The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 131

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9872

Shelfmark:

mssHM 131

Title:

Brut chronicle, in English

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 154 : parchment ; 165 x 199 mm

Former Owner(s):

Jones, Herschel V. 1861-1928

Herschel V. Jones WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
English prose version of the Brut chronicle.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana.
Layout: 110 212 3-78 86(+7 through 9, ff. 69-71) 98(+9, f. 80) 106(+7, f. 87) 11-1610 178(-8). All catchwords present and matching the following text; placed horizontally in the inner right corner. Quire signatures apparently a-d for quires 1-4; slashes only for quires 5-6; no marks visible on quire 7; quire 8, including the added leaves, with "+"; quire 9 probably a, as quires 10-16 are b-h...
Span folios: ff. 1-154v.
Other Decoration: 4- and 3-line initials usually red with black flourishing.
Assigned Date: s. XV3/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C, W. Dutschke, 7/14/2012.
Possible possession notes are: s. XV, ff. 21v, 59v, 63 and 72, "Symon"; s. XVI first half, f. 36v "Robard Burke" in the same hand as "Ferns" on f. 37; also of the sixteenth century are: ff. 64 and 70, a monogram of the letters "ROSE"; f. 102, "To my welbelowed frend John peryne of Rykelly in" by the same person who jotted the sayings on f. 66; f. 125, "henry the viii by the grace of god...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Great Britain

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862103

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50865/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens