Brut chronicle, etc

Description

Title: Brut chronicle, etc
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1425]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Brut Chronicle to 1333, the earliest stage of the Middle English text
Description: In English.
Script: Written by at least two scribes in neat Anglicana formata.
Plain initials, 9- to 2-line, in blue, throughout text. Headings and chapter numbers in red, with blue spiral line-fillers. Paragraph marks for headings in blue, for text in blue or red. Remains of guide-letters for rubricator.
Parchment is stained and worn; some portions of text illegible.
Binding: Fifteenth century. Original wound, caught up sewing on four tawed, slit straps. Boards made of bifolios of vellum with a piece of leather wrapped around them, but not covering the spine. Sewing breaking.
Provenance: Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1970 as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke.
Extent: ff. ii + 102 : 282 x 196 (198 x 128) 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
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Chronicles of England
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Brut Chronicle. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.