Manuscript Description USA, New Haven, Yale Beinecke Osborn 1.20 | |
| Title: | Polychronicon |
| Author: | Trevisa |
| Contents: | Polychronicon (version B copied from De Worde 1495) (STC 13439) |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1500-1600 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
| Dialect: | Sixteenth century (probably early); notes on flyleaves mid-seventeenth century. Apparently inserted into 1527 reprint (by Peter Treveris) of de Worde's 1495 version of the Chronicle (STC 13439). |
| Material: | Paper |
| No of Folios: | 3 folios + 25 folios, plus one loose leaf |
| Pagination: | Foliation lower right margin of recto (modern, pencil). At one point, pagination (though labelled 'foli. 1') in ff1-18; final section (ff19-25) numbered a.1, a.2, etc. every other folio , and given its own foliation (correct, this time) in the upper margin. All of this numeration has been removed, in many cases, by later trimming of the pages. |
| Catchwords: | None |
| Page Size: | 260 x 185 |
| Frame: | None visible; some columns in Table separated by ink lines. |
| Writing Space: | c. 245 x 160 (Prohemye), c. 243 x 156 (Table), c. 245 x 145 (start of first book) |
| Incipits and Explicits: | 'PROHEMYE' in capitals on f1; section titles in final section; 'The fyrst Booke' originally written in upper margin of all pages in final section. |
| Index: | Subject index ff3v-18r |
| Marginal Headings: | In Table and subsequent sections in ink, separated from text by blank lines and indented. |
| Other Names (not owners): | R. A. Green-Armytage (Bookplate) |
| Miscellaneous Info: | Special thanks to Diane Ducharme for her assistance in identifying the scripts. |