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Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Additional 16165 | |
| Title: | Boece; Anelida and Arcite |
| Author: | Chaucer and Lydgate |
| Contents: | Boece; other minor poems of Chaucer and Lydgate |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1423-1439 |
| 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: | 4 newer paper + 3 parchment written by Shirley + 4-257 (paper) + f258 written by Shirley + 2 newer paper |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil, top right corner; includes parchment leaves at beginning and end. |
| Quiring: | 12 |
| Catchwords: | Yes, by scribe with 'nota' preceding. |
| Page Size: | 297 x 210 |
| Frame: | Square in faint brown-gray crayon; not ruled; top line of text above top line of frame. |
| Writing Space: | 218 x 118 |
| Marginal Headings: | In black by Shirley in slightly enlarged display script. |
| Running Titles: | By the scribe usually in the ink of the text. |
| Table of Contents: | Added to right margin on f2 by Shirley; a 'Kalundare' of contents in verse on ff2-3v. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Red paraphs and red double slashes for punctuation; red underlining; red-touched initials. |
| Flourished Initials: | 4-line plain red initials begin each text. |
| Other Names (not owners): | 'ma ioye Shirley' on f1; on third recto of newer leaves in a 19th century hand 'Purchased of Geo. Annesley Sir 11 July 1846'. |
| Further Information: | Additional Catalogue. Margaret Connolly's book. Seymour vol. I, 41, 49-50. |