née Cecily Neville], duchess ofYork (b. 1415, d. 1495), Yorkist matriarch, and/or her husband RichardofYork, 3rd duke ofYork (b. 1411, d.1460), regent of France in 1436 and 1441-1445: includes the Yorkists badges of the white rose
d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham. Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the
cardinal (added to ff. 4, 106, 197).? Iacopo Piccolomini (b. 1422, d. 1479), member of the household of Pope Pius II (d. 1464), and bishop of Lucca from 1470: with an eight-line inscription including ‘Dum vixi Iacobus Piccolomini domus papa
Voyages of Marco Polo in a revised version attributed to Thibault de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for Charles's of Valois projected crusade and Jean de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for the projected crusade of Philip VI of France
Miniature of the building of Alexandria; miniature of the destruction of Tyre. Includes 8 works forming a compendium of the wonders of the East combined with crusading texts: Historia de proeliis translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon
of the XIVth cent. Much injured by the application of an extract of galls to bring out the writing. On f. 22 b is an acknowledgment of a debt from Robert Barkynburyo, of Langton, to Richard Enggersoun, ofYork,
of ch. xxv, beg. of ch. xxviii, ends of chs. xxxi, xxxv (with rubric to xxxvi), xxxvi (with rubric to xxxvii), beg. of ch. xli, whole of ch. xliii, end of ch. xlv. f. 7 b: (5) (5) Account
Description MIRROR of the Life of Christ: translated 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
a Latin elegiac poem in praise of Henry VII. and in celebration of the birth of Prince Arthur in 1486, by Peter Carmelianus of Brescia, afterwards Chaplain and Latin Secretary to the King, Archdeacon of Gloucester, etc. (Gr. x.) Vellum;
John of Trevise, Vicar of Berkeley, Gloucester, and chaplain to Thomas, 10th Lord Berkeley, viz.:—— Vellum; beginning of the xvth cent.; with illuminated borders and miniature initials. On ff. 4 and 36 are the arms ofRichard Beauchamp, Earl of