Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 311
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- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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- MS 311
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- Date
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- 1475 - 1525
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- Latin
- English
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 311: Latin Prose Brut chronicle
- Latin prose Brut chronicle || 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 || Chronicon Angliae
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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.
Contents :
1r-101r - Latin prose Brut chronicle || 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 || Chronicon Angliae
Note: On f. iv receipt: To a galon of Vergus made halfe of crabbis
Note: Notes in Latin on Glastonbury, on Bernard, on tithes etc.
Note: 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
Note: 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
Note: 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
Note: Text
incipit: (1r) Britannia que nunc anglia dicitur
Note: There are marginalia in hands of cent. xv and xvi
Note: 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
Note: The rest blank
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