ABSTRACT
The former Hopton Hall manuscript was for centuries in private hands in the possession of the Chandos-Pole-Gell family in Derbyshire before its sale at Sotheby’s, on 5 December 1989, where it formed lot 89. It was acquired then by the book dealers, Bernard Quaritch; in 1995 it was purchased by Keio University in Tokyo from the Tokyo dealer Maruzen.
