Romances. Document genre
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
16th-century manuscript of the romance 'Clariodus', a translation of a French prose original into Older Scots verse.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.5
Scope and Contents
The Manuscript is imperfect; according to the old foliation, seven folios are missing at the beginning, and another one or more at the end. A passage of eight lines has been pasted in on folio 125 verso.
Written in one hand throughout, with large decorative initials at the beginning of each book. Watermark of pot with letters IB (cf. Briquet number 12804).
Dates:
16th century.
'Auchinleck manuscript', one of the earliest and largest compilations of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.1
Scope and Contents
The following description was based primarily upon the conclusions of Pearsall and Cunningham (1977) and Burnley and Wiggins (2003). The numbering system of the items follows that of Pearsall and Cunningham.The Auchinleck manuscript was probably written in London at some point between 1331 and 1340. These dates can be assigned on the basis of palaeographical evidence and internal references. One of these references is the ending of the 'The Anonymous Short English Metrical...
Dates:
1331 - 1340.