Manuscript Description England, Salisbury, Salisbury Cathedral Library MS 113 | |
Title: | Boece |
Author: | Chaucer |
Contents: | Boece |
Language: | English |
Datable: | Before c. 1452 (death of Cyrcetur). |
Date Range: | 1400-1425 |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Dialect: | Colourless |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | iii + 95 + iii |
Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
Quiring: | 12s |
Catchwords: | Catchwords in the right-hand corner of the verso on scrolls. |
Page Size: | 250 x 175 |
Frame: | Lines and frame ruled in dry-point |
Writing Space: | 180 x 120 |
Incipits and Explicits: | Ends with 'Explicit liber quintus et vltimus etcetera' (f67v). |
Marginal Headings: | Initial letters beginning new sections alternate in blue and red; the rest in the same ink and script as the main text. |
Table of Contents: | A tabula by the main scribe on f1r. This is headed 'Incipit tabula libri boicij de consolatione philosophie liber primus'. |
Miscellaneous Info: | On ff1v-3v Cyrcetur has added the Latin original in the margin with numbers to key the addition to the relevant parts of the translation. |
Further Information: | Seymour |