London, British Library, Sloane 2027
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Shelfmark
Country:England
Settlement:London
Repository: British Library
Idno:Sloane 2027
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Date and Language
Date:s. xvmed
Language: English
Dialect:Scribal Dialect (Hand of ff. 98r-169v): Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 406 285, LP 4685 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244).
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Contents
A mid-fifteenth-century manuscript (Hudson 1966) containing the Secrets of Philosophers and The Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester among others. Only the Chronicle has been located to the West Midlands.

Item: 1
Locus:ff. 1r-36r
Title:Translation of De re militari
Incipit:'In old tyme hytt was'.
Explicit:Imperfect.
Rubric:Preface: 'Here begynnyth a schort tretys the wich erle renate sone wrote to the emperor'.
Bibliography:

Item: 2
Locus:ff. 37r-52r
Title:Boke of Kervyng & Nortur (IMEV 1514)
Incipit:'In nomine patris god kepe me Et filii for charitie Et spiritus sancti where y be On lond or on see An usscherre y am as ye may se To a prynce of hygh degre For my condicions to teche And forme all theym that woll thee'.
Explicit:'ys good chanse'.
Note:The poem is divided under the following headings: 'Panter, yeman, off the selerre, botlar, and ewere'; 'Le kervere off fflessche'; 'Le kervere off ffyssche'; 'Le sewere'; 'Le chambirleyn'; 'Le marchall'.
Bibliography:Cf. Furnivall 1858, pp. 1-83.

Item: 3
Locus:ff. 53r-92r
Title:Secrets of Philosophers (IMEV 935)
Incipit:'God almyghti save and consserve oure kyng'.
Explicit:'Explicitur librum aristoteles ad alexandrum magnum'.
Rubric:'This is the booke off the governaunce off kyngis and pryncis'.
Note:F. 93r is a fragment of a text now glued onto a piece of paper. Ff. 93v-96r are covered in scribbled inscriptions and pen trials.
Bibliography:

Item: 4
Locus:ff. 96v-97v
Title:Introduction to the Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester
Incipit:'In the yer ffro the begynnyng off the world 3990 ther was yn the noble land of grece'.
Explicit:'hou affturwarde'.
Note:Tells the story of how Dioclysian and his thirty three daughters came to England, after murdering their husbands, and named the land after the eldest, Albion.
Bibliography:

Item: 5
Locus:ff. 98r-169v
Title:Chronicle (IMEV 727)
Incipit:'Fram the begynnyng of the world to tyme that now is'
Explicit:Imperfect
Note:Chronicle begins with the siege of Troy and ends imperfectly with the death of John.
Bibliography:See Hudson 1969.

Item: 6
Locus:ff. 170r-188v
Title:Chronicle of England (IPMEP 374)
Incipit:'Whan kyng iohn had don hys omage the enderdytyng was relasyd thurgwh all England'.
Explicit:'the kyng yaff şin...'
Note:Fragment of a chronicle of England from the reign of John to Richard
Bibliography:Brie 1906.
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Paper. First few leaves remounted, first leaf fragment.
Extent:c. 290 x c. 200 mm
Collation: Unable to ascertain.
Layout:Pricking not visible. Writing space: 205 x 130 mm with a large bottom margin. Single columns with 36 lines. Frame ruled in lead point? (lines not really visible).
Writing: One scribe writing in black ink in an Anglicana hand. Characteristics: sigma s in final position; h with hooked ascender; B-shaped w with both ascenders of equal height and curling round to form a loop; double compartment d; reversed circular e in final position; 2-shaped r in medial position; g with bar crossing through lobe; double compartment a; long s in medial position; descender of b loops round to form two compartments; one with forward slash through it in final position. Body height 2-3mm.
Decoration: Initial page: three-line red initial H with crude penwork decoration and tinted green. Underlining in red. Three-line red Lombardic capitals. Red end-line decoration. Item 3: four-line blue initial G with red penwork flourishing and grotesque head protruding into left margin. Title in red scroll. Stanzas marked off by red line. Couplets bracketed. Item 5: no decoration. Item 6: no decoration
Binding: Not medieval. Size: 300 x 215 mm. Cover of brown leather with stamp of Sloane library on front. Five raised bands across the spine.
Foliation:ff. 188
Additions:Folios 93r-96r are blank and carry various scribblings.
Condition:Good
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History
Origin:Unknown
Provenance:Folio 96r: ''? of Knoll [Knowle SE of Birmingham] in the county of Waryke'. Folio 97r 'John osborn 1546'.
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003.
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Bibliography
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