Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Eng 587

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Library: Houghton Library, Harvard University

Shelfmark

MS Eng 587

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Date

14uu

Language

Middle English

Title

Brut chronicles
Chronicle in English
Chronicles of England
Brute : manuscript, [14--]
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Agent

Preferred form
- Ryther (14..?-14..?)
Role
- Scribe
Original form
- Ryther
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- https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253212
Preferred form
- Bertram Ashburnham (1840-1913)
Role
- Former owner
Original form
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham Earl of (1840-1913)
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- Edmond Goodwyn
Role
- Former owner
Original form
- Goodwin, Edmund
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Description

Physical Description:
1 v. (152 leaves) : vellum ; 28 cm.

Summary:
Prose Brut to 1419.

Notes:
Written in a bastarda script with gold, blue, and red initials, some flourished; paragraph headings in red and paragraph markers in blue and red; incomplete at beginning.
The name of the scribe, "Ryther" or "Rither" appears in several rubrics (e.g. ff. 18r, 18v, and 19).
Bound in red goatskin.
In a tray case, 31 cm.
MS Eng 587. 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-1400-1450.
Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1450-1500.

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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