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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 105

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Manchester Digital Collections
Library
The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • English MS 105
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • End 15th century
Language
  • Middle English
  • Latin
Title
  • Brut Chronicle (1413 Continuation) (Brute or the Chronicles of England)
Agent
Description
  • Extent:
    134 folios (iii+134+iii) Leaf height: 278 mm, width: 206 mm.
    Binding:

    Diced calf, rebacked, with remnants of a lion or panther rampant gilt-stamped on the first panel of the spine, 18th century


    Decoration:
    One 5-line initial in burnished gold on a blue and red ground with white penwork, with foliate border extensions terminating in ivy leaves and bezants (folio 3r).
    Numerous 3-line initials in red ink with brown penwork flourishes and infill.


    Acquisition:

    Purchased by the John Rylands Library at the Phillipps sale on 15 June 1908 through the London booksellers Bull &Auvache for £21; invoice dated 19 June 1908.


    Layout:

    28-38 long lines; the closer spacing begins at folio 68r, where the number of lines rises from 31 to 34.

    Written height: 175 mm, width: 135 mm.
    Collation:
    Collation of folios 3-136
    Quire 116 lacking 2,
    Quire 214 plus 1 leaf after 14 (folio 32),
    Quire 316 lacking 15 and 16, perhaps blank, after folio 46,
    Quire 4-516,
    Quire 614 plus 1 leaf after 7 (folio 86),
    Quire 7-816,
    Quire 914 plus 1 leaf after 7 (folio 133), lacking 11-14 after folio 136.

    Quires are signed (a), (b), c-h, j.

    Secundo folio: n/a (first quire is lacking the second leaf).


    Script:

    Several secretary hands:

    Folios 3r-45r written by first scribe

    changes at folio 45r line 18

    changes at folio 47r (beginning of the fourth quire).


    Subject(s):
    Great Britain--History; Chronicles of England; Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
    Abstract:
    Late fifteenth-century manuscript of the Brut Chronicle, ending imperfectly in 1413. Several leaves are wanting. An incomplete note in another hand (folio 46v) says: 'This chronicle was mayde the xth yere of the reynge of kynge Henry the viiith by the right renouned and myghty...' (ends abruptly).

    Brut Chronicle, beginning 'Here begynneth a boke in Englysshe tunge called Brute... the whiche conteyneth ccxxxviii chapiters withoute the prolog or protogoll. The prolog of this booke declareth... of hem many oon. Some tyme in the noble lond of Surry...'; and ending imperfectly at folio 136v, 'ihesu haue mercy amen. Of kinge Henry the vth borne at Monmouth in Wales son to king Henry the iiiith: ed. F.W.D. Brie, The Brut (see Bibliography below), p. 373. Chapters are not numbered after 110 on folio 57r.

    There is a gap in the text: folio 3v ends 'evell taches and governaunces' (Brie, p. 2 line 18) and folio 4r begins 'shuld comme to much honor and worship' (Brie, p. 6 line 3).


    Foliation:

    Foliated (i), 1-136, (137-8).


    Format:
    Codex
    Material:
    Parchment
    Provenance:

    There are several 16th-century inscriptions on folio 2r: 'Iste liber constat hugoni Wyniard'; 'Iste liber partinet ad Thomam Pawlyn Surgion in Ciuitate London'; 'Iste liber pertinet ad me Nicholaum Stevinson gent'; Thomas Hought'; Ricardus Hobbes.

    Thomas Thorpe 1791-1851, bookseller. Catalogue for 1836, item 251 (purchased en bloc by Phillipps).

    Sir Thomas Phillipps 1792-1872. Phillipps no. 9486 on folio 2v. Phillipps sale at Sotheby's on 15 June 1908, lot 361; catalogue slip pasted to flyleaf.

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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