A half-undressed Dr. Johnson in a dunce's cap and with a rope around his neck walks from left to right, driven by Apollo, who holds the other end of the rope, and the Muses with uplifted scourges and birch rods. On his cap are the names of the poets Johnson criticized. He carries a placard describing his guilt as an unjust critic. In the background, on the summit of Parnassus, can be seen a temple highlighted by the sun behind it, with Pegasus flying nearby
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: * Vide, the last sermon at St. Dunstans., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 29th, 1783, by Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 and Apollo (Deity)
Subject (Topic):
Muses (Greek deities), Poetry, History and criticism, and Whips
John Walton's translation of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae. Written on vellum in Anglicana formata script in England in the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The manuscript lacks the first quire, including the Preface and Prologue as well as stanzas 1-67.
Description:
In Middle English., The manuscript was copied by a scribe whose hand is also seen in several other vernacular manuscripts: Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 207 (John Gower, Confessio amantis), London, British Library, MS Arundel 119 (Lydgate, Siege of Thebes), and Tokyo, Private Collection, MS 54 (South English Legendary, second hand)., Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf recto (erased): "Ego domina Elizabeth domina de [?riche] Mont[e?] lego istum librum Roberto Godebowe armigero.", Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf recto (erased): "Memorandum quod Iohannis Tr[...] istum librum de executum Roberti Godebowe [...]", Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf verso (erased): "Iste liebr constat Iohanni.", Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf verso: "Thome hyngham Monachi diui Edmundi de Bury." The script of the inscription matches that of an inscription in the Macro Plays manuscript (Folger Library, Washington, DC, MS V.a.354), which refers to a "monachus Hyngham.", Decoration includes two- to four-line pen-flourished initials., Binding: contemporary tawed leather on cushion wooden boards, re-backed and re-covered, preserving original sides., Colophon: "Explicit liber Boecii de Consolacione Philosophie de Latino in Anglicum translatus Anno Domini Millessimo CCCCmo decimo per Capellanum Johannem et cetera" (f. 104v)., and Schøyen MS 615.
Subject (Name):
Walton, John, d. 1410.
Subject (Topic):
Poetry, Middle English poetry, and Philosophy and religion
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in Gothic bookhand, produced in the Netherlands during the fourteenth century. Der Leken Spieghel is a Middle Dutch rhymed Biblical epic, composed between 1325 and 1330. This leaf, a binding fragment, contains a portion of Book II which deals with the lineage of Joseph and Mary
Description:
Jan van Boendale is also called Jan Decker and Jan de Clerc., In Middle Dutch., and Illuminated miniatures at chapter headings.
Subject (Name):
van Boendale, Jan, d. 1365.
Subject (Topic):
History of Biblical events, Poetry, and Dutch poetry
Fragment, on vellum, of Piers Plowman, produced in Anglicana book script in Oxford or London at the beginning of the 15th century. The bifolium includes Passus II, line 200 to Passus III, line 44; and Passus IV, lines 123-174
Description:
In Middle English., The fragment was discovered during renovations in the Old Vicarage, Wickhambrook, Suffolk., and Schøyen MS 1953.
Verse begins: "Of a worthy London 'prentice"., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118, In four columns, with the title and illustration above the first two; the imprint is under the last two columns, below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules., Cf. ESTC no. T36639 with imprint: Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-lane, West-Smithfield, London., Mounted on leaf 70. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41 Long-Lane, London
