Item Summary

Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon in the Middle English translation by John Trevisa.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Policronicon].
Call Number
South wall 19, Garrett MS. 151e
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgf06gg953
Publisher
[London, England], [between 1400 and 1425]
Language
Middle English
Date Created
1400-1425
Extent
212 leaves : parchment ; 451 x 297 (315-335 x 200-205) mm bound to 470 x 335 mm.
Provenance
Early provenance unknown. By the 16th century owned by the Ingilby family of Ripley Castle, Yorkshire. Annotations by several members of that family. Sold by Sir William Henry Ingilby, 4th Baronet at Sotheby's London in 1920. Robert Garrett of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 15 July 1925 from Bernard Quaritch. His gift to the Princeton University Library in 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift; of Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 351-353.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: "... take hede of þre tymes oon to for lawe I write þe secounde vnder lawe I write and the þridde vnder grace and mercy ..."
Explicit: "... þe tenthe yere of kyng Richard þe secounde after þe conquest of Engelond the yere of [oure] lordes age sire Thomas lord of [Berkeley] þat made me make þis translacioun [fyue] and thritty. Explicit."
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Devotional poem in three stanzas (fol. 212v).
Collation: Parchment ; fol. iii (paper) + 121 + iii (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 47 lines per page in 2 columns.
Description: Rubricated running titles for book number and summary.
Decoration: Books open with a 5- to 6-line painted initial with full floriate borders of bar frames, colored vines, and spray-work, of burnished gold, green, blue, pink, and magenta. Chapters open with 3-line champide initial in gold, blue, rose andwhite with penwork sprays.
Origin: Apparently written in London by Scribe Delta in the first quarter of the 15th century.
Binding Note
Later binding. England, early 19th century. Gold-tooled diced Russia leather over pasteboard. Gold-tooled turn-ins. Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Two green ribbon markers. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
World history—Early works to 1800
Great Britain—History—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton
Ingilby family
decorated initials
Gold tooled bindings
illuminated manuscripts
Headbands
Ribbon markers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
440

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2a885cb1-71bb-42ea-bacc-afb4903167f2/manifest