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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:
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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.
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP