Manuscript Description England, Clitheroe, Lancashire, Stonyhurst College Library MS B. XXIII | |
MS Appellation: | Stonyhurst (Manly and Rickert) |
Title: | Miscellany of religious works. |
Author: | Chaucer and anon |
Contents: | Three kings of Cologne; The tale of Mellybe and Prudence (34r-45r); Abbey of the Holy Ghost; Four Feathers; The Quantitey of the Earth |
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. |
Material: | Combination |
No of Folios: | 1-68 |
Quiring: | 1-7(8), 8(9) + 4 paper folios added at a later date. |
Signatures: | No signatures remain. |
Catchwords: | Catchwords regularly present. |
Page Size: | 268 x 190 |
Frame: | Red ruling of double columns with 2 x horizontal at the top occasionally mirrored by two at the bottom. |
Writing Space: | 215 x 62 for each column |
Marginal Headings: | Marginal glosses in red ink. |
Running Titles: | The names 'Mellybe' and 'Prudence' alternate as titles. |
Borders: | On f1r is a three-quarter border in gold, blue, red/brown and pink with white. |
Paragraph Marks: | Red paraphs |
Flourished Initials: | On f34r a 6-line initial in blue and red flourished in a brownish ink. Blue and red 3-line initials with red and blue flourishing mark textual divisions. |
Other Names (not owners): | On f67r is the following: 'Thomas Bellot armiger libri est verus possessor teste Matheo Bellot anno 1570'. See Manly and Rickert for information on the Bellot family of Cheshire. |
Miscellaneous Info: | Manly and Rickert suggest that the 'general style' of the illumination is 'very similar to that of [Cambridge] Gg [4.27]'. |
Further Information: | Manly and Rickert I: 519-521. Seymour I: 153-154. McCormick 560. |