Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 174: Middle English Prose Brut chronicle

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 174: Middle English Prose Brut chronicle

Alternate Title:

Chronicle of England

Language:

English, Middle (1100-1500) and Latin

Extent:

ff. 198 + 2

Dimensions:

292 Height (mm) and 200 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1400 - 1499]

Table of contents:

Middle English prose Brut chronicle (Common Version)

Description:

CCCC MS 174, dating to c. 1420, contains a version of the Middle English prose Brut chronicle sometimes defined as the 'Common Version' to 1377. As such it represents another manuscript that demonstrates Parker's interest in British history, attested by a note in his own hand referring to a similar text in CCCC MS 182. Another sixteenth-century hand has added a note to the effect that this text served as the model for William Caxton's Fructus temporum. The version of the text as preserved in this manuscript was used as the basis for the edition of the Brut for the years 1333 to 1377 edited by F. W. D. Brie in 1908. Its provenance is unknown.