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posted 08-02-2006 02:05 PM          

This was interesting to me in that I originally thought it was held either by Cambridge or Oxford libraries.

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Location: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (MRMSS)
Call Number: MS M.0775
Record ID: 158842
Accession Number: MS M.775
Name: Pierpont Morgan Library. Manuscript. M.775.
Title: [Ordonances of Chivalry].
Published/Created: [England, probably London, third and fourth quarters of the 15th century]
Description: 320 leaves, (1 column, 28 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 244 x 165 mm.
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Genres: Illuminated manuscripts--England--London--15th century.
Miniatures (Illuminations)--England--London--15th century.
Diagrams, Astronomical.
Vellum.
Textura.
Coats of arms.
Calf bindings (Binding)--England--16th century.
Blocked bindings (Binding)--England--16th century.
Royal bindings (Binding)--England--16th century.
Language: Middle English and Latin
Script: textura
Notes: Ms. Ordonances of Chivalry written and illuminated in England, probably London, 3rd and 4th quarters of the 15th century.
Texts: 1) Abilment for the Jusus of the Pees (fol. 3-4v; 2) Memoriale - a table for calculating daily and yearly expenses (fol. 5-11v); 3) The Assize of Bread and Ale, and tables of Weights and Measures (fols. 12-13v); 4) Poem on the Coronation of Henry VI in 1429 (fol. 14-15 and 24); 5) The Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England (fol. 16-23v); 6) Vegetius, De re militari, an English translation completed for Thomas Lord Berkeley (fol. 25-121v); 7) How a man schall be armyd at his ese when he schal fighte on foote (fol. 122v-123v); 8) Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, Letter to Richard II on Tournaments (fol. 124-130); 9) Sailing directions (fol. 131-138v); 10) Aristotle, Secreta Secretorum, translated into English verse by John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh (fol. 139-195); 11) How Knyghtis of the bath shulde be made (fol. 195v-198); 12) (To make agua composyta (fol. 199, added in a slightly later hand); 13) Last page or prologue of a poem in English beginning: I that to youre service wolde were able and ending: The pore effecte of my litill konnynge (fol. 200); 14) Christine de Pizan, Pistill of Othea to Hector; translated into English verse, with a gloss in prose (fol. 200v-274v); 15) Recipe for a powder (fol. 275); 16) The Challenges of Pierre de Masse and Philip Boyle and the results of their combats with Sir John Astley in 1438 and 1441-1442, followed by the oath of a herald on appointment (fols. 275v-282v); 17) Calendar in Latin, thunder prognostications, astrological tables and diagrams (fols. 283-291); 18) Parvus Cato and Magnus Cato, translated into English verse by Benedict Burgh (fols. 293-320); 19) John Lydgate, Four Things that make a Man a Fool (fol. 320); 20) Medical recipes (fol. 320v).
Decoration: 4 full-page and 5 smaller miniatures, 1 astrological table, 1 Zodiac Man, with inscriptions, 1 circular astrological diagram.
Artist: Wingfield Master
Binding: English stamped calf, gilt, ca. 1545, with motto ich dien of Edward VI Prince of Wales (his arms have been removed), by the King Edward and Queen Mary Binder.
Provenance: Written for Sir John Astley (d. 1486), arms on several pages: quarterly, 1 and 4, azure a cinquefoil ermine (Astley); 2 and 3, gules two bars or (Harcourt) over all a label of three points ermine); Thomas Fitzhugh (arms 'part azure a fesse inter three buckets sable hooped or'); Brian Tunstall; Thomas Tunstall; owned by Edward VI before accession in 1547; Astley family, to Sir A.E.D. Astley, 21st Lord Hastings; his sale (London, Sotheby's, July 20, 1931, pp. 9-15, lot 7, pl. VI-IX) to Quaritch; purchased through Quaritch in 1931.
Associated Names: Wingfield Master, fl. ca. 1450-1470, illuminator.
Christine, de Pisan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431.
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius.
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Burgh, Benedict.
Astley, John, d. 1486, patron.
Fitzhugh, Thomas, former owner.
Tunstall, Brian, former owner.
Tunstall, Thomas, former owner.
King Edward and Queen Mary Binder, binder.
Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553, former owner.
Astley family, former owner.
Astley, A. E. D. 21st Lord Hastings, former owner.
Bernard Quaritch (Firm), bookseller.
Cite as: Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.775.
Formatted Date: 1450-1499.
Formatted Place: England London.
Standard Bibliographies: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1501-1502
Faye & Bond, p. 356-357
Publications on: Sir John Paston's 'Grete Boke': A Descriptive Catalogue with an introduction of British Library MS Lansdowne 285 / G. A. Lester. Cambridge [England] : D.S. Brewer ; Totowa, NJ,1984, p. 28-29, 31-34, 46-47, 71, 74, 76-77, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 91, 95, 96, 160, 164-165.
Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390-1490 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, vol. VI) / Kathleen L. Scott. London, 1996, I, 29, 36, 38, 39, 49, 50, 58, 61, 71 n. 1, 78 n. 64; II, 216, 265, 289-93, 294, 295, 296, 343, 362, no. 105, repr. 395, 396, 397, col. repr. 14.
Bühler, Curt F., "Astrological prognostications in MS 775 of the Pierpont Morgan Library," Modern Language Notes LXV, 5 (1941), p. 351-355.
Subjects: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--New York (State)--New York.
Dept./Collection: Pierpont Morgan Library Dept. of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

posted 08-02-2006 04:34 PM          

Very cool.

posted 08-02-2006 05:57 PM                  

Challenges of Pierre de Masse and Philip Boyle and the results of their combats with Sir John Astley in 1438 and 1441-1442, followed by the oath of a herald on appointment (fols. 275v-282v)
Gwen

posted 08-02-2006 08:31 PM                  

Brent

posted 10-13-2006 09:32 AM                  

Cheers
Dave