Shelfmark:

MS. Duke Humfrey d. 2

Author:

Palladius

Title:

De agriculturae, verse translation made for Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester

Language:

English

Origin:

England

Date:

1442-3(?) (after 1439, before 1447)

Provenance:

Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447), with his arms, and an inscription probably in his hand; inscribed 'William Hodgkin', 'Georg Hodgkin' and 'Fly:(?) Hodgkin', all probably 17th-cent. (fol. 119v); James West, M.P. (c. 1704-72), signed 'J. West 1767' (fol. ii^r); sixth Earl Fitzwilliam, of Wentworth Woodhouse, by 1862; William Charles de Meuron, seventh Earl Fitzwilliam (d. 1943), with his bookplate and the Wentworth Woodhouse shelfmark 'Z.I.22'; allocated to the Bodleian in 1984 in lieu of capital transfer tax.

Typescript description available?:

No

Select Bibliography:

A. C. de la Mare, 'Duke Humfrey's English Palladius (MS. Duke Humfrey d. 2)', Bodleian Library Record, 12, no. 1, Oct. 1985, 39-51, figs. 1-4 (fols. xviii^v-xix^r, xxi^v-1r, 53r, and upper cover of binding); a photographic facsimile is MS. Eng. poet. d. 27 (Summary Catalogue, no. 31502).