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

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

Description

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.

Abstract/Contents

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)

Bibliographic information

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/zx770kw1642
MS 374
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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