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Manuscript Description Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean 182 | |
| Title: | Regiment of Princes |
| Author: | Hoccleve |
| Contents: | Regiment of Princes |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1450-1500 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | 4 heavy paper flyleaves match pastedown + 138 text + 1 parchment flyleaf or blank leaf at end of quire, original with scribblings + 4 heavy paper flyleaves match pastedown |
| Pagination: | Older ink in upper outer corners recto in ink and underlined but modern, up to f154 for what is now f138 and also f155 for flyleaf now foliated f139. |
| Quiring: | 8s |
| Signatures: | Modern pencil numbering of quires in lower outer corner recto of first leaf with arabic numbers. |
| Catchwords: | By scribe in the usual place, running into gutter. |
| Page Size: | 220 x 170 |
| Frame: | 2 x vertical, 4 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines, ruled; brown crayon, no pricking survives. |
| Writing Space: | 155 x 107 (frame); lines shorter |
| Incipits and Explicits: | On f138r by scribe in lower half of page after end of text, 'Explicit liber Egidii de regimine Principum translatum Per Occlyff'. |
| Marginal Headings: | Rubric glosses by scribe in Regiment, sometimes extensive; rubric headings occasionally in same size script as text and by scribe. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Each stanza preceded by alternating blue with red pen flourishing or red with pale blue flourishing in same patterns but just tiny tendrils from left corners. |
| Flourished Initials: | 4-line blue lombard initials with red penwork flourishing. |
| Other Names (not owners): | f53v recording gift of Mr Lambrt to William Cuff of Athlone in 1709 and several notes by Cuff as those that follow recording ownership in April 1709; 'William Cuff his book june ye 1 1709 on f107; 'William Cuff His Book Jan 1708 on f64v both in lower margins; erased owner's marks lower half of f138 under explicit may be legible under ultraviolet; many marginal annotations by 17-18th c. hand. |
| Further Information: | Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum McClean 18 McClean catalolgue |