(Q43953)
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Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686
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Sotheby, James, -1720
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Sotheby, Charles William Hamilton, 1820-1871
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between 1450 and 1475
15. century
1450Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 88 : parchment ; 136 x 184 mm
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A chronicle of England from Brutus to the murder of James I of Scotland in February 1437. Written in England in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
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Span folios: ff. 1-88v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-118. Catchwords in the script of the text; quire and leaf signatures as letters and roman numerals. 24-29 long lines, frame ruled in ink. Written in a secretary script. Early modern foliation up to f. 23 in arabic numerals. Pen trials, upside down, on ff. 28v-29, including "Be it knowne vnto all men by these presents." Some damage from damp.
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Decoration: Opening initial, f. 3, 5-line, in gold on a cusped ground with ink sprays of simple green and gold foliage; colors of infilling and ground (red?) now washed away. 3-line blue initials with red flourishing.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
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Belonged to Edward Sanders of Floore, Northants., his signature and the date 1607 on f. 2v; marginalia possibly in his hand. Also on f. 2v, a seventeenth century note referring to 2 other manuscripts of this chronicle: one in St. Benedict's College, Cambridge (Corpus Christi College, MS 311) and another in Sir Robert Cotton's Library, probably Cotton Vitellius D.xii (T. Smith...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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