Christ Church, Allestree fragments, no. 37
Fragment of English verse; England (?north-west), s. xviin
Contents
IMEV 3226 (four copies total), five rime royale stanzas with refrain, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, The Bannatyne Manuscript . . . Vol. II, Scottish Text Society ns 22 (1928), 213–14, from Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, MS Advocates 1.1.6. Our witness is recorded at DIMEV 5061.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
In long lines, recto only fully written, 23 lines.
No page preparation.
Hand(s)
Written in mixed anglicana/secretary.
Unpunctuated.
Decoration
The two-line initial S an archaising penwork design of two dragons.
Binding
housing The last item in an envelope of fragments from the Allestree collection, mainly removed from volumes in his collection apparently by Thomas Vere Bayne (see no. 28, though that item appears to be in the handwriting of William Wake), but also including letters to Allestree. Apart from this fragment, others are post-1600, apart from a former flyleaf from a glossed printed book of canon law. This would appear to have been a flyleaf in an octavo printed book.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
A signature on both sides (upside down and very faded on the recto) ‘Wyllyam Brereton’; also on the verso ‘Iame tayler’ and ‘Anne Bere’. The first may be one of the several Cheshire men of the name active in the early sixteenth century, e.g. Sir William of Brereton Green, who died as Lord Justice of Ireland in 1541.
Record Sources
Availability
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