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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 374

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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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  • MS 374
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Date
  • 1400 - 1599
Language
  • Latin
  • Greek
  • Middle English
Title
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 374: Brut. Ralph Marham OESA, Manipulus chronicorum ab mundi initio usque ad sua tempora (extract)
  • Brut (epitome to 1429) || Chronica bona seu epitome chronicorum a Bruto ad Henricum VI
  • Ralph Marham OESA, Manipulus chronicorum ab mundi initio usque ad sua tempora (extract) || Manipulus chronicarum, distinctio 7
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  • 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 :


    1r-68r - Brut (epitome to 1429) || Chronica bona seu epitome chronicorum a Bruto ad Henricum VI

    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

    Note: Ends with the Parliament of 1429

    explicit: (67v) per milites Parliamenti et Communitat. regni anglie duas integras quintas decimas

    Note: 137 blank


    70r-80v - Ralph Marham OESA, Manipulus chronicorum ab mundi initio usque ad sua tempora (extract) || Manipulus chronicarum, distinctio 7

    Note: Post descriptionem Angliae et divisionem ejus in comitatus et episcopatus multa ex variis autoribus colliguntur in opprobrium gentis

    Note: (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

    Note: (75r) De destruccione pictorum et Ritu Anglorum C. 15. De Ritu Anglorum Willelmus Li. 3. Gens Anglicana cum hostes externos funditus depresserit

    Note: (76v) Ends with a paragraph on mira maris Anglicane (monkfishes, etc.)

    Note: On 15 a passage from John of Bridlington's prophecy

    Note: 16-19 blank

    Note: 20 has a late note from Simeon of Durham

    Note: 21 blank

    Note: 22 covered with scribbles and pen-trials

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