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Polychronicon

Title
Polychronicon.
Created
England, [ca. 1475-1500]
Physical Description
97 l. : parchment ; 270 x 194 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Numerous marginal annotations in several contemporary and later hands. Marginal note on p. 136 refers to the death of Oliver Cromwell ("tyranno").
Bound with: Martinus Polonus, Margarita decreti seu tabula martiniana decreti (Strasburg, 1493); William Lyndwood, Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis anglicane, (Paris, 1504).
Watermark: Briquet 11159?
Layout: single columns of approximately 35 lines.
Script: English cursive bookhand.
Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 60 large initials in red with penwork in brown ink.
Binding: late seventeenth-century full calf; blind-ruled, with crown stamp in the corners. The binder has been identified as a London binder who also worked for Samuel Pepys. Metal chain attached from the upper cover, fourteen links, a ring on either end, and a middle swivel.
In Latin.
Provenance
Ex libris Alan G. Thomas. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of portions of the text of Higden's Polychronicon. mostly related to the history of England from BRutus to Richard II. Preceded by a table of contents.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
September 24, 2014
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.
Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (Takamiya MS 114). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (Takamiya MS 114). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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