Nine drawings, four copies of drawings of limnings in the Harleian copy of John Lydgate's Life of King Edmund and five drawings, four on vellum, from Froissart's Chronicle, mounted on leaves and bound in old vellum. Most drawings with contemporary captions on versos
Description:
Title from Hazen catalogue., Date based on date of acquisition of the original manuscript (Harley 2278) by Robert Harley: "16 die Augusti A. D. 1720"., and Now mounted on leaves in an old vellum binding. Bookplate 1. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Name):
Edmund, King of East Anglia, 841-870., Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, and Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?