• Arthurian metrical romances ; Manor of Hale records.

Extent:

• 1 volume (100 leaves) : parchment ; 275 x 190 mm

Date:

• 1450-1500

Language:

• English

Translator:

• Trevisa, John, -1402

Description:

• Script: Anglicana used for the three Middle English romances; script shows some influence of Secretary and Anglicana formata.
• Decoration: Guide letters for two- or three-line initials, which were never executed.

Binding note:

• England, 15th century. Cushioned quarter-sawn oak boards (10-11 mm thick).

Provenance:

• Taylor MS. 9 is a composite volume comprised of two sets of quires, both probably produced in what is now the English metropolitan county of Merseyside and bound together after 1465 for William Ireland (or Irland), lord of the Manor of Hale, near Manchester. The present manuscript is known historically as the "Ireland Blackburne manuscript." From 1945 to 1971, the manuscript was at the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, in Cologny, Switzerland. The New York antiquarian bookseller H. P. Kraus (1906-1987) purchased the manuscript in 1971 and sold it on 24 September 1973 to Robert H. Taylor (1908-1985), of Princeton, New Jersey, Class of 1930. His bequest to the Princeton University Library, 1985.

Source acquisition:

• Gift of Robert H. Taylor.

Contributor:

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Taylor MS. 9.

References:

• Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 420-424.

Alternative:

• Manor of Hale Records

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99111919643506421

Available online:

• Digitized microfilm copy:
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