(Q43635)
Statements
Piers Plowman
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Langland, William, 1330?-1400
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Dankastre, Thomas
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Heber, Richard, 1773-1833
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Decorated initials--England--15th century
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Decorated initials--England--14th century
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between 1390 and 1410
14. century
15. century
1390Gregorian
1410Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 89 : parchment ; 185 x 286 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Anglicana formata.
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Layout: 1-108 118(+9). Catchwords, some in brown ink frames; quire and leaf signatures visible in first quire only, as letter and roman numeral. 43 lines of verse ruled in ink, with top and bottom 2 lines (up to f. 32v), then top and bottom 3 lines full across. Pricking occassionally visible in outer margin.
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Other Decoration: Three-line initials in blue with red flourishing; spaces reserved for the initials from the eighth quire on. 1-line blue initials with red flourishing begin some of the Latin quotations and the rubrics up to f. 17. Elongated ascenders in the top line daubed with red through the fifth quire. The first letter of each line daubed with red through f. 36, and intermittently...
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The copyist, Thomas Dankastre, signed his name in the colophon on f. 89v. Also on f. 89v, marginalia in several later hands: s. XV, "Omnibus est notum quod multum diligo potum Secundum y W"; s. XV, "Finito libro reddatur gloria cristo Amen"; s. XVI ineunte, "Johannes Meade me possedet pretii iii s iii d." In the upper margin of f. 1, a sixteenth or seventeenth century hand has written: "Homo...
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Assigned Date: s. XIV/XV.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/15/2012.
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"John Meade" owned the book in the early sixteenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, it belonged to Sir Robert Smyth, Baronet, of Isfield, Sussex whose armorial bookplate is on the front pastedown (Rietstap, vol. 5, pl. 319); his sale, Sotheby's, 10 April 1809, lot 893 to Richard Heber (1773-1833). Heber's price annotations are written on Smyth's bookplate; notes regarding the...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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