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ff. 1-135; ff. 135v-136v blank. [Robert of Gloucester]. [Chronicle]. Incipit: Engelond is swithe good I wene hit is lond beste/ In oon ende hit is yset: of þe world al in þe west. Explicit: þat of þe walische londe clanlich al out/ He wan þe seignorye nere hi no so prout. English. IMEV 727 . W. A. Wright, ed., The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. RS 86 (London 1887); HM 126 of the later recension; ff. 127v-135 correspond to Wright's Appendix XX, pp. 838-77. Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Anglicana. Layout: 1-178 184(-3; flyleaves). Catchwords in frames; 40 lines of verse, ruled in lead with double lines on the left margin for the versals. Span folios: ff. 1-136v. Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 7-line, pink/blue infilled with vines and leaves on a gold ground from which extends a C-shaped bar and foliage border in gold, blue and pink. On ff. 21v and 52v, 5- and 6-line respectively, parted red and blue initials with void leaf infilling and flourished extensions. Assigned Date: s. XIVex. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/9/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, s. XVIIex, in English brown sprinkled calf, gold tooled with the Essex monogram and coronet on the front cover; red edges; rebacked in 1974. HM 126. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Decorated initials England 14th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Provenance
Possession notes: f. 136, birth notices of members of the Wombwell family, 1550-1621; back flyleaf i, s. XVI, "Your Loueing Harlow of Rochester" and "Edward Harlowe"; the same person added on back flyleaf iii, "By your Loueing and assured Edward harlowe Anno domini 1576"; also on back flyleaf i, s. XVI, "Thomas Anderson" and "Thomas Bannester"; back flyleaf ii, s. XVI, "Allaxander Gatton Genttellman dede borro this bok of Mr. John Cellsonne alldermane of the Sette of Rochester 1573." Pasted to the front flyleaf i verso, a note on the text of HM 126, signed "H.P." and dated from Stockwell, 1 December 1816. Belonged to the Earls of Essex; Essex bookplate dated 1701, as reported by De Ricci, no longer present; sale of Algernon Capell (1884-1966), 8th Earl of Essex by Hodgson, 30 November 1922, lot 1; Frank Marcham Cat. 44 (1924) n. 56 with plates of ff. 1 and 12v. (CSmH)
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