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MS. Lyell 34

Contents

Chronicle of England (Brut Chronicle) to 1461 (Davies’ Chronicle)
Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fol. 1 pink initial on gold ground joined to bar border framing the text with acanthus leaves in pink, blue, orange, and green and pen scrolling with small gold and green flowers and leaves, rubbed. Other initials gold on decorated blue and pink grounds with sprays of pen scrolling and small gold and green flowers and leaves. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1066)

History

Origin: c. 1461 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from A. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (1971)
Catalogue, p. 85
Catalogue, p. 86
Catalogue, p. 87

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 638

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-06-15: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.