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

Description

Alternative title
Chronicle of England
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 198 + 2
Date created
[ca. 1400-1499]
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500), Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
31 lines to a page
Height (mm)
292
Width (mm)
200
Collation
1 flyleaf, 1(8)-16(8) 17(6) 18(8)-25(8), 1 flyleaf.
Writing
in a good clear hand
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-198 + iii-iv
Research
For the period 1333 to 1377, this MS. has been used for the edition by Dr F. Brie (E. E. T. S.), the introduction to which has not yet appeared. It was also used, as Mr J. A. Herbert tells me, by Joshua Barnes, for his history of Edward III.
Additions
On f. 198v, note by Parker: hic desunt usque ad 7 h. quinti. This refers to MS 182. A later note: imperfect. he wrot to almost the end of Edw. 4th.
Decoration
The catchwords are enclosed in rather elaborate ornaments.
Writing
About f. 24r the hand begins to get larger and settles into a script which continues to the end.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
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.
Contents
Middle English prose Brut chronicle (Common Version)

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kx589xw4485/MS_174.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wp067ht1931/174.pdf
Contains
  • Middle English prose Brut chronicle (Common Version). 1r-198v
    James
    Chronicle of England. 1r-198v
    Note
    (1r) Good border of gold and colour to f. 1r
    (1r) Title xvi: William Caxton's Fructus Temporum
    Rubric
    (1r) Here may a man hure (how) Engelande was fferst callede albyon and þoruȝ wham hit had þe name
    Incipit
    (1r) In the noble land of Syrrie
    Note
    In 239 chapters, ending with the death of Edward III
    Explicit
    (198v) he deide att Shene and is beried worshipfully at Westmynster on whos soule god haue mercy. Amen
TJames
63
Stanley
F. 7
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 174

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