The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 136
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9612
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 136
- Title:
- Brut chronicle
- Scribe:
- Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- middle of the 15th century].
- Language:
- In Middle English and Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 158 leaves : parchment ; 286 ₉ 190 (208 ₉ 130) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1849871
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:40969/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
