RT Article
T1 A Newly Discovered Latin Prose Brut Manuscript at Downside Abbey
JF The Downside review
VO 137
IS 4
SP 166
OP 181
A1 Bateman, Mary
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1688747028
AB This article provides the first detailed study of a manuscript held in the archives of Downside Abbey in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, United Kingdom. The manuscript, Downside 78291 (henceforth F), contains a Latin prose chronicle that has not previously been described or identified. The present article demonstrates that it is a copy of the chronicle known as the Latin Prose Brut. After a codicological and paleographical study of the manuscript itself, I contextualise this witness within the wider Latin Prose Brut tradition and make some suggestions about the kind of person who might have contributed to the unique variants presented in this version. These variants evince a pro-Lancastrian bias common to many Latin Prose Bruts of the 15th century; but there is also evidence of an author keen to emphasise England's historic victories against France.
K1 Prose Brut
K1 pro-Lancastrian
K1 Palaeography
K1 Medieval
K1 Manuscripts
K1 History
K1 Downside
K1 Codicology
K1 Anglo-French relations
DO 10.1177/0012580619889606