Eleven charmingly naive illuminated
initials, many incorporating ‘droll faces’, decorate the 214pp work and one of these is dated 1636, but the manuscript as a whole is signed and dated 1662 by John Toke. The writer is believed to have been a Kentish cleric, and a later inscription referring to hops at Lod’s farm in the parish of Staplehurst would seem to strengthen that belief.
Illuminated manuscript of religious meditations
UK: “THE richness of the language in which this manuscript is written speaks redolently of the period, and of the writer himself,” said the Phillips cataloguer of an illuminated manuscript of religious meditations which sold at £4400 to Quaritch.
