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. |