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Brut chronicle (fragment)
Title
Brut chronicle (fragment)
Created
England, [ca. 1450-1500]
Physical Description
2 l. : parchment ; 195 x 133 mm
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Notes
Marginal note indicates that these two leaves served as a wrapper for a copy of Gabriel Harvey's The trimming of Thomas Nashe.
Layout: single-column, 29-32 lines.
Script: secretary.
Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork.
In Middle English.
Provenance
Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing portions of chapters 214 and 221 of the Middle English prose Brut.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 18, 2018
References
A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Brut Chronicle (Fragment). Takamiya MS 140.
Cite as
Brut Chronicle (Fragment). Takamiya MS 140.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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