Instructions to his sonIdle, Peter, d. 1474?.enmManuscript, on parchment, of Peter Idley's Instructions to his son, an adaptation (ca. 1445-50) of Albertano of Brescia's treatises addressed to his own sons. The manuscript was produced in England at the end of the fifteenth century and is written in anglicana and secretary scriptIn Middle English and Latin.Idley's Liber Secundus, a separate poem, follows the Instructions on f. 31v.Fragments of late thirteenth-century graded calendar used as pastedowns.Numerous sixteenth-century ownership inscriptions of Thomas Dowse on flyleaves.Verses from William Warner, Erasmus, and Shakespeare copied on flyleaves in sixteenth-century hands.Binding: contemporary white leather over wooden boards; spine sewn on five double tawed leather thongs; remnants of clasp (three foliate metal pins) on upper cover.