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Fragment from Chaucer's Boece, Book II, Prose 8.

Information About This Item

Title

Fragment from Chaucer's Boece, Book II, Prose 8.

Date

1400 - 1450

Description

Provenance: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Erroneously described as "Dialogue between Life and Fortune" by Cockerell.
Script: Hybrida

Relation

McC. Gatch, Milton. “‘Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia’ at Missouri and Cambridge.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9, no. 5 (1990): 434–75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41154792.

Pace, George B., and Linda E. Voigts. "A ‘Boece’ Fragment." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 143-150. https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.1979.0008.

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 150

Source

http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta150_45

Format

Parchment - 100 x 87 mm - One column visible with 22 visible lines, neither boundling lines nor ruling not discernable

Language

Latin; Middle English

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

England