The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 268

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9600

Shelfmark:

mssHM 268

Title:

Fall of princes; manuscript

Author:

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451

John Lydgate WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

enm

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 1-158 volumes : parchment, bound ; 293 x 412 mm

Former Owner(s):

Sotheby, Charles William Hamilton, 1820-1871

Charles William Hamilton Sotheby WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Bound, s. XVIII, in English gold-tooled brown calf; rebacked, original spine laid down. The volume was resewn after coming to the Huntington, probably sometime in the 1930s, to restore the contents to their proper sequence.
Possibly in the collection formed by James Sotheby in the seventeenth century. Armorial bookplate of C. W. H. Sotheby on the front pastedown; sale of Col. H. G. Sotheby, Sotheby's, 24 July 1924, lot 24 with plate of f. 109v to A. S. W. Rosenbach. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

English literature--Middle English

Manuscripts, Medieval

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1823584

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:19622/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens