Brut Chronicle
Reference code
MSS/0223
Title
Brut Chronicle
Date
late 15th century
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff.i + 45 (20 omitted).
Small folio.
Half leather binding, brown, with marbled boards.
Small folio.
Half leather binding, brown, with marbled boards.
Scope and content
The Brut chronicle; Imperfect, ending in cap. 71 (F. W. D. Brie (ed.), The Brut (1906), 67, line 24). L. M. Matheson, The Prose Brut (1998), 201-2. Marginal notes, 16th-17th century. Blank spaces for initials filled with cuttings of hand coloured engravings of the 17th century. Ker, MMBL, I (1969), 308, notes deterioration of the hand from a good secretary to a current anglicana.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/223