Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 369: Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III, continuatio eiusdem chronice ad Edwardum III

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 369: Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III, continuatio eiusdem chronice ad Edwardum III
Alternate Title:
Chronica, etc.
Language:
Latin and English
Extent:
ff. 47
Dimensions:
221 Height (mm) and 143 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1499]
Provenance:
Possibly from Lichfield: see on f. 40v.
Table of contents:
  • Descriptio genealogiae comitum Cestriae
  • Laus Angliae
  • Chronicon regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III. anno 1216, lib. vi
  • Continuatio ejusdem chronici (regum Angliae ab adventu Saxonum ad Henricum III) ad Edwardum III
  • Poem 'On the Rebellion of Jack Straw'
  • Genealogy of the Hastangs family
Description:
CCCC MS 369 contains a miscellany of historical texts, including genealogies of the English kings, the earls of Chester and the Hastangs family and lists of castles and religious houses in Britain copied at various times in the fourteenth, early fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The most substantial text in this slim volume is a chronicle from the arrival of the Saxons to the reign of Henry III with continuations in various hands down to 1337. This section can probably be dated c. 1425. The basis of the chronicle in this manuscript was identified by Hardy in the late nineteenth century as being a work by John Bever (d. c. 1311) known as the Brutus abbreuiato. The provenance of this manuscript is uncertain, with Ker demurring from James' belief that it may have been from Lichfield.
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