Instructions to his son

Description

Title: Instructions to his son
Creator: Idle, Peter, d. 1474?.
Contributor: Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent.
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, of Peter Idley's Instructions to his son, an adaptation (ca. 1445-50) of Albertano of Brescia's treatises addressed to his own sons. The manuscript was produced in England at the end of the fifteenth century and is written in anglicana and secretary script
Description: In Middle English and Latin.
Idley's Liber Secundus, a separate poem, follows the Instructions on f. 31v.
Fragments of late thirteenth-century graded calendar used as pastedowns.
Numerous sixteenth-century ownership inscriptions of Thomas Dowse on flyleaves.
Verses from William Warner, Erasmus, and Shakespeare copied on flyleaves in sixteenth-century hands.
Binding: contemporary white leather over wooden boards; spine sewn on five double tawed leather thongs; remnants of clasp (three foliate metal pins) on upper cover.
Provenance: Ex libris Thomas Dowse. Purchased at Sotheby's London sale, 2006 July 6, (lot 61) for the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection.
Extent: 1 24 cm. x 17 cm. vol. (38 l.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Idley, Peter, d. 1474?
Subject (Topic): Conduct of life
Didactic poetry, English
English poetry
Youth
Subjects: Idley, Peter, d. 1474?
Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
Didactic poetry, English > Early works to 1800
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500
Youth > Conduct of life
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Dowse, Thomas > Ownership

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Citation: Peter Idle, Instructions to His Son. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.