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This manuscript contains the Brut Chronicle, Common version to 1377 with full continuation, Stage 1, with an additional single folio on the Betrayal of Calais to the French in 1557.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+135+iv; 300 x 205 mm bound to 307 x 213 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; the first four folios of several quires are numbered 1-4 in ink, lower right corner recto; Collation: 1-5 (8), 6 (6), 7 (8, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5), 8-16 (8), 17 (6), 18 (8); Catchwords: Horizontal lower inner margin verso surrounded by frame in red ink; fols. 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 (chapters 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 missing - note in modern hand, fol. 44r), 57, 65, 73, 81, 89, 97, 105, 113, 121
Two columns of thirty-five lines, ruled in brown ink; several sheets of blank parchment inserted into text and numbered by modern hand (fols. 42-49, and fols. 122-127); written area: 202 x 133 mm
Gothic--anglicana
Two six-line decorated initials with full foliate border in red, blue, and gold (fols. 1r, 2v); three-line decorated initials in red, blue, and gold with foliate extensions throughout; one-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue or blue and gold throughout; marginal drawings by later hands (fols. 72r, 110v, 128v, 129r)
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Loose binding structure
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
England
First half of the 15th century
Green morocco, gold tooled in concentric panel design with centerpiece of fan and spray motifs, over pasteboard, filleted rims, red edges; possibly Cambridge, ca. 1630-40
Middle English (1100-1500); Latin
William Lymnor of Sharrington (after 1557); Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (1708-1770); Tollemache Library, Helmingham Hall, label on inside of front cover: "L.J.I.11" altered to "L.H.V" in pencil; sale Sotheby's, London, June 14, 1965, lot. 18; Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, purchased with Gratz Fund; Ownership note of "William Lymnor of Sharryngtone" on second rear flyleaf. Ownership notes of Lyonell Tollemache, one signed 1728 (fol. 135v)
England
First half of the 15th century
Middle English (1100-1500); Latin
William Lymnor of Sharrington
This manuscript contains the Brut Chronicle, Common version to 1377 with full continuation, Stage 1, with an additional single folio on the Betrayal of Calais to the French in 1557.
Loose binding structure
Gothic--anglicana
Two six-line decorated initials with full foliate border in red, blue, and gold (fols. 1r, 2v); three-line decorated initials in red, blue, and gold with foliate extensions throughout; one-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue or blue and gold throughout; marginal drawings by later hands (fols. 72r, 110v, 128v, 129r)
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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