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Brut chronicle, in English : [manuscript]

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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.
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Date
[between 1450 and 1475]
Call number
mssHM 131
Provenance
Possible possession notes are: s. XV, ff. 21v, 59v, 63 and 72, "Symon"; s. XVI first half, f. 36v "Robard Burke" in the same hand as "Ferns" on f. 37; also of the sixteenth century are: ff. 64 and 70, a monogram of the letters "ROSE"; f. 102, "To my welbelowed frend John peryne of Rykelly in" by the same person who jotted the sayings on f. 66; f. 125, "henry the viii by the grace of god [twice] domine dominus noster Parker [twice] knyght." Belonged to the 5th Duke of Buccleuch (1806-84) whose collection was inherited and sold by his son, William Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch (1831-1914), Sotheby's, 25 March 1889, lot 211 to Quaritch; Quaritch Catalogue 103 (1890) n. 417. Henry White sale, Sotheby's, 21 April 1902, lot 500 to Maggs; Maggs Catalogue 287 (1912) n. 1173 with plate of f. 102v. Sotheby's, 17 July 1913, lot 963 to Joyes. Belonged to Herschel V. Jones (1861-1928) of Minneapolis; his sale, Anderson, New York, 2 December 1918, pt. I, lot 242 with plate of f. 20 to G. D. Smith for Henry E. Huntington.
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Dimensions
165 x 199 mm
Associated people
Jones, Herschel V. (1861-1928,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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    mssHM 113

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    mssHM 133

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    mssHM 136

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    mssHM 48570

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