Riddling couplets inscribed on a pillar, in John Trevisa’s translation of
Higden’s Polychronicon (Book I, Cap. 24)
Author(s): John Trevisa; Ranulph Higden
Subjects: inscriptions; chronicles, verse in; illustrations, verses accompanying; riddles
Versification: —
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Bibliographic Ghosts: Glasgow, Glasgow University Library Hunterian 83 (T.3.21): this is Brut Chronicle, not Trevisa; New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M875 [olim Helmingham Hall]: has only Trevisa’s De Proprietatibus
here, not Polychronicon.