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Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 346
 
MS Appellation:SC 10173
Title:Anthology of Poems
Author:Chaucer, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Clanvowe and anon
Contents:Legend of Good Women; Letter of Cupid; Complaint of the Black Knight; Anelida and Arcite; Complaint of Mars and Venus; Complaint of Pity; Ballads;Temple of Glas; Cuckoo and the Nightingale; Dream of Chaucer; Parliament of Birds
Language:English
Date Range:1425-1475
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Material:Parchment
No of Folios:iv paper flyleaves + 1-132 parchment + iii paper flyleaves
Pagination:Older pagination in black ink in top right corners. Now crossed through with a later pencil foliation beneath the ink.
Quiring:8's
Signatures:None visible.
Catchwords:Catchwords in the work of Hand 2 only; thus on ff41v, 49v, 57v, 65v 73v and 117v.
Page Size:230 x 170
Frame:Ink, hard point, crayon and pencil.
Writing Space:Height variable but width constant throughout the four volumes. c. 180 x 110
Incipits and Explicits:In red ink in the hand of the scribe
Index:Modern index on flyleaf iv.
Table of Contents:Modern list on flyleaf iv.
Title by Scribe:The name of, for example, each legend is indicated by the scribe in the incipits. The Temple of Glas also has a title done by the scribe in red ink. Elsewhere a modern hand has supplied titles for example 'Chaucer's Dream' on f102.
Borders:Gold, blue pink, turquoise, purple and green, three-sided border on first folio.
Illuminated Initials:4-line initial on gold ground with colours as in the border.
Flourished Initials:Blue with red flourishing at the beginning of different items or parts. Some initials remain unflourished. The flourishing extends up and down the border.
Other Names (not owners):'W. Sancroft' in top right corner of first folio. 'John Graystok' and 'Walker' on f132v.
Miscellaneous Info:Four textually self-contained booklets: 1. Hand 1 copied ff1-33; Hand 2 copied ff34-75; 2. Hand 3 copied ff76-101; 3. Hand 3 copied ff102-109; Hand 2 copied ff110-119 4. Hand 1 copied ff120-131
Further Information:Tanner Catalogue: Tanner; Hackman; 2nd Impression, 1966, p. 749. Seymour, M. C. A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts: Works Before 'The Canterbury Tales', vol. 1: 83-85, Aldershot, Hants: Scolar Press, 1995.
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