Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Harley 3943 | |
Title: | Troilus and Criseyde |
Author: | Chaucer |
Contents: | Troilus and Criseyde |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1400-1425 |
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Dialect: | LP 6030; County: Essex |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 116 |
Pagination: | Modern pencil foliation top outer corner recto. |
Quiring: | 14 quires of 8 (quire 8 missing 2 folios), quire 15 (6). |
Signatures: | None although Books are numbered in roman numerals in the top margin of recto folios. After f71, cropping has removed them. |
Catchwords: | By the scribe with initial touched with red and in elaborate though crude scrolls. |
Page Size: | 256 x 142 |
Frame: | Square in brown crayon sometimes with extra horizontals to enclose top or top and bottom lines; ruling for stanza space but not for individual lines. |
Writing Space: | 200 x 90 |
Incipits and Explicits: | None except on f116 at the end is 'Troilus adest inete [or mete] / Venerit explicit ergo valete'. |
Flourished Initials: | 3-line plain red lombard initial at beginning of each book; alternating red and blue 1-line lombard initials for each stanza; tops of lines are extended and decorated with loops or strapwork; descenders from bottom line in looped curves, some with strapwork. |
Miscellaneous Info: | 4; Hand A copied ff1-1v, 68-70v; Hand B copied ff2-7v, 9-56v, 63-67v and is the HM114 scribe; Hand C copied ff57-62v; Hand D copied ff71-116 and is the Exeter College 129 scribe. |
Further Information: | Harley Catalogue. Seymour I. 72-73. |