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Chronicle (MS M.930).

Accession number
MS M.930
Object title
Chronicle (MS M.930).
Display Date
ca. 1330.
Created
Northern England, ca. 1330.
Binding
Middle Hill boards with a defective spine.
Credit line
Purchase; Trust Fund of Lathrop Colgate Harper; 1966.
Description
142 leaves (1 column, 37 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 276 x 167 mm
Provenance
Oulton? family, 15th century; Savile family, to Feb. 6, 1861; Sir Thomas Phillipps (Ms. 25422).
Notes
Ms. chronicle in Anglo-Norman French verse; written and illuminated in northern England, ca. 1330.
Written by a single scribe in brown ink.
Decoration: 6 full-page genealogical tables with a total of 9 bust-length portraits; 1 illuminated initial; numerous penwork initials to indicate paragraphs.
Script
Charter script
Language
Anglo-Norman French
Classification