Chronicle

Accession number: 
MS M.930
Title: 
Chronicle
Created: 
Northern England, ca. 1330.
Binding: 
Middle Hill boards with a defective spine.
Credit: 
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: