Robert, of Gloucester (floruit S. XIII)
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Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 43
Parchment · III + 208 + III pp. · 27 x 19 cm · England · end of the 15th century
Chronicle of London and paraphrase of the Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester
This parchment manuscript from the end of the 15th century contains the "Chronicle of London" as well as a version of the paraphrase text of the "Metrical Chronicle" by Robert of Gloucester found only in this manuscript, CB 43. The dialect used in the text indicates that the manuscript was written by a scribe from the southern Midlands.
Online Since: 03/25/2009
- Robert, of Gloucester: A unique Prose Paraphrase of Robert of Gloucester's Metrical Chronicle (pp. 5-208 (ff. 3-104v))
Incipit: Frome . the be / gynnynge of / the worlde to / the tyme that / nowe is bene / seuene ages.
Explicit: But the / sad and discrete men wold not / But tariede vndre the wode/side bedynge their bedes every / man armed abydynge the / commynge out of the kynges / Oste . And when the two ostes / met there was many a mo/dre sonne broght to grounde / and the kynge of Almayne / was taken in a wyndemylle þat / somtyme was Duke of Corne/walle . And sir Edward ron / to the ffreiers menores FINIS.
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