Details

Subject(s)

• Christian poetry, English (Middle) [Browse]
• Love poetry, English (Middle) [Browse]
• Christian ethics—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Courtly love—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Taylor MS. 5. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—England—15th century [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Anglicana formata by three scribes.
• Decoration: Prologue opens on fol. 1r with a framed 13-line column initial of Nebuchadnezzar's Dream of precious metals (Prologue, verses 602-634) with a now-illegible banderole to the right. An old man in blue seated on a canopied pedestal on the right. Opening initial of the prologue historiated with a young man in blue pointing to bookshelves.

Binding note

England, 18th century. Parchment over pasteboard, with gold tooling; sewn on 5 cords; endbands with secondary sewing in blue and tan; spine gilt with 5 stamps.

Language note

Text in Middle English.

Provenance

Taylor Ms. 5 was probably written in London. Early provenance is unknown. The Philadelphia antiquarian bookseller A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952) purchased the manuscript in November 1923 from Phillipps' grandson, Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick (1856-1938). After Rosenbach's death, the manuscript was acquired by the bookseller John F. Fleming, who had worked for Rosenbach. In 1956, Fleming sold it to Robert H. Taylor (1908-1985), Class of 1930. Taylor's bookplate is on the front pastedown. 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 411-415.

Cite as

Taylor MS. 5, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

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