Physical Description:
49 leaves : parchment ; 210 x 155 (155-170 x 90) mm Notes:
Ms. codex. Title from printed catalog. Secundo folio: [fol. 3]: O
womman þat Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 47 (paginated, s. XVIII,
on rectos only through p. 31 (fol. 16) with fol. 1 and 2 in their
present position) + i (lacks 1; 7 and 8 have been moved , now
forming fol. 1 and 3) ; 2-5⁸ 6¹⁰(-9, 10) ; catchwords towards
the center of the lower margin; leaf signatures in roman numerals
in upper right corner (e.g. fol. 9-11). Layout: Writen in 20-25
lines of verse frame ruled in led with no base line. Script:
Written in an anglicana script by Thomas Hoccleve. Certain headings
added later (fol. 1, 37v, the last 4 words of the heading on fol.
38v, the name "Carpenter" on fol. 410); some later marginalia (fol.
1v, 24-v, 10v). Decoration: 2-line initials in blue with red pen
flourishing. Binding: 17th-century. Brown calf with the arms of
Henry, Prince of Wales. Evidence of blue or green cloth fore edge
ties; rebacked; stabbing from a previous binding in the gutters.
Origin: Written in England by the author (d. March/April 1426)
Former shelfmark: Sir Thomas Philipps, B.36.550 (his MS 8151)
Shelfmark: San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library, mssHM 111.
19 poems. In Middle English with rubrics in Middle French. Biographical Note:
Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve was an English poet and clerk. Subjects:
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500. Form/Genre:
Manuscripts England 15th century. (aat) ; Armorial bindings
(Provenance) (rbprov) Provenance:
Binding shows the book to have been in the library of Prince Henry
(1594-1612); see S. Jayne an F.R. Johnson, The Lumley Library: the
Catalogue of 1609 (London 1956), this manuscript recorded on p.
303. Already alienated by 1661 when the printed books and
manuscripts of the Royal Library were catalogued by Thomas Ross
(Henry E. Huntington Libary, MS HM 180). Belonged to Anthony Askew
(1722-72); his sale, Sotheby's, 7 March 1785, lot 327 to George
Mason (1735-1806). While in Mason's possession, Thomas Tyrwhitt
made some notes of the disorder of the first leaves in a letter
dated 4 April 1785, now affixed to the first pastedown. Mason added
to these notes, and eventually published 6 of the poems (arts. 3,
9, 13, 16-18) in his Poems by Thomas Hoccleve (London 1796); his
sale, Sotheby's, 25 April 1799, pt. IV, lot 279. Acquired by
Richard Heber (1773-1833) with his purchase note in a small,
careful script in the upper right corner of the front pastedown;
his sale, Evans, 10 February 1836, pt. XI, lot 583 (round label
with that number on the spine) to Payne. Belonged to Sir Thomas
Phillipps; his MS 8151 and shelf mark (B.36.550) on fol. i. Notes
by Furnivall dated 22 September 1882 added to Tyrwhitt's comments.
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