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Flores historiarum
Creator
Title
Flores historiarum.
Created
England, [ca. 1350]
Physical Description
ff. iii + 1 + 87 + i + iii : parchment ; 384 x 260 (289 x 196) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Written in bold gothic textura; x is crossed.
Rubrics, often accompanied by notes to rubricator in well formed current Anglicana script. Decorative initials not filled in. Numerous pen trials and crude drawings in margins (e.g., ff. 28r, 46v, 47r, 63r).
Binding: Nineteenth century. Blind-tooled brown calf with a gold-tooled title. Parchment flyleaves (formerly pastedowns) from a Missal (England, 15th century) much rubbed and worn, and with offset impression from original binding of corner tongues and four attachments. Gothic textura. Fine blue initials with intricate herringbone penwork designs in red. Headings in red; paragraph marks in blue.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 15732). Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1968 by Edwin J. Beinecke for the Beinecke Library.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of Matthew of Westminster, Flores historiarum. Written presumably at the Cluniac priory of St. Saviour, Bermondsey, Surrey.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
May 04, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 426.
Matthew Paris, Flores Historiarum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Matthew Paris, Flores Historiarum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 14th century.
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