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Detailed record for Egerton 1995
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| Title |
Miscellany of prose and verse, including ; the Seven Sages of Rome (ff. 3-54v); Gregory's Chronicle, a dietary (ff. 66-77); John Page's poem The Siege of Rouen; a chronicle of London, breaking off in 1470 |
| Origin |
England, S. |
| Date |
3rd quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
English |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Scribe |
Probably a professional scribe: see Meal 2009 |
| Decoration |
Large initials in red. Paraphs in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
280 x 195 (185 x 110) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 223 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Dark red diced leather; marbled endpapers. |
| Provenance |
Inscription 'Thomas Coose Noyttin (?), 16th century (f. 78).
Lord Charlemont: his sale, 1865, lot 230, bought by the British Museum using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). |
| Notes |
This is Page's original (see Matteson p. 144).
Marginal added musical notation (ff. 29v, 32v). |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1853-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), no. Eg. 1995 (with detailed description).
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), II (1893), pp. 218-24.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 106.
H. S. Bennett, 'Science and Information in English Writings of the Fifteenth Century', Modern Language Review, 39 (1944), 1-8 (p. 2).
W. L. Braekman, Studies on Alchemy, Diet, Medecine [sic] and Prognostication in Middle English, Scripta, Mediaeval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 22 (Brussels: Scripta, 1986), p. 51 n. 2.
Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England, 2 vols (London: Routledge & Kegan, 1974; Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982), II, c. 1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century, II, 229 [with additional bibliography].
G. A. Lester, Sir John Paston's 'Grete Boke' : A Descriptive Catalogue, with an Introduction, of British Library MS Lansdowne 285 (Cambridge: Brewer, 1984), p. 23.
Edward Donald Kennedy, XII: Chronicles and Other Historical Writing, A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500, ed. by Albert E. Hartung, 8 (New Haven: Archon Books, 1989), p. 2845.
Mary-Rose McLaren, 'The Textual Transmission of the London Chronicles', English Manuscripts Studies, 3 (1992), 39-72.
Lister M. Matheson, The Prose Brut: The Development of a Middle English Chronicle, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 180 (Tempe, Arizona: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998), pp. 134 n. 1; 144; 145 n. 7.
David Reed Parker, The Commonplace Book of Tudor London: An Examination of BL MSS Egerton 1995, Harley 2252, Lansdowne 762, and Oxford Balliol College MS 354 (Oxford: University Press, 1998).
Mary-Rose McLaren, The London Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century, A Revolution in English Writing (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002), pp. 29-33, 104-5, 135-36,
Carol M. Meale, 'London, British Library, Harley MS 2252, John Colynbs' 'Boke': Structure and Content', in Tudor Manuscripts 1485-1603, ed. by A. S. G. Edwards, English Manuscript Studies, 15 (London: British Library, 2009), pp. 65-122 (p. 89). |
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