Manuscript Description England, London, British Library MS Additional 45680 | |
| Title: | Miscellaneous Letters and Papers |
| Author: | Many and varied includes bifolium by Trevisa |
| Contents: | Letters and papers; a few fragments of medieval manuscripts which include two folios of Trevisa's De Proprietatibus Rerum. |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | Perhaps third quarter 15th century. |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | 2; one bifolium originally outer bifolium of a quire ff48r-49v |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper outer corners running through all the fragments in the volume; a previous method of distinguishing part of this volume was naming sections alphabetically by items donated by various people, and this is third item in Part N of the MS, 'presented by G. Gotto, Esq.' |
| Quiring: | n/a |
| Catchwords: | On f49v by scribe under second column, nearer right than left side of the ruled column, several words with a crude scroll drawn around them in black ink; catchword reads '& holde in bondes'. |
| Page Size: | As it survives (it is severely cropped, with loss of all margin space at top and outer edges), 342 x 222 |
| Frame: | 4 x vertical enclosing the two columns and 4 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines, ruled within columns, dry point; there may have been ruling for glosses in outer margin but no outer margin survives; or ruling for running titles but no upper margins survive. |
| Writing Space: | 282 x 196 |
| Marginal Headings: | Red chapter headings; rubric by scribe in space left at end of line before the next chapter begins as for example 'De tygre Capitulum vj-m' on f49rb naming the Tigre river since all other chapters here on f49 are on rivers; chapters on 48 relate to birds (de coruice' for crow, 'de coruo' for raven on f48v. |
| Table of Contents: | n/a |
| Title by Scribe: | n/a |
| Paragraph Marks: | Frequent red paraphs |
| Flourished Initials: | 3-line red initials with grey penwork flourishing to form a hinged box around the letter, extenders with scalloped teeth on left side only, plus a short extender to left of letter with scallops on both sides, tendrils just fade or curl back on themselves. |
| Miscellaneous Info: | Text begins on folio 48ra 'Ȝif he be at large ' And oft to soche a coluere a lettere is slily bounde under the wyng & lett goo ' þan he fleeþ and cessethorn] neuer or he com to þe first place of hire bredyng and somtyme in þe way enmyes knowe & lett hire with an arowe & so for hire message is wonded & slayne & beryth hire owne deth De Conturnyce Capitulum viij-m Corlewes hiȝt conturnices & haue þat name of the sonne of þe voys & certeyne birdes þat þe grewes calle ortagias ' ends this folio (48vb) in Chap. Xi De Coruo, ''þan he fedeþ haue with all his myȝt and strenth as ysidere seth ' It is saide þat' Text on fol 49ra begins, Paradise & passeþ aboute þe lond emlatha a contrey of ynde & is called phison þat is to say felawsche in englysche' [the next chapter is De gyson Capitulum v-m] folio 48vb ends in chapter 'De gaȝan Capitulum xj-m 'twey lenages & an half þat were take presoneres by salmanasar kynge of assiriis |
| Further Information: | Additional Catalogue |