<TEI.2>
<teiHeader type="text" date.created="feb1999" date.updated="aug2000" creator="skg">
<fileDesc>
<titleStmt>
<title>The Middle English prose Brut: A machine-readable transcription of Bancroft MS UCB 152
</title>
<respStmt><resp>Transcribed from manuscript, marked up, and mildly edited by
</resp>
<name>Sharon K. Goetz
</name>
</respStmt>
</titleStmt>
<editionStmt>
<edition n="0.9b">Preliminary version: main text complete and corrected, marginalia complete but inconsistently identified
</edition>
</editionStmt>
<extent>1.2 Mb
</extent>
<publicationStmt>
<authority>Digital Scriptorium
</authority>
<availability status="unknown"><p>Contact Digital Scriptorium for more information.
</p></availability>
</publicationStmt>
<notesStmt>
<note>Bancroft MS UCB 152 is described briefly on p. 115,
<bibl><author>Lister M. Matheson
</author>
<title>The Prose Brut: The development of a Middle English chronicle
</title>
<pubPlace>Tempe, AZ
</pubPlace>
<publisher>Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies
</publisher>
<date>1998
</date>
</bibl></note>
</notesStmt>
<sourceDesc>
<bibl><msIdentifier>
<region>California
</region>
<settlement>Berkeley
</settlement><institution>University of California
</institution>
<repository>The Bancroft Library
</repository>
<idno>fBANC MS UCB 152
</idno></msIdentifier>:
<title>Brut chronicle
</title></bibl>
</sourceDesc>
</fileDesc>
<encodingDesc>
<projectDesc><p>The transcription began as an undergraduate independent study project in Aug., 1996, and was later marked up for Digital Scriptorium.
</p>
</projectDesc>
<samplingDecl><p>Included are not only the manuscript's main text but also marginalia added by later hands and, where possible, indications of color.
</p></samplingDecl>
<editorialDecl>
<correction status="high" method="tags">
<p>Wherever the text deviates from its standard usage or
orthography--e.g., by running words together that it usually separates with a space--the corr element and sic attribute record editorial opinion. There are no silent emendations, though whether a gap between two letters constitutes a formal space (for example) requires a subjective decision.
</p>
<p>For corrections indicated in the manuscript, both the original reading and its emendation have been recorded where possible; the rend attribute signals whether the
letter has been struck through (implicit default), whether dots appear beneath a letter ("dot"), whether both types of mark appear ("dotline"), or whether a letter has been both super- and subpuncted ("2dot"). The add element tags both corrections placed supralineally (type="sl") and on the line (default). Where two hatch marks indicate transposition of words, ,, appears in the transcription.
</p>
</correction>
<hyphenation eol="all">
<p>The lb milestone preserves the manuscript's lineation, and "-" appears in the transcription where the manuscript's end-of-line hairlines are visible.
</p>
</hyphenation>
<normalization method="tags">
<p> Multiple forms of some letters and abnormal capitalizations are represented as well as ASCII characters, standard entities, and the hi element can manage them: qþ (ligatured glyph for "quoth"), ħ and ł (crossed h and l), -- (the two virgules before a paraph), ; (punctus elevatus), & (et-sign), - (analogous hairline), .. (punctus with attached wavy line). A grave accent follows s and t when they appear with an attached hairline in the manuscript. Note that though the letter "x" appears as "x" and "*" in the transcription, the manuscript bears three forms; "x" serves both for the form found regularly throughout and for the secretary form found occasionally in the latter three-fifths of the text.
</p>
</normalization>
<segmentation>
<p>The pb milestone marks folio rectos and versos; since the text is single-column, cb is unnecessary. The top-level division, "cap", contains a complete chapter (capitulum). By default, "cap" divs thus contain a head element (where extant) and a second-level div, which contains the chapter's main text. Second-level divs are marked one of {initb, initg, initbu, initgu}, where "init" stands for "initial," "b" for a blue initial letter, "g" for a gold one, and "u" for two-line initials that occupy a line above their accompanying text. (Most two-line initials begin on the same line as their accompanying text and extend one line below; this has been considered default behavior.) Divs whose heads or ends have been lost due to missing leaves are marked "mid". If part of a heading appears on a separate line, the hi element tags it instead of head. Lastly, the ubiquitous p element contains text within init divs; a p section ends when a div does or, within it, before a red or blue paraph mark (¶).
</p>
<p>At the word level, two main types of abbreviations have been noticed and treated differently. Sets of letters such as "Ierłm" and "iħu" mark their letter-omission by crossing l and h, respectively but are not accompanied by a glyph that clearly indicates which letters should be supplied in an expansion. They have been tagged with the abbr element and expan attribute. By contrast, the much more common use of short lines or superscript glyphs to mark where a nasal (n or m) or the letters "ri" ought to be inserted, for example, has been represented using the expan element and type attribute. Individual entities were not created for each abbreviation type because such a thought did not occur initially to the editor and because it seems that the manuscript's scribe treated "iħu" differently from "anon" with a line over the second n (sc. "anone"): the former constitutes a consistently used single glyph, but the latter appears alongside unabbreviated "anone". Also, even more inconsistently, towards the end of the text different
marks are used in different instances to indicate the same lack. Arguably, by this reasoning, the standard abbreviation for "with" (w
<expan type="ss">i
</expan><hi rend="sl">t
</hi><expan type="ss">h
</expan>) should be tagged
<abbr expan="with">w
<hi rend="sl">t
</hi></abbr>, but it appears the first way because one occasionally sees "with" spelled out in full.
</p>
<p>The attribute "ss" indicates letters supplied from a superscript-based abbreviation (as in "with"), but the other attributes denote explicit glyphs: sl (a supralinear letter that forms part of an abbreviation), bx ("er" from crossed b-ascender), er ("e" or "er" from mark resembling apostrophe), eo (otiose er--e.g., "ffadir" on 3v needs no final "e"), fm ("m", "n", or final "e" from a subpuncted overline that resembles a fermata), fo (otiose fm that appears frequently over the et-glyph in the latter part of the text), ol ("m", "n", or final "e" from an overline without dot), oo (otiose ol), ra ("ra" from the mark that indicates "ua" or "ra" in Latin texts, here used only for the latter letter-pair), ri ("ri" from, similarly, the Latin "ui"/"ri" mark), px ("er" from crossed p-descender), px2 ("ro" from curve-crossed p-descender), sr ("\ire" from the unique glyph). The expan element and supplied letters appear where logical even if the abbreviation mark appears a letter over. {eo,fo,oo}-type expan elements are always empty.
</p>
</segmentation>
<stdVals><p>All roman numerals have been supplied with num elements and arabic values.
</p></stdVals>
<interpretation>
<p>Because of restrictions on which elements it can contain, the w element was deemed too difficult to use consistently. It cannot, for example, enclose the expan element, which means that it cannot be used to tag abbreviated words that feature unusual spacing or that are split by a line break.
</p>
<p>Ownership of marginalia (hand attribute) remains to be sorted properly, since two of the hands presently defined separately may in fact be the same person (likely two of {C19, h, C17}. Also, with some research it should be possible to ascertain C19's identity (the Marquess of Bute, his librarian, and Bute's predecessor as MS-owner are the likely candidates).
</p>
</interpretation>
</editorialDecl>
</encodingDesc>
<profileDesc>
<creation>
<dateRange from="1450" to="1480" exact="none">third quarter of fifteenth century
</dateRange></creation>
<handList>
<hand id="C17"/>
<hand id="tl" scribe="Thomas London"/>
<hand id="mw" scribe="Mary Whinkop"/>
<hand id="tt" scribe="Timothy Thornborough"/>
<hand id="C19"/>
<hand id="h" scribe="header-writer"/>
<hand id="unk" scribe="unknown--placeholder"/>
</handList>
</profileDesc>
<revisionDesc>
<list>
<item><date>1998-07-10
</date><name>SKG
</name> transcription completed
</item>
<item><date>2000-03-17
</date><name>SKG
</name> correction of transcription (main text) completed
</item>
<item><date>2000-07-14
</date><name>SKG
</name> erasures/marginalia examined with UV light
</item>
<item><date>2000-08-14
</date><name>SKG
</name> teiHeader details added
</item>
</list></revisionDesc>
</teiHeader>
<text>
<body>
<div1 type="cap">
<div2 type="mid">
<p>
<pb n="1r"/>
<add place="left" hand="unk"><lb/>T.|TN
</add>
<add place="top" hand="tl">Teberton
<abbr expan="Suffolk">Suf
</abbr>
<abbr expan="Anno">Ano
</abbr>
<abbr expan="domini">doii
</abbr> 1627
<lb/>
Thomas London his Booke
</add></p>
<p>
<lb/>&longs;pou&longs;en Co&rround;yn
<expan type="er">e
</expan>
doughter that men callid Guentolen.
</p>
<p><hi rend="r">¶
</hi>And co&rround;yn in ha&longs;t
<lb/>&wanglicana;ente to him vnto newe Troýe and thus &longs;aide to lotrýn now certis qþ he ye
<lb/>rewarditħ me fułł euełł for ałł the peýnes that I &longs;uffrid and hadde maný
<lb/>tymes fo&rround; Brutt youre ffadir and therfo&rround;e now I wille auenge me vppon
<lb/>you and drowh his fauchon an hih
<expan type="er">e
</expan> and wold haue &longs;laýn lotrýn. But the Da
<lb/>mý&longs;ełł went betwene ham and made ham aco&rround;ded in this man
<expan type="er">er
</expan>e that lotrýn
<lb/>&longs;chulde &longs;pou&longs;e Guentolen that was` Co&rround;inus` &dloop;oughter and &longs;o lotrýn did and
<lb/>natheles` thougħ he ha&dloop; &longs;pou&longs;ed Co&rround;inus` &dloop;oughter p
<expan type="ri">ri
</expan>ueliche he come to
<lb/>E&longs;trilde and brought hir with childe and gate on hir a Doughter that me
<expan type="ol">n
</expan>
<lb/>callid Abraham
</p><p>--
<hi rend="b">¶
</hi>Hit bifełł anone aftir that Co&rround;ýn diede and anone as
<lb/>he was dede lotrýn fo&rround;&longs;oke Guentolen his wýfe an made E&longs;trilde Quene and
<lb/>Guentolen went thens` all in wrath
<expan type="er">e
</expan> in to Co&rround;newaile and &longs;ei&longs;ede ałł the
<lb/>lande in to hir
<expan type="er">e
</expan> hande fo&rround; as muche as &longs;cheo was hir
<expan type="er">e
</expan> ffadir
<expan type="er">e
</expan>s` eire and vnder-
<lb/>fenge feaut&yogh; and homages` of ałł the men of the lande and aftir a&longs;&longs;embled a
<lb/>grete ho&longs;t and a gretter pouer fo&rround; to ben vppon
<expan type="ol">e
</expan> lotrýn auenged that was hir
<expan type="er">e
</expan>
<lb/>lo&rround;de and to him came and yaf a &longs;trong bataiłł and ther was lotrýn &longs;laýn
<lb/>and his men di&longs;comfited the fýfte yere of his reigne.
</p><p>--
<hi rend="r">¶
</hi>Guentolen lete take
<lb/>E&longs;trilde and Abraham hire Doughter and lete býnde bothe handýs` and fete
<lb/>and ca&longs;t ham in to watir and &longs;otheý were drenched wherfo&rround;e that watir
<lb/>was eu
<expan type="er">er
</expan>mo&rround;e callid aftir Abraham aftir the name of the Dami&longs;ełł that
<lb/>was E&longs;trildes` Doughter and englý&longs;ch men callen that watir Seuerne
<lb/>and wal&longs;che men callen it habraham in to this daie
</p><p><hi rend="b">¶
</hi>And whenne this
<lb/>was done lete co&rround;oune hire quene of that lande and gou
<expan type="er">er
</expan>ned the lande fułł wel
<lb/>and wý&longs;elý vnto the týme that
Madhon hire &longs;one that lotrýn hadde begete
<lb/>vppon hire were of
<num value="20">xx.
</num> yere age that he myght
<del>bigýnne
</del>be king &longs;o that
<lb/>the qvene regned
<num value="15">xv
</num> ýere and tho lete &longs;cheo
<del>went in to
</del>croune hire &longs;one and
<lb/>he regned and gou
<expan type="er">er
</expan>ned the lande wel and honourablý and &longs;cheo went in to
<lb/>Co&rround;newaiłł and there &longs;cheo dwellid ałł his lýves týme
</p>
</div2>
</div1>
<div1 type="cap">
<head>Of king Madhan
<lb/>how he regned in pees` ałł his lýfe and of Menprýs` and of Manlýn his`
<lb/>&longs;ones` and how menprýs` folowýs` Manlýn his brother and how wolfes`
<del rend="dot">d.
</del>
<lb/>drow him ałł to peces` Ca
<expan type="ss">pitulu
</expan><hi rend="sl">m
</hi>.
<num value="6">vj
<hi rend="sl">m
</hi>.
</num></head>
<div2 type="init"><p>
<lb/><hi rend="initb">W
</hi>henne Madhan had regned
<num value="30">xxx.
</num> yere he diede and lieth at new Troye
<lb/>and hadde
<num value="2">ij.
</num> &longs;ones` that one men callid menprýs` and that oþer
<lb/>Manlyn and the&longs;e
<num value="2">ij.
</num> brethren aftir hir fadres` dethe &longs;trýuen fa&longs;t fo&rround; the
<lb/>lande and Menprýs` fo&rround; enche&longs;on that he was elde&longs;t he wolde haue hadde
<lb/>ałł that lande and Manlýn wold not &longs;uffre him &longs;o that theý token a
<add place="bottom" hand="C19">MSS -B
</add>
<pb n="1v"/>
<lb/>daie of loue and of aco&rround;de.. And at this daie Menprys` lete quelle his broþ
<expan type="er">er
</expan>
<lb/>thorough tre&longs;on and him &longs;elfe aftirwarde hilde the lande and anon
<expan type="fm">e
</expan> lett co&rround;oune
<lb/>him king and regned and aftirwarde he bicome &longs;o luþ
<expan type="er">er
</expan> aman that he de&longs;troý-
<lb/>ede in a while ałł the men of his contre and lande. And at the la&longs;t he bi-
<lb/>come &longs;o wecked aman and &longs;o lecherous` that he fo&rround;&longs;oke his owne wýfe and v-
<lb/>&longs;id the &longs;ýnne of Sodomýe wherfo&rround;e almýghtý god was wrotħ and vppon
<lb/>him toke veniau
<expan type="fm">n
</expan>ce
</p><p>--
<hi rend="b">¶
</hi>ffo&rround; vppon a daie as he wente in a woode in hunty
<expan type="fm">n
</expan>ge
<lb/>he lo&longs;t his folke and went allone vp and down crýýnge aftir his men and
<lb/>there come wolues and ałł to drough him in to peces` and tho he had regned
<lb/><num value="24">xxiiij.
</num> ýere and whenne his peple wi&longs;t that he was dede theý made ioýe ýnouħ
<lb/>and anone made Ebrac his &longs;one king and he regned w
<expan type="ss">i
</expan><hi rend="sl">t
</hi><expan type="ss">h
</expan> muchil honour
<expan type="er">e
</expan>..
</p>
</div2>
</div1>
<div1 type="cap">
<head><lb/>Of king Ebrac how he conquerede ffraunce and bigate
<num value="20">xx
</num> &longs;ones and
<num value="23">xxiij
</num>
<lb/>Doughtres` Ca
<expan type="ss">pitulu
</expan><hi rend="sl">m
</hi>.
<num value="7">vij
<hi rend="sl">m
</hi>..
</num></head>
<div2 type="init"><p>
<lb/><hi rend="initg">T
</hi>His` Ebrak regnede &longs;ixtý ýere and a &longs;trong man was` and mýghtý
<lb/>and this Ebrak thorugh his mýght and helpe of Bruton
<expan type="fm">e
</expan>s con
<lb/>querede ałł ffraunce and wa
<expan type="fm">n
</expan>ne ther &longs;o mochel
<del rend="dot">good
</del>gold and &longs;ýluer that
<lb/>wha
<expan type="fm">n
</expan>ne he come aýen in to this lande he made a noble citee and aftir his na-
<lb/>me lete calle it Ebrak that now is callid eu
<expan type="er">er
</expan>ywyk and this Ebrak made the
<lb/>Ca&longs;tełł of maidens` that now is clepide Edingburgh
<expan type="eo"></expan>.
</p>
</div2></div1>
<pb n="3v"/>
<div1>
<head>How Reýnold that was Conedages &longs;one regnede.
<lb/>after his fadir and in his týme it reyned blood i
<expan type="ol">n
</expan> tokeni
<expan type="fm">n
</expan>g of g
<expan type="ss">r
</expan><hi rend="sl">e
</hi>t deth
<num value="3">iij
</num> daies`
</head>
<div2 type="up"><p>
<lb/><add rend="head" place="left">ca
<expan type="ss">pitulu
</expan><hi rend="sl">m
</hi> <num value="15">xv
<hi rend="sl">m
</hi>.
</num></add><hi rend="upg">A
</hi>nd aftir this Conage regnede Reýnolde his &longs;one awý&longs;e knýght and an
<fw type="cw">hardý and
</fw>
<pb n="4r"/>
<lb/>hardý and a curteýs` that wełł and nobelý gouernede the lande and wonder
<lb/>wełł made him biloued of ałł maner
<expan type="eo"></expan> of folk, and in his týme it raýnede bloode
<lb/>...
</p>
<pb n="6v"/>
<p>
<lb/>... whenne Armoger &longs;awe his Broþ
<expan type="er">er
</expan> dede he ca&longs;t a waýe his Ar
<lb/>mes and nome to him his Broþ
<expan type="er">er
</expan>s armes and come into the Bataile
<lb/>amonge the Bruton
<expan type="fm">e
</expan>s and badde hertelý for to figħt and fa&longs;te laý adoun
<expan type="fm">e
</expan>
<lb/>the Romaýnes and for the Armes thei hadde wente that hit hadde ben
<expan type="fm">e
</expan> þe
<lb/>king Ginder that er&longs;t was &longs;laýn and thei wi&longs;t nou&yogh;t and tho gon
<expan type="fm">e
</expan> the briton
<expan type="fm">e
</expan>s
<lb/>hertlýe fýght and quelde the Romaýns &longs;o at the la&longs;t the Emp
<expan type="px">er
</expan>our fo&rround;&longs;oke þe
<lb/>felde and
<sic corr="f">&longs;
</sic>leý as fa&longs;te as he mygħt in to the citee of wýnche&longs;tr
<expan type="er">e
</expan> And fals trai
<lb/>tour hamon that hadde quelde the king fa&longs;t anon
<expan type="ol">e
</expan> gan fo&rround;to flee w
<expan type="ss">e
</expan><hi rend="sl">t
</hi><expan type="ss">h
</expan>
ałł the
<lb/>ha&longs;t that he mýght. And ...
</p>
<pb n="56v"/>
<p>
<add place="top" hand="h">John.
</add>
<delSpan type="X" to="f56v18"/><lb/>cri&longs;tendome that ałł the bi&longs;&longs;hoppes bi&yogh;onde þe &longs;ee that thei don acur&longs;e ałł þo
<lb/>þat helpitħ ýou o&rround; ený coun&longs;eile &yogh;eue in ený maner nede that ýe haue for-
<lb/>to done in ený partie of the wo&rround;lde and a&longs;&longs;oile ałł ham that a&yogh;ens ýou me-
<lb/>ve ený werre.
</p><p><hi rend="r">¶
</hi>And we a&longs;&longs;oile al&longs;o ałł ham bi the aucto&rround;ite of þe pope
<lb/>and comaunde ham al&longs;o witħ ýou fo&rround; to werre as witħ ham þat is enemý
<lb/>vnto holý chirche
</p><p><hi rend="b">¶
</hi>Þo an&longs;werede þe king what mow ýe done me mo&rround;e.
<lb/></p><p><hi rend="r">¶
</hi>Tho an&longs;weride Pandolf we &longs;ein to ýou in verbo dei þat ýe ne none
<lb/>heire that ýe haue neuer after this daie maý be crounede.
</p><p><hi rend="b">¶
</hi>Þo &longs;aide þe
<lb/>king bi him that is almýghtý god and I hadde wi&longs;te of this þing er þat
<lb/>ýe come into mý lande þat ýe hadde me brou&yogh;t &longs;uche týdýnge I &longs;chulde
<lb/>haue made ýou ride ałł an hoole ýere.
</p><p><hi rend="r">¶
</hi>Tho an&longs;werede Pandolf fułł wełł
<lb/>wende wee att our
<expan type="er">e
</expan> fir&longs;t comýng that ýe wolde haue ben
<expan type="fm">e
</expan> obedient to god &
<expan type="fo"></expan>
<lb/>to holý chirche and haue fulfillede þe popes comaundement &
<expan type="fo"></expan> now wee
<lb/>haue &longs;chewede and p
<expan type="px2">ro
</expan>nouncede vnto ýou þe popes wille as we were chargede
<lb/>there witħ and as now ýe haue &longs;aide and if ýe hadde wi&longs;te the cau&longs;e of our
<expan type="er">e
</expan>
<lb/>comýng that ýe wolde haue made vs ride ałł an hool ýere and as wełł
<lb/>ýe mýgħt haue &longs;aide that ýe wolde haue take an hoole ýere of re&longs;pýte wiþ
<lb/>þe popes leue..
</p><p>--
<hi rend="b">¶
</hi>But fo&rround;to &longs;uffre what detħ ýe couþe o&rround;deýne wee
<anchor id="f56v18"/>
<lb/>&longs;chułł no&yogh;t &longs;pare fo&rround; to telle ýou hoolýche ałł the popes me&longs;&longs;age and
<lb/>his wille that wee were char
<del rend="dot">e
</del>gede witħ
</p>
</div2></div1>
</body>
</text>
</TEI.2>
