Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.152; Robinson no. 42 (pl. 284).

[1]

f. 1v

To my souereyn lord edward be þe grace of god kyng of ynglond and of frauns lord of yrland a pore frere of þe heremites of seynt austyn in þe conuent of lenne sendith prayer obediens subieccion and al þat euir be ony deute a prest schuld offir on to his kyng it is sumwhat diuulgid …

f. 2v

… god for his mercy fulfill þat he hath begunne send our kyng edward good lyf and good gouernauns and aftir his labour good reward in þe blys of heuene amen ʒoure seruaunt capgraue.

Dedicatory preface to Edward IV, preceding John Capgrave's Abbreuiacion of Cronicles; see [2] below.

[2]

f. 3

Anno mundi i the first man adam was mad on a friday withoute modir withoute fader in þe feld of damask and fro þat place led into paradise to dwelle þere aftir dryuyn oute for synne whanne he had lyued nyne hundrid ʒere and xxx he deied byried in hebron his hed was lift with þe flood and leyd in golgatha …

f. 104v

… for fadir of all þe cherch ferþermore þat of euery nacion schuld be chosen sex prelatis whech schuld be in þe conclaue with þe cardinales and haue voys in þe same eleccion.

John Capgrave, Abbreuiacion of Chonicles. Chronicle of England to 1417. IPMEP 673; Wells Rev. 8:2882–6 [36]. Ed. from this MS by Lucas.

Other texts: Camb. Corpus Christi Col 167. For an eighteenth-century transcript of extracts from Gg.4.12 see Mm.1.44 [1–2].

Inscriptions: f. 1 ‘FytzWylliam’; f. 105v ‘John Welshe’ and ‘John Campynett’ (‘Campynell’?).

s. xv med; Capgrave's holograph, dated by Robinson to 1461–4; see also Lucas p. xxix. LALME I:67: Norfolk. It should be noted that the statement in Wells Rev. 7:2510 [38] that this MS contains a copy of the Apostle's Creed on f. 12 is incorrect and probably arises from confusion with Gg.4.32 f. 21.