Willelmus Peraldus, Jacobus de Voragine — 13th century, late; English
MS. Lyell 12
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Title
Willelmus Peraldus, Jacobus de Voragine — 13th century, late; English
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell 12
Place of origin
English
Date
13th century, late
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i+268leaves (fol. i, 1, 267-8 are flyleaves) Edges much cropped
Hands
Book hand.
Decoration
Initials in red and blue (smaller ones red or blue), with elaborate pen flourishes in red, blue, and mauve extending into the upper and lower margins.
Binding
18th cent. binding in sprinkled calf.
Acquisition
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
Provenance
There is an erased note on fol. 2.
Sir Thomas Phillipps: formerly MS. Phillipps 9188.
Lot 1142 in Phillipps Sale, Sotheby's, March 1895; bought by Quaritch; see his Rough List, no. 151 (June 1895), no. 107.
James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948: bought by Lyell in November 1937.
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