Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Arthurian metrical romances ; Manor of Hale records.
Call Number
Taylor MS. 9
Identifier
https://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2b88qh51w
Publisher
[London, England] ; [between 1450 and 1500]
Language
English
Date Created
1450-1500
Extent
1 volume (100 leaves) : parchment ; 275 x 190 mm
Provenance
Taylor MS. 9 is a composite volume comprised of two sets of quires, both probably produced in what is now the English metropolitan county of Merseyside and bound together after 1465 for William Ireland (or Irland), lord of the Manor of Hale, near Manchester. The present manuscript is known historically as the "Ireland Blackburne manuscript." From 1945 to 1971, the manuscript was at the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, in Cologny, Switzerland. The New York antiquarian bookseller H. P. Kraus (1906-1987) purchased the manuscript in 1971 and sold it on 24 September 1973 to Robert H. Taylor (1908-1985), of Princeton, New Jersey, Class of 1930. His bequest to the Princeton University Library, 1985.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Robert H. Taylor.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 420-424.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Script: Anglicana used for the three Middle English romances; script shows some influence of Secretary and Anglicana formata.
Decoration: Guide letters for two- or three-line initials, which were never executed.
Binding Note
England, 15th century. Cushioned quarter-sawn oak boards (10-11 mm thick).

Discovery Information

Subject
Arthurian romances
English poetry—Middle English, 1100-1500
Ireland family—Archives
Family records—England—Manchester
Manchester (England)—History—Sources
Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts—England—15th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
207

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b1da9ab0-6461-4705-93de-3fb87b952d59/manifest