Title supplied by cataloger. Support: Parchment. Script: Textura. Layout: 14 2-258(first leaf of quire 1 and last leaf of quire 25 are stubs and appear to have been used as pastedowns); inner bifolium of quire 16 has been reversed, transposing ff. 119-120. Catchwords in center lower margin, enclosed in brown ink frames on quires 2-5, and in a blue and red ink frame on quire 22 (f. 171v). Quire 2, the first text quire, signed with a plus sign and roman... Decoration: On f. 13v, a 3/4 page miniature, 135 x 105 mm., depicting Gower as an archer in aristocratic dress, shooting an arrow at the world, which is divided into sections representing water, earth and sky, and surmounted by a cross and banner; iconographically related to Glasgow, University Library, Hunterian T.2.17 (59), f. 6v; London, Brit. Lib., Cotton Tiberius A. iv, f. 9v; and Oxford... Other Decoration: 5- and 4-line parted red and blue initials, infilled with leaf designs, with red, blue and pale olive flourishing on cascade borders; 3- and 2-line blue initials with red pen flourishing. Acknowledgments: We thank Kathleen L. Scott for the iconographic information linking this manuscript with those in Glasgow, London and Oxford. Assigned Date: s. XV1. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/16/2012. Earl of Ailesbury sale, London, 21 November 1687, p. 85 n. 91 to James Sotheby, who signed his name on f. 4; also on f. 4 "I 4 2200[?]." Armorial bookplate of C. W. H. Sotheby on the front pastedown, with the note "Bought at Lord Burgleys sale 1702 for L. 1-2." Col. H. G. Sotheby sale, Sotheby's, 24 July 1924, lot 96 with plate of f. 13v to A. S. W. Rosenbach for Henry E. Huntington.
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