Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Selden supra 56 | |
| MS Appellation: | SC 3444 |
| Title: | Troilus and Criseyde |
| Author: | Chaucer |
| Contents: | Troilus and Criseyde |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1441 (see comments) |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.              |
| Dialect: | Leics, Lincs |
| Material: | Combination |
| No of Folios: | 106 + i |
| Quiring: | 1-7(14) 8(12 but missing 10-12) |
| Signatures: | No, but quire numbers in arabic numerals at the end of each quire on the verso of the final leaf. |
| Catchwords: | Yes |
| Frame: | Ink ruling |
| Writing Space: | 170 x 105 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | Each Book begins with an Incipit. |
| Marginal Headings: | Occasional Latin rubrics added by the scribe. |
| Illuminated Initials: | Blank spaces left for initials at the beginning of each Proem but never executed. |
| Miscellaneous Info: | On fol. 2 is the following: 'Troilus. Explicit liber Troyly et Criseide quod Chaucer Anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo primo Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post conquestum Anglie decimonono'. |
| Further Information: | Madan: 17th Century Collections p. 636. Seymour, M. C. A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts: Works Before 'The Canterbury Tales', vol. 1: 63-64, Aldershot, Hants: Scolar Press, 1995. |