(Q43584)

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Brut Chronicle, in English
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Chronicles of England
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Great Britain--History--To 1485
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Middle English, accompanying material is in Latin
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Extent: ff. 166 : parchment.
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Title from printed catalog.
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Main text is accompanied by a fragment of a Missal, use of Sarum (formerly front pastedown) and a leaf of the Legenda aurea.
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English prose version of the Brut Chronicles, this text is incomplete, see notes below.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Anglicana formata; Secretary.
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Layout: 18(-1, -3 through 6) 28 quire missing 3-178 188(-6 after f. 136) 19-218 228(-3 through 6). Catchwords horizontally in the lower right corner; that on f. 92v possibly in another hand. 2 columns of 35 lines ruled in red ink with a set of double lines vertically in the outer margin and with 2 lines full across the upper margin (as if for running headlines) at 14 and 20 mm. above the text...
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Span folios: ff. 1-166v.
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Other Decoration: 3-line gold initials on white-patterned blue or maroon grounds with infilling of the other color and with sprays of green leaves and gold motifs; paragraph marks in blue with red flourishing or in gold with blue or brown flourishing; jigsaw line fillers in red and blue, or gold and blue, or blue alone.
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Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/8/2012.
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Possession notes in the volume are: s. XVI: f. 1, partially cropped, "John Wynche [?]"; f. 15v, "John norton"; s. XVII, f. 1, "N. Blundeston"; s. XVIex, f. 1, cancelled, "Sam. Oliver pr. 1 s." Thorpe cat., 1836, n. 250 to Sir Thomas Phillipps; his MS 8857.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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