[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.
Metadata
| Identifier | phz8qh7w |
| IRN | 372703 |
| Class Mark | BC MS 29 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/phz8qh7w |
| Collection(s) | Medieval Manuscripts |
| Category | Archive Print |
| Parent Record | Medieval Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection) |
| Date | [ca. 1350-1400] |
| Size and Medium | 1 v. (353 leaves) (1 column, ca. 39-42 lines; ruled in lead) |