Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 374: Brut. Ralph Marham OESA, Manipulus chronicorum ab mundi initio usque ad sua tempora (extract)

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 374: Brut. Ralph Marham OESA, Manipulus chronicorum ab mundi initio usque ad sua tempora (extract)
Alternate Title:
Chronica
Language:
Latin, Greek, Modern (1453- ), and English, Middle (1100-1500)
Extent:
ff. 81
Dimensions:
210 Height (mm) and 144 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1400 - 1599]
Provenance:
On 1 at top in Parker's red chalk is TW (for Twyne or T. Wotton) which should indicate a Canterbury origin for the book.
Table of contents:
  • Brut (epitome to 1429)
  • Manipulus chronicorum ab mundi initio usque ad sua tempora (extract)
Description:
CCCC MS 374 is a small manuscript that contains an epitome of the Brut chronicle down to 1429 written in an early sixteenth-century hand, and the Manipulus chronicorum, a description and history of England said to have been drawn from 'multa et uariis autoribus' and written somewhat earlier than the Brut. The presence of the letters 'TW' in Parker's characteristic red chalk has been taken to mean that the volume came to Parker via either John Twyne (1507-81) or Thomas Wotton (1521-87) and, therefore, probably from Canterbury - possibly St Augustine's. However, the most recent survey of the library of St Augustine's agrees with Neil Ker's earlier rejection of this provenance.
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