(ff. 71, 38v).Bought from Sotheby's on 16 February 1875 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). Saint Euthymius Greece, S. Greece, S. (Peloponnese)
the red preparation ground for the silver. Rubrics in silver showing its red ground. Service book, fragment A list of ancient Italian kings ending with Julius Caesar added by a 14th-century hand (f. 126).Marginal notes and ~maniculae~ added by 14th-
of Greece and the Aegean Sea. 'Links with Andrea Bianco's nautical atlas (1436) suggest a Venetian provenance for the manuscript and a date of between 1436 and 1450.... The codex constitutes one of the earliest examples of the synthesis of
d. 1710), and came to Holt Wilson through intermarriage.George Holt Wilson, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk: sale at Sotheby's, London, of 'Ancient Illuminated and other Manuscripts', 21 July 1910, lot 158, bought by Quaritch for £101.Bernard Quaritch, Ltd: its catalogue no.
king of Macedonia (b. 356 B. C., d. 323 B.C.), only child of king Philip and Queen Olympias, emperor of Greece and Persia;3 Carolingian Chansons de Geste (Songs of heroic deeds), epic poems : Simon de Pouille, Aspremont, and Fierabras
A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Ritson, J. 1829. Ancient Songs, from the Time of King Henry the Third, to the Revolution , London: Printed for J. Johnson. Samuels,