Peter Idley, Instructions to his Son, in Middle English verse with sections of Latin prose, manuscript on vellum 38 leaves, plus 2 original flyleaves, 236mm. by 165mm., lacking 2 leaves after fol.37, else complete, collation: i-iv8, v6 [of 8, lacking vi-vii], with horizontal catchwords, ruled for 32 lines, ruled in ink, written-space 167mm. by 100mm., written in dark brown ink in a regular anglicana bookhand, continuation from fol.31v in a cursive bookhand, blank space left for a 3-line initial on first leaf, a few marginal scribbles (some partly smudged or erased), other minor stains and tears, a few wormholes, some cockling, generally in sound and unsophisticated medieval condition, contemporary binding of gently bevelled wooden boards sewn on 5 double tawed leather thongs pegged into the boards, covered with white tawed leather, vellum pastedowns (one partly lifted) from a late thirteenth-century graded Calendar in red and black, stub (only) of a single clasp on edge of upper cover secured by 3 foliate metal pins, corresponding hole from a pin once in centre of lower cover, upper cover broken, binding wormed and very defective
Peter Idley, Instructions to his Son, in Middle English verse with sections of Latin prose, manuscript on vellum 38 leaves, plus 2 original flyleaves, 236mm. by 165mm., lacking 2 leaves after fol.37, else complete, collation: i-iv8, v6 [of 8, lacking vi-vii], with horizontal catchwords, ruled for 32 lines, ruled in ink, written-space 167mm. by 100mm., written in dark brown ink in a regular anglicana bookhand, continuation from fol.31v in a cursive bookhand, blank space left for a 3-line initial on first leaf, a few marginal scribbles (some partly smudged or erased), other minor stains and tears, a few wormholes, some cockling, generally in sound and unsophisticated medieval condition, contemporary binding of gently bevelled wooden boards sewn on 5 double tawed leather thongs pegged into the boards, covered with white tawed leather, vellum pastedowns (one partly lifted) from a late thirteenth-century graded Calendar in red and black, stub (only) of a single clasp on edge of upper cover secured by 3 foliate metal pins, corresponding hole from a pin once in centre of lower cover, upper cover broken, binding wormed and very defective
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