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    • Uniform Title:Chronicles of England.
    • Title:Brut chronicle.
    • Published/Created:[England], [between 1400 and 1500]
    • Physical Description:222 l. : parchment ; 200 x 140 mm
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    • Notes:First leaf and end of text lacking.
      Layout: single columns with varying numbers of lines.
      Script: English bookhand.
      Decoration: blue initials with red penwork.
      Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards. Later leather title tags on spine, gilt.
      In Middle English.
      Ex libris Fairfax of Cameron. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
    • Access and use:This material is open for research.
    • Summary:Manuscript, on parchment, of the "extended version" of the Brut Chronicle.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • References:A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
    • Cite as:Brut Chronicle (Takamiya MS 12). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Chronicles of England.
      English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
      English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
      Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
      Fairfax of Cameron, Albert Fairfax, Baron, 1870-1939--Bookplate.
    • Genre/Form:Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.