The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 136

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9612

Shelfmark:

mssHM 136

Title:

Brut chronicle

Brut Chronicle

Scribe:

Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492

William Caxton WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

middle of the 15th century].

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Middle English and Latin

Middle English WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 158 leaves : parchment ; 286 ₉ 190 (208 ₉ 130) mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Parchment, ff. i (paper) + v (parchment, of which the first is a former pastedown) + 158 + ix (parchment) + ii (paper). 1-19⁸ 20⁸(-7, 8). Catchwords underlined in brown ink, and on f. 24v in red ink; quires and leaves signed in letters and roman numerals. 42-39 long lines (44 on ff. 156v-158), frame ruled in dry point, but in ink on ff. 9-16 (quire 2) and ff. 17 and 24v (outer side of outer...
Written in England in the middle of the fifteenth century in a secretary script.
On f. 1, C-shaped bar and foliage border in gold, green, blue and pink with black ink sprays terminating in green and gold balls. 2-line initials in blue with red flourishing; plain blue 1-line initials; blue paragraph marks; rubrics in red throughout.
Erasure in the lower margin of f. 100v of the text which is also copied in the margin of f. 83v, but here lacking the 6th verse.
Contemporary side notes. Notes on front flyleaf vi verso and back flyleaf ix verso: "fol. inscript. s. 26."; on f. 1, "pr. 1l 13s 4d." On back flyleaf viii verso, a large trial calligraphic initial with faces; similar smaller trial flourish on f. 158. Twice the name of John Leche, late 15th century or early 16th century, appears, possibly by the same person who copied sections 1 and 4, on...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Great Britain

Fifteenth century

History

Brutus, the Trojan (Legendary character)

Early works

Kings and rulers

Genealogy

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1849871

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens