Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 139


Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 139 is a northern English manuscript compiled in c. 1170. Apart from preliminary additions, it contains two separate volumes, comprising 180 folios in total. The original first volume has 165 folios in twenty gatherings, about half of which are occupied by the historical compilation Historia regum, which runs from f. 51v to 129v. In the sixteenth century, the codex was bequeathed by Matthew Parker to the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where it is held to this day.

Contents

foliosdescription
i-iiPreliminary matter
11r-16vHistoria omnimoda
217r-25vExtracts from Regino of Prüm's Chronicon
336r-46rRichard of Hexham, De gestis regis Stephani et de bello Standardii
446r-48vChronicle from Adam to Emperor Henry V
548v-50rLetter to Hugh, Dean of York, De archiepiscopis Eboraci, ascribed to Symeon of Durham.
650r-51vDe obsessione Dunelmi et de Probitate Ucthredi Comitis.
751v-129vHistoria regum.
8129v-147rHistoria Johannis prioris Haugustaldensis Ecclesie xxv annorum, a continuation of Historia regum by John, prior of Hexham.
9132rErased rubric and sketch of comet
10132vSerlo of Wilton's poem on the Battle of the Standard.
11133r-vPoem on death of Somerled, by the Glasgow clerk William
12133v-138rAilred of Rievaulx, Relatio de Standardo, treatise on the Battle of the Standard.
8138r-147rHistoria Johannis resumes.
13147r-149vAilred of Rievaulx, De Sanctimoniali de Wattun
14150r-152vAccount of St Mary's Abbey at York
15152vItem, e.g. on foundation of Fountains in 1132.
16153r-158rLetter by Thurstan, archbishop of York, to William of Corbeil, archbishop of Canterbury.
17-20158r-161vExtracts from William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum.
21162rFragmentary saga about King Ælla of Northumbria and his relation with the wife of merchant Ærnulf.
22165r-vDe eo quod Eboracensis Ecclesia nullum dominium super Scottos habere debet.
23165vStory about a clerk interrogating the spirit of Malcolm IV of Scotland
166-80Second volume: Historia Brittonum, Life of St Gildas