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Privite of privyteis
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Uniform Title
Secretum secretorum.
Title
Privite of privyteis.
Created
[England], [ca. 1461-1490]
Physical Description
118 l. : parchment ; 212 x153 mm
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Notes
Several verses and aphorisms in a sixteenth?-century cursive hand on blank leaves and in margins.
Layout: single columns of 21-23 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: numerous initials in gold or in blue with contrasting penwork.
Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; remains of clasps.
In Middle English and Latin.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Richard Elde. Formerly owned by John Harcourt. Formerly owned by A. A. Judo?. Johannes de Caritate, Privite of Privyteis. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
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Summary
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of this unique English prose version of the twelfth-century Latin treatise Secretum secretorum, itself a translation of the Kitab sirr al-asrar. In addition to this text, the volume also includes a short astrological text in Middle English, headed "secreta." The opening leaf is not present; the introduction by the translator praises Sir Miles Stapleton as his patron.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
November 05, 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.
Johannes de Caritate, Privite of Privyteis (Takamiya MS 38). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Johannes de Caritate, Privite of Privyteis (Takamiya MS 38). 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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