The Fall of princes.

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Title: The Fall of princes.
Creator: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Contributor: Houghton, Arthur Amory,--1906-1990--Bookplate.
Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?
Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?--Fall of princes.
Mostyn, Llewelyn Nevill Vaughan Lloyd-Mostyn,--Baron,--1856- 1929--Bookplate.
Published / Created: [ca. 1465-1475]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a complete version of this long narrative poem.
Description: Binding: early nineteenth-century vellum; leather spine labels, gilt.
Decoration: decorated borders at the beginnings of Books II-IX; numerous gold initials.
Ex libris Lords Mostyn of Gloddaeth; Arthur A. Houghton. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Layout: double columns of 35 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Extent: ii + 255 l. : parchment ; 340 x 230 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Format: text
Genre: Decorated initials
Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Houghton, Arthur Amory,--1906-1990--Bookplate.
Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?
Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?--Fall of princes.
Mostyn, Llewelyn Nevill Vaughan Lloyd-Mostyn,--Baron,--1856- 1929--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic): English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Narrative poetry, English (Middle)

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Citation: 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.
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. Takamiya MS 40.