Le manuel des pecchez
Description
Includes catchwords at the end of quires. Decoration: 8-line incipit initial 'L' in blue and red, infilled with a leaf decoration in red; 2-line initials in blue, with red ornament, throughout; 1-line capital beginning each line of verse, filled with yellow or red alternately. Formerly attributed to William of Waddington. Written in textualis rotunda. Principal contents: ff. 1r-200v Le Manuel des Pecches ('Manual of Sins'), an Anglo-Norman poem written in England in the late 13th century and usually attributed to William of Waddington; f. 201r a recipe in 3 lines, "Pernetz gromoyl saxifrage..." Gift of Colonel Sir E. A. Brotherton in 1925. See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) p. 18. See also: E. J. Arnould, Le Manuel de Pèchès (Paris: E. Droz, 1940), p. 384.
Metadata
| Identifier | lwm8gch4 |
| IRN | 396903 |
| Class Mark | MS 1 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/lwm8gch4 |
| Collection(s) | Medieval Manuscripts |
| Category | Archive Print |
| Parent Record | Medieval Manuscripts (Special Collections) |
| Creator(s) | William of Waddington |
| Date | [ca. 1300-1350] |
| Size and Medium | 1 v. (ii, 101, ii leaves) (2 columns, 24 lines) |