Manuscript Description Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.21 (601) | |
| MS Appellation: | M. R. James catalogue 601 |
| Title: | Lydgate Anthology |
| Author: | Lydgate |
| Contents: | Anthology of Lydgate mostly devotional but also contains Kings of England. |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1450-1475 |
| 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.                 |
| Material: | Paper |
| No of Folios: | 2 newer paper + 320 + 2 newer paper |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil upper outer corner recto throughout volume; an earlier hand (16th century) has foliated booklet by booklet in medieval arabic numbers in lower left corner of each recto folio. |
| Quiring: | Varies greatly booklet to booklet. |
| Catchwords: | By scribe lined up to end at right ruled margin. |
| Page Size: | 272 x 198 |
| Frame: | Greatly varied; sometimes a square, or a square with stanzas marked off, or one or two columns ruled; mostly drypoint or faint brown crayon; occasional visible pricking as on ff235-236 |
| Writing Space: | 196 x ca.90 |
| Marginal Headings: | Banderols on some folios for headings, sometimes just rubric. |
| Table of Contents: | Modern on fii-ii(v) |
| Historiated Initials: | Used sometimes with headings. |
| Flourished Initials: | High quality pen drawings in brown ink varying between booklets. |
| Other Names (not owners): | John Stowe's boke on f320v and also in Stow's writing on the same folio, 'John Stow honur of this boke and of meny mo benedicamus domino'. |
| Further Information: | James Catalogue; Linne R. Mooney, 'Scribes and Booklets of Trinity College, Cambridge, Manuscripts R.3.19 and R.3.21' in Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions, ed. A. J. Minnis (York, 2001), 240-66. |