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Notes on a translation of Robert Mannyng's Chronicles of England : autograph manuscript : place not specified, undated.

BIB_ID
398746
Accession number
MA 13527.1
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 26.3 x 20.7 cm
Notes
Identity of the writer unknown; forms part of a collection of "Browningiana" related to Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and their friends, family, and admirers.
Part of a collection of manuscripts relating to Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; chiefly autograph fragments from Robert Browning's papers and poems sent to them by their admirers. Select items in the collection have been cataloged individually (see MA 13527.1-27).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Early notes on Robert Mannyng's translation of Piers Langtoft's French Chronicles of England, with 97 lines copies from this translation and another 10 lines from "Praise of good women", by the same author, from his "The handling of sins"; with 27 lines identified as "From a book of Papa's called 'Illustrations of the History of Gt. Britain' by R. Thomson."