Nicholas Trevet — 15th century, first quarter; England

Title

Nicholas Trevet — 15th century, first quarter; England

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 119

Place of origin

England

Date

15th century, first quarter

Language

Anglo-Norman

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 71 (foliated 1a, 1b, 2–70) + 1 (fol. 71, former pastedown) + i

Hands

Secretary with some anglicana forms, probably by one rather variable scribe.

Decoration

Spaces for initials left blank; spaces for rubrication left blank; space for geneaological diagram (?) left blank.

Binding

Seventeenth-century with armorial gilt decoration (see provenance)

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Provenance

Mr Harman, Katrin Harman, 16th century, fol. 1a recto: unidentified.

Quo quid antiquius eo melius G: Buggyn, fol. 1a recto: probably William Buggin (d. 1618) (see Quarto catalogue of Laudian Manuscripts, p. xiii).

Ley family (arms on the binding, as baronets): probably Sir James Ley (baronet 1619, d. 1629)

Henry Spelman (d. 1641) (signed, fols. 1ar, 66r)

Edward Umfreville (d. 1786, see ODNB) (note by him, pasted to upper board)

Francis Douce, 1757–1834: bookplate on upper board, and note by him

Title

The Chronicles of Nicholas Trivet from the Creation, with prologue, in French

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 119

Summary

This copy has gaps in the text and is unfinished, only extending to 'nomme Richard roi dengleterre le filz Henry': in A.D. 1189.

Date

written in the 15th cent. in England (?)

Language

French

Physical facet

On parchment

Physical extent

73 Leaves

Custodial history

The binding bears the arms of Ley as MS. Douce 104, but had been owned in the 16th cent. by 'mr. Harman Katren Harman' and 'G. Guggyñ': later by sir Henry Spelman and E. Umfreville who writes a note about it.