Manuscript Description USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 140 | |
MS Appellation: | Ph4 (Manly and Rickert) |
Title: | 2 booklets with some additions |
Author: | Chaucer and Lydgate |
Contents: | Amongst other things Clerk's Tale, Anelida and Arcite and Truth. |
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: | Combination |
No of Folios: | ii + 169 (first booklet 1-91) |
Pagination: | Modern foliation. |
Quiring: | 1(14), 2-4(16), 5(15 viii missing), 6(15 xvi missing), 7(15 x missing), 8(12 vii, viii missing), 9(6 folios but difficult to define structure), 10(48? xxxviii missing) |
Signatures: | No signatures. |
Catchwords: | No catchwords. |
Page Size: | 290 x 205 |
Frame: | Ruled in dry-point and plummet. |
Writing Space: | 210 x 105 |
Incipits and Explicits: | Red ink Explicit to Clerk's Tale and to Anelida and Arcite. |
Flourished Initials: | Red initials to begin Clerk's Tale and Anelida and Arcite but no flourishing. Red ink tipping of upper case letters. Names underlined in red. |
Other Names (not owners): | There are many names in the manuscript which identify London citizens and links with the royal household as well as the legal profession. At the Heber sale in 1836, the manuscript was acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps and went from him to Rosenbach for the Huntington Library in 1923. |
Further Information: | Manly and Rickert I: 433-438. Seymour I: 41, 151-152. Dutschke, C.W. and R.H. Rouse et al, Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library. (San Marino, 1989). |