Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Harley 2392 | |
Title: | Troilus and Criseyde |
Author: | Chaucer |
Contents: | Troilus and Criseyde |
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: | Combination |
No of Folios: | i paper flyleaf + i parchment flyleaf + 1-145 parchment and paper leaves + i parchment flyleaf + i paper flyleaf |
Pagination: | Pencil in outer upper corner recto. |
Quiring: | Each quire mounted separately within guard strips. Outer and inner folios of quire are in parchment the rest of paper. 1-11(12, 12(14) |
Signatures: | a-m but misses j, combined with roman numerals some of which have been trimmed; lower margin right corner. |
Catchwords: | In middle of text box in lower margin and with sleigh underline concave on left and straighter on right. |
Page Size: | 210 x 145 |
Frame: | Square 2 x vertical, 2 x horizontal; where visible in brown crayon. |
Writing Space: | 140 x 90 |
Incipits and Explicits: | Explicit to first book on f20v, prohemium to third book noted in margin of f51v, and prohem. to 4th book on f84v with marginal title for 4th book on f85; explicit to poem on f145v 'Explicit liber Troili / merci dieu & g(ra)nt m(er)ci / quod Style'. |
Marginal Headings: | Glosses in hand of scribe and ink of text in both margins. |
Borders: | In red and blue ink; a 4-sided border on the first folio attached to a simple flourished initial letter 3 lines in height; |
Flourished Initials: | Blue initial flourished with red pen-work begin Proem and Book II, same for Books III and V |
Other Names (not owners): | On f1r is 'Henrici Spelman'. Harley purchased the Spelman collection in 1709. |
Further Information: | Seymour I. 76. |