Extent: leaves 167-184v : paper ; 285 x 210 (207 x 122) mm bound to 30 cm in box 32 cm
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Ms. component part. An exemplar of the "B" text, 2nd version, after 1441. This manuscript is one part of a larger, composite manuscript, the main body of which is cataloged separately under the same call number. See host record under title "L'arbre des batailles" for information regarding provenance, binding, origin, etc. In Middle English. Title from leaf 167: "Here begynneth the prologe of the lyble of Englysh polecie ..." Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Call number: MS f Med.92. Former call number: MS 1519. Bibliography: Warner, G. The libelle of Englyshe polycye. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1926. pp. xiv-xv ; Hartung, A.E., ed. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500. (5:1707) ; Meale, C. "The libelle of Englyshe polycye and mercantile literary culture in late-medieval London." London & Europe in the Later Middle Ages. London, 1995. pp. 181-227, 220-221, 227 ; Taylor, F. "Some...
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