Binding: Not bound. Other decoration, f. 1r-v: Large "N" with a four-leaf flower inside and large foliage décor extending vertically into left margin. Number of scribes, f. 1r-v: 1. Script, f. 1r-v: Cursive. Layout, f. 1r-v: One column with 3 seven-line stanzas plus 5 lines of a fourth stanza visible, neither bounding lines nor ruling visible.
Former Owner(s):
John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
Bibliography: M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75. J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, New Index of Middle English Verse(London 2005) n. 1540. f. 1r-v: Leaf from parent manuscript now in Cambridge, Magdalen College. f. 1r-v: Latin. f. 1r-v: H. G. Jones, "Peter Idley's Instructions to his son," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen74 (1973) 686-689, identifying this as a missing leaf from the Pepys ms in Cambridge, Magdalen College; see M. R. James, pt. 3 of Bibliotheca Pepysiana(1923) 67-69.
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