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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. |