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Collection ID: 0007 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Lehigh Codex 7 Anon. The Brut

Title

Anon. The Brut

Funders

Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lehigh Codex 7
(Bethlehem, Lehigh University, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

Hirsh: MS Hirsh 7

Publisher

Special Collections

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Origin

15th century

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

3; Fragment A, 265 x 95 mm; Fragment B, 295 x 120 mm; Fragment C, 175 x 205 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil on Fragment B, 25, and Fragment C, 51, upper right recto

Support

Parchment

Layout

Fragments of leaves from a manuscript written in two columns of thirty-six lines; frame-ruled in faint ink with double horizontal bounding lines; written area on full leaves: 200 x 131 mm

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

Gothic--anglicana

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

Text

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URL

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Text

To the extent possible under law, Lehigh University Libraries, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Special Collections Lehigh Codex 7: Anon. The Brut. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

URL

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Decorations

Fragment A recto — Historiated initial A, King Constantine

Images

Fragment A recto
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Decoration: Historiated initial A, King Constantine

Fragment A verso
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6700_0001_thumb.jpg (4.1 KB)
6700_0001_web.jpg (232.2 KB)

Fragment B recto
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Fragment B verso
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6700_0003_web.jpg (233.3 KB)

Fragment C recto
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6700_0004_web.jpg (410.9 KB)

Fragment C verso
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6700_0005_thumb.jpg (6.3 KB)
6700_0005_web.jpg (382.2 KB)