Showing posts with label Nostell Priory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nostell Priory. Show all posts
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
An Unknown MS from Nostell Priory
While in Los Angeles this summer I enquired of several local institutions about their holdings, and got a very helpful response from Emma Roberts at the Los Angeles Public Library, who sent me pictures and other information about their only medieval manuscript. Before I left LA I was able to spend an hour examining and photographing it.
The volume consists of a front flyleaf and a back pastedown; one quire of 8 leaves; one partial quire of 6 leaves; and 12 more individual leaves, some of them consecutive, others isolated, in the remains of its medieval oak binding:
Labels:
MLGB,
MLGB3,
Nostell Priory,
ownership inscription
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