Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 394
- Source
- Manchester Digital Collections
- Library
- The John Rylands Library
- Shelfmark
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- Latin MS 394
- Biblissima authority file
- Language
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- Latin
- English
- Title
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- Proverbs and riddles
- Treatise on the Dictamen
- Letters
- Agent
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- Preferred form
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- Legh Richmond (1772-1827)
- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Richmond, Legh, 1772-1827
- Legh Richmond, (b. 1772, d. 1827), clergyman and writer
- Biblissima authority file
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- Preferred form
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- Joseph Mayer (1803-1886)
- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Mayer, Joseph, 1803-1886
- Joseph Mayer (b. 1803, d. 1886), antiquarian
- Biblissima authority file
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- Preferred form
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- Henry Guppy (1861-1948)
- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Guppy, Henry, 1861-1948
- Henry Guppy, (b. 1861, d. 1948), librarian
- Biblissima authority file
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- Description
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- Extent:
ff. 56 (i+55) Leaf height: 215 mm, width: 142 mm.
Binding:
Modern.
Acquisition:
Given by the librarian, Henry Guppy, (b. 1861, d. 1948), librarian.
Layout:
30-38 long lines. Written space height: 170 mm, width: 110 mm. .
Collation:
Quire 110, wants 2
Quire 212
Quire 310, wants 8
Quires 4-512
Script:
Written in a single hand throughout.
Data Source(s):
Description based on W. A. Pantin, A Medieval treatise on letter-writing with examples from the Rylands Latin MS. 394, in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 13:2 (1929); W. A. Pantin, A Medieval collection of Latin and English proverbs and riddles from the Rylands Latin MS 394,, in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 14:1 (1930); and Neil Ripley Ker, Medieval Manuscripts Lat. 184 and following (draft) (c. 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
Subject(s):
Proverbs; Rhetoric, Medieval; Letters
Abstract:
Manuscript containing proverbs, a treatise on letter writing and letters, written in England in the early to mid 15th century. The manuscript, though written in one hand throughout, consists of two distinct parts : (i) The gatherings a, b, c, folios 1-30, containing a collection of proverbs in Latin and English, and (ii) the gatherings d, e, folios 31-54, containing a Latin treatise on letter-writing, followed by a collection of letters. The two parts are distinct and self- contained, and there is no catchword linking gathering c with gather- ing d, in fact the former ends with blank leaves: it is quite possible that the gatherings have been misplaced in rebinding, and that origin- ally gatherings d, e preceded gatherings a, b, c. Each part of the manuscript is, in its own way, of great interest: the proverbs in the first part are the most bulky and striking feature of the book, but the second part, on letter-writing, seems to be really the principal item, and in a way helps to explain the other part.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Paper.
Provenance:
Probably owned by Legh Richmond, (b. 1772, d. 1827), clergyman and writer. On the inside of the front cover is written, 'L. Richmond, Trin. Coll. Camb. 1796. Saxon Proverbs (curious).' Richmond entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1789, B.A. 1794, M.A. 1799 (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
Passed to the collection of Joseph Mayer (b. 1803, d. 1886), antiquarian
At Mayer's death was acquired by Edward Howell of Liverpool, from whom it was acquired on 27th August 1887.
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