Manuscript Description Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 75, Part 1 | |
| Title: | Equatorie of the Planetis |
| Author: | Chaucer (?) |
| Contents: | Equatorie of the Planetis |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1392-3 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Material: | Possibly by Chaucer |
| No of Folios: | 1 new parchment flyleaf + 78 + larger heavy parchment possibly original wrapper + 1 new parchment flyleaf |
| Pagination: | modern, pencil in upper outer corners recto |
| Quiring: | mixed, quires of 12, 4 and 8 |
| Signatures: | most cropped but some, e.g., 1.iij to g.iiij on 65-66, i.ij to i.ij on 75-76; modern pencil quire numbers in lower outer corner of first folios |
| Catchwords: | none; quires numbered by scribe. |
| Page Size: | 367 x 270 mm; folios 75-78 smaller |
| Frame: | varies, but for text of Equatorie simple rectangle to edges with no ruling |
| Writing Space: | varies; e.g., folio 72 is 302 x 210 mm |
| Miscellaneous Info: | Considered by some, following Price, to be in hand of Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Further Information: | Derek J. Price, The Equatorie of the Planetis (Cambridge, 1955); Kari Anne Rand Schmidt, The Authorship of the Equatorie of the Planetis (Cambridge, 1993) |