The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 48570

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9983

Shelfmark:

mssHM 48570

Title:

Chronicle of England

Chronicle

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 88 : parchment ; 136 x 184 mm

Former Owner(s):

Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686

Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey WIKIDATA

Sotheby, James, -1720

James Sotheby WIKIDATA

Sotheby, Charles William Hamilton, 1820-1871

Charles William Hamilton Sotheby WIKIDATA

Note:

A chronicle of England from Brutus to the murder of James I of Scotland in February 1437. Written in England in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-88v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-118. Catchwords in the script of the text; quire and leaf signatures as letters and roman numerals. 24-29 long lines, frame ruled in ink. Written in a secretary script. Early modern foliation up to f. 23 in arabic numerals. Pen trials, upside down, on ff. 28v-29, including "Be it knowne vnto all men by these presents." Some damage from damp.
Decoration: Opening initial, f. 3, 5-line, in gold on a cusped ground with ink sprays of simple green and gold foliage; colors of infilling and ground (red?) now washed away. 3-line blue initials with red flourishing.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
Belonged to Edward Sanders of Floore, Northants., his signature and the date 1607 on f. 2v; marginalia possibly in his hand. Also on f. 2v, a seventeenth century note referring to 2 other manuscripts of this chronicle: one in St. Benedict's College, Cambridge (Corpus Christi College, MS 311) and another in Sir Robert Cotton's Library, probably Cotton Vitellius D.xii (T. Smith...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Great Britain

History

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862215

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens