English historical collection (DS9944) (Q43836)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621764, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862176, mssHM 19960)
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English historical collection (DS9944)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621764, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862176, mssHM 19960)

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    English historical collection
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    Great Britain--History--To 1485
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    between 1440 and 1460
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    Extent: ff. 179 : parchment ; 135 x 200 mm
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    A historical and geographical text about England, derived from various sources: Augustine, Bede, the 1399-1437 version of the Latin Brut, Gildas, the Chester chronicler (Higden), Geoffrey of Monmouth, William of Malmesbury (often named or quoted by chapter), a 50-line metrical life of William of Wykeham and a list of the heresies of Wyclif. About half of the text pertains to material before...
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    Span folios: ff. 1-179v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-214 310 4-712 814 920 1012 1110 12-1412. The first quire is bound out of order and should be read: 1, 13, 6, 3, 4, 10, 8, 7, 5, 11, 12, 9, 2, 14. Quires and leaves signed with letters of the alphabet and early from arabic numerals on the first quire, with roman numerals on the successive quires. Catchwords written horizontally in inner...
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    Decoration: Space reserved on f. 1v for a miniature [?]; space reserved for initials; on f. 13v (which should have been f. 2v), a drawing in red of a T-O world map; on f. 8v (which should have been f. 7v), the lines to project the size of Christ's tomb. Rubrics, slashed initials in the text, and paragraph marks through f. 121. A few marginal notes, including dates in the Brut chronicle section.
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/19/2012.
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    On f. iiii, a note in a fifteenth century hand reads: "Cronice Regum Anglie de diversis historiografis per dominum Iohannem Wigornensem Comitem sparsim collecte. Sheldwych. De orbis indagatione, divisione et descriptione per Iulium Cesarem in provincias et regiones factus; inter quas his liber maxime de Regno Anglorum et Regibus eiusdem similiter A Bruto usque in Annum decimum sextum henrici...
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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