Manuscript Description London, British Library, MS Harley 1337 | |
Title: | Prose Brut |
Contents: | Prose Brut |
Language: | English |
Dialect: | The chronicle ends in the 6th year of Henry V (1419) with the siege of Rouen. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | i (numbered 1*) + 105 + ii (numbered 106 and 107) plus newer paper flyleaves one front and two back |
Pagination: | Modern pen and ink foliation in top right corner in arabic numerals |
Quiring: | 8 |
Signatures: | Traces of signatures; 'ci' on f17 in red ink, 'c' in red and both '3' and 'iii' in black ink on f19, 'fii' in red on f42. |
Catchwords: | By the scribe in the usual place with sleigh beneath in which right curve continues in a loop which crosses the base. |
Page Size: | 297 x 230 |
Frame: | 2 x vertical; 4 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines in purplish-brown crayon. |
Writing Space: | 198 x 147 |
Incipits and Explicits: | On f105 'Here endith a book callyd the Croniclis of Englonde made & compilid by notabil Clerkis of aventuris of kyngis þat were in þis londe and howe þey dies'. |
Marginal Headings: | Red by the scribe within the writing space |
Title by Scribe: | On f1 'Here begynnyth a Book callyd the Croniculis of Englond' in red by the scribe. |
Illuminated Initials: | On f1 a 5-line gold initial on purplish-red ground (now almost black); blue and white foliage design inside letter; sprays into left margin with green leaves gold balls and trefoils. |
Paragraph Marks: | Alternating red and blue |
Flourished Initials: | 2-line blue lombard initials with red pen-work decoration |
Other Names (not owners): | 'J Savell' on f1*v; 'Driliglih J 1600' on f105; 'morgan Jenkyn vychun' 'Jenkyn vychun' (all ca. 16th century on f106v); david Johnys, 'Jamis varh'm', 'Thomas Parrye', 'Marget Marget'. |
Further Information: | Harley Catalogue 2. 8-9 |