Brut chronicle (fragment)

Description

Title: Brut chronicle (fragment)
Published / Created: [ca. 1450-1500]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing portions of chapters 214 and 221 of the Middle English prose Brut
Description: In Middle English.
Marginal note indicates that these two leaves served as a wrapper for a copy of Gabriel Harvey's The trimming of Thomas Nashe.
Layout: single-column, 29-32 lines.
Script: secretary.
Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork.
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 2 leaf : 195 mm x 133 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): Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character)
English literature
English prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Chronicles of England
Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character)
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
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Brut Chronicle (Fragment). Takamiya MS 140.