Accession number
MS M.890
Object title
Fountains Abbey bestiary.
Display Date
ca. 1325-1350.
Created
England, probably North Yorkshire, ca. 1325-1350.
Binding
Bound in tan morocco in 1920 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, for the Sothebys' sale.
Credit line
Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1958.
Description
22 leaves (2 columns, 44-45 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 227 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Probably executed at Fountains Abbey; owned by Mr. Merkynfeld in the 16th century (inscription on fol. 18v in a 16th-century hand: Mr. Merkynfeld owes (sic) this book); Ingilby family (probably passed on to this family by marriage; Thomas Markinfeld of Markenfeld Hall, only a mile from Fountains Abbey, married the third daughter of Sir William Ingleby, knight of Ripley and treasurer of Berwick, who died in 1578-9); Sir William Ingilby, Bt., of Ripley Castle, Yorkshire, his sale (London, Sotheby's, Oct. 21, 1920, lot 17) to Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962); sold by him to H.P. Kraus on 2 December 1956 for £1,000; sold to Alastair Bradley Martin, New York, who gave it to the Morgan Library in 1959.
Notes
Ms. bestiary, written and illustrated in England, probably Fountains Abbey, second quarter of 14th century.
Decoration: 103 line drawings of animals, birds, fish, humans.
4 of the 22 leaves are from a Missal.
Decoration: 103 line drawings of animals, birds, fish, humans.
4 of the 22 leaves are from a Missal.
Script
cursive
Language
Latin
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