Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 182: Middle English Prose Brut Chronicle

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Abstract/Contents

Summary: CCCC MS 182 contains an English version of the Brut chronicle ('Extended Version to 1419' (Group C)) copied in the second quarter of the fifteenth century and supplied with some handsome decorative initials. As one of several chronicles of English history in the collection, this volume in particular reveals Parker's efforts to collate the information provided by his other sources. Notes in Parker's hand in this manuscript reveal that he compared the text of the Brut to another copy in CCCC MS 174 and that he cross-referenced this text with the unique copy of the Scalacronica also in his possession (now CCCC MS 133). There is no evidence of this manuscript's provenance or how it came to be in Parker's collection.
Contents: Middle English prose Brut chronicle (Extended Version)

Description

Alternative title	Chronicle of England
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 179 + 1
Date created	[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language	English, Middle (1100-1500); Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	29 lines to a page
Height (mm)	288
Width (mm)	200
Collation	1 flyleaf, 1(8) (6, 7 of cent. xvi) 2(8) (1-6 of cent. xvi) 3(8)-22(8) (6-8 of cent. xvi) 23 (three).
Writing	clearly written in a rather current hand
Foliation	ff. a-b + i + 1-60 + 60a + 61-179 + ii + c-d

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dr228pd7966/MS_182.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vc448md7095/182.pdf
Contains	Title Middle English prose Brut chronicle (Extended Version). 1r-179v Incipit (1r) Here begynneth a booke in Englissh tonge called Brute of Englonde or the cronicles of Englonde compilinge and treatynge of the saide lande etc. Explicit (1r) conteynyng cc and xxxvij chapiters Note f. 1r is finely bordered in gold and colour in characteristic English style and has decorative initial on gold ground, somewhat rubbed Incipit (1r) The pr(o)loge of this booke declareth and tellith howe þis lande was furst callid Albioun Explicit (1r) and slowe many of hem Incipit (1r) Sum tyme in the noble lande of Surr' Note A fragment of the original f. 6r (see collation above) is inserted after f. 60v At f. 151r (ch. 239: death of Edward III) is a note by Parker: hic terminatur unus liber (a reference to MS 174) Ends with ch. 245 Explicit (179v) restid him in the castell tille the toun was sette in Rule and Goueranase (!) Note Colophon (xvi) Rubric (179v) Explicit usque ad annum 7m Henrici quinti Note The last edition is by Dr F. Brie (E. E. T. S.) On a fly-leaf is a Parkerian note from Goscelin's Life of St Augustine, and the Scala Chronica
TJames	37
Stanley	D. 6
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/tt762jj7465
Location	MS 182
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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Parker Manuscripts

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