Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 102
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- English MS 102
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- Date
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- Mid 15th century
- Language
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- Middle English
- Latin
- Title
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- Marlborough Brut Chronicle (1377 Continuation) (The Brute or the Chronicles of England)
- Agent
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- James Ley Marlborough (1550-1629)
- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Sir James Ley
- Ley, James, Sir
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- Preferred form
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- William George Leigh Wasey (1811-1877)
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- George Leigh Wasey
- Wasey, George Leigh
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- Description
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- Extent:
101 folios (ii+101+ii) Leaf height: 320 mm, width: 235 mm.
Binding:
Full calf, the arms of Sir James Ley gilt-stamped on both board,early 17th century.
Decoration:
Spaces were left for initials that were never added
Acquisition:
Purchased by the John Rylands Library in 1908 from the London booksellers J. and J. Leighton for £22 10s; invoice dated 18 June 1908.
Layout:
Written height: 235 mm, width: 190 mm.
Collation:
Collation of folios 1-43, 45-57, 60-101
Quire 18 lacking 1 before folio 39 and 7 and 8 after folio 43,
Quire 78, 88 lacking 6 after folio 57,
Quire 9-138.
Folios 44 and 58-59 are added leaves
Secundo folio:lese to his people
Script:
The script is in a secretary hand with some influence from anglicana.
Subject(s):
Great Britain--History; Chronicles of England; Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Abstract:
Mid fifteenth-century manuscript of the Brut Chronicle, beginning imperfectly and ending with the death of Edward III in 1377. Certain leaves are wanting.Brut Chronicle, beginning imperfectly with 'and our' soueraiegne' and ending with the death of King Edward III in 1377, 'god haue mercy amen': ed. F.W.D. Brie, The Brut (see Bibliography below), p. 7 line 24 to p. 332 line 19. There are 239 numbered chapters.
There are three gaps in the text: (1) folio 38v ends 'bi way þei met' in chapter 129 and folio 39r begins 'nne himself king of Englonde';
(2) folio 43v ends in the title of chapter 145 'come aȝen' and folio 45r begins in chapter 149 'me other bisshopryche';
(3) folio 57v ends 'his pees þurght' and folio 60r begins 'Mo vii'. For the missing text see Brie, pp. 132:11-135:23, 152:26-159:8 and 202:19-205:18. Part of the second gap (as far as Brie, p. 158 line 11) and all of the third gap were supplied in the 15th/16th century on three added leaves, folios 44v and 58r-59r. On folio 86r, after 'calenge of any man' (Brie, p. 286 line 9, battle of Halidon Hill, 1333), is 'Deo gracias dicamus omnes Amen' in red.
Foliation:
Foliated 1-101 (modern foliation)
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment
Provenance:
There are several 16th-century inscriptions or scribbles in legal hands: 'M Willelmus Yong petit hunc librum Testante Rogero et Thoma Yong filiis suis...' (folio 101v); 'M Lionelius Wodward petit hunc librum Testante Rogero Hart et Willelmo Wodward filiis suis...' (folio 101v); 'Nouerint uniuersi per presentes me Thomam Colepeper in comitatu Kancie Armiger teneri... Richardo Colepeper de Grays Inn... Armigero viginti minus anglice legalis monete Anno Domini 1568' (folios 37v and 39v). Other inscriptions are: 'John Colepeper' (folio 46v); 'John Colepeper John Hales' (folio 79v, both names in the same hand); 'Johannes Kyng' (folio 92r); 'John Hales' and 'Thomas Colepeper' (folio 99v).
Sir James Ley 1550-1629, afterwards 1st Earl of Marlborough created 1626. Armorial binding.
George Leigh Wasey. Inscription inside the front cover. Rev. William George Leigh Wasey , BA (1833), MA (1836), Christ Church, Oxford, was perpetual curate of Quatford and Morville near Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Sources: Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and the city of Bristol (London: Kelly &Co., 1863), pp. 721 and 737. Crockford's clerical directory for 1868 (London: Horace Cox, 1868), p. 689. There is a printed catalogue slip pasted to a flyleaf stating that the manuscript was valued by Bohn in 1841 at £30-40.
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- England (United Kingdom)
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- England
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- Angleterre
- Angleterre (?)
- Angleterre.
- Angleterre ?
- Anglaterra
- Inglaterra
- Engeland
- Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
- Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
- Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
- England (Salisbury?)
- [Oxford?]
- [England]
- England, Norwich?
- England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
- England, Cornwall?
- England, St. Albans?
- England, North?
- England, York?
- England, Witham?
- England, Winchester or St. Albans
- England, Reading or Leominster
- England, Cirencester?
- England, Sherborne?
- England, Worcester?
- England, Bury St. Edmunds?
- England, Tewkesbury?
- England, East Anglia?
- England, Peterborough?
- England, Mercia?
- England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
- England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
- England, Winchester?
- England, Oxford?
- Flanders (possibly executed in England)
- England and Netherlands
- England, Canterbury?
- England, West Midlands?
- England, London?
- England, Crowland?
- England, Wessex?
- England, Reading?
- England, Northeast?
- England, Southeast?
- England, Ely?
- England, Winchester or Hereford?
- England, Salisbury?
- England, Oxford or Salisbury
- German (but made in England)
- England, South East (?)
- England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
- Hereford?, England
- England, Durham ?
- England, Durham?
- England, probably Durham
- England, Oxford (?)
- England, possibly Oxford
- England (?Oxford)
- England, Durham (?)
- England, London/Westminster
- Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
- Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
- Engeland (?)
- England (II)
- I. England
- [Engeland]
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