Dives and Pauper — 15th century; English

Title

Dives and Pauper — 15th century; English

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. th. d. 36

Place of origin

English

Date

15th century

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

vi + 211 leaves

Decoration

Red and blue initials with penwork. Smaller plain blue initials.

Binding

18th cent. rough calf binding.

Acquisition

Inscribed in pencil by the Bodleian 'P.[urchased] 10.vi.50' in the lower left corner of fol. ir

Provenance

Inscribed 'Miles Barne' (fol. 148r) (rector of Lyminge, early 17th cent.)

Inscribed 'William C' in a flourished 18th(?)-cent. hand on fol. 219v

With a cutting from a Sotheby's sale catalogue pasted to the upper pastedown, describing the MS. as of the 14th cent.

Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797–1878)

Henry Yates Thompson, aquired as part of the Ashburnham Appendix in May 1897, and with his bookplate inscribed 'From the Library | of the | Earl of Ashburnham | Appendix N o...... | May 1897.', the gap inscribed in purple crayon with the Appendix number 'CXLII', and in the lower right corner '80'; resold at Sotheby's 1 May 1899, lot 90

Quaritch (?) inscribed in pencil '55' within a box in the lower left corner of fol. ir

Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth: sold by the Harmsworth Trust at Sotheby's, 16 Oct. 1945, lot 2055, with a cutting from the sale catalogue pasted to the upper pastedown, bought by Maggs, for £92

Inscribed in pencil '5 [or S[otheby's]?]/10/45' on the lower pastedown

Inscribed in pencil '19/5/53' ?? on the lower pastedown

Maggs Bros., 1950

Various other pencil inscription on the pastedowns and flyleaves