Advanced Search   *   Manuscripts   *   Scribes   *   Authors   *   Letters
Home   *   About the Project   *   Bibliography
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Find What? Search by
Manuscript Description
London, British Library, MS Additional 24062
 
Title:Privy Seal Formulary Book
Author:Hoccleve
Contents:Collection of forms, samples for letters, official documents, etc.
Language:English, Latin and French
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.
****************

Material:Parchment
No of Folios:201 plus two parchment end flyleaves and paper flyleaves front and back added later.
Pagination:Medieval folio numbers where modern would be, in ink, roman numbers; modern pencil same place in arabic.
Quiring:12s (though difficult to tell since no catchwords or signatures, and strings hidden in tight gutter). ff145-52 is an 8, then 3 x 12, ?1 x 10? If the quire beginning on f153 is 14, the eight of ff145-52 is quire 12 and it would be 12 x 12 to make up the 144 before that.
Signatures:No signatures in usual place, but see in medieval hand (Hoccleve's?) top f153, 'q. xiiij. fo j
top f170 is 'q. xv. f. j' and just romans 'ij' through 'vj' on ff171-175; on f182, 'q. xvj. fo. j'.
Catchwords:None for most quires, but see 'Tresch & foral p'...' on f135v 'A Bretyngny' bottom f152v.
Page Size:Folio
Frame:Varies, e.g. 4 x vertical enclosing text in large column and marginal notations in smaller (always outer margin), 1 x horizontal which goes under top line of text, in grey plummet.
Marginal Headings:Headings like running titles at tops of pages for types of documents, correlates to table of contents front and back.
Table of Contents:Table of contents to folio numbers.
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP