Drawing of King Edmund the Martyr

Description

Title: Drawing of King Edmund the Martyr
Published / Created: [1400-1499]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Full-page pen drawing, in brown ink, of King Edmund the Martyr holding an arrow. Accompanied by four lines of verse in Middle English
Description: In Middle English; original text on bifolium is in Latin.
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.
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 2 leaves : 267 mm x 180 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Portraits
Drawings (visual works) England 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Edmund, King of East Anglia, 841-870
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Edmund, King of East Anglia, 841-870 > Portraits
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Drawing of King Edmund the Martyr (Takamiya MS 136). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.