Manuscripts

Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff. 1. 27

Latin
s. xii–xiv
English manuscripts
parchment

English composite manuscript which seems to consist of parts of two originally independent compilations: I. a 12th-century MS of Sawley provenance (pp. 1-40, 73-252), and II. a 14th-century MS of Bury St Edmunds (pp. 253-642, 41-72). Neither is complete since part I belongs together with CCCC MS 66, and part II with CCCC MS 66A. This arrangement was made in the 16th century, when Matthew Parker took the Sawley and Bury St Edmunds manuscripts, split each of them, rebound the material and donated the combined second halves to Corpus Christi College.

General
Contents

Identifiers

Location

England Cambridge, University Library

Shelfmark

Ff. 1. 27

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin

Date

s. xii–xiv

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Material

parchment

Foliation

642 ff.

Distinct units

pp. 1-40

Cambridge, University Lib… pp. 1-40, 73-252 [s. xii]

12th-century MS of Sawley or Durham provenance. First part.

pp. 41-72

Cambridge, University Lib… pp. 253-642, 41-72 [s. xiv]

14th-century manuscript of Bury St Edmunds. This part (pp. 41-72) originally belonged after p. 642.

pp. 73-252

Cambridge, University Lib… pp. 1-40, 73-252 [s. xii]

12th-century MS of Sawley or Durham provenance. Second part.

pp. 253-642

Cambridge, University Lib… pp. 253-642, 41-72 [s. xiv]

pp. 471-472

Blank leaf.

473-494

Cambridge, University Lib… pp. 473-494

A 16th-century copy of the Descriptio Cambriae by Gerald of Wales.

pp. 495-496

Blank leaf.

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English manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] Cambridge Digital Library, Online: University of Cambridge, 2011–present. URL: <http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk>.

direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Meehan, Bernard, “Durham twelfth-century manuscripts in Cistercian houses”, in: David W. Rollason, Margaret Harvey, and Michael Prestwich (eds), Anglo-Norman Durham, 1093–1193, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1994. 439–449.

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.

[id. 14.]

A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, 5 vols, vol. 2, London, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1857.

Internet Archive: <link>

318–329 [id. 1160.] direct link