Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Harley 5977 | |
Title: | Regiment of Princes |
Author: | Hoccleve |
Contents: | Regiment of Princes (fragment). Single leaf of a copy of the Regiment, of which more survives in Bodleian Rawlinson D.913, folio 63r-v. |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1450-1500 |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | Single leaf f90rv |
Pagination: | n/a |
Quiring: | n/a |
Signatures: | n/a |
Catchwords: | n/a |
Page Size: | Has been heavily cropped so barely text block: 157 x 103 mm |
Frame: | Impossible to say; was ruled, though now just slight indentations, no mark. |
Writing Space: | 150 x 75 |
Flourished Initials: | The initials of each line have been touched with red. |
Miscellaneous Info: | A MS of paper leaves to which have been attached single leaves from a variety of medieval MSS of different dates (like Rawl D.913); this one has a crease down right side of outer side of leaf, left side of verso about 7-8 mm from edge, and on verso this crease is much cleaner than the rest so bound into something and thus protected from dirt? |
Further Information: | Harley catalogue. Recto begins To thyn egal concorde vnto thi foo Suffraunce . and to thi self holynes To the nedy gredy with wrecchid woo' Recto ends: And thus he mot councel his brother lo Do þat is good and right to goddis pay In wurde not only but in werke always Verso begins: [ ]arful Iustice is in a manere Al vertu & wo wil haue this Iustice The lawe of crist to kepe wil he lere' Verso ends: Vnto his puple as plente and larges Of erthly good and better than is reyne Ffallyng at euyn from heuyn thei sey |