The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 133

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9874

Shelfmark:

mssHM 133

Title:

Brut chronicle, in English

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 115 : paper ; 185, approximately x 264 mm

Former Owner(s):

Hellman, George S. 1878-1958

George Sidney Hellman WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Prose version of the Brut chronicle, in English.
Support: Paper.
Script: Anglicana.
Layout: Tentative collation based on occasional surviving signatures and catchwords and on the breaks in the text: 114(-1 through 9) 214(-12 after f. 16) 314 414(-5 through 7 after f. 36) 5-614 714(-7 after f. 77; -12 through 14 after f. 81) quire 8 missing entirely 9-1014 quire 11 missing entirely 1214(-1 through 5; 6 and 7 are present; -8; 9 is present; -10 through 14) situation is unclear...
Watermark(s): Paper (Pot, similar to Briquet 12482, Troyes 1474; ff. 113 and 115, Licorne, similar to Briquet 10024, Cuy 1474).
Span folios: ff. 1-115v.
Other Decoration: Blue 2-line initials with red flourishing; 1-line initials in the text slashed in red or filled in yellow; some names underlined in red; double red slashes throughout text serving as punctuation or to indicate important passages.
The book has suffered considerable damage, particularly along the outer margins with loss of text on ff. 23, 32, 57, 82 and 108; each leaf now reinforced with crepeline and mounted separately in an album.
Assigned Date: s. XV2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/15/2012.
Possession notes in the volume are: s. XVIex, f. 18, "Rych__?___ P__?___; f. 76v, "John templar [?]" and "William [?] Jones"; f. 98v, "This is thomas Verney boke"; s. XVI/XVII, f. 69, "Edmund Francis." The note on f. 59 is not "Elyzabeth madre E. W.," as in the catalogue of the Hellman sale, but "Thys byll made." George S. Hellman (author and rare book dealer, 1878-1958) sale, Anderson, New...

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manuscripts (documents)

Great Britain

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862105

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49688/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens