Collections of Robert Parkyn. English, 16th century (c. 1550–65).

Title

Collections of Robert Parkyn. English, 16th century (c. 1550–65).

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. d. 15

Associated place

Adwick-le-street

Date

c. 1550–65

Language

Latin

English

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment (fol.i–iii, 1–92) and paper (fol.93–159), watermark hand, fleur-de-lys and star, with initials F.P., cf. Briquet 11371–5

Physical extent

iii + 159 leaves(fols. 1–114v)

Decoration

Plain red initials.

Binding

Original binding of brown leather on oak boards with two clasps of which the hasps are now missing.

Acquisition

Bought at the sale of the library of G. E. Cooke-Yarborough , 1931, Crouch of Doncaster lot. 769.

Provenance

‘Iste liber pertinet ad dominum Robert Byard ’ (fol.iii verso in Parkyn's own hand except for the name Byard written over an erasure, presumably of ‘Parkyn’).

Sir Brian Cooke of Wheatley, 1736 (F. Drake, Eboracum, p. 452; cf. Dickens art.cit.p.58.n.1).

Title

Collection of miscellaneous pieces in Latin and English prose and verse by Robert Parkyn

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. d. 15

Summary

Collection of miscellaneous pieces in Latin and English prose and verse by Robert Parkyn, curate of Adwick-le-Street, near Doncaster, Yorks.

Date

1532-1565

Language

Latin

English

Physical facet

brown leather over oak boards, remains of clasps, front pastedown (now fols. i-ii) a leaf from a 14th-century English manuscript of the Catholicon of Johannes Balbus

Physical extent

159 Leaves

Custodial history

Inscribed (fol. iiiv) 'Iste liber pertinet ad dominum Robert Byard' in Parkyn's hand, except for 'Byard' which is written over an erasure; owned by the Cooke family, baronets.

Acquisition

Bought, Crouch, of Doncaster, Feb. 1931 (Cooke-Yarborough sale), lot 769.

Subject

English literature

Latin literature

Poetry

16th century