Arthurian metrical romances ; Manor of Hale records.

Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • Middle English (1100-1500)
  • Latin
Published/​Created
[London, England] ; [between 1450 and 1500]
Description
1 volume (100 leaves) : parchment ; 275 x 190 mm

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Special Collections - Manuscripts Taylor MS. 9 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Notes
    • Script: Anglicana used for the three Middle English romances; script shows some influence of Secretary and Anglicana formata.
    • Decoration: Guide letters for two- or three-line initials, which were never executed.
    Binding note
    England, 15th century. Cushioned quarter-sawn oak boards (10-11 mm thick).
    Language note
    Text in Middle English and Latin.
    Provenance
    Taylor MS. 9 is a composite volume comprised of two sets of quires, both probably produced in what is now the English metropolitan county of Merseyside and bound together after 1465 for William Ireland (or Irland), lord of the Manor of Hale, near Manchester. The present manuscript is known historically as the "Ireland Blackburne manuscript." From 1945 to 1971, the manuscript was at the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, in Cologny, Switzerland. The New York antiquarian bookseller H. P. Kraus (1906-1987) purchased the manuscript in 1971 and sold it on 24 September 1973 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 420-424.
    Cite as
    Taylor MS. 9, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    Manor of Hale Records
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