Rebound in goatskin by Douglas Cockerell and Son, Grantchester, 1972.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Origin", "value": "First half of 14th century, after 1307 C.E.England Basing their arguments primarily on dialectal features of the Middle English texts, Thiolier proposes an origin in the West Midlands (Thiolier 1989) while McIntosh suggests a possible Irish provenance (McIntosh et al. 1986)." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "
Written by several scribes in Gothic bookhand (textualis)<\/i>. <\/p><\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "England" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "
A note on fol. i(v)<\/a> in a seventeenth-century hand reads: 'Bought of Mr Washington'. Washington is well-known as a London bookseller of the seventeeenth century (cf. Watson 1966, p. 29).<\/p> The manuscript was owned by John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Ely. Bishop Moore's collection was donated to the University Library by King George I (1660-1727) in 1715.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Physical Location",
"value": "Cambridge University Library"
},
{
"label": "Extent",
"value": "ii + 633 + ii Leaf height: 215 mm, width: 148 mm. Written height: 157-165 mm, width: 110 mm."
},
{
"label": "Funding",
"value": ""
},
{
"label": "Abstract",
"value": " MS Gg.1.1 is a Trilingual compendium of texts<\/i> put together in the early fourteenth century. It contains literary, historical, grammatical, scientific, astronomical, theological, pastoral and devotional texts and is predominantly written in Anglo-Norman but also contains Middle English and Latin. As the French scholar Paul Meyer commented in 1886, 'Ce livre est à lui seul toute une bibliothèque'.<\/p> Featured in The moving word<\/a> exhibition at Cambridge University Library.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Former Owner(s)",
"value": "Moore, John, 1646-1714"
},
{
"label": "Date of Creation",
"value": "First half of 14th century, after 1307 C.E."
},
{
"label": "Title",
"value": "Trilingual compendium of texts"
},
{
"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Suzanne Paul"
},
{
"label": "Material",
"value": "Parchment"
},
{
"label": "Collation",
"value": " The manuscript consists of 55 quires as follows: Bradshaw added pencil quire signatures (a-z, aa-tt, A-M) throughout the manuscript in the lower right corner of the first leaf of each quire and noted on adjacent leaves where leaves were missing. His collation, dated November 1860, is recorded on the modern paper endleaf<\/a>.<\/p>Catchwords are present on fols 19v, 31v, 43v, 55v, 67v, 79v, 91v, 103v, 115v, 139v, 151v, 163v, 175v, 187v, 199v, 211v, 223v, 235v, 247v, 258v, 270v, 282v, 294v, 306v, 318v, 330v, 342v, 354v, 364v, 376v, 388v, 400v, 412v, 431v, 442v, 454v, 466v, 518v, 530v, 542v, 554v, 566v, 578v, 590v, 602v, 614v, 628v."
},
{
"label": "Classmark",
"value": "MS Gg.1.1"
},
{
"label": "Decoration",
"value": " Full-page miniature at end of L'image du monde<\/i>: Small miniatures (10-20 lines) in coloured frames in Apocalypse<\/i>: Diagrams: Historiated initials: Ornamental and minor initials: Border decoration: Ruled in crayon, most pages are written in 2 columns with 36-40 lines. Fols 261v-264v<\/a>, 265v-279v<\/a>, 328v-345v<\/a> are written in a single column of 38-40 lines in verse; fols 407r-439v<\/a> are written in 38 long lines as prose interspersed with illustrations. Fols 279v-294r<\/a> are written double-spaced to leave room for an interlinear gloss.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Foliation",
"value": " The manuscript was foliated 1-633 in ink on the upper right corner of each recto at some point after the missing folios were removed. Several leaves (113<\/a>, 125<\/a>, 164<\/a>, 204<\/a>, 244<\/a>, 324<\/a>, 345<\/a>, 384<\/a>, 392-399<\/a>, 629-632<\/a>) are foliated in the upper margin in a 16th-century hand \"qui semble avoir été exécutée avec négligence\" (Meyer 1886, p. 283).<\/p><\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Bibliography",
"value": " Editions<\/b><\/p> Manuscript Descriptions and References<\/b><\/p>
Two illuminators worked on the manuscript; one was responsible for illuminating L'image du monde<\/i> (346r-390r<\/a>), the Apocalypse (407r-439v<\/a>) and the diagram of the human brain (490v<\/a>); the other for the decoration of the rest of the manuscript."
},
{
"label": "Subject(s)",
"value": "Manuscripts, Medieval. England; Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman; Anglo-Norman literature"
},
{
"label": "Associated Name(s)",
"value": "George I, King of Great Britain, 1660-1727"
},
{
"label": "Format",
"value": "Codex"
},
{
"label": "Data Source(s)",
"value": "This catalogue entry draws on unpublished MS notes by M. R. James and the description prepared for Western Illuminated Manuscripts: A Catalogue of the Collection in Cambridge University Library<\/i> by Paul Binski and Patrick Zutshi, with the collaboration of Stella Panayotova, Cambridge, 2011 (used here by kind permission of Cambridge University Press)."
},
{
"label": "Layout",
"value": "