Described Thomas James 48; Stanley E. 6; Nasmith 167; James, Corpus 167, Peter J. Lucas, John Capgrave's ‘Abbreuiacion of Cronicles’, EETS 285 (Oxford, 1983), pp. xxxvii–xxxix and plate V (of f. 1); M.C. Seymour, ‘The Manuscripts of John Capgrave's English Works’, Scriptorium 40 (1986), p. 251; Peter J. Lucas, From Author to Audience: John Capgrave and Medieval Publication (Dublin, 1996), p. 24.

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p. 1

The first man adam was mad on a fryday withought modyr withoute fader in the fyld of damask and fro that place led into paradise to dwelle ther aftyr drevyn out for syne whan he had levyd nyne hundryd yere and xxx …

p. 196

… fferthyrmor þat of every nacion schuld be chosen sex prelates whech schuld be in the conclave wyth the cardinalis and have voys in the same eleccions.

John Capgrave's Abbreuiacion of Cronicles, lacking the Dedicatory Preface. IPMEP 673; Wells Rev. 8:2882 [36]. Like the text in CUL Gg.4.12 it ends in the entry for 1417. There are marginal annotations in several s. xvi hands.

Other texts: CUL Gg.4.12, ff. 1v–104v (autograph MS). CUL Mm.1.44, pp. 23–25 contains an extract transcribed from Gg by the antiquary Thomas Baker in 1728–1732.

Peter Lucas notes that contrary to the view of F.C. Hingeston in Johannis Capgrave Liber de illustribus Henricis, Rolls Series 7 (London, 1858), p. lin1 (repeated by Wells Rev. 8), London, Lincoln's Inn, MS Hale 100, which is in the hand of the Elizabethan antiquary Thomas Talbot, does not contain extracts from the present text. M.R. James in Corpus, following Hingeston in The Chronicle of England by John Capgrave, Rolls Series 1 (London, 1858), p. xxvii, thought Gg had been the exemplar for the present MS. Lucas thinks both derive independently from a common exemplar, another, now lost, autograph *A (1983, pp. xl–xlii; 1996, pp. 75, 78). He suggests that that MS (i.e.*A) was also a fair copy, and not the author's original (1983, p. xlii).

MS c. 1500. LALME: East Anglia. MS given to the College by Matthew Parker.