(Q43644)
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Somme le Roi
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Laurent, d'Orléans, active 1279
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Decorated initials--England--15th century
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Decorated initials--England--14th century
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Middle English translated from the Middle French
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between 1390 and 1410
14. century
15. century
1390Gregorian
1410Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 116 : parchment ; 189 x 268-271 mm
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Title supplied from printed catalog.
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Translation into English of Lorens D'Orléans' Somme des vices et vertus. This is a different translation than Dan Michel's earlier Ayenbrite of inwyt and also differs from Caxton's Royal book.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Anglicana formata.
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Layout: 1-148 154(4 now back pastedown). Catchwords in lower right margin; quire and leaf signatures in letters and arabic numerals. 42 long lines ruled in lead; some pricking visible in outer margins, particularly of quire 3.
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Span folios: ff. 1-116 (f. 116 now back pastedown)
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Other Decoration: Opening leaf, f. 1, large letter þ trailing down 12-13 lines, formed of shaded leaves on a stippled gold ground; stiff U-shaped gold and color border expanding into regularly positioned strapwork, and decorated with blue, orange, green and pink leaves and flowers, including barbed multifoils, daisy buds and carnation buds; across the upper border, closing off the U, is a...
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Contemporary repairs on portions of f. 17 (bearing the signature) and of f. 45 (where the border decorations continues from the leaf on to the repair). Corrector's mark on f. 66.
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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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Owners' notes in the book include: f. 113v, "Md. de i libr. rem. in cus. Egidie Tanner [?] de fabul. cantuar. in festo sancti Gregorii pape Anno domini M CCCC[?] lxii"; f. 116, now the pastedown, s. XV/XVI, "I. Tonk" (or "Touk"?); f. i verso, s. XVII, "Robertus Paynell de Grayes Inne Norfolciensis verus est dominus huius libri excellentissimi ultra omne pretium"; also on f. i verso, "Dec. 5th...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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