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Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund by John Lydgate
British Library Yates Thompson MS 47
Kunbertus, Bishop of Elmanense, calls the States & declares Edmund King.



Yates Thompson MS 47
Date: between 1461 and c 1475
Title: John Lydgate, Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund
Language: English
Physical Description
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 170 mm (text space: 140 x 95 mm).
Script: Gothic cursive (Anglicana).
Ownership: The copy of John Lydgate's Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund is datable after 1461 because of internal references to Edward IV (r. 1461-1470). The manuscript was copied by the Edmund-Fremund scribe and artists who were active near Bury St Edmunds during the 1460s and who collaborated on several other Lydgate manuscripts.
British Library Yates Thompson MS 47.



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