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Brut chronicle, in English : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-115v. [Brut Chronicle]. Incipit: //Fraunce and Whanne he come Aȝene intoo þis londe he bylded A fayre tone and now as a Cytee and callyt hit Ebrac. Explicit: nay he shulde notte be transled the same Erle Thomas of lancaster Untoo the tyme that he Was//. Latin. Brut Chronicle, beginning and ending defectively and with breaks in the text; on f. 116, two unidentified fragments of the text. F. W. D. Brie, ed., The Brut or the Chronicles of England. EETS os 131 and 136 (London 1906-08) 15-35, 36-61, 63-107, 108-14, 130-66, 190-193, 194-96, 250-51, 260-63; on ff. 70-74, Cadwalader episode occurring here between Brie's chapters 101-102:"How kynge Cadewalder that Was kyng Cadwalyn sone that regned after his fadar And he Was the laste kyng off Bretonis Capitulo Centessimo xo, After the dethe off Cadwalyn regned his sone Cadwalere Well and nobly and his Modre was suster off kyng Peandra. . .For his synnes And he hadde not longe dwelled there that he ne dyed the xii kalendere off may the ȝere off grace vic 1xxix et cetera." For a list of manuscripts, see L. M. Matheson,"The Middle English Prose Brut: A Location List of Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions," Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 3 (1979) 254-66, including HM 133.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1450 and 1499]
Call number: mssHM 133
Provenance: Possession notes in the volume are: s. XVIex, f. 18, "Rych__?___ P__?___; f. 76v, "John templar [?]" and "William [?] Jones"; f. 98v, "This is thomas Verney boke"; s. XVI/XVII, f. 69, "Edmund Francis." The note on f. 59 is not "Elyzabeth madre E. W.," as in the catalogue of the Hellman sale, but "Thys byll made." George S. Hellman (author and rare book dealer, 1878-1958) sale, Anderson, New York, 25 November 1919, lot 65 with a plate of f. 59 to G. D. Smith. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 185, approximately x 264 mm
Associated people: Hellman, George S. (1878-1958,)
Associated organization: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Brut chronicle, in English : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-154v. [Brut Chronicle]. Incipit: Some tyme in the noble lande & Roialme of Surrie ther was a myghti and Worshipfull king called dioclician. Explicit: And thanne the king entered the cite and the Castell and rested him þer and sette the cite in gouernaunce and rule. English. F. W. D. Brie, ed., The Brut or the Chronicles of England. EETS os 131 and 136 (London 1906-08) 1-391 to the year 1419. HM 131 is of the expanded version discussed by Brie, Geschichte und Quellen der mittelenglischen Prosachronik The Brute of England oder The Chronicles of England (Marburg 1905) 82-83, possibly of Group C; this text seems abbreviated, but complete unto itself; the chapters are numbered to 210 erroneously due to frequent skipping of numbers or of chapters. For extant manuscripts, see L. M. Matheson, "The Middle English Prose Brut: A Location List of Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions," Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 3 (1979) 254-66, including HM 131. With a first introduction ("Here begynneth Brute in englysshe the Whiche declareth and treteth of All the kinges and of all the notable actes and dedes the whyche hathe bene done in this lande sithe the furste begynnyng of this lande") and a second introduction ("The prolog of this boke declareth howe this lande was furste called Albion after the eldest doughter of king dioclician of Surrie that Was called Albine") that precede the text.

mssHM 131

Brut Chronicle, in English : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-166v. [Brut Chronicle]. Incipit: //þat þey wold al make amendis And so þey departid oute from hir fadiris chambir. Explicit: & wan him there grete worship & gre of þe feld// [catchword:] And in þe next. English. F. W. D. Brie, ed., The Brut or the Chronicles of England. EETS os 131 and 136 (London 1906-08) 3-5, 12-33, 49-297, 299-357, 365-369 ; HM 113 is listed among the defective and therefore not classifiable manuscripts by Brie, Geschichte und Quellen der mittelenglischen Prosachronik, The Brute of England oder The Chronicles of England (Marburg 1905) 85. For a list of the manuscripts, see L. M. Matheson, "The Middle English Prose Brut: A Location List of the Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions," AEB 3 (1979) 254-66, including HM 113. Status of text: Defective initially, internally and finally. f. ii recto-verso. [Missal, fragment]. Latin. Contains the canon of the mass as in the Sarum missal, ed. F. H. Dickinson (London 1861-63) cols. 620-25. Layout: 2 columns. Other Decoration: 2-line gold initial on white-patterned particolored ground. Survived as pastedown in the present volume; now lifted. Assigned Date: s. XIV/XV. f. iv recto and verso. [Jacobus de Voragine]. Legenda aurea, fragment. Incipit: //hominibus innatam uxorem viro subici. Explicit: sed iuxta paschalem terminum variatur//. Latin. Contains the end of Nereus and Achilleus, all of Pancratius and all of De festivitatibus quae occurrunt infra tempus peregrinationis, as in Th. Graesse, ed. (Bratislava 1890) 338-41. Layout: 2 columns of 38 lines ruled (frame only?) in a pinkish ink. Other Decoration: Plain decorative initials, 1-line, in the ink of the text; rubric in red. Assigned Date: s. XV.

mssHM 113

Book of Hours, use of Sens[?] : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-115v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar in French; ff. 13-15: [f. 13, blank], Pericope from John; ff. 15v-63: Hours of the Virgin, possibly in the use of Sens; ff. 63v-66: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 66v-69: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 69v-84: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 84v-106: Office of the Dead, 3 lessons; ff. 106v-115v: Obsecro te and suffrages of Michael, James, Andrew, George, Adrian, Martin, Nicholas, Eligius, Maturinus, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria.

mssHM 1153

Bible : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

Part 1. ff. 1-354 verso. [Bible]. ff. 1-257: Old Testament; ff. 257-324: New Testament; ff. 325-352: Interpretations of Hebrew Names; ff. 352v-354v: list of readings for the Mass; f. 354v: list of the books of the Bible, with the number of chapters in each, added in another hand. Bible in the usual order with 66 prologues (of which approx. 2/3 correspond to those listed in Ker, MMBL 1:96-97 regarding London, Lambeth Palace MS 1364); of the frequent apocryphal additions to Bibles, only the prayer of Solomon is present, but marked "va-cat.". Part 2. ff. i - iv verso. [Pastedowns and flyleaves]: Contains parts of the commentary on chapters 2 and 3 of the Gospels of John; text is washed off.

mssHM 1083

Chronicle : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-135; ff. 135v-136v blank. [Robert of Gloucester]. [Chronicle]. Incipit: Engelond is swithe good I wene hit is lond beste/ In oon ende hit is yset: of þe world al in þe west. Explicit: þat of þe walische londe clanlich al out/ He wan þe seignorye nere hi no so prout. English. IMEV 727 . W. A. Wright, ed., The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. RS 86 (London 1887); HM 126 of the later recension; ff. 127v-135 correspond to Wright's Appendix XX, pp. 838-77.

mssHM 126

Master of game : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-44; f. 44v blank. [Edward Plantagenet] Master of the Game. Incipit: The hare ys a comune Beest ynogh þerffor me nedeth nat to tell off hys makynge ffor þer be ffew men that ne haue seyne some off heme. Explicit: Also whan his tuskes above ben lowe and ywered off þe nether tuskes it is a tokne of a grete Boor. Ardua lucra labor pariens non est honorosus/ Sepe dulcia gravi sub pondere munera crescunt. Here endeth þe Bokke of venerye Called þe Maystre off þe Geme which Spcyfyeth all þe Nature Off þe beestes of venerye And of here huntyng. Rubric: Here Endyth the Prologe and ffyrst Begynneth the Table off the hare and off hys Nature. Capitulo primo ut hic. English. Opens with a chapter list and a prologue that begins "To the honoure and Reuerence off þow my Ryght Wyrshypffull and dredde lorde Henry by the grace off gode eldest sone and heyre vnto the hyh excellent and Cristyn prynce henrye the iiiite." W. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, eds., The Master of Game, by Edward, Second Duke of York (London 1904) printing the Middle English and a modern translation in parallel texts; EL 35 B 63 described on pp. 242-43. The second Baillie-Grohman edition (1909) gives only a modern translation. The order of chapters of this manuscript according to the text printed by the Baillie-Grohmans is 1-11, 27-36, 12-18, 20, 19, 21-25; Baillie-Grohmans' chapter 25 occurs here in 3 parts as chapters 34-36; their chapter 26 not copied in this manuscript.

mssEL 35 B 63 (EL 1123)

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