Accession number:
MS M.856
Title:
Polycraticus sive De nugis curialium
Created:
Brussels, Belgium, ca. 1465.
Binding:
18th-century tan calf, in oval gilt stamp on covers the obliterated arms of the Abbey du Parc (three lily of the valley sprays and the inscription Parchensis Bibliothecae).
Credit:
Gift of Henry Fletcher, 1952.
Description:
212 leaves (1 column, 39-40 lines), bound : paper ; 275 x 195 mm
Provenance:
Premonstratensian Abbey du Parc (shelf mark K IV on second flyleaf verso); Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9465); purchased by Henry Fletcher from E.P. Goldschmidt, Jan. 19, 1942; gift of Henry Fletcher in 1952.
Notes:
Ms. Polycraticus; written in Belgium, in the Abbey du Parc near Brussels, ca. 1465.
Written on polished paper, which has double key watermark (Briquet 3819) used at Liège in 1465.
Script:
cursive
Language:
Latin
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