Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 182
- Source
- Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
- Library
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
- Shelfmark
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- MS 182
- Biblissima authority file
- Date
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- 1400 - 1499
- Language
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- Middle English
- Latin
- Title
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 182: Middle English Prose Brut Chronicle
- Middle English prose Brut chronicle (Extended Version)
- Description
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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 :
1r-179v - Middle English prose Brut chronicle (Extended Version)
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
Note: At f. 151r (ch. 239: death of Edward III) is a note by Parker: hic terminatur unus liber (a reference to MS 174)
Note: 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.)
Note: On a fly-leaf is a Parkerian note from Goscelin's Life of St Augustine, and the Scala Chronica
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