The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 135

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DS ID:

DS9876

Shelfmark:

mssHM 135

Title:

Regiment of princes

Author:

Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450

Thomas Hoccleve WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 86 : paper ; 200 x 268 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Paper.
Script: Secretary.
Layout: 1-212 312(-6 after f. 29; -8 through 11 after f. 30) 4-612 712(-1 after f. 67) 8 (ff. 79-82, all singletons, with loss of the following 9 to 10 leaves?) 9 (ff. 83-86, all singletons, with loss of text before f. 83-5 folios?, and some loss after f. 85-1 folio?). Quire and leaf signatures in letters and roman numerals placed on horizontal bounding line directly across from the last line...
Watermark(s): Ciseaux similar to Briquet 3754, Palermo 1456; Tête de boeuf similar to Briquet 15089, Soleure 1488 and Briquet 15105, Fribourg 1449; no watermark on ff. 83-86.
Span folios: ff. 1-86v.
Other Decoration: Although the leaf which would have contained the Chaucer portrait (with stanzas 712-716) is missing, the manuscript does not appear luxurious enough to have had one. Opening initial, f. 1, 4-line in red with blue-green flourishing; 3- and 2-line initials in the same style, e.g. ff. 32, 40, 49v.
Later pen trials include on f. 28v, an alphabet; on f. 32, s. XVII, 4 lines of verse with reference to Thomas Coryate, "Whatt matters for the place I first came from. . ." and on f. 47, 2 lines, "Whan that I was __cropped___/ and young, and fa__cropped___" (Leicester Bradner, ed., The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I, Providence R.I. 1964, p. 7).
Assigned Date: s. XV3/4.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/15/2012.
Obvious wear and soil on ff. 1 and 82v suggest that the first text was once a separate volume. Pen trials throughout the volume include these names: s. XVI, f. 12, "Thomas Parrsie gent."; f. 25, "Noverint universi per presentes nos Thomam Catffieldes"; s. XVII, f. 1, "Henricus Smitheus" (rubbed); f. 6, "To the Right honourable the Ea[rl] of Essex at Chartley __cropped___"; f. 17, "William...

Keyword:

watermarks

manuscripts (documents)

Poems

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862107

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50636/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens