Extent: 1 roll (5 membranes) : parchment, illuminations, genealogical tables ; 3255 x 214-218 mm
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Title devised by cataloger. Manuscript roll Foliation: Unfoliated. Foliation supplied by cataloger. Layout: Written in two to five columns of different widths and of varying number of lines, below topline. Ruled in lead. Pricking marks visible on both margins. Script: Written by a single hand in Gothica textualis. Decoration: Vertical diagrams with double-lined roundels, some of which are with geometric decoration, connected with double lines throughout, drawn in ink and colored in green, turquoise, red, light yellow, brown and black. Full-length vertical bounding lines on the outer edges of each membrane as well as between columns, also drawn and colored in the same manner. 21 roundels, mostly with no... Binding: Unbound. Origin: Probably written in England in the mid-thirteenth century. Shelfmark: Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Pryce MS J1 "Chronica regum Britanniae" is a modern title used by the bookseller and do not appear in the text. This is how the manuscript was known in the past and is still sometimes referred to at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library. Pryce MS J1 has 5 parchment membranes of different sizes, ranging from 560 to 760 mm. The membranes are adhered head to tail, overlapping approximately 15 to 18 mm. Membrane 3 is further attached to membrane 4 by sewing with a green thread with approximately 20 x 30 mm additional pieces of parchment placed on outer sides. There is at least one membrane missing between the first and the second... Pryce MS J1 contains an abbreviated version of part of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae with interpolations from other texts, possibly from Paulus Orosius's Historiarum adversus paganos libri VII or a later work for which Orosius's History was a source. The narrative as it is present in this manuscript corresponds to Books 5-7 of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History with the author's... In relatively good condition except for the missing membrane(s). The manuscript is soiled, especially the first membrane. A large tear on the lower part of membrane 3 with loss of text. Imperfections on parchment throughout, including holes and knife wounds. Evidence of early repairs on parchment. Early history of the manuscript is unknown. The manuscript seems to have been purchased by Bernard M. Rosenthal from Peter B. Howard of Serendipity Books shortly before the University of Kansas acquired the manuscript.
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