Peter Idley

Fragmenta Manuscripta 177: Instructions to his son

1490 - 1510

Paper, 161 x 208 mm.

One column with 3 seven-line stanzas, plus 5 lines of a fourth stanza visible. No bounding lines or ruling visible.

Missing leaf from Cambridge, Magdalen College Pepys 2030.

See M. R. James, pt. 3 of Bibliotheca Pepysiana (1923), 67-69.

Note: Frag 177v, verses 2486–2511: is the recto of the leaf; Frag 177r, verses 2514–2539: is the verso of the leaf.

Script: Cursive

Decorations: Large "N" with a four-leaf flower inside and large foliage décor extending vertically into left margin

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1990) 434-75.

J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, New Index of Middle English Verse (London, 2005) n. 1540.

Jones, Harold G. “PETER IDLEY’S ‘INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS SON’: A New Fragment.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 74, no. 4 (1973): 686–89. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43342871.

References in databases and bibliographies:

The Manuscript Atlas of Late-Medieval England (MALME)
The Digital Index of Middle English Verse: DIMEV 2594
New Index of Middle English Verse, 2005 rev.: NIMEV 1540

Fragmenta Manuscripta 177

John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Fragment

English

England