Manuscript Description London, British Library, MS Additional 24062 | |
Title: | Privy Seal Formulary Book |
Author: | Hoccleve |
Contents: | Collection of forms, samples for letters, official documents, etc. |
Language: | English, Latin and French |
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. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 201 plus two parchment end flyleaves and paper flyleaves front and back added later. |
Pagination: | Medieval folio numbers where modern would be, in ink, roman numbers; modern pencil same place in arabic. |
Quiring: | 12s (though difficult to tell since no catchwords or signatures, and strings hidden in tight gutter). ff145-52 is an 8, then 3 x 12, ?1 x 10? If the quire beginning on f153 is 14, the eight of ff145-52 is quire 12 and it would be 12 x 12 to make up the 144 before that. |
Signatures: | No signatures in usual place, but see in medieval hand (Hoccleve's?) top f153, 'q. xiiij. fo j top f170 is 'q. xv. f. j' and just romans 'ij' through 'vj' on ff171-175; on f182, 'q. xvj. fo. j'. |
Catchwords: | None for most quires, but see 'Tresch & foral p'...' on f135v 'A Bretyngny' bottom f152v. |
Page Size: | Folio |
Frame: | Varies, e.g. 4 x vertical enclosing text in large column and marginal notations in smaller (always outer margin), 1 x horizontal which goes under top line of text, in grey plummet. |
Marginal Headings: | Headings like running titles at tops of pages for types of documents, correlates to table of contents front and back. |
Table of Contents: | Table of contents to folio numbers. |