Manuscript Description London, British Library, MS Harley 6251 | |
Title: | Prose Brut |
Contents: | Prose Brut |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1419 (siege of Rouen) is the last item in the chronicle. |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 105 + 2 newer paper flyleaves both front and back |
Pagination: | Modern pencil foliation using arabic numerals in the usual place. |
Quiring: | 8 |
Signatures: | Traces of signatures, 'dii' on f34, but most are faded or cropped |
Catchwords: | By the scribe in the usual place with sleigh beneath in which the right curve continues in a loop that crosses the base |
Page Size: | 285 x 208 |
Frame: | Brown crayon square; top line is the boundary of the top of the minims in the first line of text. |
Writing Space: | 207 x 148 |
Incipits and Explicits: | On f105v 'Here endithe the Croniculis of Englonde made and compilid be notabill clerkis to men to rede & to see what fill to fore in hire dayes N M |
Marginal Headings: | Red, by the scribe in space within the frame probably at the same time that he was copying the text. |
Title by Scribe: | Title in red on the first folio now faded and illegible. |
Borders: | Bar frame down left side parti-coloured gold, blue and red with green leaf sprays, gold balls and trefoils into left and lower margins. |
Illuminated Initials: | On f1 a 6-line gold initial on parti-coloured blue and red ground with white highlights. |
Flourished Initials: | 2-line blue lombard initials with red penwork decoration. |
Other Names (not owners): | f105 'John f105v 'James', 'quod William Le Neue (or Nens) Anagra Novem(?), 'Will LeNeve' all 16th or 17th century hands |
Further Information: | Harley Catalogue, 3. 346 |