Polychronicon

Description

Title: Polychronicon
Creator: Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Published / Created: [ca. 1325-1350]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, of the text of the "short version" of the Polychronicon (final entry is for 1327).
Description: In Latin.
Layout: double columns of between 44 and 51 lines.
Script: cursive book hand.
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 illuminated initial and others covered in matte gold.
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 leather clasps and one brass catch. Sewn on six raised bands.
Byname: Takamiya Polychronicon.
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 206 leaves : 412 mm x 295 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Drawings (visual works) England 14th century
Manuscripts, Medieval England 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Great Britain
Subject (Name): Higden, Ranulf, -1364.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
World history
History
Subjects: Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
World history > Early works to 1800
Great Britain > History > Earily works to 1800
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (Takamiya MS 43). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.