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Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Sloane 1009 part 1 | |
| MS Appellation: | Sl3 (Manly and Rickert) |
| Title: | Five booklets in part 1: booklet 3 contains Melibeus |
| Author: | Chaucer |
| Contents: | Part 1 is a compilation of five booklets containing a number of items from the fifteenth century including the Tale of Melibeus. Part 2 is a seventeenth century collection. |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1475-1496 (Manly and Rickert I: 517). |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Dialect: | S. Herefords |
| Material: | Paper |
| No of Folios: | 2-61: for Melibeus 29r-48r |
| Pagination: | Modern foliation |
| Quiring: | See Mosser 1999. |
| Signatures: | No signatures. |
| Catchwords: | No catchwords. |
| Page Size: | 290 x 195 |
| Writing Space: | 218 x 135 variable; sheets mounted separately. |
| Marginal Headings: | Some are rubricated, some in ink of text. Notas in red. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Red space fillers |
| Flourished Initials: | Red initials for text divisions unflourished. Some red tipping of upper case letters. |
| Other Names (not owners): | For names see Manly and Rickert I: 517-518. Seymour I: 144-145. Owned by a Gideon Bonnivert of Norfolk in the seventeenth century and thence to Sloane. |
| Miscellaneous Info: | 1 scribal hand for booklets 1-4. For contents see Manly and Rickert I: 515, Sloane Catalogue 1: 202-204, and Seymour I: 144-145. Tale of Melibeus affiliated with the Ellesmere text. |
| Further Information: | Manly and Rickert I: 515-518. Seymour I 144-145. Mosser, Daniel W. 'Corrective Notes on the Structures and Paper Stocks of Four MSS Containing Extracts from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.' Studies in Bibliography 52 (1999): 97-114. |