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.
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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)
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. John Lydgate's Life of St. Margaret follows the Chaucer text.
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Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco., Bookplate: Chatsworth., Byname: Devonshire Chaucer., Decoration: full illuminated border on first page of text, including large portrait initial of author; other illuminated initials with decorated borders and elaborate penwork initials., From the collections of Sir Edmund Knyvett; John Walpole; Thomas Skarlet; Sir Henry Spelman; Hamon L'Estrange; George Mason; John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe; William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, and his descendants. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 39-42 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400., Devonshire, William Spencer Cavendish,--Duke of,--1790-1858--Bookplate., Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Life of St. Margaret., and Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?
Manuscript chronicle roll, on parchment, in two hands. The first three membranes contain a late thirteenth-century chronicle in Latin prose on the kings of England from Atheldred to Henry III. The last two membranes contain John Lydgate's Middle English Verses on the kings of England.
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Binding: modern case., Decoration: decorative frames around names of kings and families., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: two gothic bookhands.
Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of this anonymous verse chronicle. This version includes a brief chronicle in Latin prose.
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Binding: modern case., Decoration: numerous roundels containing crowns., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English, with a small addition in Latin., Layout: single column., and Script: English cursive bookhand.
Manuscript, on vellum, in two scribes' hands, of this collection of verse saints' lives.
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Binding: eighteenth-century full calf., Decoration: numerous initials in blue with red penwork., Ex libris Thomas Weld. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 42 and 39 lines, respectively., Script: English cursive bookhand (two scribes)., and Text is substantially complete, lacking two leaves at the beginning, one in the middle, and probably several at the end.
Manuscript roll, on vellum, in a single hand, containing Latin prayers from the Sarum breviary, followed by Middle English devotional lyrics.
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Binding: modern red morocco case., Decoration: initial large miniature of the Virgin Mary and child. Numerous burnished gold initials on red or blue grounds with foliate sprays; numerous internal initials in either burnished gold or red or blue penwork., Formerly owned by Harvey Frost. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., Script: gothic bookhand., and The Middle English lyrics appear in several other manuscripts, including the Vernon MS (Bodleian Library).
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the text of Chaucer's Canterbury tales; selections from the Confessio amantis of John Gower; and the anonymous poems Speculum misericordis, The adulterous Falmouth squire, Partenope of Blois, The vision of Tundale, and The gast of Guy.
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Binding: nineteenth-century full red morocco., Byname: Delamere Chaucer., Decoration: blue and red penwork initials., Ex libris Hugh Cholmondeley, Baron Delamere; Boies Penrose. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 39-44 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
Manuscript fragment, on vellum, in a single hand, of text from Book IV of Gower's Confessio Amantis.
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Byname: Stafford Gower (fragment), Decoration: initials in gold, red, blue and purple., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 36 lines (complete columns are of 46 lines), Script: formal bastard anglicana., and Taken from the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17) and used as binding waste.
Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco, gilt., Decoration: some initials, line fillers, underlining, in red ink., Ex libris Alfred Henry Huth; Sir Leicester Harmsworth; William and Christina Foyle. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 17 lines., Script: gothic bookhand., and Some errors in contemporary foliation.
Subject (Name):
Foyle, William A.--(William Alfred),--1885-1963--Bookplate., Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership., and Huth, Alfred Henry,--1850-1910--Bookplate.
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of the text of the B version of Piers Plowman.
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Autograph of Bolton? Wansell on last leaf., Binding: parchment over pasteboards., Formerly owned by Sion College (MS Arc. L.40 2/E). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Laid in: Dr. Thompsons and Mr. Bassets Letters to Mr. Dodwell concerning the Essay for Catholick Peace. Manuscript on paper, 8 l., circa 1709., Layout: single columns of roughly 40 lines., and Script: English secretary hand.
Subject (Name):
Langland, William,--1330?-1400? and Langland, William,--1330?-1400?--Piers Plowman--(B-text)