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 |
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. Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
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. |