Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Harley 372 | |
Title: | Anelida and Arcite, Regiment of Princes |
Author: | Chaucer and Hoccleve |
Contents: | Several booklets bound together to form this volume which includes; Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund; Anelida and Arcite (ff57-60); Regiment of Princes (acephalous copy). |
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. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Material: | Paper |
No of Folios: | 114 |
Quiring: | 1(20), 2(24), 3(12), 4(14), 5(18 missing 1), 6(20) plus 5 folios possibly all singles. |
Signatures: | Only signatures on ff45-56. The arabic numbers 1-6 in the lower right corners of the folios. |
Catchwords: | Only by the Hammond scribe. |
Page Size: | 295 x 210 which appears to be completely uncropped |
Frame: | Square of brown crayon or dry-point; 2 x vertical, 2 x main horizontals but on some folios it is possible to see 5 horizontal guide lines for the six stanzas on the folio. |
Writing Space: | 210 x 120 but varies when glosses are included |
Incipits and Explicits: | Incipit by scribe in right margin 'Here begynneth the Compleynt of faire Anelida & fals Arcite final abbreviated 'Ex(t)' inside a bracketted box in the centre of f60v below the text. |
Marginal Headings: | Usually marginal by the scribe. On f. 57 'Here begynneth the Complaynt of faire Anelida & fals Arcite' (note that acephalous text did run before this: three lines of previous section of text are at top of page 71, once covered by pasted-on piece of paper with 17-18th c. writing, 'The author of this Treatise w[ ] Thomas Hoccliue Scholler to Geffrey Chaucer'. |
Paragraph Marks: | Red and blue paraphs on ff1-44 and f51-52. |
Flourished Initials: | Space left for initial 'T' to open the text with small guide letter visible; no adornment at all for the Chaucer text. |
Other Names (not owners): | Owned by Sir Symond d'Ewes. Went to Harley in 1705. |
Miscellaneous Info: | Hand 1 ff1-56; Hand 2 ff57-70; Hand 3 ff71-112 is the Hammond Scribe; Hand 4 f113; Hand 5 f114. We have examined Hands 2 and 3, responsible for copying Chaucer and Hoccleve. |
Further Information: | Harley Catalogue, 1.217; Seymour: I 37-38. |