Chronicle Roll, manuscript in Middle Scots, on vellum

a roll, 3310mm. by 270mm., entitled 'A Brefe Cronnacle frome brute to kyng henry the sixte of yngland and scotland' on 6 membranes, the right hand with a column of text in secretarial hand with numerous calligraphic initials, the left with the trees of descent of the early British/Scottish and English kings, with a large pen-drawn coat of royal arms (132mm. high) between two portcullis, supported by a hound and a dragon, laid down on linen, beginning torn with loss to first few chapters, (King Brut to Dunwald) and edges of initial membranes damaged, else good condition

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The text here is that published in 1872 by T. Wright from another similar roll (Feudal Manuals of English History, item vi, pp. 154-69). It traces Scottish history from the mythical times of Brut, Dunwald and Arthur through to the attendance of James Stewart, king of the Scots on Henry V. As Wright notes, Sir Frederick Madden believed the original to have been made for Henry VII, and the arms at the base of this copy would appear to confirm this.