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HM 00150, Vox clamantis...

San Marino, Huntington Library, HM 00150. Text(s): Vox clamantis, Incipit Cronica que Vox clamantis dicitur, In huius opusculi principio intendit compositor describere, Carmen super multiplici Viciorum Pestilencia, Contra demonis astuciam in causa lollardie, De lucis scrutinio, Incipit tractatus de lucis scrutinio quam a diu viciorum tenebre prothdolor suffocarunt, O deus immense, Incipit carmen quod Iohannes Gower tempore regis Ricardi secundi dum vixit ultimo composuit, O Deus inmense sub quo dominantur in ense. Description: ff. 194 - Bound, s. XVIII, in tan calf by Thomas Elliott, blind tooled in a panel pattern with a carnation at each corner of the panel. See H. Nixon, "Harleian Bindings," Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard. Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications n.s. 18 (1975), 153-94, and especially plate 15, no. 8; for variant forms of the carnation tool, see J. B. Oldham, Shrewsbury School Library Bindings (Oxford 1943) 115 n. 2; rebacked; original spine laid down. The same binding is on HM 00143 and Lawrence, University of Kansas, Spencer Library, MS B61, a mid-fourteenth century register of writs [NB: date of Kansas manuscript corrected in 2012 fr

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