Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of a version of Peter of Ickham's chronicle of English history. The narrative in this copy ends with 1301; this is followed by several brief entries in the same hand for events dated between 1287 and 1305
Description:
In Latin., Scribal explicit: "hic pennam fixi penitet me si male dixi.", Ownership inscription on front paper flyleaf: "Brudenell de Deen d[omi]nusque de Stonton.", Some marginal annotations, particularly in lower margins. Some of these have been trimmed; three leaves containing lower margin annotations have been left untrimmed and folded back, apparently in an effort to preserve the annotations (13r; 22r; 59r)., Two leaves bound in at the end of the volume contain passages from the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei. Ownership inscription on 1r in a later, (early seventeenth-century?) hand: "Mistresse Leucey Brudenell.", Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: rounded gothic script., Decoration: Rubricated., and Binding: seventeenth-century full calf, with the arms of the Brudenell family in gilt on the covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Peter, of Ickham, active 1290.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern, Great Britain, History, and Kings and rulers
