Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Additional 28617 | |
| Title: | Legend of Good Women |
| Author: | Chaucer |
| Contents: | Legend of Good Women (fragments) |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1475-1500 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                |
| Dialect: | Last quarter of fifteenth century. |
| Material: | Paper |
| No of Folios: | 3 modern flyleaves + i + 38 + 3 modern flyleaves |
| Pagination: | On some folios at least four different sets of foliation. |
| Quiring: | Dan Mosser gives the following assessment: completely refashioned ms with all leaves mounted on guards. Four partially intact surviving quires, all the same paperstock, a Column, (Briquet Colonne 4349 or very close (Montebourg 1425). Missing leaves and partial leaves are replaced/patched with Pro Patria+HD 17-18C Dutch paper). B(12) ('3-5), C(12)('1, 3; 2 & 4 only fragmentary and patched), D(10)('3; 9 half gone and patched), E(12)('12). |
| Signatures: | Modern pencil beginning Bi |
| Catchwords: | On 8v and 18v. |
| Page Size: | 265 x 193 |
| Frame: | Very faded now but seems to have been 2 x horizontal and 2 x vertical in brown crayon. |
| Writing Space: | 193 x 130 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | Incipits in display script eg f12r for each legend. Latin. |
| Flourished Initials: | Blue initials with red flourishing which extends to half a folio at the left side of the text. Used at the beginning of each legend. |
| Other Names (not owners): | On f12v Jhon [Kyony? or Kyng?]. On f38v is 'Thomas Worson'. |
| Miscellaneous Info: | Fragments reconstructed. Thus several blank folios between pages or remnants of text. Pages appear to be foliated now according to the pages bearing text. This makes it rather confusing. |
| Further Information: | Seymour vol. I 92-93. |