Manuscript

Pepys Library, Pepys MS 1916
(Pepysian Sketchbook)

Codicology

Produced: England?, Late 14th century
Current Location: Pepys Library, Cambridge, England, UK
Manuscript Type: Miscellany
Language: Latin
Folios: 24
Illustrated: Yes
Media: Parchment
Dimensions: Height: 29 cm Width: 18.3 cm

Description

A sketch book, containing many images of animals.


From the M.R. James catalog:

This forms a most remarkable collection of studies by an English artist of the last years of the fourteenth century. They are, I think, intended for use both in paintings on a large scale (whether wall-paintings or easel-pictures) and also in illustrating books and in embroidery. For the latter purposes the studies of birds are specially appropriate. Bird-life seems to have been a favorite study of English artists.

Additional Descriptions

Additional description (page 47-51)

Editions and Facsimiles

None known