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Add MS 15562

Record Id:

032-002087337

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002087337

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x0002f5

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 15562

Title:

Catholicon Anglicum

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains an imperfect and incomplete copy of the Catholicon Anglicum. The only known complete copy of this text is Add MS 89074.

The text opens imperfectly, part way through the entry for 'to Accuse' (f. 1r) (the first complete entry is 'an Accuser').

The text ends imperfectly, part way through the entry for 'Wrathe' (f. 142v). A few words of the rest of this entry and of those that follow are visible on the small fragment remaining of f. 143.

The text is also incomplete. Gaps of several lines have been left throughout the text, ready for further entries to be added. In some locations, the opening two letters have been inscribed on each line of these gaps.

The headwords are arranged largely in alphabetical order, A-W. For a detailed description of the organisation of the Catholicon Anglicum text, see Add MS 89074.

The text is written throughout in a reddish-brown ink. The headwords are rubricated inconsistently: mostly with a red opening initial, and rarely with underlining. There is no other rubrication in this volume. There are no chapter headings.

There are fine pencil markings (ticks, question marks, occasional annotations) throughout the volume. These are quite probably those of Sidney J.H. Herrtage, the editor of the Catholicon Anglicum, who collated this volume with Add MS 89074 (at that time in the possession of the Monson family).

The manuscript's contents are as follows:

ff. 1r-7r: A.

ff. 7r-20v: B.

ff. 20v-32v: C.

ff. 32v-40r: D.

ff. 40v-43r: E.

ff. 43v-52v: F.

ff. 52v-59r: G.

ff. 59r-66r: H.

ff. 66r-68v: I.

ff. 68v-70r: K.

ff. 70v-76r: L.

ff. 76v-83v: M.

ff. 84r-87v: N.

ff. 88r-91r: O.

ff. 91v-101r: P.

ff. 101r-101v: Q.

ff. 101v-106v: R.

ff. 106v-124v: S.

ff. 124v-132v: T.

ff. 132v-143v: W.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Is part of:

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Hierarchy:

032-002087337

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1430

End Date:

1470

Date Range:

Mid 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 210/220 x 150/155 mm (text space: 155/165 x 100/110 mm).

Foliation: ff. 143 + 24* + i. Folio 24* is a paper stub. Folio 143 is a small fragment mounted on a modern paper leaf. Folio i a modern paper endleaf immediately before f. 1. (Plus four unfoliated modern paper endleaves at the front, four at the back, and single ones after ff. 12, 83, and 97.

Collation: The collation of the manuscript in its original form cannot be completely recovered, since a number of leaves at the beginning and part of the way through the volume have been mounted individually on meeting guards, and contain neither quire signatures nor catchwords. The remaining quires have also been mounted on meeting guards.

(ff. 1-12, mounted single leaves); i¹² (ff. 13-24), ii¹⁴ (ff. 24*-37; most of f. 24* has been excised), iii¹⁰ (ff. 38-47), iv-vi¹² (ff. 48-83); (ff. 84-97, mounted single leaves); vii-ix¹² (ff. 98-133); x^twelve-2 (ff. 134-143; ff. 134-136 are mounted single leaves, but containing quire signatures i-iii, which continue iv-vi on ff. 137-139; f. 143 is a small fragment of the 10th leaf of this quire; 11th-12th leaves missing after f. 143).

Script: Gothic cursive (Anglicana).

Binding: British Library in-house, 1984.

Custodial History:

'Iste liber pertinet ad Nicholaus Tayler': inscription, f. 24*v.

Newman's sale, Sotheby's, 12 July 1846, lot 51: purchased by the British Museum; note by Sir Frederic Madden on f. i recto.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXLV (London: by order of the Trustees, 1850), p. 24 (1845).

Catholicon Anglicum, an English-Latin Wordbook, dated 1483, ed. by Sidney J.H. Herrtage, with a preface by Henry B. Wheatley, Camden Society, n.s. 30 (Oxford: Hall and Stacy, 1882) [on the text].

D.T. Starnes, 'Richard Huloet's Abcedarium: A Study in English-Latin Lexicography', Studies in Philology, 48 (1951), 717-37 (pp. 720, 724-25, 735, 737).

Jeffrey F. Huntsman, 'Chaucer and Medieval English Dictionaries', Modern Philology, 73 (1976), 276-79 (p. 276n, 277n, 278).

Gabriele Stein, 'The English Dictionary in the 15th Century', in Logos Semantikos: Studia Linguistica in Honorem Eugenio Coseriu, 1921-1981, ed. by Host Geckeler and others, 5 vols (Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1981), I, pp. 313-22 (pp. 314, 316, 318, 320-22).

Gabriele Stein, The English Dictionary Before Cawdrey, Lexicographia, 9 (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1985), pp. 107-20.

Gabriele Stein, 'The Catholicon Anglicum (1483): A Reconsideration', Nordic Journal of English Studies, 3 (2004), 109-24 [on the text].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

From the Catalogue of Additions (1850), p. 24 (1845):

'An English and Latin Dictionary; apparently a copy of the work intitled Catholicon Anglicum. [See the Promptorium Parvulorum, edited by A. Way, 1843.] The first leaf and a portion of the last are wanting. On paper, written late in the xvth century. Small Quarto. 15,562.]'