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

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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)

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.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xv-xvi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gy822km9510/MS_374.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ps893gy2473/374.pdf
Contains	Title 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 Title 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
Location	MS 374
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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