ripleyscroll-2

Ripley Scroll Huntington Library, HM 30313
Parchment, roll of 6 membranes; 3,247 × 392 mm. 196 lines of verse. Written in an italic script, badly rubbed in some areas.
Written in England in the second half of the sixteenth century. A number of other rolls with variations of this text and with similar illustrations were produced about the same period; London, Brit. Lib., Add. 5025 is dated 1588. Belonged to C. W. Dyson Perrins (1864-1958). Acquired by the Huntington Library from Sotheby’s, 9 December 1958, lot 42 with a plate of the upper part of the second picture, showing the fountain.

Link to library catalog entry: http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/hehweb/HM30313.html
Link to image source: http://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/dsheh/heh_brf?Description=&CallNumber=HM+30313


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