Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C.86 | |
MS Appellation: | Ra4 (Manly and Rickert) |
Title: | Miscellany |
Author: | Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate |
Contents: | Legend of Good Women (fragment in part 3, f113r-119r) Canterbury Tales in part 4 is Clerk's Tale (f156v) and Prioress's Tale (f174v). |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | Earliest watermark is 1469 but various internal dating suggests that the texts were copied over a number of years probably up to the end of the century. |
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Material: | Combination in Book 1; paper in Book 2 |
No of Folios: | 1-189 |
Pagination: | Modern foliation |
Quiring: | Quiring varies according to booklet. |
Signatures: | Few signatures |
Catchwords: | No catchwords |
Page Size: | 280 x 190 (ff1-30); 284 x 206 (ff31-189) |
Writing Space: | 30 x 140 |
Other Names (not owners): | Lord William Howard (d. 1640) probably owned the manuscript at some stage as also Knox Ward, Clarenceux King of Arms 1726-41. |
Further Information: | Manly, John M., and Edith Rickert, eds. The Text of the Canterbury Tales, 1:472-5; M. C. Seymour, Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, I.94-5; 150-1. Catal. Codd. Mss. Bibl. Bodl. Macray, W. D., pp. 29-31; Griffiths, J. J. ‘A Re-examination of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C.86.’ Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 219, Band 134 (1982): 381-88. |