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Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 169–307
- Record Id:
- 041-001102562
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x0001da
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063318155.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 169–307
- Title:
- Henry Knighton, Chronicon
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 169r-307r: Henry Knighton (d. 1396), Chronicon (Chronicle), beginning: 'Hoc opusculum post preclaros retroactorum eventuum in regno Anglie et eius confinibus luculentos cronografos'.
[f. 307v is blank].
Decoration:
1 large pen-flourished initial H in blue ornamented with red (f. 169r); 1 large pen-flourished initial A in blue, ornamented with red (f. 267r); small initials in blue, ornamented with red; the spaces for initials occasionally left unfilled (ff. 295r, 297r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102560
041-001102562 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Claudius E III : Ralph of Diceto, Abbreviationes Chronicorum, Ymagines Historiarum; Winchester Chronicle; Henry Knighton, Chronicon;…
Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 169–307 : Henry Knighton, Chronicon - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0598]/040-001102560[0002]/041-001102562
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton MS Claudius E III
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 415 x 295 mm (text space: 285-290 x 170-180 mm, 2 columns).
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
William West (b. c. 1548, d. 1598), lawyer: inscribed with his name: ‘W. West’, ‘Willelmus West’, ‘William West’ (f. 210r); ‘Willielmus West’ (f. 283r); ‘Wilielmus West’ (f. 307v).
Roger Walford, unidentified ? 16th- or 17th-century owner: inscribed with his name: ‘Rogerus Walford’, in a late 16th- or early 17th-century script (f. 307v).
Thomas Schobber, unidentified ? 16th- or 17th-century owner: inscribed with his name: ‘Thomas Schobberus me iuris tenet’, in a late 16th- or early 17th-century script (f. 307v).
Anthony Schobber, unidentified ? 16th- or 17th-century owner: inscribed with his name: ‘Anths: Schobber huius liber verus possessor’, in a late 16th- or early 17th-century script (f. 307v).
George Will, unidentified ? 16th- or 17th-century owner: inscribed with his name: ‘Geor: Will’, in a late 16th- or early 17th-century script (f. 307v).
John Abington, unidentified ? 16th- or 17th-century owner: inscribed with his name: ‘Iohannes Abington’, in a late 16th- or early 17th-century script (f. 307v).
Unidentified ?16th- or 17th-century owner: his or her mark of ownership ‘possidet huius liber’, in a late 16th- or early 17th-century script (f. 307v).
? Sir John Hunt (d. c. 1615): (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 128).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Knighton, Henry, d 1396,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061196503,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19775353 - Subjects:
- History
- Places:
- England