Manuscript Description Scotland, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Library MS 123 | |
Title: | Miscellany of which f10v-31 is the Astrolabe |
Author: | Chaucer |
Contents: | Moral tales in Latin; Latin theological notes; Astrolabe, 10v-30v part only; Seneca De Quattour virtutibus cardinalis |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1425-1450 |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Dialect: | N. Midland. Parts of MS written in Cheshire ca.1400 |
Material: | Combination |
No of Folios: | ii + 161 + ii |
Pagination: | Pencil foliation put in when the manuscript was reformed with paper mounts. |
Quiring: | 8s with parchment inner and outer bifolia of each quire; paper leaves within now remounted. |
Signatures: | None remain |
Catchwords: | None remain |
Page Size: | 220 x 140 for parchment leaves |
Frame: | 2 x vertical; 2 x horizontal brown crayon |
Writing Space: | Varies 160-170 x 115 |
Incipits and Explicits: | On f30v, 'Explicit liber qui vocatur bred & milk' |
Marginal Headings: | Many of the outside borders of the paper folios have crumbled away. A remnant on f17r (parchment) has '2 pars' in the right margin in the ink of the text and the hand of the scribe, underlined with red sleigh feature. |
Title by Scribe: | In red ink in hand of scribe 'Bred & mylk for chyldryn' on f 10v. |
Paragraph Marks: | Red and unadorned; red tipping of some letters within the text. |
Flourished Initials: | Red unflourished lombard initials to begin sections in Astrolabe |
Further Information: | Ker, N.R., Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries', Vol. II, Abbotsford to Keele, (Oxford 1977); Seymour, M.C., A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts', (Ashgate Publ., 1995); Robbins, R.H, 'Mirth in Manuscripts', in 'Essays and Studies' (1968.2). |