MS. Ashmole 793

Summary Catalogue no.: 7433

Chronicle of England (Brut Chronicle) to 1419, abbreviated version

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Penwork interlace initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1139)

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; English

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. H. Black, A descriptive, analytical, and critical catalogue of the manuscripts bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole Esq...., Quarto Catalogues X, 1845). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 420

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 1135

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges