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Statements
For the Wormes
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This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering; he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892; they had five children.
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by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated).
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s. XV(med); 1440-1460
15. century
1440Gregorian
1460Gregorian
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Script, f. 1r; verso blank: Secretary.
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Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346.
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Explicit, f. 1r; verso blank: Take pollipodye id est oke ferne & hak hit smale & menge hit with whete malt grounden and gif hit þe horsse to ete and within ij houres he shall be hole and ete his mete.
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This description could not have been written without the expertise and kind help of Prof. Paul Acker, who has worked on this fragment for his volume of the Index of Middle English Prose.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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