of the Dominican convent of St James in Paris. He also
                    served as both confessor and adviser to the French king, Philip IV (d. 1314). This volume is part of
                    the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing
                    (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by either Richard
                    Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose name is in many of these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC534" n="MS 534">
                <p>CCCC 534 contains a collection of late fourteenth-century material, principally sermons, which can be
                    associated with Charles University in Prague. It includes on ff. 148r-237v a collection of sermons
                    and speeches given at the law faculty of the university c. 1377-93, including recommendations of
                    rectors and graduation speeches. An identical collection of material is found in Prague,
                    Metropolitan Chapter Library MS E.83. Other texts in the volume include Willelmus Peraldus OP (c.
                    1200-71), <title>Summa de uitiis</title>, an important penitential text written in the middle years
                    of the thirteenth century, and the Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, <title>Speculum peccatoris</title>.
                    The book retains its original binding but it was extensively restored in the twentieth century. This
                    volume is part of the Elbing collection, a group of manuscripts associated with the Brigittine
                    convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk which was founded in 1458 and deserted in 1521. Almost all
                    the Elbing manuscripts contain the ownership inscription of Mary Pernham, wife of Richard Pernham
                    (d. 1628), Fellow of the college and <hi rend="italic">pastor Anglicus</hi> of St Marien church in
                    Elbing from 1618-24.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC535" n="MS 535">
                <p>CCCC MS 535 is a German manuscript which contains a dictionary called <title>Brachylogus</title> by
                    the Dutch lexicographer, Johannes de Mera (fl. c. 1350). The dating of this manuscript is to the
                    last quarter of the fourteenth century. At the end of the text it is noted that the
                        <title>Brachylogus</title> was completed in 1354 in Mechelen. The book is decorated with many
                    fine large coloured ornamental initials. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of
                    manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection
                    was donated to Corpus Christi College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose
                    name is inscribed in many of these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC536" n="MS 536">
                <p>CCCC MS 536 contains a single work, the <title>Malogranatum</title> by a member of the Cistercian
                    monastery of Königsaal (Zbraslav), near Prague. The name of its author has been controversial. He
                    was first thought to be a monk called Gallus, then one called Peter, and most recently the abbot of
                    Zbraslav in the second half of the fourteenth century, Iohannes of Frankenstein, has been proposed.
                    The text is in the form of spiritual advice as a guide on the road to perfection. Attendance at
                    Mass, and in particular frequent communion, is considered as essential to achieve this. The book was
                    probably made at Prague in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, and preserves its
                    contemporary binding with straps and bosses of bone or ivory. This volume is part of the Elbing
                    collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near
                    Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628)
                    or his wife Mary, whose name is in many of these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC537" n="MS 537">
                <p>CCCC MS 537, probably made in Prague, contains a great number of late fourteenth- or early
                    fifteenth-century extracts and copies of devotional and liturgical texts. These include the
                        <title>Oratio circa elevationem missae</title> by Jan Isner (d. 1411) on f. 54v (also in <ref
                        type="ms" target="CCC500">CCCC MS 500</ref>, f. 11r) , numerous prayers, including some
                    attributed to Augustine and one from the <title>Stimulus amoris</title> by James of Milan OFM (fl.
                    c. 1296). The book retains its original binding. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a
                    group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The
                    collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife
                    Mary, whose name is in many of these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC538" n="MS 538">
                <p>The writing in CCCC MS 538 is much faded and its contemporary binding was in a very damaged state but
                    was repaired in the twentieth century. It was probably written at some time after 1396/7 in Bohemia.
                    On f. 13r the ownership is recorded of Johannes Mokelburg B.A. who had studied at Prague. A Heinrich
                    Mokelburg of Elbing is recorded in 1419 as a student at Leipzig. The book contains one work, a <hi
                        rend="italic">summa</hi> of catholic doctrine by Conradus of Soltau (Zolco or Zolto, c.
                    1350-1407), the <title>Commentary on Firmiter credimus</title> (<title>Summa de trinitate et fide
                        catholica</title>). At the end of this work is a colophon attributing it to Zolto, doctor of
                    Prague, who compiled it in 1396/97. The text is also in <ref type="ms" target="CCC529">CCCC MS
                        529</ref>. This volume is part of the Elbing collection, a group of manuscripts which belonged
                    to the Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus
                    Christi College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose name is in many of
                    these books.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC540" n="MS 540">
                <p>This Book of Hours, CCCC MS 540, of c. 1390-1400, was given to Corpus Christi College by Lord
                    Queenborough (1861-1949) in 1923. It was made in Avignon and is decorated by the same group of
                    artists as three other Books of Hours, Paris, BnF MS lat. 10527, Vienna, Österreichische
                    Nationalbibliothek MS ser. nov. 9450, and New York, Public Library MS Spencer 49. It contains eight
                    half-page miniatures and many decorative ornamental borders. One of the artists involved in the
                    illumination may be Jean de Toulouse, documented as working in Avignon 1378-94. A note in the
                    calendar records the anniversary of the building of the castle of Cordes-sur-Ciel, near Albi, and
                    the owner very likely lived in that region.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC542" n="MS 542">
                <p>CCCC MS 542 is a tiny prayerbook which Archbishop Parker’s second son, Matthew, gave to his wife
                    Frances as a New Year’s gift at some point between their marriage in 1569 and his early death in
                    1574. It contains an acrostic on her name, as well as a number of “most necessary prayers and
                    comfortable meditations”, and the opening page has an illuminated border containing flowers like
                    those found in earlier sixteenth-century Books of Hours. Simpler gold borders are on several other
                    pages. Only the first few pages have been imaged because of the great fragility of the contemporary
                    binding, which is embroidered with pansies and chrysanthemums, in a similar style to the decoration
                    within. Frances was a renowned embroiderer, so may have made the binding herself. As a result of the
                    fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the front
                    cover, the exterior of the back cover, and part of the text pages, ff. 1r-7v. The manuscript later
                    belonged to the Huth library, founded by Henry Huth (d. 1878) and continued by his son Alfred. It
                    was sold at auction in 1917, and was bought by Lord Queenborough (1861-1949) to give to Corpus
                    Christi College, perhaps at the instigation of the then librarian, Sir Geoffrey Butler. Frances was
                    the daughter of William Barlow, bishop of Chichester, who had assisted in Archbishop Parker’s
                    enthronement. At the time of her husband’s death Frances was pregnant with a child who did not
                    survive infancy. In 1578 she married Tobie Matthew, later Archbishop of York. She later founded York
                    Minster library with the books of her second husband, and was renowned for her views on girls’
                    education.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC543" n="MS 543">
                <p>CCCC MS 543 contains transcripts of various letters and speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510-79)
                    along with other contemporary letters and documents, including a 1571 petition of the House of Lord
                    to Queen Elizabeth I and a letter of William Cecil to an unknown fellow councillor dated May 1587.
                    The manuscript was never part of Parker's collection but was instead donated to the college by Lord
                    Queenborough (1861-1949) in 1923.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC544" n="MS 544">
                <p>CCCC MS 544, contains a fifteenth-century copy of William Lyndwood (d. 1446) <title>Constitutiones
                        prouinciales</title>, although this version lacks Lyndwood's glosses to the same text. This very
                    popular text is a digest of the synodal constitutions of the province of Canterbury from 1222 to
                    1416. The manuscript was never part of Parker's collection but rather was purchased from the
                    trustees of the Rev. J. C. Bowen of Banbury in May 1932. Bowen had unfortunately gone mad, his only
                    request for reading matter during his confinement being this manuscript, which request was refused
                    on account of the threat that he would damage it.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC545" n="MS 545">
                <p>CCCC MS 545 contains a late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century Old Testament genealogical roll.
                    It was never part of Parker's collection and nothing is known of the document's provenance other
                    than it was transferred from the college's archives in 1959.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC546" n="MS 546">
                <p>CCCC MS 546 is a paper genealogical roll made by Ambrose Middelton of the Inner Temple, London, in
                    1527, and given to Corpus by Thomas Whincop, fellow, in 1692. In its seventeen feet of length it
                    traces the history of the world from Adam, via Noah and other Biblical figures, through such
                    legendary early kings as Lud and Arthur, down to the Anglo-Saxon kings. It concludes with Harold II,
                    and his death in the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is written in English, in a crabbed secretary hand.
                    Presumably it was copied from a medieval roll; however, usually such a genealogy would extend beyond
                    the Norman Conquest, so it is interesting that Ambrose Middelton chose to conclude at this
                    point.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC557" n="MS 557">
                <p>CCCC MS 557 consists of two fragments of eleventh-century Old English material removed from the
                    bindings of two Parkerian printed books. Two further fragments from the same manuscript were removed
                    from printed books in the collection of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of
                    Kansas. The text is an Old English sermon on the True Cross. It has later annotations by the
                    Tremulous Hand of Worcester, and was probably also written there.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC559" n="MS 559">
                <p>CCCC MS 559 is a collection of legal material, mostly witness depositions, collected in the later
                    fifteenth century by Pierre Assailly, an official of the Châtelet in Paris and probably copied c.
                    1480, although containing some material dating originally to the thirteenth century. The 32 leaves
                    that make up this manuscript were removed from Parker's copy of the 1497 edition of the Letters of
                    Pope Pius II printed in Lyons (now SP.16 in the Parker Library) during conservation of that volume
                    in 1952.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC561" n="MS 561">
                <p>CCCC MS 561 contains a single letter from Matthew Parker to William Cecil dated March 1559 and
                    discussing the state of Cambridge University. The letter was not part of the large collection of
                    Parker's correspondence as found in the college (see in particular <ref type="MS" target="CCC114A"
                        >CCCC MS 114A</ref> and <ref type="MS" target="CCC114B">114B</ref>), but was instead purchased
                    at auction in 1942. The letter is accompanied by a transcription of the letter made by E. H. Minns,
                    Librarian of Pembroke College, Cambridge in the year of its acquisition.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC575" n="MS 575">
                <p>The main condition attached to Parker’s gift of books to Corpus Christi College was an annual
                    inspection of the library by officials from Trinity Hall and Gonville and Caius College. To this end
                    three copies were made of the Parker Register, listing Parker’s donations, one for each college, so
                    that the contents of the library could be checked against this list. CCCC MS 575 is the copy
                    belonging to Corpus Christi College, and contains annotations made by John Parker, Corpus fellow and
                    son of Matthew, who checked the books not long after his father’s death. It is not clear how
                    thoroughly these annual inspections were carried out - for one thing the three copies differ
                    slightly - but nonetheless the system was successful in that remarkably little of Parker’s
                    collection has been lost over the years. The 'audit' has been revived as an annual occurrence since
                    2004 after a long period when it did not regularly take place.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC578" n="MS 578">
                <p>This manuscript contains an exceptionally beautiful copy of <title>Kalila wa Dimna</title>, the
                    eighth-century Arabic text by Abdu’llah ibn al-Mugaffa. Ibn al-Mugaffa’s work was based on a
                    third-century Sanskrit <title>speculum principis</title> text, which was transmitted to the Arab
                    world by way of an intermediary sixth-century Persian translation. <title>Kalila wa Dimna</title>
                    contains a series of instructive animal fables, which might be compared to Aesop’s Fables in the
                    Greek tradition. CCCC MS 578 is a fourteenth-century manuscript, in a very fine hand, with superb
                    illustrations characteristic of the Baghdad school. The manuscript was given to Corpus Christi
                    College by W. T. Sandiford in 1796.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC580A" n="MS 580A">
                <p>CCCC MS 580 is now divided into three distinct volumes, A, B and C, each containing tabulated copies
                    of the returns of one of the three dioceses of Canterbury, Ely and Bedfordshire sent in answer to
                    Parker's request for information concerning incumbents sent out in 1560 and 1561. They were once
                    part of the similar returns material found in <ref type="MS" target="CCC097">CCCC MSS 97</ref> and
                        <ref type="MS" target="CCC122">122</ref> but had at some stage been removed to the college's
                    modern archives before being returned to the Parker collection in 1959.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC580B" n="MS 580B">
                <p>CCCC MS 580 is now divided into three distinct volumes, A, B and C, each containing tabulated copies
                    of the returns of one of the three dioceses of Canterbury, Ely and Bedfordshire sent in answer to
                    Parker's request for information concerning incumbents sent out in 1560 and 1561. They were once
                    part of the similar returns material found in CCCC MSS <ref type="ms" target="CCC097">97</ref> and
                        <ref type="ms" target="CCC122">122</ref> but had at some stage been removed to the college's
                    modern archives before being returned to the Parker collection in 1959.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC580C" n="MS 580C">
                <p>CCCC MS 580 is now divided into three distinct volumes, A, B and C, each containing tabulated copies
                    of the returns of one of the three dioceses of Canterbury, Ely and Bedfordshire sent in answer to
                    Parker's request for information concerning incumbents sent out in 1560 and 1561. They were once
                    part of the similar returns material found in <ref type="MS" target="CCC097">CCCC MS 97</ref> and
                        <ref type="MS" target="CCC122">122</ref> but had at some stage been removed to the college's
                    modern archives before being returned to the Parker collection in 1959.</p>
            </div>

            <div xml:id="CCC581" n="MS 581">
                <p>CCCC MS 581 is a single large-sized leaf containing a contemporary account of Matthew Parker's
                    consecration as Archbishop of Canterbury on 17 December 1559 in the chapel of Lambeth Palace,
                    together with the document commissioning Walter Haddon as judge in the Prerogative Court of
                    Canterbury ten days later. Those present at the consecration are listed and the manner of the
                    service described. Presumably it was once part of Parker's personal collection of manuscript
                    material. It was returned to the Parker Library from the modern archives of the college in 1959.</p>
            </div>

            <div xml:id="CCC582" n="MS 582">
                <p>CCCC MS 582 was formerly known as the Black Book. It was compiled by Archbishop Matthew Parker,
                    probably in 1574, and contains a number of important Corpus Christi documents, including the 1548-9
                    statutes, confirmed and signed by the ecclesiastical commissioners in January 1573/4. It also has
                    texts about Parker's donations to the University Library and Corpus Christi, including his gifts of
                    furniture for the use of the Norwich scholars. The manuscript has pictures of Elizabeth I and Parker
                    glued to its front and back boards. It still has the seal of the Court of High Commission, although
                    this is broken, and is still in its original Lambeth binding.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC583" n="MS 583">
                <p>CCCC MS 583 is in the form of a short roll containing biographical notes about Matthew Parker
                    probably written by Parker himself and added to by his son, John Parker. It is one of a very small
                    number of sources that mentions, however briefly, his activities during the reign of Mary Tudor
                    (1553-8), an otherwise dark period in Parker's public life. It has been stated that this document
                    was probably donated to the college by Thomas Tenison, archbishop of Canterbury 1695-1715 (it was
                    certainly in the College's possession when Strype printed it from this unique copy in his 'Life' of
                    Parker in 1711), which may indicate that it was found among the archiepiscopal archives.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC627" n="MS 627">
                <p>CCCC MS 627 is a fragment of a papal bull of Adrian IV (1154-59). It is believed to have once formed
                    part of the binding of <ref type="ms" target="CCC183">CCCC MS 183</ref> and to have been removed
                    during conservation work in the early 1990s.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC628" n="MS 628">
                <p>The Revd. William Favell, an old member of the college (matric. 1922), gave this illuminated French
                    Psalter, CCCC MS 628, to Corpus Christi College in 1976. It was probably made in Paris c. 1240,
                    certainly after 1234 because St Dominic, canonised in that year, is in the Litany. At the liturgical
                    divisions of the Psalter there are eight fine full-page historiated initials. The figure style
                    derives out of that of the artists of the <title>Bibles moralisées</title> made for the French royal
                    family in the period c. 1220-40.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC633" n="MS 633">
                <p>CCCC MS 633 contains fragments (16 ff.) of a Greek Gospel Lectionary, written on paper in the late
                    fifteenth century. It was given to Corpus Christi College by Dr Scott Gwara in 1991.</p>
            </div>
            <div xml:id="CCC638" n="MS 638">
                <p>This cutting from a German Missal, CCCC MS 638, was given to Corpus Christi College by Dr Robert
                    Lefever in 2007. It is the <title>Te igitur</title> initial, the opening of the Canon of the Mass,
                    and comes from a Missal made in the third quarter of the fifteenth century, probably in Swabia. The
                    iconography is of female personifications of <hi rend="italic">Ecclesia</hi> and <hi rend="italic"
                        >Synagoga</hi>, with the brazen serpent, a typological symbol of the Crucifixion, wound around
                    the initial T. The pelican piercing her breast, another type of the Crucifixion and special emblem
                    of Corpus Christi College, is in the upper decorative border. The arms on this page are of the von
                    Magenbuch family, and other cuttings from the same Missal with the same arms are in collections in
                    Philadelphia and Tokyo.</p>
            </div>


            <div xml:id="CCC640" n="MS 640">
                <p>CCCC MS 640, a single leaf from a Spanish sixteenth-century Antiphoner, was given to the Parker
                    Library by Andrew Johnson in 2008. The text is from First Vespers and Matins of the Seventh Sunday
                    after Pentecost. There are large calligraphic initials tinted in pale yellow for the responsory and
                    versicle.</p>
            </div>

            <div xml:id="CCC641" n="MS 641">
                <p>These eight leaves, CCCC MS 641, from a Spanish sixteenth-century Antiphoner of the use of Rome of
                    much larger size than the single leaf, <ref type="ms" target="CCC640">CCCC MS 640</ref>, were given
                    to the Parker Library by Andrew Johnson in 2008. The texts are from Lauds of Maundy Thursday, Matins
                    of Good Friday and Matins of Holy Saturday, but as some leaves are missing the text is not complete.
                    There are large calligraphic and coloured initials tinted in pale yellow for the responsories and
                    versicles.</p>
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