Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Eng 938

Source

Harvard University Library

Library

Houghton Library, Harvard University

Shelfmark

• MS Eng 938

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q252859

Date

• 1420

Language

• Middle English

Title

• Cronicles qe frere Nichol Tryvet. English, Middle
• Chronicles in English : manuscript, [ca. 1420]

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Nicolaus Triveth (1258?-1324?)

  Role

  • Creator

  Original form

  • Trivet, Nicholas (1258?-1328)

  Other form

  • Triveth, Nicolaus (1258?-1324?)
  • Nicolas Trevet
  • Nicolaus Treveth
  • Nicolaus Trivet
  • Triveth, Nicolaus 1258?-1324?
  • Nicolaus Trevetus 1258-1328
  • Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328
  • Triveth, Nicolaus
  • Author: Nicolaus, Trevetus
  • Nicholas Trivet
  • Trevet, Nicholas, c 1258-c 1334
  • Triveth, Nicolaus (1258?-1324?). Éditeur scientifique
  • Nicholas Trevet OP
  • Nicolas Trivet
  • Nicolaus de Treveth
  • Nicolaus Trivettus
  • Trivet, Nicholas, (1258?-1328)
  • Nicholas Trivet (1258-1334?)
  • Triveth, Nicolaus, ca 1258-1328, O.P.
  • Nicolaus Trevetus - ca. 1258 - ca. 1334 - auteur
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  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q12711

• Preferred form

  • John Gaydon (15..?-15..?)

  Role

  • Fl. 1553,

  Original form

  • Gaydon, John (Harvard local name)

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253148

• Preferred form

  • Arthur William Acland Hood (1824-1901)

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Hood, Arthur William Acland (1824-1901)

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253009

• Preferred form

  • Mary of Woodstock (1278-1332?)

  Role

  • Dedicatee

  Original form

  • Mary of Woodstock (1278-1332?)

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253168

• Preferred form

  • William Musgrave (1655-1721)

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Musgrave, William (1655?-1721)

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253249

• Preferred form

  • T. Palmer (16..-17..)

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Palmer, T. (active 1710)

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253220

• Preferred form

  • Walter Wren

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Wren, Walter

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253236

Description

• Physical Description:
  1 v. (92 leaves) : vellum ; 41 cm.

  Summary:
  Translation of Trivet's chronicle in French dedicated to "Mary the doughter [sic] of King Edwarde the son of Harry."

  Notes:
  Ruled for two columns and written in a bastard secretary script; floral frontispiece; rubrics; flourished intials decorated in red, gold, and blue; and blue and red or gold and blue paragraph intials.
  Lacks 2 leaves after f. 78, end imperfectly.
  Title supplied by cataloger.
  Bound in 19th-cent. half green goatskin with green cloth boards.
  In a full green goatskin tray case, 44 cm.
  With this is bound: Treatise on arboriculture; and Religious calendar of Sarum use.
  MS Eng 938. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
  Chaucer's "Man of law's tale" is said to derive from the Story of Constance in this manuscript (ff. 53-59).
  Chaucer Society, Originals and Analogues, 3 (1876): 223-250.

  Subjects:
  Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485

  Form / Genre:
  Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1400-1450.
  Chronicles.

Place

• Preferred form

  • England (United Kingdom)

  Original form

  • England

  Other form

  • 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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• Houghton Library, Harvard University
  

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