Polychronicon

Description

Title: Polychronicon
Creator: Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Published / Created: [ca. 1475-1500]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of portions of the text of Higden's Polychronicon. mostly related to the history of England from BRutus to Richard II. Preceded by a table of contents
Description: In Latin.
Numerous marginal annotations in several contemporary and later hands. Marginal note on p. 136 refers to the death of Oliver Cromwell ("tyranno").
Bound with: Martinus Polonus, Margarita decreti seu tabula martiniana decreti (Strasburg, 1493); William Lyndwood, Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis anglicane, (Paris, 1504).
Watermark: Briquet 11159?
Layout: single columns of approximately 35 lines.
Script: English cursive bookhand.
Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 60 large initials in red with penwork in brown ink.
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.
Provenance: Ex libris Alan G. Thomas. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 volume (97 leaves) : 270 mm x 194 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th 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 > Early works to 1800
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership
Thomas, Alan G. > Bookplate

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Citation: Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (Takamiya MS 114). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.