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Inscribed on front pastedown: Walter Laskey, no. 15. 87 Havelock Rd., Derby. | {
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Paper watermarked 1869. | {
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Stitched in contemporary brown paper covers. | {
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Numerous marginal annotations in several contemporary and later hands. Marginal note on p. 136 refers to the death of Oliver Cromwell ("tyranno"). | {
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Bound with: Martinus Polonus, Margarita decreti seu tabula martiniana decreti (Strasburg, 1493); William Lyndwood, Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis anglicane, (Paris, 1504). | {
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Watermark: Briquet 11159? | {
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Layout: single columns of approximately 35 lines. | {
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Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 60 large initials in red with penwork in brown ink. | {
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Binding: late seventeenth-century full calf; blind-ruled, with crown stamp in the corners. The binder has been identified as a London binder who also worked for Samuel Pepys. Metal chain attached from the upper cover, fourteen links, a ring on either end, and a middle swivel. | {
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Layout: double columns of between 44 and 51 lines. | {
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Script: cursive book hand. | {
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Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 404 marginal drawings in pen and ink, many with yellow wash: mostly portrait roundels, but also including two diagrams of Noah's Ark; views of London, Canterbury, Rome and other places; an image of the Annunciation; and a small T-map. Margins ruled to accomodate the roundels. One i... | {
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Binding: contemporary calf over wooden boards, rebacked. Upper cover plain; lower cover contains central panel with the letters POLICRONICON created by stamping background with seven-pointed star stamp. Background pattern of diagonal fillets with five-petalled flower in circle stamped at each intersection. Remains of l... | {
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Byname: Takamiya Polychronicon. | {
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First line reads: Contented river! in thy dreamy realm. | {
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Accompanied by an undated and related autograph note by Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., the typescript's former owner. | {
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Layout: single column of text. | {
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Script: gothic. | {
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Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue. Large miniature at head of roll containing a bust of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, displaying his stigmata, and surrounded by the "arma Christi" (also known as the Instruments of the Passion). On a blue ground in gold frame. One large decorated initial immediately be... | {
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Binding: section of leather sewn to top of scroll. Accompanied by seventeenth-century? fabric case with fabric and metal appliqués. | {
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Modern title page in English bound in before original title page. | {
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Printed bookseller description pasted in on verso of rear flyleaf. | {
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Layout: Single columns of varying length. Armorial entries begin with the name of the knight and a pen and ink drawing of his coat of arms in trick, followed by a descriptive paragraph, | {
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Decoration: 177 pen and ink drawings in trick of coats of arms. | {
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Binding: eighteenth-century green velvet over boards; silver castle ornament mounted on front cover. | {
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Cover: "Pianists Copy." | {
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Ownership inscription at top of first page: "William Howard 1591." | {
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Bookseller's printed description pasted in on front pastedown. | {
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Script: each work in a different professional book hand. | {
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Decoration: Headings and initial letters in red and blue; decorated throughout with more than 270 emblazoned coats of arms in colors. | {
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Binding: modern parchment over boards, rebacked. | {
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Ownership inscription and drawing of arms of "Alessandro dale Carte" on rear flyleaf. | {
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Bookplate of Sir Thomas Phillipps on front pastedown; Phillipps MS number inscribed on recto of f1. | {
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Layout: single columns of variable length. | {
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Script: Italian cursive bookhand. | {
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Decoration: Rubricated (ff. 1-91 only). | {
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Binding: nineteenth-century half-calf, rebacked. | {
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Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands. | {
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Bound with: parchment leaf of accounts kept by Robert de Staynford, steward of Lady Idoyne Percy, wife of Henry, Lord Percy (d. 1365). | {
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Laid in: manuscript fragment, on paper, of a contract, in English (ca. 1574), formerly the back pastedown. | {
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Layout: single columns of 42 lines. | {
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Script: gothic text hand. | {
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Decoration: Rubricated. Numerous penwork initials and line fillers in red and blue ink. Ten larger illuminated initials, gilt and red and blue ink. | {
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Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps. | {
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Docketed in a sixteenth-century? hand: the indentur of Bromehyll ffeyes. | {
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Annotated in a later hand, possibly that of the Norfolk antiquary Thomas Martin. | {
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Layout: single column of 26 lines. Head of document indented. | {
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Script: secretary script. | {
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With: Seal of the Prior and Canons of Bromehill Priory, in green wax, containing a pyramid between a star, below, and a crescent moon, above. | {
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Docketed in later hands. | {
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Attached seal (worn). | {
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Indented at head of document with chirographic letters. | {
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Signed: sign manual of Edward Grimston at end of text. | {
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Signed: document signed by the scribe, "Brampton." | {
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Docketed in a later hand. | {
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Seal: red wax seal with the crest of Edward Grimston (damaged). | {
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Layout: Single column of fifteen lines. | {
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Script: anglicana. | {
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Signed: "Norrey King of Arms of the north." | {
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Seals of William Fellow and of the office of Norroy King of Arms suspended from document. | {
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Layout: single column of 20 lines. | {
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Decoration: Portrait figure of Norrey King of Arms within the initial "T," in full color; illustration of Revell's coat of arms with the newly granted crest filling left margin, in full color; floral border, top and right margins, in full color. | {
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Signed: "Adolf Holsatia Dux," with monogram SH as the initial letter of the second word. | {
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Annotated with probable catalog number (Phillipps?): 33068. | {
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Seal: pendant red wax seal of Duke Adolf. | {
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Layout: single column of 14 lines. | {
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Script: Italic. | {
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Probably written for the use of a man named Thomas, as that name is inserted in several passages. | {
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Decoration: Rubricated. Two initials with marginal penwork decoration. | {
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Script: gothic book hand. | {
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Decoration: text headed with a large miniature of the Crucifixion. One large illuminated initial at the head of the text; numerous small initials in in red and blue penwork or gold. | {
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Docketed in a contemporary hand. | {
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Script: Anglicana. | {
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Decoration: Two larger illuminated initials with birds perched on them. Smaller initials alternating between gilt with green penwork and blue with red penwork. Decorated line fillers, red and blue penwork, gilt. | {
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Layout: double columns of 46 lines each. | {
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Decoration: Three illuminated initials with bar borders; illuminated chapter numbers. | {
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Leaf recovered from a binding. | {
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Small part of conjugate leaf still present. | {
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Layout: double columns of 25 lines each. | {
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Byname: Werden Heptateuch (Fragment). | {
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Fragment recovered from a binding; damaged and incomplete. | {
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Layout: double columns of 54 lines each. | {
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Decoration: initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork. | {
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Two endorsements, on verso, in a different contemporary hand, one of which notes the grant of the Aurum Reginae to Joan at Eltham on the Tuesday after Epiphany, 13 Henry IV (1412). | {
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Accompanied by: transcript, on paper, in a 17th century italic hand. | {
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Layout: single column of 10 lines. | {
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Script: Chancery hand. | {
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Issued at Westminster. Endorsed by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, as Regent of England. | {
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Layout: single column of 42 lines. | {
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Script: secretary-influenced Anglicana script. | {
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Leaf also contains the ownership inscription of the Cistercian of Santa Maria della Columba, followed by an anathema against theft. | {
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Layout: single column, varying length. | {
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Script: proto-gothic. | {
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Layout: single column of 9 lines. | {
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Signed: document signed by the scribe, "Burdon." | {
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Endorsed on the verso in the hand and with the ownership mark of Sir Edward Dering. | {
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Layout: single column of 13 lines. | {
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Signed: document signed by the scribe, Gardyner. | {
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Layout: single column of 25 lines. | {
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Drawn on the blank page of a bifolium once used as the flyleaf of a Latin Psalter (circa 1290-1310) that may have been written for the church of St. Botolph in Essex. | {
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