Four manuscript fragments from John Lydgate's Fall of Princes on vellum.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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[England] : [Producer not identified], [1400-1450]
- Note
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Description based in part on a long description made by specialist Dionysios Hatzopoulos in the late 1980s and early 1990s in collaboration with McGill librarian Richard Virr.
Layout: 1. 370 x 332 mm, writing surface 312 x 210 mm; 2. 385x325 mm, writing surface 310x220 mm.; 3. 235x330 mm, surface should be 380x330 mm, writing surface 202x215 mm; 4. 375x312 mm, writing surface: 320 x 220 mm. Two columns, 42 lines (6 stanzas).
Four disjunct leaves from the same early 15th century manuscript on vellum. Written in English cursive, in light brown ink with red rubrics. Decorated with alternating blue and gold decorated initials at the beginning of each stanza, and several miniatures. Leaves recently numbered. Leaves damaged.
Title devised by cataloguer.
Manuscript fragment on vellum.
- Physical Description
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4 leaves :
vellum, miniatures ;
385 x 325 mm (310 x 220 mm) or smaller.
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