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Liber ruralium commodorum (MS B.17).

Accession number
MS B.17
Object title
Liber ruralium commodorum (MS B.17).
Created
England, between 1400 and 1430.
Binding
Gold-tooled vellum.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description
136 leaves (2 columns, 49-59 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 348 x 237 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Apr. 1952 from Bernard Quaritch, London (Cat. 699, no. 52).
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in England, early 15th century.
Texts: Petrus de Crescentiis (Pietro de'Cescenzi), Liber ruralium commodorum (fol. 5-133); John Lydgate, Verses on the Kings of England, in English (fol. 2-2v); recipes and notes, in English and Latin (fol. 1v, 2v-4v, 133v-136).
Decoration: 1 pen drawing; numerous filigree initials.
Script
Gothic cursive and textura
Language
Latin and Middle English
Century
Classification