Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 346 | |
MS Appellation: | SC 10173 |
Title: | Anthology of Poems |
Author: | Chaucer, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Clanvowe and anon |
Contents: | Legend of Good Women; Letter of Cupid; Complaint of the Black Knight; Anelida and Arcite; Complaint of Mars and Venus; Complaint of Pity; Ballads;Temple of Glas; Cuckoo and the Nightingale; Dream of Chaucer; Parliament of Birds |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1425-1475 |
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Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | iv paper flyleaves + 1-132 parchment + iii paper flyleaves |
Pagination: | Older pagination in black ink in top right corners. Now crossed through with a later pencil foliation beneath the ink. |
Quiring: | 8's |
Signatures: | None visible. |
Catchwords: | Catchwords in the work of Hand 2 only; thus on ff41v, 49v, 57v, 65v 73v and 117v. |
Page Size: | 230 x 170 |
Frame: | Ink, hard point, crayon and pencil. |
Writing Space: | Height variable but width constant throughout the four volumes. c. 180 x 110 |
Incipits and Explicits: | In red ink in the hand of the scribe |
Index: | Modern index on flyleaf iv. |
Table of Contents: | Modern list on flyleaf iv. |
Title by Scribe: | The name of, for example, each legend is indicated by the scribe in the incipits. The Temple of Glas also has a title done by the scribe in red ink. Elsewhere a modern hand has supplied titles for example 'Chaucer's Dream' on f102. |
Borders: | Gold, blue pink, turquoise, purple and green, three-sided border on first folio. |
Illuminated Initials: | 4-line initial on gold ground with colours as in the border. |
Flourished Initials: | Blue with red flourishing at the beginning of different items or parts. Some initials remain unflourished. The flourishing extends up and down the border. |
Other Names (not owners): | 'W. Sancroft' in top right corner of first folio. 'John Graystok' and 'Walker' on f132v. |
Miscellaneous Info: | Four textually self-contained booklets: 1. Hand 1 copied ff1-33; Hand 2 copied ff34-75; 2. Hand 3 copied ff76-101; 3. Hand 3 copied ff102-109; Hand 2 copied ff110-119 4. Hand 1 copied ff120-131 |
Further Information: | Tanner Catalogue: Tanner; Hackman; 2nd Impression, 1966, p. 749. Seymour, M. C. A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts: Works Before 'The Canterbury Tales', vol. 1: 83-85, Aldershot, Hants: Scolar Press, 1995. |