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Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C.86 | |
| MS Appellation: | Ra4 (Manly and Rickert) |
| Title: | Miscellany |
| Author: | Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate |
| Contents: | Legend of Good Women (fragment in part 3, f113r-119r) Canterbury Tales in part 4 is Clerk's Tale (f156v) and Prioress's Tale (f174v). |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | Earliest watermark is 1469 but various internal dating suggests that the texts were copied over a number of years probably up to the end of the century. |
| 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: | Combination in Book 1; paper in Book 2 |
| No of Folios: | 1-189 |
| Pagination: | Modern foliation |
| Quiring: | Quiring varies according to booklet. |
| Signatures: | Few signatures |
| Catchwords: | No catchwords |
| Page Size: | 280 x 190 (ff1-30); 284 x 206 (ff31-189) |
| Writing Space: | 30 x 140 |
| Other Names (not owners): | Lord William Howard (d. 1640) probably owned the manuscript at some stage as also Knox Ward, Clarenceux King of Arms 1726-41. |
| Further Information: | Manly, John M., and Edith Rickert, eds. The Text of the Canterbury Tales, 1:472-5; M. C. Seymour, Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts, I.94-5; 150-1. Catal. Codd. Mss. Bibl. Bodl. Macray, W. D., pp. 29-31; Griffiths, J. J. ‘A Re-examination of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C.86.’ Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 219, Band 134 (1982): 381-88. |