Harvard University, MS Richardson 35

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10458

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 35

Title:

Here bygynneth a boke in englysche tonge that Þat ys called Brute of ynglonde

Date:

ca. 1430

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

enm

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 106 leaves, bound : vellum and paper, ill. ; 39 cm.

Note:

Written in an anglicana formata script in 2 columns of 45 lines; blank spaces for unilluminated initials, colored initials in blue and red with pen flourishes, headings in red. Written in England.
Partial leaf (f. 1r) contains grid filled with illustrated figures for lunar prognostication. Other leaves contain marginal drawings of grostesques, occupations of the months, coat of arms, and scenes of the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi (f. 14r). Partially colored coat of arms, identified by family name appear on ff. 95r-105v.
Bound in 19th-cent. English blind-tooled brown goatskin.
In a tray case, 41 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.

Keyword:

chronicles

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Great Britain

Brutus, the Trojan (Legendary character)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098872450203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:440112746

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:47818659

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:43602015

Holding Institution:

Harvard University