Manuscript Description Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 354 | |
MS Appellation: | R (Waldron) |
Title: | Polychronicon |
Author: | Trevisa's translation of Higden |
Contents: | Trevisa's Polychronicon |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1485-1510; James says late 15th or 16th c. |
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: | Paper |
No of Folios: | ii + 182 + ii (foliated 2004) |
Pagination: | CCCC copy of James Catalogue has hand-written note to say that foliated by Tim Bolton in 2004. |
Quiring: | 16s |
Catchwords: | By scribe in lower margin of last leaf, verso each quire, 3 words, unembellished, not quite running up to frame line |
Page Size: | 290 x 217 |
Frame: | None |
Writing Space: | 275 x 195 |
Marginal Headings: | Higden's Latin headings written by scribe in same ink and size and script on otherwise blank line between sections, eg 'de hibernia'. Several 16th century hands in this manuscript. We have illustrated the first. |
Other Names (not owners): | None |
Further Information: | James, Catalogue of MSS in Corpus CHrist College, Cambridge, 2.186; Ronald Waldron, John Trevisa's Translation of the Polychronicon of Ranulph Higden, Book VI, Middle English Texts 35 (2004), p. xxxvi. |