Manuscript Description USA, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections MS Garrett 137 | |
| Title: | Regiment of Princes |
| Author: | Hoccleve |
| Contents: | Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes |
| 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.                 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.                 Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Material: | Paper |
| No of Folios: | 1 paper flyleaf + 1-83 + 2 paper flyleaves |
| Pagination: | Two sets of modern foliation, first in ink begin '1' on now f3 at beginning of Regiment; not crossed through; second in pencil further into upper outer corner recto, counts front two leaves with the table of contents so two higher, 1-83 (whereas older foliation goes only to 81). |
| Quiring: | 8s |
| Signatures: | Signatures survive on many leaves, first four of each quire in lower outer corner, repeating selves, so roman numbers and letters in sequence letter, thus ff31-34 are 'j a' to 'iiij d' and ff37-40 are 'v e' through 'viij h then just numbers, so 47-49 are 'ix' through 'xi'. |
| Catchwords: | By the scribe in lower margin last leaf verso of each quire, not quite running up to left frame line, but extending beyond longest lines of the text, sometimes in two levels, as on f38v where 'Who Iugyth / wrongfully' in two lines, enclosed in crude black box which is traced over with rubric ink. |
| Page Size: | 288 x 205 |
| Frame: | Dry point left margin line only |
| Writing Space: | c. 220 x 110 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | At the top of f3 before beginning is rubric 'Hokcleffe' in same hand(?) as other headings and the explicits on f30v, 'fynitur lamentacio Compilatoris / .s. Hokcleffe; Et Incipit Prologus vt sequitur' and on f83r: 'Amen Amen / Explicit Hokcleue super Egidium de / Regimine Principum vt supra' ['] See Further Info. |
| Marginal Headings: | By the scribe in bolder and slightly larger script, eg f31r beginning rubric initial but continuing in black, 'Heighe Noble And myghty Prynce / My lorde þe prynce O my lord gracious / I humble seruaunt and obediente others in rubric possibly by a different hand. |
| Table of Contents: | Tabula in Latin for the source of Hoccleve's Regiment, ie ff1-2v in Latin explaining content of the chapters, ending 'Explicit Tabula Super Egidium de Regimine Principum'. |
| Other Names (not owners): | No names in the manuscript. |
| Further Information: | On f 83r after Explicit, in black ink by same hand 'O lytle boke who [''..] / Thy word [ ]' (most of lower half of this leaf torn away so some text lost as marked in square brackets; on f83v the text continues by main scribe, 17 lines ending 'And for thy goode herte he be notte foo' followed by more black ink large script by same hand as other headings, 'To the that seist off louys feruence / [ ''.] knowyst he whom noþing / is hidde fro'. |