Parker Library On the Web

Alternative title

Chronicon Angliae

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 4 + 104 + 2

Date created

[ca. 1475-1525]

Language

Latin, English

Material

Vellum

Layout

32 lines to a page

Height (mm)

245

Width (mm)

175

Collation

4 flyleaves, 1(8)-13(8), 2 flyleaves.

Writing

in a very current hand

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-iv + 1-104 + v-vi + c-d

Summary

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 Brut 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.

Contents

Latin prose Brut chronicle

M.R. James Date

xv late or xvi early

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hh768kv8569/MS_311.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kb166yd7624/311.pdf

Contains

• Latin prose Brut chronicle. 1r-101r

  Nasmith

  Nova cronica de gestis regum Anglorum cum aliis incidenciis rerum notabilium et mirabilium eorum temporibus contingencium a primo rege Bruto usque ad annum XIIII regis Henrici sexti sub compendio congesta. 1r-101r

  James

  Chronicon Angliae. 1r-101r

  Note

  On f. iv receipt: To a galon of Vergus made halfe of crabbis
  Notes in Latin on Glastonbury, on Bernard, on tithes etc.
  On f. iir: Table of Kings of England (William I to Edward IV), with dates of accession, length of reign, places of coronation and burial
  On f. iiiv: Mr Watts byinge sycke of a tartion (=tertian) fevor and recouered by Mr Docter Wotton taking the counsell wt in 3 days after that of one Robert manne who dwellethe nere to Grace churche faste by mr torpey the potycarie gaue the sayd watts a medysen not knowen the tewesday before mychaelmas daye wch watts (corr. from pasloe) dyed wth in vi howers after
  On f. ivv erased and revived Pertinet liber iste John Alyn (or Alyuer) Ex dono Johannis Kyrklande. Also the title, as in Nasmith, in the hand of the text
  Text

  Incipit

  (1r) Britannia que nunc anglia dicitur

  Note

  There are marginalia in hands of cent. xv and xvi
  Ends with assassination of James of Scotland

  Explicit

  (101r) legatus quidam apostolicus in Scocia tunc existens dicti Regis camisiam postmodum domino Pape ut dicitur deferebat

  Note

  At the bottom of the page: finitus xix die Augusti
  The rest blank

TJames

39

Stanley

D. 8

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 311

Use and reproduction:

Images courtesy of The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For higher resolution images suitable for scholarly or commercial publication, either in print or in an electronic format, please contact the Parker Library directly at parker-library@corpus.cam.ac.uk

License:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License