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• Résumé : CCCC MS 354 contains a c. 1500 copy of the translation into English by John of Trevisa (c. 1342-1402) of the Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364). Described by M. R. James as 'a very shabby ugly little book', this workaday copy is in marked contrast to the luxurious copy of the Latin original that Parker also possessed (CCCC MS 21), though both reflect his interest in English history. The provenance of this manuscript is unknown.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : anglais

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Ranulf Higden OSB - author

  John Trevisa - author

  1r-182v - Ranulf Higden OSB, Polychronicon, transl. by John Trevisa

  Note : Begins imperfectly (Liber I, capitulum 23)

  incipit : (1r) Isidorus lio 14o. We redeth in stories

  Note : See Rolls edition, I 199

  Note : Ends liber VII, capitulum 22

  explicit : (182v) þis Ioachym þat he descryued as it were by prophecye þe maners

  Note : (Rolls edition, vol. VIII, p. 43, l. 5)

  Note : It was not used for the Rolls edition