Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 638 | |
Title: | Anthology of poems |
Author: | Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate |
Contents: | Poems; Anelida and Arcite, Legend of Good Women, Parlement of Foules, Book of Duchess etc |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1475-1500 |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Material: | Combination; paper with outer and inner bifolia of each quire in parchment. |
No of Folios: | i + 219 + i |
Quiring: | 1 (16), 2 (20), 3 (16), 4 (14), 5 (16), 6 (16) (4 missing), 7 (14), 8-12 (16), 13 (16)(missing 11), 14 (14)(missing 9). |
Signatures: | Ink, right corner of first recto page of quire. Only three remain, 'ii' on f1, 'iii' on f37 and 'viii' on f98 thus a missing quire at the beginning. |
Catchwords: | Centre bottom by scribe. Scroll surround and in red ink |
Page Size: | 195 x 137 |
Frame: | Dry point, brown, red. |
Writing Space: | Varies; 144-154 x 85 |
Incipits and Explicits: | Latin |
Marginal Headings: | Red |
Running Titles: | Red throughout. |
Paragraph Marks: | Occasional; red |
Flourished Initials: | Red 2-4 lines in height |
Other Names (not owners): | On f214 'be me Humffrey Fflemyn' On f194v is 'TH 1573'. Seymour suggests that this is possibly Thomas Howlett who also signed MS. Rawlinson poet. 163. |
Further Information: | In the Bodleian Catalogue by 1620. 'Manuscript Bodley 638. A facsimile', intro. by P. Robinson (1982). Introduction by P. R. Robinson. |