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Alternative title

Chronica

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 81

Date created

[ca. 1400-1599]

Language

Latin, Greek, Modern (1453- ), English, Middle (1100-1500)

Material

Paper

Layout

two volumes, 26 and 30 lines to a full page

Height (mm)

210

Width (mm)

144

Collation

1(10)-7(10) || 8(12) (11 canc.).

Writing

fairly well written

Foliation

ff. i-ii + 1-49 + 49a + 50-80 + iii-iv

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.

Summary

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.

Contents

Brut (epitome to 1429) -- Manipulus chronicorum ab mundi initio usque ad sua tempora (extract)

M.R. James Date

xv-xvi

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gy822km9510/MS_374.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ps893gy2473/374.pdf

Contains

• Brut (epitome to 1429). 1r-68r

  Nasmith

  Chronica bona seu epitome chronicorum a Bruto ad Henricum VI. 1r-68r

  Note

  Text begins

  Incipit

  (1r) Considerans historie britonum Pictorum Scottorum Saxonum Anglorum Danorum ac Normannorum prolixitatem necnon et difficultatem

  Explicit

  (1r) usque ad Regem nostrum Henricum filium Johannis Ducis Lancastr. filii Edwardi tercii dicti graciosi natum apud Wyndesore ordinem historie sic produxi

  Incipit

  (1r) Post excidium Troie

  Note

  (54v) The text of the French treaty of 1420 is given in full, pp. 110-132
  Ends with the Parliament of 1429

  Explicit

  (67v) per milites Parliamenti et Communitat. regni anglie duas integras quintas decimas

  Note

  137 blank

• Ralph Marham OESA, Manipulus chronicorum ab mundi initio usque ad sua tempora (extract). 70r-80v

  Nasmith

  Manipulus chronicarum, distinctio 7. 70r-80v

  Author

  Ralph Marham OESA

  Note

  Post descriptionem Angliae et divisionem ejus in comitatus et episcopatus multa ex variis autoribus colliguntur in opprobrium gentis
  (70r) Beginning of a table with references (apparently) to the Manipulus Chronicarum

  Rubric

  (70v) Manipulus Cronicarum. Distinccione 7 .c. primo

  Incipit

  (70v) Britannie maiori nomen primum fuit Albion ab albis rupibus

  Note

  On 8 a section de translacionibus episcoporum
  (75r) De destruccione pictorum et Ritu Anglorum C. 15. De Ritu Anglorum Willelmus Li. 3. Gens Anglicana cum hostes externos funditus depresserit
  (76v) Ends with a paragraph on mira maris Anglicane (monkfishes, etc.)
  On 15 a passage from John of Bridlington's prophecy
  16-19 blank
  20 has a late note from Simeon of Durham
  21 blank
  22 covered with scribbles and pen-trials

TJames

328

Stanley

10. 2

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 374

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