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- Creator:
- Idle, Peter, d. 1474?.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa50
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- 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., and 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Idley, Peter, d. 1474?
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life, Didactic poetry, English, English poetry, and Youth
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Instructions to his son
