Manuscript Description Cambridge, St. John's College MS L.1 (235) | |
MS Appellation: | M. R. James catalogue 235 |
Title: | Troilus and Criseyde |
Author: | Chaucer |
Contents: | Troilus and Criseyde; Testament of Criseide (Henryson) in 17th century hand |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1425-1450 |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 3 paper flyleaves + i parchment flyleaf + 1-128 + 3 paper flyleaves. |
Pagination: | Originally foliated in pencil on first page of each quire; now has continuous pencil foliation. |
Quiring: | 12 |
Signatures: | Quire signatures in pencil on first leaf of every quire in the hand of M. R. James. |
Catchwords: | In Troilus and Criseyde section only, scribal catchwords in red ink box. |
Page Size: | 255 x 170 |
Frame: | 1 x vertical, 1 x horizontal; occasionally 2 verticals. |
Writing Space: | 235 x 150 |
Incipits and Explicits: | On f119v 'Expl. liber Troili et Criseidis'. |
Marginal Headings: | Latin glosses |
Paragraph Marks: | Blue and red extended paraphs to mark stanza divisions similar to lay-out of MS. Additional 12044 (first hand). |
Flourished Initials: | 4-line blue initials with red flourishing mark prohem and book divisions. |
Other Names (not owners): | Also on f120, the names 'Thomas' 'Wylliam' 'John' 'Margaret basett' Anna bassett'. |
Further Information: | MS. acquired by St. John's College in 1683. Beadle, R. and J. Griffiths (eds), St John's College, Cambridge, Manuscript L. 1: a facsimile (Woodbridge, 1983). Boffey, J. 'Annotation in some manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde', English manuscript studies 1100-1700 5 (1995), 3, 12. Butterfield, A. 'Mise-en-page in the Troilus manuscripts: Chaucer and French manuscript culture', Huntingdon Library Quarterly 58 (1995), 49-80. James, M.R. Descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge. Seymour, M. C. A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, vol. 1, Works Before 'The Canterbury Tales', pp. 67-68, Aldershot, Hants: Scolar Press, 1995. Windeatt, B.A. (ed.), Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus & Criseyde: a new edition of 'The Book of Troilus' (London and New York, 1984), 110-113. |