Accession number:
MS M.775
Title:
Ordonances of Chivalry
Created:
England, probably London, third and fourth quarters of the 15th century.
Binding:
English stamped calf, gilt, ca. 1545, with motto ich dien of Edward VI Prince of Wales (his arms have been removed), by the King Edward and Queen Mary Binder.
Credit:
Purchased in 1931.
Description:
320 leaves, (1 column, 28 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 244 x 165 mm
Provenance:
Written for Sir John Astley (d. 1486), arms on several pages: quarterly, 1 and 4, azure a cinquefoil ermine (Astley); 2 and 3, gules two bars or (Harcourt) over all a label of three points ermine); Thomas Fitzhugh (arms 'part azure a fesse inter three buckets sable hooped or'); Brian Tunstall; Thomas Tunstall; owned by Edward VI before accession in 1547; Astley family, to Sir A.E.D. Astley, 21st Lord Hastings; his sale (London, Sotheby's, July 20, 1931, pp. 9-15, lot 7, pl. VI-IX) to Quaritch; purchased through Quaritch in 1931.
Notes:
Ms. ordonances of chivalry written and illuminated in England, probably London, 3rd and 4th quarters of the 15th century.
Decoration: 4 full-page and 5 smaller miniatures, 1 astrological table, 1 Zodiac Man, with inscriptions, 1 circular astrological diagram.
Artist: Wingfield Master.
Script:
textura
Language:
Middle English and Latin
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