Brute : manuscript, [14--]

Title: Brute : manuscript, [14--]

Alternative Title: Brut chronicles

Alternative Title: Chronicle in English

Alternative Title: Chronicles of England
Place of Origin: England
Date: 14uu
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
Description: Extent: 1 v. (152 leaves) : vellum ; 28 cm.
print
Subjects: Brutus, the Trojan (Legendary character)
English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Texts
Great Britain--History--To 1485--Early works to 1800
Abstract: Prose Brut to 1419.
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1400-1450.
Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1450-1500.
Rules (layout features)
Romances
Texts
Early works to 1800
Notes: Written in a bastarda script with gold, blue, and red initials, some flourished; paragraph headings in red and paragraph markers in blue and red; incomplete at beginning.
The name of the scribe, "Ryther" or "Rither" appears in several rubrics (e.g. ff. 18r, 18v, and 19).
Bound in red goatskin.
In a tray case, 31 cm.
MS Eng 587. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version.
Series: Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard University

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