Essays by a variety of academic and curatorial experts explore various aspects including the history of the library and the Willoughbys’ motivation for collecting such a wide range of medieval books and papers.Ĭo-editor of the book, Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre from the School of English Studies said: The new book describes all the medieval books once part of the library, focusing on 10 manuscripts in the Wollaton Library Collection which are now in the care of the University’s Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections. York: York Medieval Press, 2010.The manuscripts, along with a huge collection of family archives, were originally housed in the family library at Wollaton in Nottingham, and transferred to the present hall, built by Sir Francis Willoughby in the 1580s, which the family owned until the 1920s when it was bought by the city council. Hanna, Ralph, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers. See also HMC 236 Macaulay, EETS ES 81 (1900), clvi catalogue, item 2, with a reduced image. See further Jeremy Griffiths, ''Confessio Amantis': the Poem and its Pictures', Gower's Confessio Amantis: Responses and Reassessments, ed. see also their description of binding, leather on boards]. Upside down at the foot, f16: 'By me Henry Wylloughbye'.ĭescription taken partly from Hanna and Turville-Petre, The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts, pp 100-101. The book is thoroughly unfinished: a nine-line unfilled blank for an initial at the opening four-line examples at the heads of the books one- and two-line spaces for smaller divisions, in all cases with guide-letters in the blanks.' 1ra/15, the blank space presumably reserved for a column-wide introductory painting, probably planned to illustrate Nebuchadnezzar's dream, well-attested in this position in the MSS, but here never executed'. Much more elaborate decoration planned but not completed. All these are covering blemishes in the vellum and later, possibly as late as s. 'Some lower-margin drawings, often as decorative appendages to descenders: leaves on ff67, 186rb-87rb pig-like rodents on f67v fish on f70 a fish and a mouse on f70v. 'The usual Confessio 'copious red for Gower's Latin, and running titles in red, from f9, give the book number across the opening, eg 'Liber | primus'. Rubric Latin portions written in text block, not in margins. Just the usual Confessio Amantis ending which names him in rubrics at end. 'Regular catchwords on more and less elaborate scrolls, the first two examples ochre-washed in lower margin below right column, running up to right frame line for column, the more elaborate scrolls are rounded and have shading to give 3-d effect, fine line above and below the catchword inside the scroll, as fine-line shadow or upper and lower frame.Ħ x vertical, two either side of each column plus one close to outer edges of columns to create a narrow space between column and any glosses 4 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines ruled within columns but not in space between them, and no ruling for running titles or catchwords fine grey lines, pricking survives outer edges many leaves and also at very edges of top and bottom so not on all leaves.Ĭ. 'from the second quire, all leaves in the first half of each quire signed, with letter and arabic numeral (quires 2-26 = a-z, &, con).' Modern pencil upper outer of rectos, foliating, but not in corner but sitting on the top line of frame and running right up to the fifth vertical, ie it's above the top line of text and running up against the right frame line for second column.Ĩs collation 1-258 | 268 (lacks 6 to 8, all presumably cancelled blanks and at least two of them stubs). I original parchment flyleaf stained by fold-over of leather + 205 + ii original parchment flyleaves second verso of which stained by fold-over of leather. Display a full page showing this scribe's hand
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