Beinecke Library, New Haven (CT, USA) — Takamiya Deposit 15 — Mirror of Life, etc. (in English)

By Anonymous (not verified) , 8 August 2025
Shelfmark
Takamiya Deposit 15
Artefact type
Evidence code/letter (Ker)
e
Evidence description
evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes

First recorded in the Supplement at its then location of Tokyo. Prof. Takamiya deposited this, with other Middle English manuscripts, at the Beinecke, c.2013.

Ownership / provenance notes

Sold at Sotheby's, 10 December 1969, lot 43 for £22,000; the Catalogue of the sale has a reduced facsimile of one page. Dawson's Catalogue, 209 (June 1970), item 3 at £38500.

Catalogue URL
https://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/6778/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180531130652/https://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/6778/
Catalogue key / ID
6778
Modern holding institution
Date (as given)
s. xv1.
Source (bibliography)
Work label (as given)
Mirror of Life, etc. (in English)