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Canticum de nativitate Domini : Haarlem
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Xylographic or block book. Leaves printed on one side only, with facing blank pages pasted together. Printed in gray-brown ink. Hand colored in reddish-brown, green, olive green, peach, yellow and black wash. Leaves separated, glued to tabs and rebound into a single quire. The Huntington Library copy, similar to the copies in Munich and Vienna, is bound in following order: 1, 3, 2, 5, 4, 6-8. The Huntington Library copy's leaves 3-2 and 5-4 were put in standard order when rebound. Binding: 16th century limp yellow-stained paper wrapper; sewn on 2 supports. Front and back covers pasted to leaves [1] and [16].
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The nativite of oure lady : [manuscript]
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ff. 1-109v; ff. 110-112, modern; f. 112v blank. [John Lydgate]. [Life of Our Lady]. Incipit: A Floure of vertu full longe kept in cloos. Explicit: That the fortune made debonayre/ For to susteyne þe honour of her toun//. Rubric: The Nativite of oure lady Capitulo primo. English. Text preceded on ff. 1-2v by a chapter list and a prologue, " O thouȝtfull hert plunged in distresse/ With slombre of slouthe þis long wynterys nyȝt. . ." Ends defectively; on ff. 110-112, Book 6, vv. 327-462 replaced in an imitative anglicana hand on modern parchment: "And thourgh hire helpe and meditacion. . .To kepe and saue fro all aduersyte. Amen." IMEV 2574 . J. A. Lauritis et al., eds., A Critical Edition of John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady. Duquesne Studies Philological Series 2 (Pittsburgh 1961), group b; see p. 42; this manuscript included in the collation; the text in HM 115 divided into 36 chapters (as is the chapter list), rather than the 82 of the Caxton edition or the 87 of the Lauritis edition.
mssHM 115
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Casteleyn, [-----?]. To William Blathwayt. Haarlem
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In Dutch. Only the author's surname is given.
BLA 54
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Casteleyn, [-----?]. To William Blathwayt Haarlem
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In Dutch. Only the author's surname is given. Fragments: middle portion torn out.
BLA 56