Manuscripts

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 175 Memoriale attributed to Walter of Coventry

Latin, French
s. xiii^ex
composite manuscript
English manuscripts
vellum

Identifiers

Location

England Cambridge, Corpus Christi College

Shelfmark

175

Type

histories manuscript miscellanies

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin Secondary: French

Date

s. xiii^ex

Late 13th century (James).

Origin, provenance

Origin: EnglandEngland

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more ass. with Walter of CoventryWalter of Coventry

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more An inscription on f. 7r associates the chronicle or rather memoriale with a frater Walter of Coventry. Stubbs argued that he would have been the author of the chronicle, that the manuscript was compiled at York (largely on the basis of f. 5 and similarities with material elsewhere) and that Walter was himself a brother of the community at St Mary’s. M. R. James, however, argued that Walter of Coventry’s relationship to St Mary’s remains unproven and that the inscripion merely suggests that he had been the owner of the MS. In support of the latter, he cites a number of examples of the phrase Memoriale foll. by a personal name, which he suggests refer to “a donation on the part of the person named”.

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.

composite manuscript

Material

vellum

Dimensions

11.4 ″ × 7.4 ″

Collation

front⁴ (ff. I-IV) + 1⁸ (ff. V-VI, 1-6) + 2¹² (ff. 7-18) + 3¹² (ff. 19-30) + 4¹² (ff. 31-42) + 5¹² (ff. 43-54) + 6¹² (ff. 55-66) + 7¹² (ff. 67-78) + 8¹² (ff. 79-90) + 9¹² (ff. 91-102) + 10¹² (ff. 103-114) + 11¹² (ff. 115-126) + 12¹² (ff. 127-138) + 13¹² (ff. 139-150) + 14¹² (ff. 151-162) + 15⁵ (ff. 163-166, VII) + end² (ff. VIII-IX) = 169 (total)

Palaeographical information

Script

Category: Gothic cursive

Table of contents

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English manuscripts

Sources

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[dig. img.] Parker Library on the Web: manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Online: Stanford Libraries, 2009–present. URL: <https://parker.stanford.edu/parker>.

direct link

[ed.] Stubbs, Wiliam, Memoriale fratris Walteri de Coventria: the historical collection of Walter of Coventry, 2 vols, London: Longman & Co, Trubner & Co, 1872–1873.

HathiTrust – vols 1-2: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link> Google Books – vol. 1: <link>, <link> Google Books – vol. 2: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

James, M. R., A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Cambridge, 1912.

Volume 1, in three parts: pt. 1 (nos. 1-100), pt. 2 (nos. 1-156) and pt. 3 (nos. 157-250). Volume 2, in four parts: pt. 4 (nos. 251-350), pt. 5 (nos. 351-450), pt. 6 (nos. 451-358), pt. 7 (Introduction, corrigenda, etc., and index).