Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson D.913, Part 1 | |
| Title: | Regiment of Princes |
| Author: | Hoccleve |
| Contents: | Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes fragment; (Same scribe as Harley 5977). Lines 2185-2212 on recto and 2220-2247 on verso (missing stanza 2213-2219)--space at bottom of recto and top verso shows not cropped. |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1450-1500 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Dialect: | ff. 44-51 Norfolk |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | Single leaf |
| Pagination: | Pencil '63' in upper outer corner recto, foliation running through volume even though snippets and loose quires from several original volumes, different sizes and different dates. |
| Page Size: | 167 x 107 |
| Frame: | Only frame lines visible on verso where one horizontal above top line, one below bottom line and one marking bottom 7 lines, stanza, from others above it; possibly lighter markers between each stanza; brownish-purple ?crayon? Plummet? |
| Writing Space: | 153 x c. 80 |
| Flourished Initials: | Initials on each line are touched with red; ascender of first letter of first word on verso has pine-cone designs in same colour as ink. |
| Other Names (not owners): | 17-19 c. hand in right margin of recto, 'About a King's Coronation Oath' and below by same hand, 'This Fragment I had of Mr. Bagford'. |
| Further Information: | Rawlinson catalogue |