Polyglot compendium of English chronicles : manuscript, [ca. 1490-1510]

Title: Polyglot compendium of English chronicles : manuscript, [ca. 1490-1510]

Alternative Title: Brut. English

Alternative Title: Chronicles of England
Place of Origin: No place, unknown, or undetermined
Description: Extent: 1 v. (459 leaves) ; 33 cm.
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Subjects: Brutus, the Trojan (Legendary character)
English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Texts
Great Britain--History--To 1485--Early works to 1800
Abstract: 1. Notes on English chronology, in Latin (ff. 3r-7v) -- 2. Prose Brut to 1437, in Middle English (10r-71v) -- 3. Decree of 1459 Mar. 24: Henry VI, in Middle English (71v-74r) -- 4. Notes on English chronology, in Latin -- 5. Prose Brut from 1066-1327, in Middle English (84r-107r) -- 6. Chronica majora: Matthew Paris; incomplete, in Latin (109r-497v) -- 7. Notes on English chronology, in Middle English -- 8. Les Croniques / Nicholas Trivet, in French (433-459).
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1450-1500.
Manuscripts, Renaissance-England-1500-1550.
Catchwords.
Scribal corrections.
Romances
Texts
Early works to 1800
Notes: Written in several hands in English secretary script.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in 19th-cent. calf.
In a tray case, 36 cm.
MS Eng 750. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Series: Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard University

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