Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of text from a Brut chronicle in Anglo-Norman rhyming octosyllabic couplets.
Description:
Decoration: initial C in blue and initial Q in red., Formerly owned by Martin Schøyen (MS 650). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: two columns of 39 lines., Script: gothic hand., and Stained and somewhat worn from use as a pastedown, with some later pen trials.
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of a version of the Brut Chronicle.
Alternative Title:
Chronicles of England.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco., Bound with: 2 l. of parchment, fragment in Latin, repaired, with annotations., Ex libris Tollemache family, Helmingham Hall, Suffolk (M.S. L.J.I.12). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns., and Script: English cursive bookhand.