## Information on cmpolych.m3

### PPCME2 information

> Text name | John of Trevisa's Polychronicon
> File name | cmpolych.m3
> Manuscript | St. John's College H.1 (204), Cambridge
> Date | a1387
> Dialect | Southern
> Genre | History
> Edition | Lumby, Joseph R. 1876, 1882. Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, monachi cestrensis, Vols. VI, VIII, English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century. Rolls Series 41. London: [publisher unknown].
> Sample | Book VI, pp. 3-477; Book VIII, pp. 83-111, 347-352
> Remarks | John of Trevisa was born in Cornwall. He was a fellow of Exeter College (1362-1369) and Queen's College, Oxford, and then vicar of a parish in Berkeley and a canon in Gloucestershire. He died at Berkely in 1412. The Polychronicon is a translation of Ranulph (or Ralph) Higden's Latin work of the same name. Trevisa translated it at the direction of Sir Thomas of Berkeley and finished it in 1387. It is a fairly literal translation and only occasionally contains original explanations of the text.

### Helsinki Corpus information

> File name | CMPOLYCH
> Text identifier | M3 NN HIST TREVISA
> Text name | POLYCHRONICON
> Author | TREVISA JOHN
> Period | M3
> Date of original | 1350-1420
> Date of manuscript | 1350-1420
> Contemporaneity | CONTEMP
> Dialect | SL
> Verse or prose | PROSE
> Text type | HISTORY
> Relationship to foreign original | TRANSL
> Foreign original | LATIN
> Relationship to spoken language | WRITTEN
> Sex of author | MALE
> Age of author | 40-60
> Social rank of author | PROF
> Audience description | X
> Participant relationship | X
> Interaction | X
> Setting | X
> Prototypical text category | NARR NON-IMAG
> Sample | SAMPLE X