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
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1475
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 88 : parchment ; 136 x 184 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686
Sotheby, James, -1720
Sotheby, Charles William Hamilton, 1820-1871
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862215
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51621/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
