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- Record Id:
- 040-002041751
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x0002e3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165141743.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12044
- Title:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-113v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, written in Middle English and arranged in five books, imperfect at the end, lacking three leaves before f. 113 (V, ll. 1541-1750) and one leaf after f. 113 (V, ll. 1826-1869); the text beginning, 'The double sorwe of Troylus to tellen / That was the kyng Pryamus sone of Troye...'
See Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327. For an edition, see The Riverside Chaucer, ed. by Benson and Robinson (1987), pp. 472-585.
Decoration:
1 large decorated 'champ' initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r).
Large 4-line initials in blue ink (ff. 1v, 41v, 42r).
Paraph marks in alternating red and blue ink at the beginning of each stanza (ff. 1r-64v).
Small initials in alternating and red and blue ink at the beginning of each stanza (ff. 66r-113v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-002041751 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 12044 : Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde - Hierarchy:
- 032-002041530[0215]/040-002041751
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165141743.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 180 mm (written space: 215 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 113 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); f. i is a paper flyleaf affixed with two bookplates.
Collation: Gatherings of 8.
Catchwords, only in the second part (ff. 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v).
Script: Gothic cursive, written by two scribes (ff. 1r-64v, 65r-113v).
Binding: Post-1600. Green leather, tooled in gold, with the arms of the Biblioteca Butleriana gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; fore-edges speckled red.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
East Anglia, England.
Provenance:
Inscribed, 18th century: '… quam Diu...' (f. 1r, effaced).
Philippe d'Auvergne (b. 1754, d. 1816), Navy officer, explorer and scientist: his bookplate (f. i recto).
Sir Francis Freeling (b. 1764, d. 1836), 1st Baronet, Secretary of the General Post Office, and book collector: his bookplate (f. i recto).
Samuel Butler (b. 1774, d. 1839), headmaster and Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield: his arms gold tooled on the binding with the inscription 'Bibliotheca Butleriana'; in his sale, Payne & Foss 15 July, 1841, lot 433 (see f. i verso).
Bought by the British Museum, one of 300 manuscripts from the Butler Library, for £2,200.
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Butleriana: A Catalogue of the Library of the Late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, Lord Bishop of Lichfield (London: Payne & Foss, 1841), p. 33.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 29.
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I, p. 71.
John Livingston Lowes, 'The Date of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde', PMLA, 23:2 (1908), 285-306 (p 286 n. 2).
R. K. Root, The Manuscripts of Chaucer's 'Troilus', Chaucer Society, 1st series, 98 (London: Kegan Paul, 1914), pp. 1-4.
R. K. Root, The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's 'Troilus', Chaucer Society, 1st series, 99 (London: Kegan Paul, 1916), pp. 3-4.
The Book of Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer: Edited from All the Known Manuscripts, ed. by Robert K. Root (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1926).
Giovanni Boccaccio: Catalogue of an Exhibition held in the Reference Division of the British Library 3 October to 31 December 1975 (London: British Museum Publications, 1975), no. 37 [exhibition catalogue].
C. David Benson and Barry A. Windeatt, 'The Manuscript Glosses to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde', The Chaucer Review, 25 (1990), 33-53 (p. 34).
Michael C. Seymour, 'The Manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus', Scriptorium, 46 (1992), 107-121 (pp. 109, 113).
Barry Windeatt, Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), pp. 12, 20.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), no. 3327.
William A Quinn, Olde Clerkis Speche: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Implications of Authorial Recital (Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, 2013), p. 188.
Tamara Perez-Fernandex, 'Shared Exemplars and the Creation of Miscellanies in the Manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde', in The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective, ed. by Karen Pratt et al (Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2017), pp. 241-56 (pp. 246-47, 249).
Kara A Doyle, The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400-1450 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2021), p. 78.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)