Policronicon / Higden Ranulf.

Author
Higden, Ranulf, -1364 [Browse]
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Format
Manuscript
Language
English
Published/​Created
[London, England], [publisher not identified], [between 1450 and 1475]
Description
iii, 225, ii : parchment ; 460 x 310 mm

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Special Collections - Manuscripts Taylor MS. 6e South wall 19, Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Notes
    • Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon in the Middle English translation by John Trevisa.
    • Script: Bastard Secretary. The hand is that of the Hooked-G Scribe, named after the most distinctive script feature of a scribe (or scribes) active in London in the third quarter of the 15th century.
    • Decoration: Books open with a 6- to 9-line initial in gold, light and dark blue, green, pink, and magenta with vinet borders (fols. 9r, 43v, 67r, 104v, 162v, 185r); the opening of book 5, originally between fols. 131-132, has been lost.
    Binding note
    England, 19th century. Brown calf over cushioned wooden boards (12 mm thick). Original pastedowns (or flyleaves) were retained after rebinding, in which marbled endpapers were added.
    Language note
    Text in Middle English.
    Provenance
    Taylor Ms. 6 was written in London by the Hooked-G Scribe, but the manuscript's early provenance is unknown. The manuscript was offered by London bookseller William H. Robinson in "Rare Books and Manuscripts, Catalogue 83" (London: W. H. Robinson, Ltd., 1953). Before 1973, the antiquarian bookseller Laurence C. Witten (1926-1995), of New Haven, Connecticut, sold the manuscript to Robert H. Taylor (1908-1985), of Princeton, New Jersey, Class of 1930. His bequest to the Princeton University Library, 1985.
    Source acquisition
    Gift of Robert H. Taylor.
    References
    Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 415-417.
    Cite as
    Taylor MS. 6, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    1392644458
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