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