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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:
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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.
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP