Manuscript Description USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS El 26 A.13 | |
| Title: | Regiment of Princes, works of Lydgate |
| Author: | Hoccleve and Lydgate |
| Contents: | Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes, works of Lydgate; poems and motto of Shirley on flyleaves. |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1440-1465 |
| 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.                 |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | 1 marbled matches pastedown + 1 paper contemporary with this (fol.i) + 4 heavy parchment leaves )ff. ii - v, written by Shirley) + ff 1-127 + parchment flyleaf (vi) + paper leaf contemporary with marbled (vii) + marbled flyleaf matches pastedown (135) |
| Pagination: | Older foliation counted the flyleaves, in upper outer corners of rectos, now crossed through; newer pencil foliation in lower outer corners of rectos, starting with first leaf of body of manuscript and numbering flyleaves as I - v and vi; so some older references to this MS may be 5 folios off. |
| Quiring: | Mostly 8's |
| Catchwords: | In Regiment, centred below text in lower margin of least folios, verso, with varying amounts of penwork decoration around; that on 25v is especially elaborate. |
| Page Size: | 283 x 208 |
| Frame: | In Regiment section, two verticals, one horizontal above top line of text, no bottom line, drawn in fine grey lines; ruling barely visible in ?crayon? |
| Writing Space: | 165 x 100 in Regiment |
| Incipits and Explicits: | Only explicit on f115, and minor breaks in Regiment with rubric headings in margins; new books of Regiment just large initials. |
| Borders: | Blue and red bar border down left side and rounded hounds teeth flourished from top left of letter across top and from border all along bottom margin. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Red paraphs before glosses and blue paraphs before rubric headings in margins. |
| Flourished Initials: | On f1, 5-line blue and red initial (with cut-outs joining blue and red to form the strokes of initial), red penwork flourishing around letter and blue and red foliage pattern inside letter, red infill; similar 5-line initials, eg f18; further 3-line blue initials similarly decorated; each stanza begins with alternating red and blue plain one-line initials. |
| Other Names (not owners): | John Shirley, whose hand adds poems to flyleaves and his book plate to f v verso (illus. in Connolly); on f115 after envoy to Regiment is written in red by scribe 'Iste liber constat' in his textura script used for the explicit above, and then added in brown ink (by Shirley?) 'Aluredo Corenburgh de Camera Regis' (as Dutschke notes, Corneburgh was brother-in-law to Shirley since Avery married to Beatrice Lynne 1459-67 and Shirley's second wife was her sister, Margaret Lynne whom he married sometime between 1421-1441. Margaret and Beatrice names worked into the bookplate on f v verso; drawings of griffin and boar may refer to Lynne and Cornburgh respectively. (see Dutschke, 1.38-39). Other names of later owners noted by Dutschke, 1.39. |
| Further Information: | Dutschke 1.35-39 |