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Binding leather with transfer of ink from the Old English leaf containing a fragment of Ælfric's “Sermo in natale unius confessoris."
This leather is from the original binding of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library's copy of Barclay His Argenis (1636). Visible is the transfer of ink from the Old English manuscript leaf once pressed up against the leather. The Old English leaf had…
Leaf from a Latin glossary with Old English glosses, covering the words interkalares to istingum.
Worcester (?), West Midlands, England, circa 990 - 1010. Recto of leaf shown.
Barclay His Argenis. Or, the Loves of Polyarchus & Argenis. Faithfully translated out of Latin into English. by Kingsmill Long Esquire.
Two Old English leaves (MS Pryce C2, Items 1 and 2) were removed from the original binding of this volume.
Fragment of “Sermo in natale unius confessoris.”
Worcester (?), England, circa 1050-1099, with 13th-century annotations by the Tremulous Hand of Worcester.
Fragment of “The Legend of the Holy Cross before Christ.”
Worcester (?), England, circa 1000-1050, with 13th-century annotations by the Tremulous Hand of Worcester.