Accession number
MS M.4
Object title
The siege of Thebes.
Created
Bury St. Edmunds, England ca. 1450.
Binding
Brown levant morocco, gold tooled in acorns by Bedford of London.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1900.
Description
78 leaves (1 column, 33 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 250 x 170 mm
Provenance
On fol. 1 and 77 the signature of John Davy in a 16th-century hand; the name Gilbert North on fol. 1; the name William Darye (or Davye?) on fol. 43v and 44; bought unbound for £29.10.0 by Almon W. Griswold; Theodore Irwin Collection, cat. n. 1829; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Irwin Collection in 1900; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in England, perhaps Bury St. Edmunds, ca. 1450.
Texts: Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes (fol. 1-74); Lydgate, A lenvoye to all prynces and lordes that be disposyd to be lecherous (fol. 74-75); Lydgate, Letter to Gloucester (fol. 75-77); Chaucer, Compleynt un-to his purse (fol. 77).
Decoration: 1 large initial W in blue and pink brightened with gold and a 3-sided border in the same colors of fol. 1.
Texts: Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes (fol. 1-74); Lydgate, A lenvoye to all prynces and lordes that be disposyd to be lecherous (fol. 74-75); Lydgate, Letter to Gloucester (fol. 75-77); Chaucer, Compleynt un-to his purse (fol. 77).
Decoration: 1 large initial W in blue and pink brightened with gold and a 3-sided border in the same colors of fol. 1.
Script
English cursive
Language
Middle English
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