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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. |