Brut chronicle

Description

Title: Brut chronicle
Alternative Title: Chronicles of England
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of the "Common Version" of the Brut Chronicle
Description: In Middle English.
Several leaves missing at opening.
Layout: single columns of 36 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: blue initials with red penwork.
Binding: eighteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards. Red leather spine tag, gilt: Albyon A Monkish History M. S.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Sir William Ingilby. Formerly owned by H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 volume (203 leaves) : 320 mm x 210 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): English literature
English prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Chronicles of England
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
English prose literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L. (Harry Lawrence) > Ownership
Ingilby, William, Sir > Ownership
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Brut Chronicle (Takamiya MS 67). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.