Liber ruralium commodorum
Accession number:
MS B.17
Title:
Liber ruralium commodorum
Created:
England, between 1400 and 1430.
Binding:
Gold-tooled vellum.
Credit:
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description:
136 leaves (2 columns, 49-59 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 348 x 237 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Apr. 1952 from Bernard Quaritch, London (Cat. 699, no. 52).
Notes:
Ms. written and decorated in England, early 15th century.
Texts: Petrus de Crescentiis (Pietro de'Cescenzi), Liber ruralium commodorum (fol. 5-133); John Lydgate, Verses on the Kings of England, in English (fol. 2-2v); recipes and notes, in English and Latin (fol. 1v, 2v-4v, 133v-136).
Decoration: 1 pen drawing; numerous filigree initials.
Script:
Gothic cursive and textura
Language:
Latin and Middle English
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