Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 104
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- The John Rylands Library
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- English MS 104
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- Date
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- End 15th century
- Language
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- Middle English
- Latin
- Title
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- Tomlynson Brut Chronicle (1415 Continuation) (Brute or the Chronicles of England)
- Agent
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- Robert Tomlynson
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Robert Tomlynson
- Tomlynson, Robert
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- Preferred form
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- Thomas Tomlynson
- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Thomas Tomlynson
- Tomlynson, Thomas
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- Description
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- Extent:
133 folios (ii+133) Leaf height: 262 mm, width: 192 mm.
Binding:
Quarter calf, repaired in goatskin, marbled paper-covered boards, 18th century.
Decoration:
Numerous 3-line initials, alternating in burnished gold and blue ink, with penwork infill and flourishes in red and brown ink respectively.
There are numerous 16th-century pencil drawings and scribblings in the margins, including:
acorns, a ?centaur and several human heads (folio 7r);
a man and an acorn, the man saying 'Iohn geue me sum acomes ho' (folio 32r);
two bearded figures resembling Henry VIII (folios 32v and 33r);
an owl? (folio 99r);
a flower (folio 104v);
a squirrel sitting on a branch of an oak tree (folio 120v)
Acquisition:
Purchased by the John Rylands Library in 1908 from the London booksellers J. and J. Leighton for £16 4s; invoice dated on 18 June 1908.
Layout:
39 long lines
Written height: 203 mm, width: 123 mm.
Collation:
Quire 1-28,
Quire 38 lacking 7 after folio 22,
Quire 4-88,
Quire 98 lacking 2 after folio 64,
Quire 10-168,
Quire 178 lacking 8.
Secundo folio:bring it vnto Winchestre
Script:
The script is mainly secretary.
Subject(s):
Great Britain--History; Chronicles of England; Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Abstract:
Late fifteenth-century manuscript of the Brut Chronicle, from chapter 101 onwards and ending imperfectly in 1415. Several leaves are wanting.Brut Chronicle to 1415, beginning imperfectly a page before an account of Cadwallader's going to Rome, and ending imperfectly at 1415 'at þe dise and an [archer]', ed. F.W.D. Brie, The Brut (see Bibliography below), p. 378 line 14.
Folio 1v line 22 begins, 'Howe king Offa was soueraine' (Brie p. 102 line 21). The 21 preceding lines - 'Thanne kyng Aleyn did sende for the Clergie of his londe ... vic lxxix' - are not in Brie and are no doubt derived from Geoffrey of Monmouth (ed. Griscom, p. 534); folio lr is barely legible.
There are no chapter numbers before '203' on folio 61r; the last remaining chapter is numbered '244'. 'Deo gracias' at folio 87r line 2 (Brie, p. 286 line 9, battle of Halidon Hill, 1333).
There are two gaps in the text: (1) folio 22v ends 'Englande' and folio 23r begins 'tharchebisshop'. (2) folio 64v ends 'layen xi' and folio 65r begins 'and afterwarde he'. For the missing text see Brie, pp. 147:21-149:26 and 238:33-240:21.
Foliation:
foliated 1-133 (modern foliation).
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment
Provenance:
Robert Tomlynson16th-century inscription in (folio 55r)
Thomas Tomlynson16th-century inscription in (folio 71v)
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- England, Worcester?
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- England, Peterborough?
- England, Mercia?
- England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
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- England, Winchester?
- England, Oxford?
- Flanders (possibly executed in England)
- England and Netherlands
- England, Canterbury?
- England, West Midlands?
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- England, Crowland?
- England, Wessex?
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- Hereford?, England
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- 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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