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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18498760, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1849876, mssHM 144)
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Prose and poetry (DS9614)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18498760, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1849876, mssHM 144)

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    Prose and poetry
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    Manuscript waste (Binding)
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    Manuscripts (documents)--England--15th century
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    English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500
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    English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500
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    Didactic poetry, English (Middle)
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    In Middle English and Latin
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    late 15th/early 16th century
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    Extent: 152 leaves : paper ; 290 x 200 (185-197 x 130-146) mm
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    Title from printed catalog.
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    Paper, at least 9 watermarks, ff. iv + 152; 110(art. 1) 212(-11, 12; art. 2) 316 48(through f. 44) 516 66(through f. 66) 714(art. 11) 816 918(-4 after f. 99; through f. 113) 1010 1112 1212(-10 after f. 144 without loss of text) 1310(-5, 7, 8, 10). Quire and leaf signatures: quire 1, none; quire 2, in roman numerals; quires 3-5 in a not infrequent system of roman numerals only for the first...
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    Written in England at the turn of the fifteenth century in a large, clumsy hybrida script, by the same person who copied Oxford, Trinity College MS 29; Latin passages in a more formal script. The excised and the blank leaves dividing texts, and the correspondence between quire structure and texts suggest that the book may have been produced in as many as eight fascicles. Watermarks and...
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    Plain 3- to 1-line red initials; spaces reserved on ff. 120v, 125v, 129 (Books 2-4 of Magnus Cato); paragraph marks, deletions and underlining in red. Running headlines in ink of the text across the opening.
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    An early possibly the first owner (the copyist himself?) had access to a manuscript which had belonged to the Augustinian monastery in Bisham Montague, Berkshire, and which was used for reinforcement in the binding. Other 16th century owners wrote their names in the book: f. ii, among many pentrials, "John thyll [second word erased]. John tylly owth for ii bowsylles of wy[cropped] the pres...
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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