Title from printed catalog. Main text is accompanied by a fragment of a Missal, use of Sarum (formerly front pastedown) and a leaf of the Legenda aurea. English prose version of the Brut Chronicles, this text is incomplete, see notes below. Support: Parchment. Script: Anglicana formata; Secretary. Layout: 18(-1, -3 through 6) 28 quire missing 3-178 188(-6 after f. 136) 19-218 228(-3 through 6). Catchwords horizontally in the lower right corner; that on f. 92v possibly in another hand. 2 columns of 35 lines ruled in red ink with a set of double lines vertically in the outer margin and with 2 lines full across the upper margin (as if for running headlines) at 14 and 20 mm. above the text... Span folios: ff. 1-166v. Other Decoration: 3-line gold initials on white-patterned blue or maroon grounds with infilling of the other color and with sprays of green leaves and gold motifs; paragraph marks in blue with red flourishing or in gold with blue or brown flourishing; jigsaw line fillers in red and blue, or gold and blue, or blue alone. Assigned Date: s. XVmed. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/8/2012. Possession notes in the volume are: s. XVI: f. 1, partially cropped, "John Wynche [?]"; f. 15v, "John norton"; s. XVII, f. 1, "N. Blundeston"; s. XVIex, f. 1, cancelled, "Sam. Oliver pr. 1 s." Thorpe cat., 1836, n. 250 to Sir Thomas Phillipps; his MS 8857.
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