Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Hatton 50 | |
MS Appellation: | SC 4112 |
Title: | Prose Brut |
Contents: | Prose Brut |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | Continues to 1419, the siege of Rouen. |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | i (paper) + ff2-131 + i (paper) |
Pagination: | Modern pencil 2-132 counting both flyleaves |
Quiring: | 8 |
Catchwords: | By each individual scribe but the Beryn scribe's catchwords have the typical sleigh underline with extended curling descender below the level of the sleigh to finish. |
Page Size: | 284 x 202 |
Frame: | Drypoint square with top of minims on top line as the top of the square. |
Writing Space: | 198 x 120 |
Incipits and Explicits: | On f130v in rubric by the Beryn scribe 'Here endith a book callyd Brute of the Croniculis of Englonde made & compilid by notabill clerkis of all the actis & dedis of kyngis þat evir were in this londe to take exsaumpill what fil to fore our dayes' |
Marginal Headings: | Red by the scribe of that particular section |
Borders: | Bar frame on f1, down left side in blue, rose, gold with sprays into left margin and along top and bottom borders |
Illuminated Initials: | On f1, a 5-line gold lombard initial 'T' on parti-coloured blue and rose ground with white highlights |
Flourished Initials: | 2-line blue lombard initials with red pen-work |
Other Names (not owners): | 'Wylliam Awnsham God helpe' early 16th century on f6v. |
Further Information: | We have an extensive description of this manuscript, relating the stints of all the different hands which will be completed at a later date. |