Harvard University, MS Eng 938

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11039

Shelfmark:

MS Eng 938

Title:

Chronicles; in English

Author:

Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328

Nicholas Trivet WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1420

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

enm

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 v. (92 leaves) : vellum ; 41 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Hood, Arthur William Acland, 1824-1901

Arthur Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon WIKIDATA

Musgrave, William, 1655?-1721

William Musgrave WIKIDATA

Palmer, T., active 1710

Tracy Palmer WIKIDATA

Wren, Walter

Walter Wren WIKIDATA

Note:

Ruled for two columns and written in a bastard secretary script; floral frontispiece; rubrics; flourished intials decorated in red, gold, and blue; and blue and red or gold and blue paragraph intials.
Lacks 2 leaves after f. 78, end imperfectly.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in 19th-cent. half green goatskin with green cloth boards.
In a full green goatskin tray case, 44 cm.
With this is bound: Treatise on arboriculture; and Religious calendar of Sarum use.
Purchased with the Susan A. E. Morse fund, 1954.
Belonged to John Gaydon (1553); Walter Wren; William Musgrave; T. Palmer (1710); and Arthur Acland Hood.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

chronicles

Great Britain

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990096114820203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:7765002

Holding Institution:

Harvard University