Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 206
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- Shelfmark
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- English MS 206
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- Date
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- Second half 15th century
- Language
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- Middle English
- Title
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- Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation) (Brute or the Chronicles of England)
- Agent
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- Preferred form
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- Daniel Parker Coke (1745-1825)
- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Daniel Parker Coke, 1745-1825
- Coke, Daniel Parker, 1745-1825
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- Preferred form
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- George Dunn (1864-1912)
- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- George Dunn, 1864-1912
- Dunn, George, 1864-1912
- Other form
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- Dunn, George, 1856-1912, of Woolley Hall Maidenhead
- Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner.
- Dunn, George (1864-1912)
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- Description
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- Extent:
102 folios (iv+102+ii) Leaf height: 264 mm, width: 195 mm.
Binding:
Quarter-bound in tan calf, marbled paper-covered boards, 18th century.
Decoration:
None; spaces for initials are not filled.
Acquisition:
Purchased by the John Rylands Library at the sale of the George Dunn Collection on 2 February 1913 for £9, through the bookseller Percy Mordaunt Barnard of Royal Tunbridge Wells; invoice dated 25 February.
Layout:
One column, 34-38 long lines
Written height: c.197 mm, width: 118 mm.
Collation:
Folios 3-104: quires 1-58
Quire 68 lacking 5 and 6 after folios 45
Quires 7-138
Secundo folio:othir into
Script:
Written in a good secretary hand, the same throughout. Thick black rubrication introduces each tale.
Subject(s):
Chronicles of England; Arthurian romances; Great Britain--History; France--History; Ireland--History; Wales--History; Scotland--History; Christianity
Abstract:
Brut Chronicle, ending imperfectly in 1326.
Brut Chronicle beginning 3r: 'Here may a man heren how that Englonde was first called Albion and thurgh whom it had the name. In the noble londe of Surrey...' The manuscript ends imperfectly at folio 104v: 'then shuld he cloo-', with the catchword 'then hym in a': ed. F.W.D. Brie, The Brut (see Bibliography below), p. 244 line 18. Two leaves are missing between folio 45v, which ends 'lorde', and folio 46r, which begins 'Englonde'; the missing text is from Brie p. 90 line 27 to p. 95 line 4. The divisions into chapters follow Brie, but there are no chapter numbers, and there are no chapter headings after folio 48, 'How Cadwalader..'.
Foliation:
Foliated (i, ii) 1-104, (105-106)
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment
Provenance:
16th-century inscriptions: 'William Campinet de Kilworty in Com' Ebor' (folio 15r), 'Campinet me possidet' (folio 73v), and 'W. CAMPINET' in large formal capitals (folio 99v, cf. folio 95v); 'John Peell of Stoke [perhaps Stoke Bardolph] within the County of Nottyngham yemo' is the true onor(?)' [cropped by binder] (folio 10v), and 'John Peell' (folio 73r); 'William Kyechyner wrote this same' (folio 42v); 'dracon de elton in Com' lincolne' (folio 37v); 'William Bannister is My name' (folio 48v); 'Mergret Bannister' (folio 64r); 'Richard Bann' [?Bannister] (folio 80v).
Daniel Parker Coke, 1745-1825, barrister and politician, fellow of All Souls. Armorial bookplate.
George Dunn, 1864-1912, of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead. Inscribed 'G.D. 1899' on the front endpaper.
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- Place
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- Preferred form
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- England (United Kingdom)
- Original form
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- England
- Other form
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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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