Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Dugdale 45 | |
| MS Appellation: | SC 6533 |
| Title: | Regiment of Princes |
| Author: | Hoccleve |
| Contents: | De Regimine Principum |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1440-1465 |
| 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 (new paper) + 98 |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper outer corner recto, folios 1-98 |
| Quiring: | 8s |
| Catchwords: | By the scribe, smaller than the text, unembellished, usual placement |
| Page Size: | 225 x 173 |
| Frame: | 2 x vertical, 4 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines, extending to edge of page; ladder in square; fine brown crayon |
| Writing Space: | 165 x ca. 90-100 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | 'Cest tout' by the scribe at the end on f96v. |
| Title by Scribe: | On f1r in top margin, a scribal heading 'Hoccleue de Regimine Principum', introduced by the same kind of red paraph and underlined. |
| Flourished Initials: | 2-line blue lombard initial with red penwork flourishing; red highlighting initial letter each stanza; Latin glosses introduced by red paraph and red underline; vertical stroke of paraph extended to run length of gloss. |
| Other Names (not owners): | No names; weather, earthquake and comet notes for years 1569-1580 on f97r suggest northern ownership in those years (snow in April, interest in doings of Earl of Northumberland, Westmoreland, etc.) |
| Further Information: | Madan, Falconer, and H. H. E. Craster and N. Denholm-Young, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Vol. II, part II, MSS 3491-8716. Oxford: Clarendon, 1937. P. 1090. |