Manuscript Description Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ii.5.41 | |
Title: | De Proprietatibus Rerum |
Author: | Trevisa's translation of Bartholomeus |
Contents: | Bartholomeus De proprietatibus Rerum translated into English by Trevisa; and Liber Arismetice demonstratiue Jordani |
Language: | English |
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. |
Dialect: | LP 461; County: Hunts |
Material: | Paper |
No of Folios: | 2 stubs and two leaves of newer paper as flyleaves + 1 folio parchment title page + 343 paper folios of Bartholomeus + folios 345-368 parchment 14th century arithmetical text +2 folios plus 2 stubs of newer paper for flyleaves. |
Pagination: | Modern pencil foliation in upper outer corners recto; modern pencil counting and numbering of quires lower outer corner recto of first folio of each quire (Bartholomeus 1-44, 14th century text 45-46) and pencil cross on folio after centre. |
Quiring: | Usually 8s but sometimes 12 |
Signatures: | Signatures confused, apparently some written by rubricator before writing completed and underestimating how many quires it would take to finish portions of text, some have no letter, just romans i to iiij (especially when no letter to go since rubric quire signatures did this), and letters begin again with 'a' at f182. |
Catchwords: | By main scribe except folios he did not write (325-336), more than half way across second column in lower margin, unembellished; on f332 scribe D (of ff 325-333va) writes up against right frame line under column b, with stylised scroll around it traced over in red. |
Page Size: | 290 x 215 |
Frame: | 4 x vertical and 2 x horizontal creating two columns, not ruled, prick marks for frames at tops, bottoms and sides very fine grey-brown lines. |
Writing Space: | Varies, ruled for ca. 232 x 75 + 12 + 75 = 232 x 162 |
Marginal Headings: | Rubric chapter headings ('de Rubo') with chapter numbers written in black ink of text in the margins beside them. 14th-century book, 345-68, completely different headings: rubric, apparently not by scribe though writing is similar, in often too little space left for them. |
Table of Contents: | Contents of Bartholomeus by main scribe, ff. 2-9ra. |
Paragraph Marks: | Red paraphs, red underlining; yellow wash first few quires only. |
Flourished Initials: | Unembellished red lombard initials 2-3 lines high. |
Other Names (not owners): | Title page signed 'SR' but not scribe's handwriting. |
Further Information: | Handwritten modern note inside front cover says other copies of De Proprietatibus trans. to English in Harl. 614 and Harl 4789. NB: this is the MS of De Proprietatibus Rerum with beginning of Canterbury Tales: see f9rb 'Whanne Aprill with his his' by a hand that appears nowhere else in the MS. Also see Luard catalogue, 3.494. |