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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.85) | |
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| Title: | Cutting from the Book of St Albans, or, Book of Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry |
| Author: | Juliana Berners |
| Language: | English, with Latin |
| Origin: | England, ?York |
| Date: | 20th c., pre. 1961 |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Physical Description: | Cutting from leaf, ca. 218 x 228 mm, ruled in pencil |
| Rubric: | N/A |
| Incipit: | N/A |
| 2o folio: | N/A |
| Explicit: | N/A |
| Contents: | Cutting from Cote Armour, the treatise on heraldry, in the Book of St Albans. Recto: That is to say the contre of tempurnes. Verso: Primus lapis. |
| Script: | Pseudo Gothic bookhand (cursive) |
| Artist:: | George Edward Larman (1895 – 1961) |
| Decoration: | Ornamental initials [2 l.] in red with blue pen-flourishing; blue penwork linefillers in form of animals, fish, grotesques and drolleries; bar and ivy-leaf borders (originally three-sided) with foliate motifs. |
| Provenance: | George Edward Larman (1895 – 1961); his bequest, 1961 |
| Binding: | N/A |
| Notes: | The Book of St Albans, attributed to Juliana Berners, was published circa 1486. It contains three treatises on hawking, hunting and heraldry. This cutting is taken from the text of the treatise on heraldry (pp. aii-aiii). Larman probably planned to produce a manuscript of the whole of the treatise on heraldry. This fragment has evidence of water damage which perhaps caused Larman to abandon the project. |
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| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
