Brut chronicle

Description

Title: Brut chronicle
Alternative Title: Chronicles of England
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1500]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, of the "extended version" of the Brut Chronicle
Description: In Middle English.
First leaf and end of text lacking.
Layout: single columns with varying numbers of lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: blue initials with red penwork.
Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards. Later leather title tags on spine, gilt.
Provenance: Ex libris Fairfax of Cameron. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 volume (222 leaves) : 200 mm x 140 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
Fairfax of Cameron, Albert Fairfax, Baron, 1870-1939 > Bookplate
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Brut Chronicle (Takamiya MS 12). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.