Itinerarium and other works
Ms. miscellany; written and decorated in England, about 1375.
Texts: table of chapters (fol. 1-2); Sir John Mandeville, Itinerarium, in the French Insular version (fol. 3-117v); brief and spurious dedication in Latin of the Itineraruim to King Edward III (fol. 117; short verses on death and other subjects in Latin (fol. 118-120v); The Fall of Lucifer, a Middle English poem (fol. 120v-122); short texts, in Latin leonine verse and prose, regarding the genealogy of Christ (fol. 122v-123); "Abuses of age" lyric beginning "Kyng of londe redles. Bisschop wytles" (fol. 123r bottom); three fragments of leaves, the recto of the last containing a portion of the Earth, a Middle English poem (fol. 124-126), beginning: "Whan hath erthe upon erthe"; "Clericus Adam" lyric (fragment, fol. 126v).
Decoration: written in brown ink; 1 large blue initial with penwork filling and marginal extenders and 36 smaller blue initials with similar penwork elaboration.
Collation: I², II⁶, III⁸-VI⁸, VII⁷, VIII⁸-XI⁸, XII⁷, XIII⁸-XV⁸, XVI⁶, XVII⁷, XVIII³, XIX¹.
Revised: 2016