Collection ID: 0007 | Metadata type: TEI

Title

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• Hirsh: MS Hirsh 7

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

England

Summary

These manuscripts are fragments of leaves from a fifteenth-century copy of the Middle English Brut chronicle. The original manuscript was written in anglicana script in two columns, with decorated initials. The text on the fragments concerns King Constantine and King Vortyger (Fragment A); King Engist and King Vortyger (Fragment B); and Godwin, Earl of Essex, and Edward the Confessor (Fragment C).

Extent

Foliation

Support

Layout

Decoration

Historiated initial of King Constantine (Fragment A), seven lines, with foliate extensions; three-line illuminated initial in gold on pink and blue ground (fol. 51v); one-line initials throughout alternating between blue flourished with red and gold flourished with text ink

Script

Provenance

• Formerly framed and backed with newspaper clippings from The Sun (London) dated 12 March 1934 and pages from a December 1933 catalogue of the Chelsea Auction Rooms, Ltd.
   

Keywords

• Chronicle
• 15th century
• English
• England
• Fragment
• History

Licenses

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• Text

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Decorations

• Fragment A recto — Historiated initial A, King Constantine