Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
September 1886
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/44
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - + I. ENGLISH. Manuscript on Vellum, of “ENGLISH EXECUTION, with several tlluminated initials enclosing Miniatures and grotesque figures; bound in brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bep¥orpD, £36. circa A.D. 1240 On the last page is a contemporary copy of a royal rescript to the exchequer relieving Joannes ...... from debts to the crown. It is dated the 14th of Edward I (1286), and bears at foot the name of Robert Baldok (afterwards Chancellor of England, “a false pyled clerck” according to the Cronycle of England mentioned below, who died in 1327). On a blank page towards the end of the book there are some instructions and prayers for chanted masses, in a handwriting contemporary with the text, the language of which is Norman-French with some striking linguistic peculiarities. Amongst the saints’ names in the Litany are those OF SS. Alban, Edmund, Guehbert, Robert, and Dunstan. LATINA, cum prologis §$. Hieronymi, small 4to. Manuscript on vellum, on 548 leaves, written in beautifully distinct and minute characters, in double columns, capitals ornamented and painted in blue and ved, the vellum remarkably fine and thin, old red morocco extra, gilt edges, £36. About 1250 This volume belonged to the Kynnardsley family at Locksley, in Staffordshire, in the fifteenth century. It bears on the last page of the Psalms the signature of ‘Thomas Kynnardesey”’ (about 1520), whose daughter married Henry Mainwaring and carried this book into that family. The first page bears ‘the signature of Randall Mainwaring (about 1610), the son of that Henry, and a distinguished soldier in the service of Charles I in the Civil War. Several notes by him on the text are found scattered on the margins of the book. on vellum, with two Miniatures representing Ldward I, and numerous tnitials in red and blue containing grotesque figures ; in the ancient boards, formerly in. the possession of Richard Sakevyle, xix yere of one VIII; enclosed in a russia case, ‘£7. 10s About A.D. 1300 This. interesting volume, the major portion of which was