King Henry VI, Royal household bills.

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Middle English (1100-1500)
Published/​Created
[England] : [producer not identified], [between 1432 and 1433]
Description
6 sheets : parchment

Copies in the Library

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Special Collections - Manuscripts Taylor MS. 18 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Notes
    • Title from printed catalog.
    • Script: Secretary with mixed features (three forms of r; round s; two forms of e and a) for text. Anglicana for running titles.
    • Decoration: Non.
    Binding note
    Stored in a slipcase.
    Provenance
    Taylor MS. 18 is unknown early and intermediate provenance. The New York antiquarian bookseller H.P. Kraus sold the present 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, 1985.
    References
    Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 443-444.
    Cite as
    Taylor MS. 18, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
    Other title(s)
    Royal household bills
    OCLC
    1100174011
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