Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Sloane 314 | |
Title: | Miscellany including Astrolabe |
Author: | Chaucer |
Contents: | Astrolabe begins on f65v-106r |
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: | Paper |
No of Folios: | 2 modern flyleaves + i + 1-106 + parchment leaf from another ms as f107 + 3 modern flyleaves |
Pagination: | Fairly modern in red-brown ink |
Quiring: | Very tightly bound so difficult to tell. |
Signatures: | No signatures. |
Catchwords: | No catchwords. |
Page Size: | 202 x 140 |
Frame: | 2 x horizontal, 2 x vertical, grey |
Writing Space: | 145 x 86 |
Title by Scribe: | No title |
Flourished Initials: | Red initials no flourishing. Red tipped letters in text. Spaces left for larger letters but not executed. |
Other Names (not owners): | On fi is 'Ex libris Joannis Bomil(t?)eisy' . This manuscript was owned by Sir Hans Sloane and passed to the British Museum in 1753. |
Miscellaneous Info: | Scribbles all over the Astrolabe text. |
Further Information: | Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Sloanianae(Manuscripts 1-1091), ([London: British Museum], no date), no. 314. Seymour I: 123-124. |