Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 311: Latin Prose Brut chronicle

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Summary
CCCC MS 311 is one of the many manuscripts in the collection that reflects Parker's interest in British history. In this instance the text is a Latin prose Brut chronicle in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century hand that continues the account of events to 1437, and which belongs to the family of extended versions that may have served as a textual model for the Middle English 'Peculiar Version'. John Bale (1495-1563), the historian, mentions that such a text, with the same incipit, was in the possession of one William Carey 'scriba' of Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century. This provenance is supported by a note on one of the flyleaves mentioning Dr Edward Wotton (d.1555), a renowned physician who seems to have practiced in the Cheapside area of London.
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Latin prose Brut chronicle

Description

Alternative title Chronicon Angliae
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 4 + 104 + 2
Date created [ca. 1475 - 1525]
Language Latin; English
Material Vellum
Layout 32 lines to a page
Height (mm) 245
Width (mm) 175
Collation 4 flyleaves, 1(8)-13(8), 2 flyleaves.
Writing in a very current hand
Foliation ff. a-b + i-iv + 1-104 + v-vi + c-d

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xv late or xvi early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hh768kv8569/MS_311.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kb166yd7624/311.pdf
Contains
Title
Latin prose Brut chronicle. 1r-101r
Nasmith
Nova cronica de gestis regum Anglorum cum aliis incidenciis rerum notabilium et mirabilium eorum temporibus contingencium a primo rege Bruto usque ad annum XIIII regis Henrici sexti sub compendio congesta. 1r-101r
James
Chronicon Angliae. 1r-101r
Note
On f. iv receipt: To a galon of Vergus made halfe of crabbis
Notes in Latin on Glastonbury, on Bernard, on tithes etc.
On f. iir: Table of Kings of England (William I to Edward IV), with dates of accession, length of reign, places of coronation and burial
On f. iiiv: Mr Watts byinge sycke of a tartion (=tertian) fevor and recouered by Mr Docter Wotton taking the counsell wt in 3 days after that of one Robert manne who dwellethe nere to Grace churche faste by mr torpey the potycarie gaue the sayd watts a medysen not knowen the tewesday before mychaelmas daye wch watts (corr. from pasloe) dyed wth in vi howers after
On f. ivv erased and revived Pertinet liber iste John Alyn (or Alyuer) Ex dono Johannis Kyrklande. Also the title, as in Nasmith, in the hand of the text
Text
Incipit
(1r) Britannia que nunc anglia dicitur
Note
There are marginalia in hands of cent. xv and xvi
Ends with assassination of James of Scotland
Explicit
(101r) legatus quidam apostolicus in Scocia tunc existens dicti Regis camisiam postmodum domino Pape ut dicitur deferebat
Note
At the bottom of the page: finitus xix die Augusti
The rest blank
TJames 39
Stanley D. 8
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/fv747xd0958
Location MS 311
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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