Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 11 | |
| MS Appellation: | SC 9831 |
| Title: | Prose Brut |
| Contents: | Prose Brut |
| Language: | English |
| 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. 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: | Paper |
| Pagination: | Modern pagination on rectos only 1-211 |
| Signatures: | Roman numerals i-iiij in grey-black ink in first half of quire sometimes with red letter or symbol before or after; sometimes red letter or symbol appears without roman numerals. |
| Catchwords: | By each scribe in the usual place. |
| Page Size: | 285 x 207 |
| Frame: | Square for Beryn scribe; Hand B rules ladder frame; Hand C uses ladder frame occasionally also. |
| Writing Space: | Variable; example = p157 = 214 x 135 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | On f211 by Hand D 'Explicit Cronicucle [sic] Anglie' |
| Marginal Headings: | All scribes write headings in enlarged script in black-brown-grey ink |
| Title by Scribe: | 'Here begynneth a book callyd the croniclis of Englond' on f1 in Beryn's more formal hand. |
| Flourished Initials: | 3-line red lombard initials unadorned; red underlining; occasional sleigh curve at the end of lines. |
| Other Names (not owners): | All on f112 (the last page of the original manuscript); 'Henry Appulton 'This boke dothe pertayne vnto Henry Appulton' both these in late 15th-early 16th century script; 'Will'm Cardynalle' (three times late 15th-early 16th century); 'Lamentable shewith hn to you as good mr. shipe (16th); 'alles appultun' |
| Miscellaneous Info: | Only the Beryn scribal hand analysed in this manuscript at present. |
| Further Information: | Tanner Catalogue, col. 11. Many other notes regarding quiring and order of work to be added later. |