Manuscript Description Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.21 (601) | |
MS Appellation: | M. R. James catalogue 601 |
Title: | Lydgate Anthology |
Author: | Lydgate |
Contents: | Anthology of Lydgate mostly devotional but also contains Kings of England. |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1450-1475 |
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: | Paper |
No of Folios: | 2 newer paper + 320 + 2 newer paper |
Pagination: | Modern pencil upper outer corner recto throughout volume; an earlier hand (16th century) has foliated booklet by booklet in medieval arabic numbers in lower left corner of each recto folio. |
Quiring: | Varies greatly booklet to booklet. |
Catchwords: | By scribe lined up to end at right ruled margin. |
Page Size: | 272 x 198 |
Frame: | Greatly varied; sometimes a square, or a square with stanzas marked off, or one or two columns ruled; mostly drypoint or faint brown crayon; occasional visible pricking as on ff235-236 |
Writing Space: | 196 x ca.90 |
Marginal Headings: | Banderols on some folios for headings, sometimes just rubric. |
Table of Contents: | Modern on fii-ii(v) |
Historiated Initials: | Used sometimes with headings. |
Flourished Initials: | High quality pen drawings in brown ink varying between booklets. |
Other Names (not owners): | John Stowe's boke on f320v and also in Stow's writing on the same folio, 'John Stow honur of this boke and of meny mo benedicamus domino'. |
Further Information: | James Catalogue; Linne R. Mooney, 'Scribes and Booklets of Trinity College, Cambridge, Manuscripts R.3.19 and R.3.21' in Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions, ed. A. J. Minnis (York, 2001), 240-66. |