Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Egerton 2622 | |
| Title: | Astrolabe |
| Author: | Chaucer |
| Contents: | Astrolabe |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1450-1475 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.              |
| Dialect: | LP 714; County: Derbys |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | 0-71v |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil. NB Astrolabe begins on f50, not 52 as later Index says. |
| Quiring: | 1-7(12), 8(was 12 now missing 4 leaves), 9(12)?, the rest impossible to fathom. |
| Signatures: | Remnants. For example on f54 in bottom right is what seems to be av in brown ink. Remnants of a 'b' on f64r |
| Catchwords: | Remnants of a single word on f62v. However, it may not be a catchword. |
| Page Size: | 173 x 120 |
| Frame: | 2 x horizontal, 2 x vertical; brown probably ink ruling. |
| Writing Space: | 130 x 90 |
| Marginal Headings: | Within the text in red ink beginning with undecorated blue lombard capitals. Similar smaller capitals in alternating red and blue for lists of star signs and months for example. |
| Table of Contents: | 17th century(?) list of contents whose folio numbers no longer apply to present volume. |
| Title by Scribe: | No title in the hand of the scribe but a 17th-18th century hand has written 'A Treatise of ye Fabrique and use of ye Astrolobe written by ye famous Clerke S(r) Geffrey Chaucer K(t)'. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Red and blue alternating. |
| Flourished Initials: | Blue with red flourishing. Used at the beginning of sections. Sometimes there are three initials on a page and the flourishing extends the whole length of the folio. |
| Other Names (not owners): | On recto of first flyleaf is 'Purchd of Capt. A(?) N. Southey, 17 Jan 1885' |
| Miscellaneous Info: | So tightly bound that it is very difficult to examine it. Some transcribed text of this manuscript , see:? |
| Further Information: | British Library, Catalogue of Additions 1882-7, 349-350. Seymour vol. I, 115-116. |