Manuscript Description Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ee.2.15, part 2 | |
Title: | Man of Law |
Author: | Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and Mirk |
Contents: | Mirk's Festial fragment; ff18-37v Man of Law fragments; ff38-46v Confessio Amantis (excerpt); ff48-105v Lydgate; f107 Charter; f111v Legend of St Augustine |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1475-1500 |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Dialect: | ff. 1r-16r Leics |
Material: | Paper |
No of Folios: | 112 |
Pagination: | Modern pencil upper outer corner right. |
Quiring: | Folios remounted with blank additions thus impossible to discern; a collection of several smaller books. |
Catchwords: | Few bottom margins remain. |
Page Size: | 280 x 200 |
Frame: | Square just possible to see original ruling in places. |
Writing Space: | 200 x 130 variable because of fragments |
Incipits and Explicits: | No evidence remains |
Title by Scribe: | Damaged so impossible to know. |
Borders: | Red, brown, green, blue in colour wash and ink; no gold; dragons or lizards with fish in the border which remains; possible initials and some sort of mark within the border decoration. |
Historiated Initials: | Two or three initials containing portraits in texts other than Man of Law. |
Miniatures: | Several folios with drawings. |
Flourished Initials: | Not in the Chaucer section; however a significant feature of the hand is that from descenders of the bottom line, the scribe draws lines which curl around over and around each other; these ink lines are cross-hatched with parallel lines in either red or brown ink. |
Other Names (not owners): | On 76v are two names in the top margin 'Edemonde ??dent' and Houmffrey ?Paldon/Seldon'. Could the Edemonde ? be the 'E R' contained within the border for ML and the 'O' of St Edmund text? On f78r 'Wyllm Fessher' and 'Rychard with(an/om)'? The fish in the decoration of Man of Law could suggest ownership by William Fisher. |
Miscellaneous Info: | May have belonged to the person whose mark is contained within the illumination for ML and also within the first 'O' of the St Edmund text. Watermark 'Van Gelder Zonen'. |
Further Information: | Manly, John M. and Rickert, E. The Text of the Canterbury Tales, 8 vols, vol. I, 126-129. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940. Seymour, M. C. A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, vol. 1, Works Before 'The Canterbury Tales', pp. 132-134. Aldershot, Hants: Scolar Press, 1995. |