Manuscript Description Cambridge, Magdalene College MS Pepys 2006 | |
MS Appellation: | Pp (Manly and Rickert) |
Title: | Anthology of verse and prose |
Author: | Chaucer and Lydgate |
Contents: | Part 1: Poems by Chaucer, Lydgate; Part 2: Tale of Melibeus, Parson's Prologue and Tale and Retraction from the Canterbury Tales; short poems by Chaucer. |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1475-1500 |
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: | Part 1 has 112 folios, part 2 has 85 folios + 4 added on binding. Tightly bound and difficult to assess. |
Pagination: | 196 folios but 391 numbered pages. The pagination is probably of the seventeenth century. |
Quiring: | The manuscript is so tightly bound that quiring is difficult to assess. |
Signatures: | No signatures. |
Catchwords: | In part 1 there are catchwords on ff22v and 56v. There are no catchwords in part 2. |
Page Size: | Part 1 measures 270 x 175, Part 2 is 270 x 180 |
Frame: | Ruling in both plummet and dry-point |
Writing Space: | Part 1 measures 210 x 145, Part 2 is 210 x 120 (205 x 135 after p60) |
Incipits and Explicits: | The Legend of Good Women has English rubrics in the ink of the text. In Part 2 only, rubrics are in the display script of the scribe in red ink. |
Marginal Headings: | The scribe uses rubric to divide the text and for Latin glosses. |
Title by Scribe: | For the Tale of Melibeus 'Here begynneth Chaucers tale of Melibee' in the scribe's display script. |
Paragraph Marks: | In Part 2 only in red ink. |
Flourished Initials: | Space left for initials in Part 1 but were never executed. In Part 2 the first letter of several pages, although in the ink of the text, is emphasised by the use of red decoration and yellow infill. Decorative ascenders on top lines. |
Miscellaneous Info: | There are three hands in the first part of this manuscript copying Chaucer, Lydgate and Burgh. They have not yet been added to the scribal hands database. |
Further Information: | Edwards, A. S. G. intro. Manuscript Pepys 2006: A Facsimile.. Magdalen College, Cambridge (Norman, OK: Pilgrim, 1985). McKittrick and Beadle, Catalogue of Pepys Library, vol. 5, part i; Manly and Rickert, I,406-409. McCormick, Sir William and Janet E. Heseltine. The Manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Oxford: Clarendon, 1933. 552-553. Seymour, Michael C. A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts. vol.1, Works before the Canterbury Tales. Aldershot and Brookfield: Scolar Press, 1995. 14, 26, 41, 90, 134. |