Manuscript Description Scotland, Glasgow, Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 84 (T.4.1) | |
| MS Appellation: | Guido de Colonna Destruction of Troy |
| Title: | Destruction of Troy |
| Author: | Guido de Colonna |
| Contents: | Historia Destructionis Troiae, Colonna; Historia Alexandri Magni, Valerii; Itinerarium; Marci Pauli de Venetis, De Oriente; Fratris Odorici de Foro Iulii, De Turcis; Johannis Mandeville, De Mirabilibus. |
| Language: | Latin |
| 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: | i modern paper flyleaf + iv older paper flyleaves + i parchment stub + 1 unnumbered vellum leaf +1-337 parchment text block + ii older paper flyleaves + i newer paper flyleaf |
| Pagination: | In ink ff1-171 thereafter in pencil to f266. |
| Quiring: | See Young and Henderson Aitken, 'A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in The University of Glasgow', (Glasgow, 1908), p.90. |
| Signatures: | Mostly gone but some still survive towards the end of the volume from f266 in red ink in the small box created at the conjunction of the vertical and horizontal ruling on the right. |
| Catchwords: | Mostly cropped. |
| Page Size: | 268 x 182 |
| Frame: | 8 x horizontal in four pairs matched by 4 x vertical also in four pairs; first and last lines of text contained within two pairs of lines; gloss box thus created on each side of text and space above for running titles and below for catchwords; ruled within in crayon and ink. |
| Writing Space: | 175 x 115 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | Throughout in red ink in the hand of the scribe are incipits to prologues and books and explanatory explicits to different parts. |
| Marginal Headings: | A few marginal headings in some texts as for example in Paul of Venice, chapter numbers in the ink of the text and the hand of the scribe; a few other notes occur in the margins, again in the hand of the scribe. |
| Table of Contents: | In the hand of the scribe on the verso of the first unnumbered vellum leaf. |
| Title by Scribe: | Titles of the different works contained in the volume are given in the list of contents on the volume of the first folio or unnumbered flyleaf; in the hand of the scribe. |
| Illuminated Initials: | 7-line gold initial on parti-coloured blue and pink ground on f2v, small spray attached; small illuminated letters begin prologues or books for Troy; similar gold initials for the different items listed in Contents. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Alternating red and blue in some texts only. |
| Flourished Initials: | Blue initials with fine red penwork flourishing throughout the volume. |
| Other Names (not owners): | On the folio which contains the Contents, the verso of the first unnumbered leaf is 'Mary Southwell Oeth this booke' perhaps 16-17th century. On f313 the name 'Hugh Walter purde'. |
| Further Information: | John Young and P.H. Aitken, 'A Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow', (Glasgow 1908), p. 90; A. Hilka and F.P. Magoun, 'A list of manuscripts containing texts of the Historia de Peliis Alexandri Magni, Recensions I1, I2, I3', Speculum, vol. 9 (1934), pp. 84-6; A.I. Doyle and M.B. Parkes, in Ker Festscrift 1978 p.192 and n. 65 for information on Richard Frampton the scribe. |