Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 174

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 174
    • CCCC MS 174
    • MS 174
    • Parker Library MS 174
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : English, Middle (1100-1500), Latin
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1400 - 1499
  • Script :
    • in a good clear hand
    • About f. 24r the hand begins to get larger and settles into a script which continues to the end.
  • Decoration :
    • The catchwords are enclosed in rather elaborate ornaments.
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 198 + 2
  • Dimensions :
    • 200 x 292
  • Codicological details :
    • 31 lines to a page
    • ff. i-ii + 1-198 + iii-iv
    • 1 flyleaf, 1(8)-16(8) 17(6) 18(8)-25(8), 1 flyleaf.

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Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : 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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    Langue(s) des textes : anglais, latin


    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

Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Research: For the period 1333 to 1377, this MS. has been used for the edition by Dr F. Brie (E. E. T. S.), the introduction to which has not yet appeared. It was also used, as Mr J. A. Herbert tells me, by Joshua Barnes, for his history of Edward III.
  • Additions: On f. 198v, note by Parker: hic desunt usque ad 7 h. quinti. This refers to MS 182. A later note: imperfect. he wrot to almost the end of Edw. 4th.

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