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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

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)

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 182

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