pen-flourishing. La cité des dames Cecily [Cicely; née Cecily Neville], duchess of York (b. 1415, d. 1495), Yorkist matriarch, and/or her husband Richard of York, 3rd duke of York (b. 1411, d.1460), regent of France in 1436 and 1441-1445: includes
Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) and partial foliate border. Containing a York calendar (ff. 7-12v) including in red William of York (8 June) and his translation (6 Jan.), Wilfrid of York (12 Oct.). These saints also appear in the litany (ff. 76v-77).Catchwords
Decorated initial 'D'(ixit) and partial foliate border. Containing a York calendar (ff. 7-12v) including in red William of York (8 June) and his translation (6 Jan.), Wilfrid of York (12 Oct.). These saints also appear in the litany (ff. 76v-77).Catchwords
York, The Morgan Library and Museum, M725 and M1090; Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection (see Levi D'Ancona, cat. no. 24); Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 20:2-3, 24:10-11, 28:19, 72:11A and B, 76:49-54; Private collection, formerly New
of Isabel, sister of Richard, duke of York, and wife of Henry Bourchier, 1st earl of Essex (2nd October 1484), 'Obitus illustrissime d[omi]ne / d[omi]ne Isabelle comitisse / Essex[ensis] consortis Henrici / Bourgchier comiti / Essex[ensis] l[itte]ra d[omi]nicali B? A[nn]o
writing. On f. 22 b is an acknowledgment of a debt from Robert Barkynburyo, of Langton, to Richard Enggersoun, of York, of the end of the XVIth cent; and on f. 44 b in the note, "William Smith of Haton
from the Speculum vite Christi of St. Bonaventura by Nicholas Love, prior of the Carthusian monastery of Mount Grace, co. York. The preface is headed, "Here bigynneþ þe prohemie of þe book þat is clepid þe myrour of þe blessid
ff. 11. At the beginning are the royal arms, supported by angels, together with the white and red roses of York and Lancaster, and the white greyhound and red dragon of Henry VII. Bound in brown leather, with panels formed
Archiepiscopus Eboracensis," i.e. Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York, executed in 1405. It is generally supposed that the MS. was lent to him to supply designs for the St. Cuthbert window in York Minster and went astray after his execution;
XII cent., with later corrections. Gatherings of S leaves (i1). On f. 1 is a note dated St. Gregory's even, York, from Henry Meggeson to "Mr. Savill" [ ? Sir John Savile, d. 1607] on sending him the book. 12th
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