Manuscript Description Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Kk.1.3, pt.10 (X) | |
Title: | Life of Our Lady |
Author: | Lydgate |
Contents: | Life of Our Lady |
Language: | English |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Dialect: | Lydgate wrote this in 1415-1422, therefore after those dates; see Derek Pearsall, John Lydgate (1371-1449): A Bio-bibliography, English Literary Studies (University of Victoria), Monograph series, no. 71 (1997), p50. |
Material: | Paper |
No of Folios: | 1 new paper + 94 (and then another Part, 11 and 12, bound in after by a modern binder) |
Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper outer corners of recto folios. |
Quiring: | 8 |
Signatures: | Roman numerals j-iiij only with no letters to count the quires and are in the ink and hand of the scribe. |
Catchwords: | By scribe in lower margin to right of text near gutter; sometimes with modified sleigh, concave on left side, concave at right looping back and crossing lower bar of sleigh; the line continues slanting towards bottom of folio. |
Page Size: | 283 x 210 |
Frame: | Drypoint square extending to edges |
Writing Space: | 200 x 105 |
Incipits and Explicits: | Explicit in rubric on f94 'Here endith the boke of the Natiuite of our lady and of the birth of our Lorde Ihu Criste'. |
Marginal Headings: | Rubric |
Flourished Initials: | 2- and 3-line plain blue lombard initials, no flourishing. |
Other Names (not owners): | William Middleton's 'WM' on first folio and 'Lanselot Welles the sun of Wylliam Welles' in the top margin of f80 in hand of late 15th early 16th century. |
Further Information: | Luard catalogue; plate 9 of Petti, English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden |