Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 619 | |
MS Appellation: | SC 2151 |
Title: | Astrolabe |
Author: | Chaucer |
Contents: | Astrolabe |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1425-1450 |
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: | ii + 72 (text ends at bottom of f68r. The verso is blank and four leaves follow which contain notes in several hands). |
Pagination: | Top right. Arabic numerals in ink. |
Quiring: | 1-8 (80 9 (8) (but missing 6-8) |
Signatures: | A 'b' is visible on ff17r and 19r; bottom right, ink. Remnants of either a 'd' or an upper case A on f35r. On f49r is fi with f +cropping on ff50r and 52r. On ff57, 58 and 59 a very faint 'g' is visible. On f60 the 'g' is clear. |
Catchwords: | All present; within frame, bottom right, black ink hand of scribe |
Page Size: | 140 x 90 |
Frame: | 2 x vertical, 2 x horizontal; brown lining. |
Writing Space: | 90 x 60 |
Incipits and Explicits: | The first one is 'here begynneth the descripcioun of thin Astrelabie'. Thereafter, the use of red ink for incipits and explicits defines the divisions of the text. |
Marginal Headings: | Red ink |
Title by Scribe: | 'Brede and Milke for children' |
Paragraph Marks: | Double parallel lines mark places where paraphs to go. None included. |
Flourished Initials: | Space allotted on first folio. An unadorned small L in ink is in the four-line space. Spaces have been left for initials throughout the manuscript with visible guide letters. |
Other Names (not owners): | On f69v is 'Constat More de Mychelmalvarn monoch see Seymour for suggestion that he could have been a monk of the Benedictine priory of Great Malvern. |
Miscellaneous Info: | In red ink above first line 'Brede and Milke for children'. Small compact, handy little book. Unfinished with regard to paragraphs and flourished initials. |