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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 182: Middle English Prose Brut Chronicle

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 182: Middle English Prose Brut Chronicle

Description

Alternative title
Chronicle of England
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 179 + 1
Date created
[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500), Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
29 lines to a page
Height (mm)
288
Width (mm)
200
Collation
1 flyleaf, 1(8) (6, 7 of cent. xvi) 2(8) (1-6 of cent. xvi) 3(8)-22(8) (6-8 of cent. xvi) 23 (three).
Writing
clearly written in a rather current hand
Foliation
ff. a-b + i + 1-60 + 60a + 61-179 + ii + c-d

Abstract/Contents

Summary
CCCC MS 182 contains an English version of the Brut chronicle ('Extended Version to 1419' (Group C)) copied in the second quarter of the fifteenth century and supplied with some handsome decorative initials. As one of several chronicles of English history in the collection, this volume in particular reveals Parker's efforts to collate the information provided by his other sources. Notes in Parker's hand in this manuscript reveal that he compared the text of the Brut to another copy in CCCC MS 174 and that he cross-referenced this text with the unique copy of the Scalacronica also in his possession (now CCCC MS 133). There is no evidence of this manuscript's provenance or how it came to be in Parker's collection.
Contents
Middle English prose Brut chronicle (Extended Version)

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dr228pd7966/MS_182.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vc448md7095/182.pdf
Contains
  • Middle English prose Brut chronicle (Extended Version). 1r-179v
    Incipit
    (1r) Here begynneth a booke in Englissh tonge called Brute of Englonde or the cronicles of Englonde compilinge and treatynge of the saide lande etc.
    Explicit
    (1r) conteynyng cc and xxxvij chapiters
    Note
    f. 1r is finely bordered in gold and colour in characteristic English style and has decorative initial on gold ground, somewhat rubbed
    Incipit
    (1r) The pr(o)loge of this booke declareth and tellith howe þis lande was furst callid Albioun
    Explicit
    (1r) and slowe many of hem
    Incipit
    (1r) Sum tyme in the noble lande of Surr'
    Note
    A fragment of the original f. 6r (see collation above) is inserted after f. 60v
    At f. 151r (ch. 239: death of Edward III) is a note by Parker: hic terminatur unus liber (a reference to MS 174)
    Ends with ch. 245
    Explicit
    (179v) restid him in the castell tille the toun was sette in Rule and Goueranase (!)
    Note
    Colophon (xvi)
    Rubric
    (179v) Explicit usque ad annum 7m Henrici quinti
    Note
    The last edition is by Dr F. Brie (E. E. T. S.)
    On a fly-leaf is a Parkerian note from Goscelin's Life of St Augustine, and the Scala Chronica
TJames
37
Stanley
D. 6
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/tt762jj7465
MS 182
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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