Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS e. Musaeo 54 | |
| MS Appellation: | SC 3554 |
| Title: | Astrolabe |
| Author: | Chaucer |
| Contents: | Astrolabe |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1400-1425 |
| 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: | 31 |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil top right. |
| Quiring: | 1-3(8), 4(8) |
| Signatures: | None visible |
| Catchwords: | On 8v and 16v in ink box with pointing hand forming right hand corner. Outlined in red ink. |
| Page Size: | 275 x 190 |
| Frame: | 2 x vertical; pricked and ruled in dry-point with 31 lines; grey ruling. |
| Writing Space: | 210 x 130 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | Red ink |
| Marginal Headings: | Figures numbered in black ink some in margins. |
| Title by Scribe: | 'Bred and mylk ffor childeren'. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Red |
| Flourished Initials: | Blue 6-lined lombard initial with red flourishing |
| Other Names (not owners): | On f1 in left margin is 'Iiffray Chaucer'. In right margin is 'Dnus Gaufredus Chaucerus' and 'Galfredi Chauceri Tractatus de Ratione et usu Astrolabii ad Ludouicum filiu(m). Top of folio 'Robertus Byley' (?) On f30v 'Liber Francisci Beyley, 1637'. Also'Franc Beyley Noui Collegij Socius Anno Dom. 1637'. Also Ned Tourner'. All seem to be in same hand. |
| Further Information: | Closely affiliated Cambridge Dd 3.53. The two manuscripts were copied by the same scribe. |