Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Brut Chronicle

Other related names

• William Lymnor of Sharrington, former owner
• Dysart, Lionel Tollemache, Earl of, 1708-1770, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2003034660.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 238
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1550309

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle English (1100-1500); Latin

Origin

Place

England

Summary

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.

Notes

• Loose binding structure
   

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)

Support

Parchment

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

Binding

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

Layout

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

Decoration

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)

Script

Gothic--anglicana

Secretary

Provenance

• 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)
   

Related resources

• Sotheby's, London, Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts and Valuable Printed Books from the Library of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, the Property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Tollemache … Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co., June 14, 1965, lot. 18.
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 30.
• Lister M. Matheson, The Prose Brut: The Development of a Middle English Chronicle, in Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Tempe, AZ, 1998), pp. 89, no. 13.

Keywords

• England
• Chronicle
• Scroll
• 15th century
• English

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Betrayal of Calais to the French in 1557
• fol. 1r — Brut Chronicle, Common version to 1377 with full continuation, Stage 1; incipit: In the noble lande of Syrrie [th]ere was a noble kyng ...; explicit: he diede at Shene and is beried worschepfully at Westmester whos soule god haue m[er]cy
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Betrayal of Calais to the French in 1557
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Undetermined Latin text

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Initial I and full border
• fol. 2v — Initial I and full border