Life of our lady
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10269814
Description
- Title
- Life of our lady
- Creator
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1470]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry).
- Description
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In Middle English.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a formal style of bastard Anglicana; delicately decorated ascenders and descenders along upper and lower edges of written space.
On f. 5v a large coat of arms, Carent quartered with Toomer, in a green, orange, and gold frame, against a dark green ground, perhaps a slightly later addition; f. 6r, a small coat of arms, Carent, in the lower margin, against a gold ground, surrounded by a phylactery wrapped around the bar border. Arms supported by two seated dogs, in black pen, set in an oblong landscape, edged heavily in black.
One 8-line (f. 6r), four 6-line (ff. 1r, 21r, 52r, 85v) and one 4-line (f. 106r) initials, blue and red with white highlights, filled with large four-lobed flowers and acanthus leaves, orange, green, pink, blue, and light blue, against irregular gold grounds, edged in black, with full (ff. 1r, 6r), 3/4 (ff. 52r, 85v) or single marginal (ff. 21r, 106r) borders. The full and 3/4 have gold, blue and red bands attached to initial, with curling and braided sections sprouting curling acanthus at corners; often against gold cusps, with spiraling black ink hair-spray vines with small green teardrop leaves, pink, brown, green, and blue flowers, and gold dots with small pink and blue leaves. 2-line gold initials on irregular blue and red grounds with white highlights, each with two sprigs of black hair-spray with green leaves and gold dots, as above. 1-line blue and gold initials, with red or pink penwork. Rubrics throughout.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled title. Bound by Francis Bedford (London, 1800-84), who worked with C. Lewis and set up his own shop in 1841. - Provenance
- Purchased by Yale in 1960 from C. A. Stonehill as the gift of Edwin J., Frederick W., and Walter Beinecke.
- Extent
- ff. ii + i + 114 + i + ii : 309 x 197 (196 x 118) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English, Middle (1100-1500)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 281
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. - Subject (Topic)
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Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9790041
- Object ID (OID)
- 10269814
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