BIB_ID
157777
Accession number
MA 717
Creator
Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520.
Display Date
ca. 1501-1510.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 28.6-29 cm
Notes
Formerly bound with the Library's copy of Caxton's Cordiale (PML 677), of which these manuscript pages were probably the original fly-leaves.
The composition of the poem dates to 1501, and this transcription is dated by Bühler to the first decade of the 16th century.--Cf. Bühler, p. 2.
The poem is written on pages 1, 3 and 4. Pages 2 and 5 consist of unrelated notes in Latin.
Watermark: Bearded unicorn, rampant. Watermark, beta radiograph. Unicorn with beard. 157777wm_MA_717_WM_beta.jpg
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With the statement "A balad mayde at London when my lorde Prince Arthur was wed, by a Skotte hauyng muche money of dyurse lordes for his Indytyng" preceding the text of the poem. In Ms. Vitellius A.XVI, this poem is quoted (on f. 200) with a statement to the effect that it was presented at a dinner given by the Lord Mayor in Christmas Week, 1501.--Cf. Bühler, p. 1.
The composition of the poem dates to 1501, and this transcription is dated by Bühler to the first decade of the 16th century.--Cf. Bühler, p. 2.
The poem is written on pages 1, 3 and 4. Pages 2 and 5 consist of unrelated notes in Latin.
Watermark: Bearded unicorn, rampant. Watermark, beta radiograph. Unicorn with beard. 157777wm_MA_717_WM_beta.jpg
See Collection File for additional information.
With the statement "A balad mayde at London when my lorde Prince Arthur was wed, by a Skotte hauyng muche money of dyurse lordes for his Indytyng" preceding the text of the poem. In Ms. Vitellius A.XVI, this poem is quoted (on f. 200) with a statement to the effect that it was presented at a dinner given by the Lord Mayor in Christmas Week, 1501.--Cf. Bühler, p. 1.
Provenance
Formerly bound with a copy of Caxton's Cordiale (PML 677), which was in the library of the Earl of Ashburnham and has the bookplate of Richard Bennett; purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
7 verses of 8 lines each, praising the city of London. See Bühler, p. 8-9 for transcription.
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