[The Anonimalle Chronicle]

Description

Decoration: 17-line initial in red and blue (f. 36r). 2-line initials, rubrics and paragraph marks in red, capitals touched in red, and marginal notes framed in red ink, throughout.


Written in bastard anglicana, by a number of different scribes.


Principal contents: ff. 1r-35v Miscellaneous historical and chronicle-related texts in French and Latin; ff. 36r-271r A version of the Brut chronicle, ending in 1333; ff. 271r-353v The Anonimalle Chronicle, 1333-1381, including descriptions of the Good Parliament (1376) and the Peasants' Revolt (1381).


Acquired by the Brotherton Collection, in 1982.


For descriptions, see: V. H. Galbraith (ed.), The Anonimalle Chronicle, 1333 to 1381 (Manchester, 1927); W. R. Childs and J. Taylor (eds.), The Anonimalle Chronicle 1307 to 1334: From Brotherton Collection MS 29 (Leeds, 1991); and Diana B. Tyson, 'Three Short Anglo-Norman Texts in Leeds University Library Brotherton Collection MS 29', Nottingham Medieval Studies, 52 (2008), 81-112.

Features

Bindings


16th-century binding of dark calf over wooden boards, blind tooled centre piece on front and back covers, five raised bands.

Provenance

The manuscript was written at St Mary's Abbey in York. It passed into the possession of the Ingilby family of Ripley Castle probably in the 16th century, and remained with them until 1920. It was purchased by Mr H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence (book plate inside the front cover), who subsequently deposited it in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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