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The Fall of princes
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Title
The Fall of princes.
Created
[England], [ca. 1465-1475]
Physical Description
255 l. : parchment ; 340 x 230 mm
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Notes
Layout: double columns of 35 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: decorated borders at the beginnings of Books II-IX; numerous gold initials.
Binding: early nineteenth-century vellum; leather spine labels, gilt.
In Middle English.
Provenance
Ex libris Lord Mostyn of Gloddaeth. Ex libris Arthur A. Houghton. 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, in a single hand, of a complete version of this long narrative poem.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
October 25, 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.
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (Takamiya MS 40). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (Takamiya MS 40). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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