Accession number
MS B.26
Object title
Life of St. Winifred (MS B.26).
Created
England, between 1550 and 1599.
Binding
Early 19th-century half sheepskin.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Description
9 leaves (1 column, 20-23 lines), bound : paper ; 182 x 120 mm
Provenance
William Hughes; Richard Wright, surgeon (name on end leaf; possibly the Richard Wright, M.D. whose books were sold at auction Apr. 23, 1787); purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Nov. 1957 from H.P. Kraus, New York (Cat. 85, no. 123).
Notes
Ms. written in England in the late 16th century.
Texts: Life of St. Winifred, in English (fol. 2-7v); Nine degrees of kinship, in Welsh (fol. 8v); Richard Cynwal, Englyn to the nightengale, in Welsh (fol. 9v).
On fol. 6 is a note stating that the life of St. Winifred was "drawen out of an ould pryntinge-booke word by word Jo: P:"--Cf. PML files.
Texts: Life of St. Winifred, in English (fol. 2-7v); Nine degrees of kinship, in Welsh (fol. 8v); Richard Cynwal, Englyn to the nightengale, in Welsh (fol. 9v).
On fol. 6 is a note stating that the life of St. Winifred was "drawen out of an ould pryntinge-booke word by word Jo: P:"--Cf. PML files.
Script
cursive
Language
English and Welsh
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