Brut chronicle (fragment).

Description

Title: Brut chronicle (fragment).
Contributor: Schøyen, Martin--Bookplate.
Published / Created: [between 1225 and 1275]
Publication Place: [England?],
Abstract: Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of text from a Brut chronicle in Anglo-Norman rhyming octosyllabic couplets.
Description: Decoration: initial C in blue and initial Q in red.
Formerly owned by Martin Schøyen (MS 650). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Layout: two columns of 39 lines.
Script: gothic hand.
Stained and somewhat worn from use as a pastedown, with some later pen trials.
Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 199 x 130 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval.--[England]--13th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Schøyen, Martin--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic): Anglo-Norman literature.
Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character)
Chronicles of England.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Brut chronicle (fragment). Takamiya MS 115.