Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. B. 166
| England |
| Oxford |
| Bodleian Library |
| Rawl. B. 166 |
| SC 11535 |
| s. xv |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 403 356, LP 227 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 237). |
A fifteenth-century manuscript of the
Brut Chronicle.
Item: ?| ff. 1r-131v |
| Brut (IPMEP 374) |
| '...and kyng leyre hade th_m'. Damaged by wormholes. |
| 'byttvrly and manly for ....'. Unreadable due to wormholes. |
Brie 1906.
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| Codex |
| Parchment and some paper. |
| 200 x 140 mm |
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Twelves. Catchwords: ff. 11v; 23v; 35v; 47v; 59v; 71v; 83v; 95v; 107v; 119v; 131v.
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| Pricking: none visible. Writing space of 165 x 110 mm. Single columns with 31-36 lines. Frame ruled in drypoint. |
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One scribe writing in brown and black ink in an Anglicana script. Characteristics: reversed circular e; 8-shaped g; long s in initial position; v-shaped r in final position; long r in medial position; B-shaped w; double compartment a. Body height 2 mm.
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Initials tinted red; two-line Lombardic red initials; red paraphs.
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Not medieval - seventeenth century. Size: 210 x 150 mm. Cover of brown tan leather mitred and pasted over pasteboard with blind tooled double lines around edge and foliate border on left side and foliate design on spine with 'CHRONICLE OF BRITAIN TO THE 14 YEAR OF KG EDWARD THE 3D. Five raised bands on the spine.
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| ff. vii (modern paper flyleaves) + 1-131 + vi (modern paper flyleaves). Foliated in modern pencil on every fifth leaf. |
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| Ff. 95-100 look as though they have been gnawed by mice. There are wormholes at beginning and end.
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| Unknown |
| An erased coat of arms on f. 1r and erased notes on ff. 10r, 10v, and 11r recording the birth of the children of John Shirley (1535-1570) of Staunton Harold and Rakedale in Leicestershire (Matheson 1998; Harris 1983). F. 30v '' (?Badoat) in drypoint, sixteenth century. F. 101v, 'Thomas'; 'th'; 'Iohn' (twice) all in same fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004.
- Brie, F. W. D., ed, 1906. The Brut or The Chronicles of England, edited from MS. Rawl. B 171, 2 vols, EETS, os, 131, London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trübner, 1.
- Harris, K. 1983. ‘The Origins and Make-Up of Cambridge University Library MS. Ff.1.6’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 8, 306 and n. 47.
- Madan, F. 1895. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 3, p. 197.
- Matheson, L. M. 1998. The Prose Brut: The Development of a Middle English Chronicle, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 180, Tempe, Ariz.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, p. 102.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
