Part 1: ff. 1r-138v

Description: - Parchment - 305 x 214 mm - 36 long lines.

Country: England

City: London (?)

Assigned Date: s. XV3/4

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Anglicana.

Other Decoration: 2-line initials in alternating burnished gold and blue with brown or red pen-flourishing; paraph marks in alternating red and blue; headings in red; capitals within text touched with yellow.

Notes: Copious marginal annotation added by a later hand.




Text 1: ff. 1r-138v

Other Associate: Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfredus Monumetensis), Wace, Layamon, Peter of Langtoft (Pierre de Langtoft).

Title: Brut Chronicle

Language(s): English

Notes: Manuxcript ends with reign of Henry V. 

Status of text: Lacks first 5 leaves; two each after ff. 5, 70, 97, 136; and the last.

Image 1: f. 1r Ownership note.

Image 2: ff. 3v-4r Catchword; hierarchy of script, décor.

Image 3: f. 6r Calligraphic extensions on top line.

Image 4: f. 15v Ownership note.

Image 5: f. 21r Marginal annotation and alternative chapter number added by later hand.

Image 6: ff. 46v-47r Text scraped away; running titles added by a later hand; beginning of the chronicle of the Norman Conquest.

Image 7: f. 51v Name of St. Thomas of Canterbury struck through.

Image 8: ff. 57v-58r Catchword; text struck through.

Image 9: f. 102v Large initial; marginal chronological annotation in two different systems.

Image 10: f. 113v Capitals within text touched in yellow; running titles added; marginal annotations.

Image 11: f. 128r Space left in text for name.

Image 12: f. 136v Beginning of chronicle of reign of Henry V.

Image 13: Front cover.