Dives and Pauper, etc

Description

Title: Dives and Pauper, etc
Published / Created: [ca. 1465]
Publication Place: Portugal (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Dives and Pauper
Description: In Middle English.
Watermarks: unidentified flower similar in design to Briquet Fleur 6654-56.
Script: Text written in sprawling English secretary by two scribes, who added notes to mark sections in the margins.
Several crude initials and line-fillers in red and brown. References to and quotations from the Bible, as well as running headings and marginalia, underlined in red.
Water stains on many folios at front and back, not affecting text.
Binding: Seventeenth century. Red spattered edges. Brown spattered calf, blind-tooled.
Provenance: Sold by Maggs to Stonehill's, from whom it was acquired in 1954 for the Albert H. Childs Memorial Collection.
Extent: ff. i + iii + 199 + i + i : 298 x 209 (214 x 146) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Portugal 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): English poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Portugal > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Dives and Pauper, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.