Manuscript Description USA, New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Library MS Osborn a.20 | |
| MS Appellation: | Trevisa Polychronicon |
| Title: | Polychronicon |
| Author: | Trevisa's translation of Higden |
| Contents: | Trevisa, Polychronicon: Prohemye (numbered ff1-3r), Subject index (ff3v-18r), Prologue/Beginning of first book (ff19-25r); notes on ?emendation of the edition on flyleaf, in a different (? later) hand. Loose leaf (254 x 120 mm: probably from flyleaf of original book): notes on Cade's Rebellion, in the same hand as the other notes. |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | Sixteenth century (probably early); notes on flyleaves mid-seventeenth century. Apparently inserted into 1527 reprint (by Peter Treveris) of de Worde's 1495 version of the Chronicle (STC 13439). |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
| Material: | Paper |
| No of Folios: | 3 folios + 25 folios, plus one loose leaf |
| Pagination: | Foliation lower right margin of recto (modern, pencil). At one point, pagination (though labelled 'foli. 1', etc.!) in ff1-18; Final section (ff19-25) numbered a.1, a.2, etc every other folio, and given its own foliation (correct, this time) in the upper margin. All of this numeration has been removed, in many cases, by later trimming of the pages. |
| Quiring: | Unclear. (Possibly single folded sheets, bound in a common flyleaf?) |
| Catchwords: | None |
| Page Size: | 260 x 185 |
| Frame: | None visible; some columns in Table separated by ink lines. |
| Writing Space: | c. 245 x 160 (Prohemye), c. 243 x 156 (Table), c. 245 x 145 (start of first book) |
| Incipits and Explicits: | 'PROHEMYE' in capitals, f1; section titles in final section; 'The fyrst Booke' originally written in upper margin of all pages in final section. |
| Marginal Headings: | [In Table and subsequent sections] ink, separated from text by blank lines and indented. |
| Other Names (not owners): | R. A. Green-Armytage (Bookplate) |
| Miscellaneous Info: | Special thanks to Diane Ducharme for her assistance in identifying the scripts. |