## Information on cmcapchr-m4

### PPCME2 information

> Text name | Capgrave's Chronicle
> File name | cmcapchr-m4
> Manuscript | University Library Gg.IV.12, Cambridge
> Date | a1464
> Dialect | East Midlands (Lynn, Norfolk)
> Genre | History
> Edition | Lucas, Peter J. 1983. John Capgrave's Abbreuiacion of cronicles. EETS O.S. 285. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
> Sample | Pp. 32-160, 209-217, 238-249
> Remarks | John Capgrave was born in 1393, probably at Lynn, Norfolk, where he died in 1464. He was ordained a priest in 1416/17 and studied theology in London (1417-1422) and Cambridge (1422-1427). He became an Augustinian friar. The Chronicle manuscript is a holograph which was probably completed in 1462 or 1463, just before his death. The two major sources he used are the Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum of Martinus Polonus, and the St. Alban's Chronicle of Thomas Walsingham. Capgrave's English reflects little direct influence from his Latin sources, but there are a few constructions, such as absolutes, that have been taken over directly. The Sermon was preached in 1422, but written down later. The manuscript is apparently a holograph.

### Helsinki Corpus information

> File name | CMCAPCHR
> Text identifier | M4 NN HIST CAPCHR
> Text name | CHRON CAPGRAVE
> Author | CAPGRAVE JOHN
> Period | M4
> Date of original | 1420-1500
> Date of manuscript | 1420-1500
> Contemporaneity | SAME
> Dialect | EML
> Verse or prose | PROSE
> Text type | HISTORY
> Relationship to foreign original | X
> Foreign original | X
> Relationship to spoken language | WRITTEN
> Sex of author | MALE
> Age of author | 60-
> Social rank of author | PROF
> Audience description | X
> Participant relationship | X
> Interaction | X
> Setting | X
> Prototypical text category | NARR NON-IMAG
> Sample | SAMPLE X