Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 174

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Summary: CCCC MS 174, dating to c. 1420, contains a version of the Middle English prose Brut chronicle sometimes defined as the 'Common Version' to 1377. As such it represents another manuscript that demonstrates Parker's interest in British history, attested by a note in his own hand referring to a similar text in CCCC MS 182. Another sixteenth-century hand has added a note to the effect that this text served as the model for William Caxton's Fructus temporum. The version of the text as preserved in this manuscript was used as the basis for the edition of the Brut for the years 1333 to 1377 edited by F. W. D. Brie in 1908. Its provenance is unknown.

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1r-198v - Middle English prose Brut chronicle (Common Version) || Chronicle of England

Note: (1r) Good border of gold and colour to f. 1r

Note: (1r) Title xvi: William Caxton's Fructus Temporum

rubric: (1r) Here may a man hure (how) Engelande was fferst callede albyon and þoruȝ wham hit had þe name

incipit: (1r) In the noble land of Syrrie

Note: In 239 chapters, ending with the death of Edward III

explicit: (198v) he deide att Shene and is beried worshipfully at Westmynster on whos soule god haue mercy. Amen

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