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Verse and prose in Latin and Middle English
Title
[Verse and prose in Latin and Middle English].
Production
[England], [ca. 1450-1475]
Physical Description
213 l. : parchment and paper ; 198 x 136 mm
Language
Latin; English, Middle (1100-1500)
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Most of the volume is parchment; 15 leaves toward the end of the volume are paper.
Bookseller's description tipped in at front of volume.
Spine title in gilt: M. S. Vellum.
Layout: single columns of 26-31 lines.
Script: several English cursive bookhands (Anglicana and secretary).
Decoration: numerous initials in blue with red penwork.
Binding: early eighteenth-century sheep over pasteboards. Nineteenth-century green morocco case with spine title: Ancient English Poetry M. S.
In Latin and Middle English.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Gregory Lewis Way. Formerly owned by William Waldorf Astor. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on vellum and paper, in several hands, containing a collection of texts in Latin and Middle English. Almost two-thirds of the volume consists of an untitled collection of Latin sermons, followed by a Latin verse text, Stimulus compassionis. Middle English texts include The three kings of Cologne, a devotional work in prose; Prester John, a travel narrative; John Lydgate's Middle English poem Stans puer ad mensam; and the Middle English verses The myrour of mankind and The treatise of a gallant.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 13, 2013
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.
Verse and Prose in Latin and Middle English (Takamiya MS 94). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Verse and Prose in Latin and Middle English (Takamiya MS 94). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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