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Detailed record for Royal 19 C IX
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| Title |
French Prose Brut |
| Origin |
France, Central, or N., or Netherlands, S. |
| Date |
3rd quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Decoration |
1 large miniature in colours and gold, with a foliate initial in colours and gold and a full border, at the beginning of the text (f. 8). 'Champ' initials in gold on blue and rose grounds with penwork decoration in white. Paraphs in red or blue. |
| Dimensions in mm |
315 x 230 (200 x 135) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 155 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end, and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebounf in 1974. Gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
Unidentified coat of arms included in the initial 'C'(est) (f. 1).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Contains a chronicle of the Brut in French prose from Creation to 1333, imperfect, ending with 'viii autres jours de respit', preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1-7) referred to a foliation in red, in the upper margins, startinf on f. 8.
Catchwords. |
| Select bibliography |
Friedrich W. D. Brie, 'Gischichte und Quellen de mittelenglischen Prosachronik The Brute of England' (Marburg: N.G. Elwert'sche, 1905), p. 30.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, p. 336.
Diana B.Tyson, 'Handlist of Manuscripts Containing the French Prose Brut Chronicle', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 48 (1994), 333-44 (p. 339).
Lister M. Matheson, The Prose Brut: The Development of a Middle English Chronicle, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 180 (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University, 1998), pp. xix, 12, 36.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 41, 46. |
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f. 8
Daughters of Diodicias |
f. 8
Daughters of Diodicias |
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