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Dives and Pauper, etc
Title
Dives and Pauper, etc.
Created
Portugal (?), [ca. 1465]
Physical Description
ff. i + iii + 199 + i + i : paper ; 298 x 209 (214 x 146) mm.
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Notes
Watermarks: unidentified flower similar in design to Briquet Fleur 6654-56.
Script: Text written in sprawling English secretary by two scribes, who added notes to mark sections in the margins.
Several crude initials and line-fillers in red and brown. References to and quotations from the Bible, as well as running headings and marginalia, underlined in red.
Water stains on many folios at front and back, not affecting text.
Binding: Seventeenth century. Red spattered edges. Brown spattered calf, blind-tooled.
In Middle English.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Sold by Maggs to Stonehill's, from whom it was acquired in 1954 for the Albert H. Childs Memorial Collection.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of Dives and Pauper.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 43, no. 228. "Eight Medieval Manuscripts," Gazette 29 (1955) pp. 108, 112.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 228.
Dives and Pauper, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Dives and Pauper, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Portugal - 15th century.
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