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Lincoln CHS 22, binding fragments

Contents

Li quatre livre des Reis (fragments of bk. 1, Samuel I)
Language(s): Anglo-Norman

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: two fragments of a bifolium

Hand(s)

Gothic bookhand.

Decoration

2-line flourished initial in blue and red.

Accompanying Material

The host volume is D. Haymonis episcopi Halberstattensis homiliarum, nunc quarto diligentissime excusarum, pars hyemalis, Cologne, Gottfried Hittorp, 1537, in a London blind-tooled binding of the late 1530s or 1540s.

History

Origin: England; 13th century (middle?)

Record Sources

Description by Francesca Galligan, 2020.

Availability

Orderable through SOLO

Bibliography

    F. Galligan, 'A new manuscript of Li Quatre Livre des Reis', Romania 138 (2020), 447-52 (edition, commentary, images)

Last Substantive Revision

2021-05-21: First online publication.

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