William Reed — 15th century, late (after 1476); English, East Anglia (?)
MS. Lyell 37
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
William Reed — 15th century, late (after 1476); English, East Anglia (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell 37
Place of origin
English, East Anglia (?)
Date
15th century, late (after 1476)
Language
Middle English (1100-1500)
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Decoration
Crude initials in English translation of William Reed’s canons (pp. 25–55) in colours (blue, orange, green, mauve) on yellow grounds, on p. 25 infilled with a flower, on p. 26 accompanied by a bar border and foliage, and on p. 43 by an unfinished border of foliage and flowers sketched in ink; in other items initials either plain red, or omitted. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1127)
Acquisition
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
Provenance
James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948
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