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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 96

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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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  • MS 096
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Date
  • 1400 - 1499
Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 096: The Fitzhugh Chronicle (John Brompton's Chronicle) [588-1199]
  • The Fitzhugh Chronicle (John Brompton's Chronicle) [588-1199] || Chronicon dictum Johannis Brompton
Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 96, dating to c. 1425-50, contains the text of a chronicle from the arrival in England of St Augustine of Canterbury up to 1199, together with a collection of Latin versions of the Anglo-Saxon law codes known as the Quadripartitus. The version of the Quadripartitus is one of three (the other versions being in Manchester, John Rylands University Library MS Lat. 420 and London, BL MS Additional 49366) that make up a coherent tradition within the transmission of the text. The chronicle was once commonly called John Brompton's Chronicle but is probably better described as The Fitzhugh Chronicle, since the arms of William, 4th lord Fitzhugh (1425-1452), depicted in a gilded initial, probably identify him as the first owner. Thereafter it was in the hands of John Brompton (fl. 1436-c. 1464), Abbot of Jervaulx and possibly Richard, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1485). John Leland (d. 1552), the antiquary, seems to have seen the volume in Jervaulx Abbey in the 1530s or early 1540s, but it was recorded by the historian John Bale (1495-1563) as being in the hands of Peter Osborn (d. 1592) Keeper of the Privy Purse to Edward VI and Parker's executor, from whom it passed to Parker.


    Contents :


    1r-237v - The Fitzhugh Chronicle (John Brompton's Chronicle) [588-1199] || Chronicon dictum Johannis Brompton

    Note: Light border of feather-work; in the initial a shield of eight parts: dexter, quarterly 1 and 4 az. fretty or, a chief of the second: 2 and 3 vaire of arg. and az. a fess gules

    Note: Sinister, quarterly 1 and 4 sable a cross engrailed or; 2 and 3 gules a cross ancre argent

    Note: Text

    incipit: (1r) Postquam contigit Britones modo Wallicos a quodam duce eorum Guallone

    Note: (Twysden, Scriptores decem, col. 725)

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (237v) et temeraria presumpcione accepit

    Note: (Twysden 1284)

    Note: Added

    Note: Liber monasterii Joreuallis ex procuracione domini Johannis Bromton abbatis eiusdem loci. Si quis hunc librum alienauerit delebitur de libro uite

    Note: The ink of the last few leaves is browner than the rest, and the hand less neat. On f. 240r (stuck to the cover) are scribbles

    Note: (239r) Sunt tria gaudia pax sapiencia copia rerumSunt tria tedia mors et inedia ffraus mulierum

    Note: The name Jeruax twice

    Note: A cypher

    Note: Who so in Jowthe no vertue hussysIn hage alle honowre hyme reffusys

    Note: Names: R. Gloucestr. Henry ffytzhugh

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