- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 94
- Image Count:
- 449
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum and paper, in several hands, containing a collection of texts in Latin and Middle English. Almost two-thirds of the volume consists of a collection of Latin sermons, followed by a Latin verse text, Stimulus compassionis. Middle English texts include The three kings of Cologne, a devotional work in prose; Prester John, a travel narrative; John Lydgate's Middle English poem Stans puer ad mensam; and the Middle English verses The myrour of mankind and The treatise of a gallant.
- Description:
- Binding: early eighteenth-century sheep over pasteboards. Nineteenth-century green morocco case with spine title: Ancient English Poetry M. S., Bookseller's description tipped in at front of volume., Decoration: numerous initials in blue with red penwork., Formerly owned by Gregory Lewis Way; William Waldorf Astor. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 26-31 lines., Most of the volume is parchment; 15 leaves toward the end of the volume are paper., Script: several English cursive bookhands., and Spine title in gilt: M. S. Vellum.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451? and Prester John--(Legendary character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Verse and prose in Latin and Middle English.
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