Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of text from a Brut chronicle in Anglo-Norman rhyming octosyllabic couplets
Description:
In Anglo-Norman French., Layout: two columns of 39 lines., Script: gothic hand., Decoration: initial C in blue and initial Q in red., and Stained and somewhat worn from use as a pastedown, with some later pen trials.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature, Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character), and Manuscripts, Medieval