Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden B.24 | |
MS Appellation: | SC 3554 |
Title: | Troilus and Criseyde; Mother of God |
Author: | Chaucer and Hoccleve |
Contents: | Troilus and Criseyde; Other poems; Kingis Quair; Hoccleve's Mother of God ff130-131v |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1485-1515; after 1488/9 when Henry Sinclair assumed his arms and before 1513 when he died. |
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: | After 1488/9 (when Henry Sinclair assumed arms on f. 118v), before 1513 (his death). |
Material: | Paper |
No of Folios: | ii + 1-231 + ii |
Pagination: | Modern pencil |
Quiring: | 16 and 12 but folios missing and added |
Signatures: | None |
Catchwords: | None |
Page Size: | 260 x 175 |
Frame: | Red for left vertical; no ruling for lines is visible. |
Writing Space: | 210 x 100 |
Incipits and Explicits: | By scribe |
Running Titles: | In Troilus and Criseyde only |
Borders: | Blue, green, red, yellow, gold |
Historiated Initials: | On f1, 9-line rose initial historiated inside the letter, on illuminated gold ground. |
Illuminated Initials: | Rose, white, blue, gold |
Other Names (not owners): | Names of the Sinclair family on ff79, 230v, 231, 231v. Also on f231v is 'Channois 1592'. On f155 is 'By me Edward Walker'. |
Miscellaneous Info: | Arms of Henry, Lord Sinclair (d. 1513) on f118v. The scribe may be James Gray but opinion is divided.James Graye was a priest and a notary public. |
Further Information: | Boffey, Julia, and A.S.G. Edwards, intro. Chaucer, Works. Bodleian Library MS Arch Selden B.24: Facsimile Edition. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995. |