Fragmenta Manuscripta 150: Fragment from Chaucer's Boece, Book II, Prose 8.

1400 - 1450

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

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.

Cook, Megan L. “Joseph Holland and the Idea of the Chaucerian Book.” Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 1, no. 2 (2016): 165–88.

Machan, Tim William. “The ‘Consolation’ Tradition and the Text of Chaucer’s ‘Boece.’” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 91, no. 1 (1997): 31–50. https://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.91.1.24304468.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 150

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

Latin; Middle English

manuscript fragment

England