Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 167: John Capgrave OESA, Abreuiacion of Chronicles

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Summary
CCCC MS 167 contains a copy of the Abreviacion of Chronicles of John Capgrave OESA (1393-1464). The Abreviacion was completed c. 1462-3 and was, in some senses, an anachronism; the supra-national chronicle or 'world history' having been supplanted by works concentrating on national history. Capgrave's major sources were the Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum of Martin of Troppau (d. 1278) and a lost version of the St Albans chronicle of Thomas of Walsingham OSB (d. 1422). The text in the Corpus manuscript, produced c. 1500, was once thought to have been a copy of the autograph version of the material in Cambridge UL MS Gg.4.12, but it is now thought instead to derive from a lost author's working copy of the Abreviacion. It is not known how this codex came to be in Parker's collection.
Contents
Abreuiacion of Chronicles

Description

Alternative title John Capgrave's Chronicle
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 196
Date created [ca. 1500 - 1599]
Language English, Middle (1100-1500)
Material Paper
Layout 25 and 31 lines to a page
Height (mm) 301
Width (mm) 201
Writing two (?) very good clear hands
Foliation ff. i-ii + pp. 1-196 + ff. iii-iv

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xvi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qp526tr1813/MS_167.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qr855fq5437/167.pdf
Contains
Title
John Capgrave OESA, Abreuiacion of Chronicles. 1-196
James
John Capgrave's Chronicle. 1-196
Author
John Capgrave OESA
Note
Capgrave's Chronicle of England, without the prologue
Copied from the autograph MS. University Library Cambridge Gg. 4. 12, which is the only other manuscript known
Edited by F. C. Hingeston, Rolls Series 1858. He speaks of this MS. in his Introduction, p. xxvii
TJames 48
Stanley E. 6
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/bj906vx3707
Location MS 167
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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