Manuscript Description England, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers, Box S. 1. | |
MS Appellation: | Hatfield Fragment |
Title: | Troilus and Criseyde |
Author: | Chaucer |
Contents: | Troilus and Criseyde fragment. |
Language: | English |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Dialect: | London Type III |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | Two sides of single strip. |
Page Size: | 240 x 69 (at longest and widest points) |
Frame: | Indeterminate; heavy lines drawn between stanzas |
Writing Space: | 215-220 ruled height; width indeterminate |
Running Titles: | 'liber [primus]' |
Further Information: | Campbell, J.J., 'A new Troilus fragment', PMLA 73 (1958) 305-8. Doyle, A.I. 'The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation', p. 58. Seymour I: 77. |