Collection ID: 0053 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Chronicle of England, known as The Brut manuscript, ca. 1440.

Other related names

• Ord, Craven, 1756-1832, former owner., former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner., former owner
• Barnard, P. M., former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.b.106
(Washington, DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• https://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=231292

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Origin

Place

England

Summary

History of England from the beginnings up through King Henry V's conquest of Rouen in 1419, and including the stories of King Lear, King Arthur, and other sources for later literature.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger, based on spine title: Chronicle of England.
   
• First line: Here may a man heren how Englonde was Fyrst called Albyon and thrugh whom it hadde the name.
   
• foliation in pencil; paginated p. 1-168, 172-178, continued in later hand p. 180, 181-186
   
• In Middle English translated from Anglo-Norman.
   
• Uniform title: Chronicles of England.
   

Extent

Leaves i + 92 + i; 370 x 276 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in half-calf with marble paper boards in England ca. 1820.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 42-50 lines approximately (dimensions of written space: 255 x 190 approximately); frame-ruled in drypoint; writing begins below first line; chapter headings, paraphs, boxes enclosing scribal notes, in red; signs of trimming; some marginalia, pen trials, and other notes in 16th and 17th century hands; a list of the 168 chapter headings at end of volume, made in 1604.

Decoration

2-4 line unfilled spaces for initials, sometimes with guide letters.

Script

Written in Secretary hand by one or two scribes.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Craven Ord (bookplate); Ord sale (London, June 25, 1829, no. 522) to Thorpe for Phillipps; Phillipps sale (London, 1913, no. 1102) to P.M. Barnard; no. 658 in a sale.
   

Related resources

• For a codicological description based on the microfilm, see The Imagining History project at Queen's University, Belfast, online.
• Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts, 3784
• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 725.2
• Matheson, L.M. The prose Brut , 60

Subjects topical

• Great Britain --History --1066-1687 --Manuscripts
• Great Britain --England

Genres

• Manuscripts (documents) --England --15th century
• Chronicles --England --15th century --Manuscripts
• Annotations (Provenance) --England --16th century --Manuscripts
• Annotations (Provenance) --England --17th century --Manuscripts

Keywords

• Chronicle
• 14th century
• English
• England
• History

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Chronicles of England]; incipit: Here may a man heren how Englonde was Fyrst called Albyon and thrugh whom it hadde the name ... [f. 1r]
• fol. 89v — [Table of chapters]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Craven Ord