Manuscript Description USA, New Haven, CT, Beinecke Library MS 493 (olim Phillipps 8267, olim Bodmer) | |
| MS Appellation: | Hoccleve's Series |
| Title: | Hoccleve's Series |
| Author: | Hoccleve and Lydgate |
| Contents: | Hoccleve's Series including: Complaint and Dialogue, ff. 1-16v; Tale of Emperor Jereslaus (IMEV 1561), ff. 16v-28v; Prose moralization on Tale of Emperor Jereslaus, 28v-30; Lerne to Die (IMEV 3121), ff. 30-41; Prose moralization to Lerne to Die and Hoccleve's The Joys of Heaven in prose; Tale of Jonathas (IMEV 4072), ff. 42-51; Prose moralization on the Tale of Jonathas, 51-51v; Lydgate's Dance of Macabre, ff. 51v-60v; Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes ff. 61-133v |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | Shailor cites M. B. Parkes as dating third quarter of 15th century. |
| Material: | Combination: paper with parchment inner and outer bifolia for each quire. |
| No of Folios: | 1 newer parchment + 1 contemporary parchment + text block 134 folios mixed paper and parchment + 1 newer parchment |
| Pagination: | Modern, usual place ff1-134. |
| Quiring: | 14s |
| Signatures: | Signatures in lower outer corners of first half of quires, lower case letters plus roman numerals. |
| Catchwords: | Lower margin of last folio verso each quire, near right frame line, enclosed in brown scrolls sometimes overwritten in red. |
| Page Size: | 288 x 208 |
| Frame: | Frame and ruling in ink, pricking on upper, outer and lower edges. |
| Writing Space: | 210 x 108 |
| Marginal Headings: | Rubric headings and marginal notes by the scribe. |
| Table of Contents: | 18th century added to front flyleaf, table of contents (see names below). |
| Paragraph Marks: | Alternating red and blue paraph marks at beginning of each stanza and blue ones before rubric headings and marginal notes. |
| Flourished Initials: | Blue initials 2-6 lines high with red penwork flourishing; Shailor notes several distinct styles of flourishing cf. 1v, 41v, 77v. Red overwritten to decorate extenders in top line and descenders in bottom line. |
| Other Names (not owners): | Shailor notes name on front contemporary flyleaf (folio i), dates 18th c, 'Reynolds / anno 1713 / Staff[ordshire] and says same hand enters to verso of same flyleaf a brief life of Hoccleve in Latin and table of contents in English. |
| Miscellaneous Info: | Note same content and close textual affiliation for the Regiment with Bodley 221, Laud Misc 735 and Selden Supra 53, except that in Selden the Regiment comes first (see M. S. Marzec, '...' and A. S. G. Edwards, 'Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes: a Further Manuscript', Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, Transactions 5 (Edinburgh, 1978), p. 32. |
| Further Information: | Shailor, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, vol. 2: MSS 251-500 (Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1987), pp. 475-478. |