Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Eng 750

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Harvard University Library
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Houghton Library, Harvard University
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  • MS Eng 750
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  • Latin
  • Middle English
  • French
Title
    • Brut. English
    • Chronicles of England
    • Paris, Matthew, (1200-1259). Chronica majora
    • Trivet, Nicholas, (1258?-1328). Croniques
    • Polyglot compendium of English chronicles : manuscript, [ca. 1490-1510]
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  • Physical Description:
    1 v. (459 leaves) ; 33 cm.

    Notes:
    Written in several hands in English secretary script.
    Title supplied by cataloger.
    Bound in 19th-cent. calf.
    In a tray case, 36 cm.
    MS Eng 750. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

    Subjects:
    Brutus the Trojan, (Legendary character) -- Romances
    English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Texts
    Great Britain -- History -- To 1485 -- Early works to 1800

    Form / Genre:
    Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1450-1500.
    Manuscripts, Renaissance-England-1500-1550.

    Contents:
    1. Notes on English chronology, in Latin (ff. 3r-7v) -- 2. Prose Brut to 1437, in Middle English (10r-71v) -- 3. Decree of 1459 Mar. 24: Henry VI, in Middle English (71v-74r) -- 4. Notes on English chronology, in Latin -- 5. Prose Brut from 1066-1327, in Middle English (84r-107r) -- 6. Chronica majora: Matthew Paris; incomplete, in Latin (109r-497v) -- 7. Notes on English chronology, in Middle English -- 8. Les Croniques / Nicholas Trivet, in French (433-459).

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