Details

Subject(s)

• World history—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Great Britain—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Translator

• Trevisa, John, -1402 [Browse]

Donor

• Taylor, Robert H., 1908-1985 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Taylor MS. 6. [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—England—15th century [Browse]

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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