Brut Chronicle

Description

Title: Brut Chronicle
Alternative Title: Chronicles of England
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of a version of the Brut Chronicle
Description: In Middle English.
Bound with: 2 l. of parchment, fragment in Latin, repaired, with annotations.
Layout: single columns.
Script: English cursive bookhand.
Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco.
Provenance: Ex libris Tollemache family, Helmingham Hall, Suffolk (M.S. L.J.I.12). Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 71 leaves : 295 x 215 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
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 Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership
Tollemache family > Ownership

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Citation: Brut Chronicle (Takamiya MS 18). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.