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Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden B.24
 
MS Appellation:SC 3554
Title:Troilus and Criseyde; Mother of God
Author:Chaucer and Hoccleve
Contents:Troilus and Criseyde; Other poems; Kingis Quair; Hoccleve's Mother of God ff130-131v
Language:English
Date Range:1485-1515; after 1488/9 when Henry Sinclair assumed his arms and before 1513 when he died.
Scribal Hands:
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Dialect:After 1488/9 (when Henry Sinclair assumed arms on f. 118v), before 1513 (his death).
Material:Paper
No of Folios:ii + 1-231 + ii
Pagination:Modern pencil
Quiring:16 and 12 but folios missing and added
Signatures:None
Catchwords:None
Page Size:260 x 175
Frame:Red for left vertical; no ruling for lines is visible.
Writing Space:210 x 100
Incipits and Explicits:By scribe
Running Titles:In Troilus and Criseyde only
Borders:Blue, green, red, yellow, gold
Historiated Initials:On f1, 9-line rose initial historiated inside the letter, on illuminated gold ground.
Illuminated Initials:Rose, white, blue, gold
Other Names (not owners):Names of the Sinclair family on ff79, 230v, 231, 231v. Also on f231v is 'Channois 1592'. On f155 is 'By me Edward Walker'.
Miscellaneous Info:Arms of Henry, Lord Sinclair (d. 1513) on f118v. The scribe may be James Gray but opinion is divided.James Graye was a priest and a notary public.
Further Information:Boffey, Julia, and A.S.G. Edwards, intro. Chaucer, Works. Bodleian Library MS Arch Selden B.24: Facsimile Edition. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995.
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP