Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS e Musaeo 116, Part I | |
| MS Appellation: | SC 3617 |
| Title: | Astrolabe |
| Author: | Chaucer |
| Contents: | Astrolabe f1-6r; Mandeville's Travels; Godfrey super Palladium; Recipes for making wine |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1400-1425 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Dialect: | LP 4271; County: Cambs |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | iii + 1-151 + i music + i flyleaf |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil upper right corner. Obviously much missing from beginning of MS but foliation begins at 1. |
| Quiring: | 1-8(8) |
| Signatures: | None visible |
| Catchwords: | None in Astrolabe |
| Page Size: | 270 x 175 |
| Frame: | 4 x vertical, 4 x horizontal; ruling visible on ff5v and 6r. |
| Writing Space: | 175 x 115 in two columns each measuring 50-55 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | Explicit for Astrolabe in ink of the text. Incipit for following piece is in red ink. |
| Paragraph Marks: | 2 only in red ink. Red ink cc for paraphs to be included. |
| Other Names (not owners): | See Seymour Vol. 1 p. 118 for lengthy description of possible ownership. From Seymour is the following: fii verso the name 'Walter' with Latin date for 31st December 1470 f150 the will of N of Pecham ff65 and 148v (Part 2) 'Thome Foluylle' and 'Foluylle fisician'. On fii 'Vindica te tibi' linking it to Sir Kenelm Digby (d. 1665) whose press-mark visible on edges of upper leaves when volume is closed; not listed in Digby Catalogue (MS. Digby 234); bought for the Library in 1658. |
| Miscellaneous Info: | Hand 1 ff1-56 also wrote majority of Gg 4.27 CT and Missouri fragment. Obviously a lot missing from the front of this MS. Astrolabe is unfinished. No attempt to decorate. Small guide letters left at beginning of pieces for a flourished or illuminated initial never completed. |
| Further Information: | Cambs.:LALME LP 4271, grid 559 278 Madan, Falconer, and H.H.E. Craster and N. Denholm-Young, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Vol. II, part II, MSS 3491-8716. Oxford, Clarendon, 1937, pp. 703-704 |