The Chaundler mss.
Subtitle: Introduction on the life and writings of Thomas Chaundler. And an appendix containing descriptions of the Trinity college and New college mss., with extracts therefrom.
By: Ed. by Montague Rhodes James ... With collotype reproductions. Printed for the Roxburghe Club.
Contributors: Roxburghe Club.
Publisher: J.B. Nichols and Sons
Published: 1916
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Chaundler, Thomas, 1418?-1490.; New College (University of Oxford); Winchester College.; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens.; Wells (Somerset)
Notes: The Trinity college ms. includes Chaundler's Liber apologeticus de omni statu humanæ naturæ, his Contention between the cities of Bath and Wells, and four letters from Chaundler to Bishop Beckington. The illustrations of the Liber apologeticus form "the raison d'être of the present publication." The New college ms. includes seven "collocutions" and two "allocutions" on William of Wykeham, by one of Chaundler's scholars. The four illustrations reproduced from it show Winchester college, New college, William of Wykeham surrounded by some of the benefactors and worthies of New college, and the cathedral and bishop's palace of Wells.