Add MS 60577 - The Winchester Anthology

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 98
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1400)
Title
The Winchester Anthology
Shelfmark
Add MS 60577
Creation Date
ca. 1487 - 1574
Repository
Contents Note

Miscellany of verse and prose (authors include Francesco Petrarca and John Lydgate), written in seven different hands. There is also a sermon by John White, sheet music, prayers, medical recipes, and grammatical texts. Languages: Latin, Middle English, French, English. A member of William Waynflete's household may have been responsible for the initial compilation of this volume.

Material Features

Fifteenth-century blind-stamped binding with clasps, by the 'Virgin and Child' binder, c. 1480-1500.

Provenance

John Brinstan sold the manuscript to John Buriton, monk of St Swithun's, Winchester for 3s 4d (see f. ii). Thomas Dackomb (1496-c. 1572), petty canon of Winchester Cathedral, owned this manuscript in 1549 (see f. 1r). Other owners include William Wey, lay singing-man at Winchester Cathedral (fl. 1559) and Henry Bauy (fl. late sixteenth century).

Acquisition

Bernard Quaritch Ltd. purchased this manuscript at Sotheby's, 19 June 1979. This manuscript was subsequently acquired by the British Library in the same year.

Source of Data

BL Catalogue (see links below); Hannah Yip.

Other Note

See Edward Wilson and Iain Fenlon, The Winchester Anthology: A Facsimile of British Library Additional Manuscript 60577 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1981).

URLs
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_60577 Digitised copy of British Library, Add MS 60577.
GEMMS record created
November 8, 2020
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024