Cambridge University Library, Ff. i.27

Cambridge University Library, Ff. i.27 is a composite manuscript at the University of Cambridge. It was formed by adding a 14th-century Bury St Edmunds book to a compendium of material from 12th-century northern England (items 1 to 11 in the Contents).[1] The latter compendium had once been part of Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 66.[2] With its original content, it had at one time been at Sawley Abbey in Lancashire, though it was probably produced somewhere else, perhaps Durham.[3] It is a source for the Durham poem, which describes the city and its relics.[4]

Ff. 1.27 as a whole came together in the 15th century or later, but pages 1 to 236 are earlier and paleographic evidence suggests that, with the exception of a continuation of Gildas' De excidio Britanniae dating to the 14th century, its material shares the same origin.[5] Ff. i 27 and Corpus Christi 66 manuscripts probably had a common origin with Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS. 139 ("CCCC 139") as well, part of Ff. 1.27 being written in the same hand as part of 139's version of the Historia Regum.[6]

Contents

Part Pages Description
I 1–14 Gildas, De Excidio Britanniae
I 14–40 Historia Brittonum (Pseudo-Nennius recension)[7]
II 41–71 Historia Brittonum (Pseudo-Gildas recension)[7][8]
III 73–120 Bede, De Temporibus
IV(a) 122 Preface to Symeon of Durham's Libellus de Exordio
IV(b) 123–125 Summary of Libellus de Exordio
IV(c) 125–128 Chapter headings for the Libellus de Exordio
IV(d) 128–130 Genealogy of Æthelwulf from William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum (chs 115 and 116), Series Regum Northymbrensium and list of English bishoprics and shires
IV(e) 129–186 Symeon of Durham's Libellus de Exordio
IV 187–194 A continuation of Libellus de Exordio to death of Geoffrey Rufus (died 1141), but including a passage on Hugh de Puiset (bishop of Durham 1153–1195)
IV 194 List of Durham relics
V 195–201 Historia de Sancto Cuthberto
V 201–202 List of gifts from Æthelstan, king of England, to St Cuthbert
VI 203–215 Æthelwulf, De Abbatibus
VI 215-216 Æthelwulf, De regibus et regnis et episcopatibus totius Angliae[8]
VII 217-220 Visiones[8]
VIII 221–236 Richard of Hexham, De Statu et Episcopis Hagustaldensis Ecclesie
IX 237–242 Gilbert of Limerick, De Statu Ecclesie
X 243-252 Britannorum reges, Cronicum de regibus Francorum, etc[8]
XI 253-355 Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hibernica[8]
XI 355-453 Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica[8]
XII 453-471 Vita Sancti Patricii Episcopi[8]
XIII 473-494 Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Kambriae[8]
XIV 499-567 Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Kambriae[8]
XIV 568-600 H. de Saltereia, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii[8]
XIV 600-609 Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronicon (excerpts)[8]
XIV 610-618 Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae, VII, Vaticinium Merlini[8]
XIV 618-636 Rhygyfarch, Vita Sancti David[8]
XV 638-642 Geoffrey of Wells, De Infantia Sancti Edmundi[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Rollason, Libellus, p. xxiv
  2. ^ Rollason, Libellus, p. xxvi
  3. ^ Rollason, Libellus, pp. xxvi–xxvii
  4. ^ Thomas O'Donnell (2014), "The Old English Durham, the Historia de sancto Cuthberto, and the Unreformed in Late Anglo-Saxon Literature", Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 113: 131–55 – via Project MUSE
  5. ^ South, Historia, pp. 17–18
  6. ^ South, Historia, pp. 18–19
  7. ^ a b Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Keith J. (1 December 2020). "Genealogia Brittonum : revisiting the textual tradition of the Historia Brittonum". Studia Celtica. 54 (1): 45–74. doi:10.16922/SC.54.4. ISSN 0081-6353.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Binski, Paul; Zutshi, P. N. R.; Panayotova, Stella (2011). Western illuminated manuscripts: a catalogue of the collection in Cambridge University Library. Cambridge: Cambridge University press. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-0-521-84892-3.

References

  • A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, vol. 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1857
  • Rollason, David, ed. (2000), Libellus de Exordio atque Procursu istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis, Ecclesie = Tract on the Origins and Progress of this the Church of Durham / Symeon of Durham, Oxford Medieval Texts, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 0-19-820207-5
  • South, Ted Johnson, ed. (2002), Historia de Sancto Cuthberto: A History of Saint Cuthbert and a Record of His Patrimony, Anglo-Saxon Texts No 3, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, ISBN 0-85991-627-8
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